October 2025

DHL invests to accelerate Africa trade

DHL Group says it will invest over €300million in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The multi-year initiative will be deployed across DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, and DHL Supply Chain to expand infrastructure and enhance services for sectors including e-commerce, perishables, energy, and life sciences and healthcare. The investment will include upgrading gateways, adding aviation uplift and extending time-definite coverage into second cities that are emerging as demand centres under the African Continental ... [+]

Indonesia’s ANL cuts carbon with Cocoon

Indonesian-based ANL Logistics has partnered with UK software provider CocoonFMS to track and offset carbon emissions. Integrating the CocoonCarbon calculator into its operations allows ANL and its customers to measure, report and act on shipment-level carbon data for road, sea, air and rail. It tracks Scope 3 emissions across the ... [+]

Awards recognise women in air cargo

Czechia country manager for 4RCargo, Petra Justová won the inaugural RFS/GSSA Women in Air Cargo Award, while head of the CargoBooking platform, Anna Balan, received the award for IT during the Aviation Connect conference in Copenhagen on 15 October. Petra Justová was recognised for her achievements in redefining the Czech air ... [+]

Rail loading project ready to roll

The KIBA project has completed three years of research and development into Artificial Intelligence and loading optimization for combined transport. Led by operator Kombiverkehr and supported by Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (German Rail-Road Transhipment Company), Goethe University, operations research software firm INFORM, KombiConsult, Technical University of Darmstadt, and VTG, the project ... [+]

Everything you wanted to know about Customs…

European customs clearance business Customs Support Group has set up an advisory board to unite industry experts and drive innovation. IAB will highlight the customs industry’s vital role in global trade and economic growth and, it says, comes at a pivotal moment for customs management, which is becoming increasingly critical for ... [+]

Kuehne+Nagel invests in India

Kuehne+Nagel is adding 100,000 sqm of capacity in five new Indian fulfilment centres in  Gurgaon, Kolkata, Nagpur, Mumbai and Rajpura. It brings the forwarder’s total fulfilment centre footprint in the country to nearly 500,000sq m and will create more than 1,500 new jobs nationwide. India is projected to become the world’s ... [+]

Davies Turner renews project44 deal

Davies Turner has renewed its partnership with supply chain visibility firm project44 three years. Since the partnership began in 2022, project44 has played a pivotal role in enhancing Davies Turner’s ocean freight tracking capabilities, providing real-time updates from origin port to destination port. It also supports internal systems and external ... [+]

B&H signs aerospace logistics deal with Ontic

Aviation logistics specialist B&H Worldwide, signed a global warehousing and logistics contract with Ontic Aerospace at the MRO Europe exhibition in London on 15 October. Under the agreement, B&H Worldwide will hold over 3,000 items for Ontic and support its exchange programme at its gateways in London, Miami, and Singapore. B&H ... [+]

Lesley Cripps to lead Oman Air sales in Europe

Oman Air Cargo has appointed Lesley Cripps as European sales manager, the first of three regional sales managers. Bringing over 30 years’ experience to the role, she will build a key account programme in the region and oversee the airline’s General Sales Agents (GSA) network. Her appointment comes as Oman ... [+]

Global K9 signs first deal in Europe

Security dog specialist Global K9 has been appointed by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) to provide free running explosive detection dogs (FREDDs) at its Amsterdam Airport Schiphol hub. A total of four canine teams have been stationed at gateway where they will support KLM Cargo’s screening operations in compliance with ... [+]

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