AGI’s Edip Pektas joins speaker faculty at Air Cargo Tech Summit

Edip Pektas, chief innovation officer at ground handler Alliance Ground International (AGI) and founder of digital air cargo capacity exchange Airblox, has joined the speaker faculty at the inaugural Air Cargo Tech Summit for the panel “Staying secure: Advances in ULDs and cargo restraint techniques and technologies” on Tuesday, June 7, at 3:30 p.m. ET.[…]

Air France-KLM and CMA CGM Air Cargo combine networks, freighter capacity

Carrier Air France-KLM and France-based CMA CGM Air Cargo have partnered to combine their air cargo networks and freighter capacity under a 10-year agreement. The partnership has three main pillars: joint design network, an increased commercial footprint and visibility and an optimized and enlarged product mix, a CMA CGM group spokesperson told Air Cargo World.[…]

Airfreight stakeholders expect PVG volume surge ahead of June reopening

Airfreight stakeholders expect cargo volumes in Shanghai to surge ahead of the city’s plan to lift current COVID-19 restrictions and reopen in late June. Shanghai Vice Mayor Zong Ming announced Monday that restrictions will be lifted for businesses and community members between June 1 and late July, as all 16 districts have achieved zero community[…]

Erbil Airport houses new dnata cool-chain facility, cargo warehouse

Emirates-owned ground services provider dnata is expanding its operational footprint at Erbil International Airport (EBL) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq with a new cool-chain facility, a bus maintenance building and a 16,000-square-meter cargo warehouse, at a total investment of $17 million.   Approximately $3.5 million will be allocated to the cool chain and bus[…]

C.H. Robinson’s Short navigates turbulent global trade climate

Mike Short, C.H. Robinson’s president of global forwarding Having a protectionist stance in 2017 seems to be the equivalent of the “tough on crime” rhetoric that ushered so many American politicians into power in the 1990s. And, just as the United States had to learn that crime was better rectified through education and economic opportunity,[…]

Kerry Logistics launches ‘One Belt’ UK-China rail services

A slew of stories have emerged about new rail connectivity between Europe and China demonstrate that the latter’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative is becoming an economic reality. Now, Kerry Logistics is making the initiative tangible on the Western end, too, as the first eastbound freight train is poised to begin chugging away from London[…]