Authorization has been granted for the construction of a cold-storage facility for agricultural products at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, according to a report in the Wadsam Afghan Business News. The paper cited Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) Shah Mahmood Habibi as saying that the new facility would have[…]

More than 15 percent of Chinese will purchase e-commerce goods from abroad this year, according to a recent eMarketer report. These 181.2 million e-commerce customers will represent a 41.6 percent increase over 2015, when 128 million Chinese engaged in cross-border online purchases. Companies such as Alibaba, which has a significant stake in the regional online[…]

Germany is now the third country after, Australia and the U.K., to ban direct cargo flights from Bangladesh, despite a costly new screening process at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The decision was made by the LBA, Germany’s civil aviation authority, and was taken “because of information provided by our law enforcement authority and intelligence[…]

UPS appears to be confident that France and the European Union, – even without the U.K. – will remain a strong-enough economic driver of the global economy to justify a new US$100 million facility nears the adjoining cities of Corbeil-Essonnes and Evry. The center is due to open in early 2018 and will feature UPS’s[…]

Brexit or no Brexit, the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has had enough. In an urgent message to the British government, BIFA said Prime Minister David Cameron’s administration, before it steps down in September, must stop delaying and move forward with the recommendations made by the Airports Commission by building more capacity at Heathrow Airport.[…]

Air Serbia launched flights to the United States last week, marking the first time direct service has existed between the two countries since the Balkans wars in the 1990s. The A330-200 used on the new route is of interest to freight forwarders in Eastern Europe and North America, thanks to its ample belly capacity. The[…]