After enduring decades of conflicts and a devastating outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014, the West African nation of Liberia has taken a major step toward rejoining the world’s global supply chain by securing Global Logistics Services Inc. (GLS) with a 25-year air cargo operations concession at the country’s only international airport: Roberts International[…]
Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico can set prices and coordinate schedules for flights between the U.S. and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) tentatively ruled last Friday, but the ruling comes with caveats and faces challenges from other U.S. carriers. The proposal grants the airlines partial immunity from U.S. antitrust law. In addition, the[…]
The news earlier this spring that online retailer Amazon.com had entered the air cargo business with its own-controlled air network of forty 767 freighters was seen as a shot across the bow of the industry, signaling that the new era of e-commerce had arrived in the air logistics arena. According to a new report being[…]
As we near the end of 2016, it’s time for forwarders, cargo agents and third-party logistics providers to start thinking about which carriers and airports performed the best in the last year in terms of air cargo handling. Is there a particular cargo facility that you thought went above and beyond in 2016 to provide[…]
Last week, Air Cargo World had the honor of riding along with crews from Airlink and Bell Helicopter as they provided desperately needed airlift services to remote disaster-stricken regions in Haiti’s southern departments of Grand’Anse and Sud, following the devastating effects of Hurricane Matthew. Widespread support from the aviation and transportation industry made this operation[…]
For the first time in September this year, a truck carrying cargo was allowed to cross over to India from Bangladesh without requiring the consignment to be unloaded and transferred to another truck. Known as transhipment, this has been the time consuming and costly practice of border crossing norms until today. This was the result[…]
