The UK government is providing credit guarantees to domestic companies working to build the international export market for offshore wind projects. These initiatives part of the UK Government’s Green Industrial Revolution which includes supporting the UK’s offshore wind sector in its strategy, UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, announced it is providing […]
Sentences were handed down today in a drug operation that had smuggled shipments of methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico through the Port of Tampa in 2018 and 2019. According to court documents, federal agents identified seven shipments smuggled in aboard a containership named Leticia operating between Altamira, Mexico and the Port of Tampa and then […]
[Brief] A single-engine private airplane crashed into one of the container yards at the Port of Los Angeles. The pilot was killed in the crash and one person on the ground was seriously injured. The Los Angeles Fire Department reported that the single-engine Piper PA-32 lost power shortly after noon on February 19 crashing into […]
As of February 21, ECS Group is taking over the management of Qatar Airways Cargo’s GSA in the United Arab Emirates. ECS Group will supervise the management of cargo capacity via its subsidiary Globe Air Cargo. Qatar Airways operates fourteen weekly flights from Dubai and daily flights from Abu Dhabi. In preparation for this much […]
Kerry Logistics Network Limited has been named the Outstanding Global 3PL for the fourth time running at the Quamnet Outstanding Enterprise Awards 2020. This was the sixth consecutive year that Kerry Logistics has been a winner of QOEA, which were announced in Hong Kong today. Organised annually by leading Hong Kong financial news platform Quamnet, […]
After taking off to Honolulu from Denver Airport February 20, a Boeing 777 suffered engine failure, forcing the plane to land back at the airport. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) there was failure in the right-hand engine, which one passenger recalled as creating a loud explosion which subsequently caused a fire to break out. […]
CharterSync has reported significant growth since January 1 as UK air cargo operators have struggled to cope with the challenge of securing post-Brexit UK-EU flight permits. CharterSync, which connects freight forwarders with cargo and executive jet operators, handled 183 flights and 750 tonnes of cargo across Europe in January 2021, a 33% increase on volumes […]
Emirates has announced it will resume daily services to Newark via Athens from June 1. The addition of Newark via Athens will take Emirates’ US network to ten destinations following the resumption of services to Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Washington DC, Dallas and San Francisco (to resume on March 2). […]
As the industry adjusts to the ever-changing market, dnata, which has over 140 airline customers in the Dubai and over 15,000 employees, is entering the new year full steam ahead. After the immense impact of the pandemic on the aviation industry, Bernd Struck, dnata’s senior vice president for UAE Cargo and DWC Airline Services, explained […]
Throughout the pandemic Qatar Airways Cargo has proved it is a force to be reckoned with both in the Middle East and globally. Guillaume Halleux spoke to ACW about the reasons behind their resilience and how the cargo airline will keep moving forward in 2021. What is it that keeps Qatar Airways Cargo on top? […]
Remote working, shop closures and social distancing have become the norm for many globally and this shift in lifestyle has led to a huge increase in e-commerce. “The e-commerce sector has been booming for the last decade in general and in 2020 in particular, driven by the pandemic situation and lockdowns,” explains Fedor Novikov, marketing […]
Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) cargo subsidiary MASkargo has announced the successfully flight in the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine to Malaysia. Over 300,000 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine were transported via a Passenger-to-Cargo (P2C) flight utilising the Airbus 330-300 aircraft in close collaboration with the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Ministry of Transport, […]
