EU air cargo volumes remained buoyant into the month of November, with exceptions such as Frankfurt reflecting a pilot’s strike, rather than long-term downturns. In the UK, Heathrow’s cargo volumes rose 4.4 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) making it Britain’s largest port, with almost 30 percent of UK exports by value. Heathrow did brisk trade with China,[…]
DB Schenker is consolidating its Air Freight, Ocean Freight and Land Transport Board Divisions to create a new division named, simply, Freight. Under the leadership of Ewald Kaiser, currently a member of the management board for land transport, DB Schenker hopes to bring the three product areas closer together to “improve integrated transport products and[…]
The Emirates Group’s sixth annual environmental report showed that total fuel consumption increased by a combined 42.6 percent, while jet fuel consumption increased by 12.8 percent. The group’s SkyCargo brand, which operates an extensive logistics chain, saw cargo fuel efficiency (freighters only) fall by 0.9 percent, and cargo CO2 efficiency (freighters only) fall by 0.7[…]
DHL Supply Chain, the logistics arm of the Deutsche Post DHL Group announced completion of a two-year project to consolidate the logistics operations of three divisions of Sanofi, a French multinational pharmaceutical company with extensive operations in Brazil. The consolidated distribution center is in Guarulhos, near São Paulo. The new facility consolidates Brazil operations and[…]
Soon after a U.S. District Court judge issued a preliminary injunction last week to extend a ban on work stoppages by pilots at carrier ABX Air, the union representing the pilots flying for other carriers owned by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW) said they have too few pilots to meet the long-term demands for its[…]
The more connected you are with the world, the greater your ability to engage in trade – by a factor of 6 to 1. Those are the findings of a recent study released by The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which made a quantitative link between a country’s air cargo connectivity and global trade. According[…]
