Hurricane Michael disrupts traffic across U.S. Southeast

In a region still soggy from the historic floods from Hurricane Florence last month, airlines, airports and logistics companies across the Southeastern United States are busy handling the delays, closures and power outages that followed yesterday’s landfall of Hurricane Michael in the Florida panhandle. The strong Category 4 hurricane slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast southeast […]

• Randy Woods
• October 11, 2018

Saudia Cargo launches priority express service to Europe

Saudia Cargo yesterday became the latest cargo carrier to launched a high-priority shipper service, called “Fly Express,” which offers delivery of urgent international shipments of up to 300 kilograms from Saudi Arabia to various airports across Europe. The high-priority service is able to accept shipments as late as three hours prior to the scheduled time […]

• Randy Woods
• October 11, 2018

Peli BioThermal launches hubs in Basel, Berlin

Pelican Products’ subsidiary, Peli BioThermal, a Minnesota-based manufacturer of temperature-control packaging, has expanded its Western European presence of service centers, network stations and drop points, with the opening of two service centers: one in Basel, Switzerland, and one in Berlin. The company opened up similar facilities in Frankfurt in August, and Tokyo last spring. It […]

• Nina Chamlou
• October 10, 2018

Air cargo industry responds with aid for Indonesian tsunami [VIDEO]

  As the death toll continues to rise past 1,500 people following the devastating 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last Friday, the air cargo industry is responding with aid and personnel that are being sent to the hardest-hit area near the city of Palu and also to a […]

• Randy Woods
• October 5, 2018

DHL flies medicine via fixed-wing drone to Lake Victoria island [VIDEO]

DHL has completed testing of “Deliver Future,” its pilot project to transport medicine using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to Ukerewe Island in East Africa’s Lake Victoria. Over a six-month period, the fixed-wing “DHL Parcelcopter 4.0” (pictured), which utilizes German drone manufacturer Wingcopter’s tilt-rotor technology, successfully flew a 37-mile route to an Ukerewe Island in […]

• Nina Chamlou
• October 4, 2018

CCA calls for more data-sharing to strengthen cool chain

At today’s sixth annual Bioscience Conference in Brussels, delegates at the Cool Chain Association (CCA) event called for more information-sharing among pharmaceutical stakeholders to build a more secure and efficient supply chain that meets the customized needs of today’s patients. “There will be a differentiated future – a much broader range of products, a natural […]

• Randy Woods
• September 26, 2018

Emirates reaches 1M ULD milestone in DXB-DWC trans-shipment service [VIDEO]

Since the opening of the Dubai World Central (DWC) airport in 2014, the United Arab Emirates’ aviation authority decided to shift all freighter flights from the older Dubai International Airport (DXB) to the new, larger DWC. To ensure that the substantial amount of belly freight from passenger planes still landing at DXB could be transferred […]

• Randy Woods
• September 12, 2018

Berlin 1948/49: The airlift to end all wars – and launch an industry

“Rugged,” said one airman of the rest of the crew involved in the largest air rescue operation in history. “Rugged as a sunovabitch.” These were the words relayed to American air cargo professionals in the seminal 1949 series of articles penned by Richard Malkin, the legendary original managing editor of Air Transportation magazine, which decades […]

• Randy Woods
• September 11, 2018

Flytrex drone service tees off at U.S. golf course [VIDEO]

Carrying an order of burgers and fries to hungry golfers is not exactly the same as landing a loaded FedEx freighter. But for drone logistics company Flytrex, it’s another milestone in the advancement in last-mile delivery, despite the severe regulatory restrictions still in place. In partnership with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) firm, EASE Drones, Flytrex today […]

• Randy Woods
• September 5, 2018

DHL eCommerce enabling next-day B2C food deliveries in Thailand

DHL eCommerce and Thai egg producer Kasemchaifood have partnered to deliver farm-fresh eggs sold through online channels directly to consumers, within 24 hours. Before taking to the internet, Kasemchaifood relied primarily on a wholesale business model with a lengthier supply chain to distribute its eggs. Under the traditional business-to-business supply chain model, it would take […]

• Charles Kauffman
• August 22, 2018

Oslo Airport chooses WFS to operate new seafood facility

Norwegian hub Oslo Airport (OSL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) for the operation of a new onsite seafood center. WFS said Oslo Airport was the fastest growing airport in cargo traffic last year, increasing its volume by 36 percent from the year before to about 185,000 tonnes. Much of […]

• Nina Chamlou
• August 14, 2018

Pelican BioThermal opens Frankfurt facility

Minnesota-based, temperature-controlled packing company Pelican BioThermal has opened a new facility in Frankfurt, expanding the service network of its “Crēdo on Demand” program, which offers its reusable parcel shipping containers to shippers on a rental basis. The new location will be in close proximity to Frankfurt Airport (FRA), making the company’s line of temperature-controlled packaging […]

• Nina Chamlou
• August 14, 2018

TLX Cargo releases thermal cover with phase-change material

United Kingdom-based TLX Cargo has launched a new cargo cover that it said is the first on the market to incorporate phase-change material (PCM), a substance that absorbs and releases thermal energy to help protect cargo containers from temperature incursions. Innovations like the TLX PCM, based on the same thermal cooling systems used on engines […]

• Nina Chamlou
• August 6, 2018

K+N partners with Panatlantic to expand reach into Latin perishables market

Yesterday, Swiss forwarder Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) said it is partnering with Quito-based logistics services company Panatlantic Logistics S.A. in a move that will further expand the company’s South American cool chain network and underpin its global expansion strategy. At present, K+N manages the transportation of perishables for clients operating out of Colombia, Peru, Brazil […]

• Nina Chamlou
• August 3, 2018