Archive for January 2021 - page 2

  AIR FREIGHT UPDATES  Industry confusion over plan for new TSA air cargo security regime theloadstar.com Preparations for a mandate to screen all cargo moved on freighter aircraft this summer got off to a rocky start in the US this […]

OCEAN FREIGHT UPDATES  Inside California’s colossal container-ship traffic jam freightwaves.com In the movie “Falling Down,” the character played by Michael Douglas is stranded in a Los Angeles traffic jam. He abandons his car, starts walking with briefcase in hand and […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Cargo Airlines Go On Spending Spree As Passenger Planes Stay Grounded simpleflying.com 2020 may have been a bust for commercial passenger airlines, with 2021 not looking much brighter, but it’s a different ballgame for cargo airlines. There […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Ottawa Urged To Halt Air Canada Air Transat Take Over simpleflying.com An influential Quebec businessman is urging the Canadian government to block the sale of Air Transat to Air Canada, offering 20% more per share than Canada’s […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES With air cargo rates set to remain sky high, shippers need to plan carefully theloadstar.com Accurate forecasting by shippers will be crucial to manage their shipping requirements – and costs – efficiently, as air freight rates look […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES With air cargo rates set to remain sky high, shippers need to plan carefully theloadstar.com Accurate forecasting by shippers will be crucial to manage their shipping requirements – and costs – efficiently, as air freight rates look […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Amazon eyes fleet of 85 aircraft as it changes course to buy its own freighters theloadstar.com Amazon is set to boost its freighter fleet to more than 85 aircraft by the end of next year. In addition […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air freight ends 2020 on a ‘relative high’ lloydsloadinglist.com After an extraordinarily turbulent year and despite “no traditional peak season” for global air cargo demand in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020, the year ended on a […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES With ‘global vaccine corridor’ a priority, air cargo in India is under new pressure theloadstar.com Vaccine distribution in India is putting new pressure on air cargo rates and capacity. With the largest vaccine manufacturing capacity in the […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Cathay Pacific launches Hong Kong-Riyadh freighter lloydsloadinglist.com Cathay Pacific Cargo has announced the launch of a new scheduled freighter service between Hong Kong and Riyadh, in Saudi  Arabia, starting 5 January 2021. Read more here. Shanghai’s Third Airport […]