Starting on Wednesday, Virgin Atlantic said it will re-introduce seasonal daily flights between Chicago and the U.K. to better serve the burgeoning Midwest market in the United States. The new service, using A330-300 aircraft, will connect Chicago O’Hare International Airport with London Heathrow and add 16 tonnes of belly capacity each day. The added service,[…]

Live lobsters, once thought to be immune from modal shift to oceanfreight, could soon lose their places at airports connecting the trans-Atlantic as new ocean containers with aquarium-like environments may make the long-journey by sea a possibility for live sea creatures. France-based CMA CMG’s new “aquaviva” containers are designed specifically to cut into airfreight’s lucrative[…]

Do “self-learning machines” and “bionic enhancements” fill you with wonder about the future of logistics or just cause anxiety headaches? Fortunately, we’ll all have several more years to decide how we feel about these technologies and others listed in DHL’s third annual “Logistics Trend Radar” report. The sentient machines and bionics, DHL said will take[…]

The numbers are in “holy *$#%” territory. “The numbers” are for e-commerce sales in China, and they are astounding. In the first two months of 2016, China’s online retail sales hit US$98.2 billion, an increase of 27 percent over the previous year. That puts it on pace to hit around $590 billion for the full 2016. In comparison,[…]

Although the air cargo and aviation industries are hardly paragons of environmental excellence, given the number of daily flights, even small reductions can have a great impact. For today – Earth Day – at least one carrier is trying to do its part to reduce its global carbon footprint. To celebrate Earth Day, Hawaiian Airlines[…]