Once the committee has approved six packages, which include aviation and shipping joining the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the proposals will head to the European Parliament’s plenary session on 6 June,which will endorse the regulations, after considering any changes, before the Council of M...

But new-generation 777Fs won’t be delivered until 2027, at the earliest, although Airbus – said to be courting Cargolux feverishly – may have A350Fs available from 2025. However, there is talk that the certification process, following Boeing’s various 737 disasters, is becoming more robust a...

Powered by two-cylinder petrol engines, Windracers’ ULTRA (unmanned low-cost transport) drone can carry 100kg up to 1,000km, making it more than capable of reaching the Shetland and Orkney islands, the Hebrides and the Isles of Scilly. The development follows a successful trial last month, when Ro...

There is no better illustration of the highs and lows of freighter airlines than the chart below, compiled by Logistic-News over the past 11 years. From an $18.3m loss in 2011, the carrier barely broke even until 2015. Then two good years, a bad year – and Covid-19. Last year saw its fortunes incre...

The inland port on the western edge of Manchester will provide a localised logistics service, with the port of Liverpool looking to entice mainline operators to offer direct calls or feeder services from Europe into north-west England. It would reduce the truck miles for containers delivered to Feli...

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Under its “Reassurance Plan”, Cainiao has integrated nearly 3,600 trailer lines from eastern China and other regions to Shanghai port, ensuring merchants can export goods normally. Cainiao has also chartered flights and ships, with land-to-water and land-to-rail transfers also offered to exporte...

Cargolux has resumed some flights into Shanghai in the past two weeks, following government authorisation for some manufacturing to restart, but is offering few frequencies. “We need to build up slowly again,” CEO Richard Forson told Logistic-News. “It all depends on the availability of ma...

Owned, ultimately, by Russia’s Alexey Isaikin, also founder of Volga-Dnepr Group, the Leipzig-hubbed carrier was banned from European airspace in March, leaving its fleet of four 737Fs grounded. Appeals that it is not in fact Russian, fell on deaf ears in Germany. DVZ reports, (via Air Cargo News)...

Furthermore, according to a new whitepaper by Ti Research, the global freight forwarding market bounced back to enjoy the strongest market growth since 2011, recording 11.2% growth in real terms, to $284.9bn. It was a strong performance following one of the most challenging years to date, amid the C...