There’s been a flurry of aircraft-related news from the integrators’ corner of the airfreight industry in the last few days and, not to be left out, DHL Express said that it has taken delivery of the first A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) converted aircraft from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW). DHL Express is the
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Delivery robots will need permits to roam San Francisco
These self-driving robots can deliver groceries right to your front door. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Delivery robots in San Francisco will need permits before they can roam city sidewalks under legislation approved by city supervisors. San Francisco has struggled to regulate hometown startups that grew too popular, including short-term vacation rental platform
UPS sees some delivery delays after surge in online holiday orders
Atlanta (Reuters) - United Parcel Service said on Tuesday some deliveries were being delayed because of a surge in holiday online shopping orders during the peak shipping period. The Atlanta-based UPS which has made major investments to upgrade and expand its facilities said it shifted more employees and other resources to
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New York (Bloomberg) - FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. surged the most in more than a year on expectations that they’ll reap particularly big gains from the tax-overhaul package making its way through Congress. The bills passed by the House and the Senate cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent
New York City tackles its ‘sagging’ air cargo industry
JFK airport, New York New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) handled more cargo than any other airport globally until 1990. A quarter of a century later, JFK’s ranking has fallen to 22nd globally, according to Air Cargo World’s, “Top 50 Cargo Airports” ranking. Yesterday, the city’s Committee on Economic Development held hearings
New DHL Global Forwarding platform simplifies global airfreight for shippers
With so many new, tech-savvy forwarders setting up online, real-time booking systems for air cargo, it was only a matter of time before the big integrators got into the act. The latest is the launch of DHL Global Forwarding’s (DHL-GF) Online Freight Quotation & Booking, allowing shippers to quote and
Germany: Suspicious package part of extort plot aimed at DHL
Brandenburg state Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schroeter is surrounded by media during a news conference in Potsdam, eastern Germany, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. German authorities said the suspicious package containing nails that led to a bomb scare on a Christmas market in Potsdam was part of a blackmailing plot against a delivery
Air France-KLM, Jet Airways Cargo expand cooperation
Jet Airways, Air France-KLM deepen relationship Air France-KLM and Jet Airways Cargo are expanding their current partnership with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which the carriers will aim to link their routes between India and Europe and integrate their commercial and cargo operations on the routes. Air
After FedEx Amazon’s Prime Air is next in line for the new Cessna SkyCourier 408
Amazon Prime plane Amazon.com’s Prime Air carrier could be a potential customer for Cessna manufacturer Textron, Inc., the head of the company’s aviation business told CNBC yesterday. “We see the whole freight industry as something that is going to double in the next 15 years, so we are investing in that