As the roses and tropical flowers flow north from Latin America – particularly from Colombia and Ecuador – for Valentine’s Day, UPS plans to move more than 100 million fragrant blossoms. That’s enough to fill approximately seventy 767 cargo aircraft. More than 90 percent of imported flowers will pass through Miami International Airport, where UPS[…]
The true costs of last year’s failed experiment with DHL Global Forwarding’s new IT system called “New Forwarding Environment” are starting to be felt nearly a year later as its parent company, Germany’s Deutsche Post, said it is considering getting rid of the troubled forwarding arm altogether. Because of the failed IT rollout, Deutsche Post[…]
U.K.-based CargoLogicAir, the offspring of the Volga-Dnepr Group, completed its first charter flights since receiving its AOC from the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority. The launch customer, Chapman Freeborn Italia, organized two 747-400F charters to Bari, Italy. The charter flights flew via Frankfurt, carrying 113 tonnes of automotive parts, including engine base plates. Chapman Freeborn booked[…]
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has chimed in on the ongoing lithium battery debate. On Tuesday of this week, it recommended that lithium batteries be physically separated from other flammable materials carried as cargo, and to establish maximum loading density requirements designed to restrict the quantities of lithium batteries and flammable, hazardous materials on[…]
XPO Logistics entered the less-than-truckload (LTL) market with itsUS$3 billion acquisition of Con-way trucking company in October last year, but apparently the entry into the market did not go as smoothly as had been planned. On Feb. 3, XPO filed a lawsuit against one of its biggest LTL competitors, YRC Worldwide, Inc., claiming theft of[…]
A new directive from the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) requiring an additional security declaration to be displayed at intermediate points while tendered cargo is in transit, has drawn the ire of forwarders, which were not contacted for discussion of the rule before it was finalized on Jan. 29. Under the new rule, all[…]
