CEVA Logistics has been awarded a five-year contract to manage the warehousing and distribution of Burts Potato Chips for the U.K. and Ireland. Starting this month, CEVA is responsible for all transport operations and factory warehousing for the British snack food company. The agreement is part of CEVA’s full-service, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) services[…]
An AerCaribe 737-400SF was seriously damaged after it skidded off the runway during landing at the Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport in the city of Leticia, southern Colombia. The aircraft’s undercarriage reportedly failed and collapsed as it ran over soft ground when the freighter overshot the runway. According to Colombia’s civil aviation authority, Aeronáutica Civil,[…]
A 10-year-old student from Ireland completed the country’s first officially sanctioned parcel delivery over the weekend, according to the official Irish Aviation Authority’s Media Centre. The two-minute parcel drop flight carried a 250-gram payload of emergency medical supplies, and went from the shoreline of Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, to a boat at sea almost 200[…]
A slight, 1.3 percent uptick in fourth quarter revenues was insufficient to offset a dismal 2016 at American Airlines Cargo, which announced a full-year decrease of 7.9 percent in revenues, to US$700 million. Soon after, American also announced that Art Torno, senior vice president for international and cargo, will retire this April, after 38 years[…]
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) announced that it expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 Adjusted EBITDA to be approximately US$7 million short of its previous guidance. The company blamed work stoppage in mid-November 2016, when pilots at its subsidiary ABX Air, which flies packages for Amazon.com and DHL Worldwide Express, went on strike. ATSG’s revised 2016[…]
TransPod, a startup with plans to build high-speed hyperloop connectivity between major Canadian cities, announced a partnership with IKOS, a technology consulting firm that specializes in railway engineering and energy infrastructure. IKOS will help design and engineer the hyperloop’s electrical system, and provide safety engineering for the TransPod hyperloop pod. While hyperloop technology could revolutionize[…]
