Archive for March 2018

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES O’Hare $8.5 Billion Expansion Gets Go-ahead source: news.airwise.com The USD$8.5 billion upgrade and expansion of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport has been cleared for takeoff after the City Council approved the plan. City approval comes after the airport’s two […]

OCEAN FREIGHT UPDATES Charter market capacity crunch will put a dent in carrier profitability source: theloadstar.co.uk Containership charter rates are at a 30-month high on the back of strong demand, and Alphaliner is predicting an “impending capacity crunch”. This will […]

AIR  FREIGHT UPDATES The perils of perishable airfreight shipments source: ajot.com The slow switch of pharmaceuticals shippers away from air cargo and toward ocean has more to do than just costs. It’s also about the lack of reliability of air […]

AIR  FREIGHT UPDATES Timber! cardboard cuts out weighty wooden pallets source: aircargonews.net Germany-based Trilatec has introduced a lightweight, 100% recycled cardboard alternative to traditional heavy timber pallets. “This is a revolution in the airfreight sector“, said Andreas Langemann from Trilatec, […]

AIR  FREIGHT UPDATES ANA Low Cost Carriers Peach And Vanilla To Merge source: news.airwise.com Japanese airline ANA has announced plans to merge its two low-cost carriers, Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air, as it seeks to become the leading low cost […]

AIR  FREIGHT UPDATES Call for harmonisation of air cargo screening device requirements source: aircargonews.net The air cargo industry would like to see greater harmonisation of rules and regulations around air cargo scanning devices to reduce the need to have different […]

OCEAN  FREIGHT UPDATES Maersk CFO Jakob Stausholm in shock resignation over reorganisation source: theloadstar.co.uk Maersk Group’s chief financial officer, Jakob Stausholm, has decided to leave the company at the end of the month, as his finance role will now fall […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES IATA e-DGD: “a powerful step forward” source: aircargonew.net IATA has adopted e-Dangerous Goods Declaration (e-DGD) standards at the World Cargo Symposium taking place in Dallas, Texas on March 13-15. An electronic approach to managing the IATA Dangerous […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   ‘Giant step forward’ for dangerous goods compliance source: aircargonews.net IATA has launched a new digital solution, Dangerous Goods AutoCheck (DG AutoCheck), that allows the air cargo supply chain to check the compliance of shippers’ Declaration for […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   IATA: four priorities for success source: aircargonews.net IATA has highlighted four priorities for the future success of the air cargo industry at this week’s World Cargo Symposium: accelerating the digitisation of the supply chain, enforcing regulations […]