This time, the changes are buried in the multi-page packing instructions 965 and 968 of the 63rd edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Neither lithium ion nor lithium metal batteries can be sent under the Section II provisions. The effect of this is that all lithium batteries sent on thei...

A new study, published by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, has kept track of the progress of Amazon Air and shows turboprops entering the game, with widebodies for intercontinental operations on the horizon. Between last August and this month, Amazon Air incr...

In response, the company consolidated its diminished cargo volumes at fewer facilities and quickly adapted to the new reality of cargo-in-cabin (CIC), a new freight transfer mode invented more or less on the spot, to amortise otherwise unusable passenger planes. Though many had expected CIC to be pe...

The not-for-profit initiative, launched by pharma supply chain information platform Validaide, has already matched one global non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a warehouse provider in Poland to facilitate the movement of aid. The Validaide platform has more than 900 subscribers spe...

The loss from the market of Volga-Dnepr and Antonov’s AN-124s, as well as the world’s largest commercial aircraft, the AN-225, will create “a huge hole”, said Dan Morgan-Evans, global director cargo for Air Charter Service. “Shippers will need to think about this before producing large loa...

To date, the airport’s air cargo activity has consisted of charter flights operated by Airbus’s fleet of Beluga freighters carrying aircraft parts manufactured at a nearby plant to St Nazaire, in western France. APRC group director of development and general manager Jorge Hernandez, whose career...

In April 2020, Emirates consolidated its main deck and bellyhold cargo operations at Dubai International Airport (DXB), in light of the suspension of passenger flights during the early stages of Covid-19, effectively mothballing DWC after barely five years of operations. “With the growth of Emirat...

The new CCP regime came into effect on 1 January, with a grace period for compliance until 31 March. This has been pushed back until the end of September. CCP is an annex to digitalised tax receipts that complements bills of lading with which Mexican owners of shipped goods, forwarders and carriers ...

Supply chain consultancy Woodland Group told Logistic-News it was seeing the impact intensify across all transport modes as the sector makes efforts to minimise disruption in an already disrupted market. A spokesperson said: “The maritime crisis intensifies as ports become blocked, imports and...

Meeting those needs in country under attack from neighbours in Russia and Belarus is not only very tough, but also critical and Logistic-News has sought to understand how essential supplies are reaching the stricken population. In speaking to Odessa-based cargo analysis and consultancy firm Info...