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Harnessing The Power Of E-Freight

Technology is making the world an easier place to live in. The need is to understand and embrace it whole heartedly. For the air cargo sector, e-freight carries the same potential. It allows for online track and trace functionality and can reduce the industry cycle time by an average of 48 hours.

Driving Change Through Innovation

Innovation, sustainability and ‘next generation simplification’ were the buzzwords at IATA’s recently concluded 11th World Cargo Symposium.

Balancing Act With Changing Regulations

Pharmaceuticals makes for the most lucrative and niche product that the air cargo players transport today. Indisputably valuable, the product however demands strict adherence to changing regulations that comes along. The air cargo industry will have to continuously adapt to these requirements for better business returns and to make it a win-win situation for both the sectors.

Accessing The Inaccessible

As a result of no territorial access to the seas, limited border crossings and transit dependence, landlocked countries are looking to air cargo for their future to increase their competitiveness on the global trade map. at the same time, air freight industry sees an opportunity of business in these countries.

Digital Trendsetting In Logistics With A Human Touch

Dachser is about ‘intelligent logistics’. The 87-year-old and fully family owned company is making every effort to showcase itself as a technological trendsetter in the logistics industry; but never without being humane.

Air Cargo Taking Off On The Digital Pad

The air cargo industry has been undergoing, and will continue to undergo, a major transformation in the way it handles information.

Chapman Freeborn Charters A 60-tonne Shipment From Sharjah To Houston

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering led a time-critical delivery of 60 tonnes of pipe spooling from Sharjah to Houston for an equipment upgrade at a gas-to-liquids processing plant.

Hungarian Racehorses Take Off To China From Budapest Airport

Hungary bred fourteen racehorses were flown to China, on board Cargolux’s Boeing 747.

The Big Air Cargo Uplift

For the global air cargo industry, 2017 has been a year of high demand and big numbers. There have been huge uptick in tonnages, significant rise in load factors and substantial improvement in yield. And it expects to continue the growth in 2018 too.

How LoT And Airline Alliances Will Transform The Cargo Industry

The latest trends in technology are driving air cargo industry to make changes rapidly like never before. From Internet of Things (IoT) to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the air cargo supply chain is getting smarter with digital technologies. Venkatesh Pazhyanur forecasts the technology trends that will define air cargo in the future.

Game Changers For Air Cargo

A lot has changed in the last decade within the air cargo industry. Ushering in a new era, digitalisation and big data are creating the foundation for new business ideas and models. Beyond digitalisation, new assets such as unmanned aerial vehicles, newer, lighter and connected ULDs and smart facilities are changing the game for the air cargo industry.

Qatar Airways Cargo Gets Second B747-8 Freighter

Qatar Airways Cargo Gets Second B747-8 Freighter

Boeing Carries Out Engine Run Of MQ-25 Unmanned Aerial Refueler

Boeing Carries Out Engine Run Of MQ-25 Unmanned Aerial Refueler

North American Carriers En Route For Robust Growth

2017 was undoubtedly a record-breaking year for the air cargo industry. After nearly six years of anaemic demand, resurgent global economic conditions coupled with increasing import and export orders, helped stoke the air freight industry to its best performance. The air cargo industry in North America, like any other part of the world, also witnessed a sharp rebound and is well on its way to make significant investments to bolster growth

Stringing Music With Business

Arvind Parikh is one of the living legends of the Hindustani classical music and chairman of Lemuir Group. A recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan award, Parikh recently received the ‘STAT Times Lifetime Achievement Award’.

SF Airlines Inducts 20th B757-200 Freighter; Fleet Size Grows To 42

SF Airlines saw the arrival of the 20th B757-200 freighter at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, which was the first new aircraft introduced by SF Airlines in 2018.

American And Qantas To Form Joint Business

American Airlines and Qantas have filed an application with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) seeking approval to form a joint business to better serve customers flying between North America and Australia and New Zealand.

Aeromexico Takes Delivery Of First Boeing 737 Max Airplane

Aeromexico received its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

Robots For Unloading Sea Containers

A research project, supported by BLG Logistics, will create an innovative robot that will be used to unload sea containers, a monotonous and physically stressful activity that has been done by people worldwide.

Propelling South Africa's Automotive Sector

For the automotive industry, airfreight is the most reliable mode to transport goods when it comes to delivering time-critical production requirements. The air freight industry is trying to sustainably optimize the automotive industry’s value chain, as it sees high growth potential in the segment.

Women In Air Cargo: Winds of Change

Winds of change are blowing across the air cargo sector from past few years in terms of diverse workforce. The sector has not yet completely achieved the goal of fading gender stereotypes and looking at diversity in talent management. However, it is slowly getting there.

E-commerce Big Fillip For P2F Conversions

Replacement of ageing airplanes, in addition to the industry’s growth requirements, will create a demand for 2,480 freighter deliveries over the next 20 years. of these, 1,560 will be passenger airplane conversions, reveals Boeing’s recently released Current Market outlook. this just underlines the fact that the market for passengerto-freighter conversions just got bigger and better.

Air Cargo Upswing on the Horizon

For the global air cargo industry it mostly has been a case of too much lift chasing too little freight leaving yields under tremendous pressure. While industry stakeholders innovate to create specialised capabilities to shipping goods across different business verticals thus opening an opportunit to enhance yields; the consensus is that the current challenges are going to be there for some time but an upswing is certainly son the horizon.

Qatar Airways Takes Delivery Of First Of Its Two 747-8 Freighters

Qatar airways has placed an order for two 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs (Extended Range), valued at $2.16 billion at list prices.

East Africa Rising Like A Phoenix

While global economies had a tough time in 2016, Africa comparatively fared well. Much of the continent’s growth was however, driven by East Africa. Riding on this positive growth rate, the regional as well as foreign air cargo industry players have intensified their competition, as each positions itself to dominate the most lucrative routes from the region.

Ogiermann Leaves QR Cargo No Permanent Replacement Yet

Ulrich Ogiermann cites family reason to leave Qatar Airways and return to Europe. The Gulf carrier is yet to announce a permanent replacement for Ogiermann at its cargo division

WFS Wins Qatar Airways' New Pittsburgh Freighter Contract

WFS Wins Qatar Airways' New Pittsburgh Freighter Contract

IAG Cargo Targets Hi-tech Products With New Direct San Francisco Service

IAG Cargo Targets Hi-tech Products With New Direct San Francisco Service

Bial Gearing To Become South India's Cargo Hub

As the world’s second-largest start-up ecosystem, driven primarily by IT and ITES sectors, and to a certain extent, the manufacturing industry, Bengaluru has witnessed rapid growth. It is one of the major contributors to India’s spectacular economic progress. And Kempegowda International Airport plays a crucial role in driving growth for the region.

High Tech Industry Urges For An Agile Supply Chain With Faster Clearances

India has jumped up 30 notches into the top 100 rankings on the World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ index. While this is being celebrated, our country still has a long way to go to match up with its global peers in terms of faster processing time for customs clearance for imports/exports. This was the common voice among high-tech shippers present at the High Tech Logistics Summit held on November 16 in Bengaluru.