Archive for February 2023

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo continues aid efforts for Turkey-Syria earthquake aircargonews.net A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck close to the Turkish city of Gaziantep on the Syrian border on February 6, causing extensive casualties and deaths as well as damage […]

OCEAN FREIGHT UPDATES Turkish Airlines weighs in as relief efforts step up and supply chains recover theloadstar.com Turkey’s manufacturing sector could take at least eight months to recover from the damage wrought by the earthquake at the start of February. […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Forwarders say US government financial support is a must for air cargo theloadstar.com Two US industry bodies representing mostly forwarders involved in air cargo want government to give financial support to developments to ensure a smoother flow […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Lufthansa resumes flights after IT issues crippled operations ajot.com Deutsche Lufthansa AG is returning to normal flight operations after widespread software problems linked to damaged Deutsche Telekom AG broadband cables grounded hundreds of planes. The situation at […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air Canada Cargo Joins Pharma.Aero collaboration platform aircargonews.ent Air Canada Cargo has become a member of the Pharma.Aero cross-industry collaboration platform to further develop its pharmaceutical shipments handling knowledge. Founded in 2016, the Pharma.Aero platform includes over […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Heathrow Airport workers plan to ballot for strikes, union says ajot.com Heathrow Airport’s security, engineering and firefighting staff represented by the Unite Union will next week begin balloting for strikes, adding pressure to UK’s transport network which […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES China Say It Is Not Restricting Airlines From Selling Low Fares simpleflying.com It has been reported recently that the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of China’s State Council has imposed a low-price restriction on seven […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air Canada and Emirates team up on air cargo aircargonews.net Emirates SkyCargo and Air Canada Cargo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will examine how they can develop capacity partnerships. The partnership will see the […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES International Airlines Are Returning To China En Mass simpleflying.com As we head into February 2023, major international airlines are resuming or ramping up their international flights to and from China following a complete relaxation of COVID-related restrictions […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES IATA: International Air Traffic Grew by Over 150% In 2022 simpleflying.com On February 6th, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its analysis of air traffic throughout 2022. IATA announced that total air traffic continued to grow […]