IG Air Cargo General Assembly 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019 The 2019 General Assembly of the Interest Group Air Cargo Switzerland, took pl...
Easter Event Section Geneva 2019
Thursday 16 April 2019...
Winter Event Section Zurich 2019
Thursday 14 Februar 2019...
Some 100 companies including: Airlines, Forwarders, GSAs, GHAs, Trucking Companies, Airports, Associations, etc. have already joined us.
LOGISTICS 2020 in Lucerne
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New EZV Air Cargo Statistics Published
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Air Cargo World - News Feed
- Suparna Airlines launching Oslo-Nanjing 747F service for seafood HNA affiliate carrier Suparna Airlines is launching twice-weekly service between Oslo Airport (OSL) and Nanjing (NKG) using a 747-400F, OSL’s state-owned operator Avinor announced today. The freighter route will serve growing seafood exports from OSL. The 747-400F will depart OSL on Thursday and Sunday afternoons local time, arriving at NKG at 9 a.m. local time […]
- Temperature-controlled products heat up air cargo demand With news of July being the hottest on record, it seemed fitting that we take a look at temperature-controlled air cargo. Indeed, a number of freight forwarders noted in recent earnings reports that temperature-controlled volumes were a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing first half of the year for air cargo. However, while temperature-controlled products […]
- Korean Air Cargo increases frequency on South American route Korean Air Cargo announced yesterday it is expanding its capacity to South America by increasing its freighter service to the continent to three times weekly beginning Aug. 23. The route, operated with a 777F aircraft, will depart from Incheon (ICN) and fly to Anchorage (ANC), Miami (MIA), Sao Paulo (GRU), Santiago (SCL), Lima (LIM) and Los Angeles (LAX) before returning to ICN. The entire route requires around 70 hours to fly and […]
The Loadstar - News Feed
- Maersk’s digital drive into India’s trucking sector via tie-up with online platform
Maersk is partnering with Indian online marketplace Blackbuck in an effort to modernise the country’s container trucking supply chain.
The move comes amid “ambitious” efforts by the Indian government to reduce logistics costs to 9% of GDP by 2022, a drop of 5%.
Head of sales for Maersk in South Asia Arjun Maharaj said: “Our customers are dealing with fragmented vendors with varying service levels of communication, geographical, financial and infrastructural disparities,...The post Maersk’s digital drive into India’s trucking sector via tie-up with online platform appeared first on The Loadstar.
- US box ports report surprise growth in imports, despite tariffs
Despite the escalating US/China trade war, the ten biggest US container ports posted a surprisingly robust 2.7% year-on-year import throughput growth in July, for a cumulative 1,865,645 teu.
However, analyst John D McCown, of consultancy Blue Alpha Capital, still believes that the impact of tariffs on Chinese imports “will become dramatically more pronounced”.
The better-than-expected July numbers, which support the upbeat view of the transpacific market by Maersk last week, were mainly driven...The post US box ports report surprise growth in imports, despite tariffs appeared first on The Loadstar.
- US tech start-up RPA set to disrupt logistics with AI bots
A US start-up is bringing ‘robotic process automation’ (RPA) to the logistics arena, to speed up repetitive processes and customer interaction to free employees for other tasks.
Fledgling technology company RPA Labs wants to harness the nascent technology to facilitate processes in logistics and officially entered the arena today, after a year developing its software bots.
Matt Motsick, co-founder and CEO of the San Jose-based firm, described RPA technology as a cousin...The post US tech start-up RPA set to disrupt logistics with AI bots appeared first on The Loadstar.