DHL’s new Central Asia regional Hub for express cargo sorting and handling facility with a total area of 18,000 square metres. With last week’s 11/11 e-commerce holiday just the latest in a series of broken records for e-commerce volumes, companies are re-evaluating the scope of China’s market and positioning themselves for
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More dismal numbers from LATAM Cargo as RTKs slide
LATAM Cargo -Boeing 767-316F/ER If there’s a “Latin America turnaround” happening, it sure didn’t manifest itself in LATAM Cargo’s books in the month of October, as the struggling cargo operator’s revenue tonne kilometers (RTKs) fell 2.9 percent, dragging the year-to-date total down to 1.5 percent. LATAM Cargo is also cutting capacity, with
DHL to break ground on ‘8-figure’ freight facility near Hanover Airport
DHL Freight hub European road-freight service provider DHL Freight is making “an eight-figure investment” in a new 7,800-square-meter freight hub at the Hanover Airport Business Park in Langenhagen, Germany. DHL Freight expects its investment to translate into improvements in LTL (less-than-truckload) and FTL (full-truck-load) transport. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the beginning
Why cargo bike deliveries are taking over the UK’s cities
An Outspoken delivery rider in Cambridge. Photograph: Paul Rogers for the Guardian Eco-friendly cycle logistics firms are popping up across the UK, carrying everything from Amazon packages to takeaway food and bouquets London (The Guardian) - Ben Cartwright is amid a ritual familiar to thousands of delivery workers across the country, carefully
Volume growth slows at Fraport’s airports in October
Cargo Hub In Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport is home to around 250 airlines, freight forwarders, cargo handlers and other logistics service provider. It is a major hub for international transport of mail and parcels, equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Besides being a major hub for international cargo shipments, Frankfurt Airport has also developed into a center for courier
DHL Customers prefer root canals to late shipments
In DHL’s 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator’s customers surveyed said that they would “rather get a root canal than having personal holiday shipments come late,” which suggests that some 27 percent of customers haven’t yet experienced the skull-splitting agony of the dentists’ drill burrowing into their molars. Regardless,
How cargo bikes can help unclog London’s congested roads
Outspoken Delivery already runs cargo bike operations in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich. Photograph: Paul Rogers/Commissioned for The Guardian Waltham Forest’s new zero-emissions delivery service aims to replace polluting trucks for local deliveries of food, online purchases and more Each morning Oscar Godoy unlocks a door in a railway arch in north London, organizes
Osinbajo Rallies Investors for Truck Transit Parks, Inland Dry Ports
Nigerian government Plans New Truck Transit Parks in 8 Locations in the Country Lagos - The federal government of Nigeria has urged investors to key into the immense opportunities inherent in the Inland Dry Ports (IDP) and the proposed Truck Transit Parks (TTP) being promoted by the Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC). Speaking
Virgin Atlantic Cargo, Delta Cargo launch new pharma zone in London
Incorporated into the new Pharma facility are two walk-in pods capable of maintaining 2-8°C (COL) and 15-25°C (CRT) temperature ranges for loose pharma shipments. A new joint venture pharma zone in London is the first of many, according to partners Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo. The two air carriers opened a
London Heathrow Airport struggles with increasing cargo congestion, delays
HEATHROW CARGO TERMINAL Industry leaders have called for infrastructure changes as the airport has seen cargo volumes increase 10 percent in just one year, leading to congestion, delays and an inability to reach the airport's cargo center, according to multiple media reports. London's Heathrow Airport has long struggled with cargo congestion and