December 2025

Saudia renews handling deal with WFS

Saudia Cargo has extended its partnership with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). The renewed contract covers comprehensive cargo handling services at eight gateways in Europe and the US, including London Heathrow, Manchester, Amsterdam Schiphol, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris CDG, New York JFK and Washington Dulles International. Beyond these eight locations, WFS also provides cargo handling services for Saudia Cargo at Liege in Belgium, Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, India, as well as in ... [+]

Humber Freeport recruits more members

Humber Freeport has recruited new members to its board of directors. They include Tom Wheldon, director and head of region (Yorkshire and North East) at property firm HBD, part of Henry Boot; Matt Jukes, Hull City Council’s chief executive; Paul Bellotti, East Riding Council’s chief executive, and Sharon Wroot, interim ... [+]

Emirates flies aid to stricken Sri Lanka

Emirates and Dubai Humanitarian have set up an airbridge to Sri Lanka to transport aid to people affected by Cyclone Ditwah. For the next two weeks, the Dubai-based carrier will offer over 100 tonnes of cargo space free of charge on its daily passenger flights to Sri Lanka.  The first shipments ... [+]

New look for ONE East-West routes

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has updated its East-West service network, including services between Asia and North Europe from April 2026. It aims to enhance reliability and stability supported by additional capacity from newbuild vessels scheduled for delivery throughout 2025 and into 2026. Port rotations of the updated services are based ... [+]

Brazil to upgrade Rio terminal

Brazil’s Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho, has announced a new private investment of R$948 million to expand and modernize the ICTSI Rio Brasil Terminal in the Port of Rio de Janeiro. The project, which will be executed between 2025 and 2029, will increase the public terminal's operational ... [+]

Hapag-Lloyd orders eight dual-fuel ships

Hapag-Lloyd has signed a US$500 million contract with Chinese shipyard CIMC Raffles for eight dual-fuel methanol container ships. They have a capacity of 4,500 TEU and are scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029. The new ships will be up to 30% more efficient than older generations of ships in ... [+]

Logistics UK celebrates industry success

Winners of Logistics UK’s annual awards in London on 11 December included Freight by Water Business of the Year: Port of Dover Highly commended: Ellerman City Liners Logistics Partner of the Year: Uniserve and Sainsbury’s Highly commended: Aramex UK Air Freight Business of the Year: Glasgow Prestwick Airport Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year (sponsored ... [+]

Hong Kong and Flexport set up one-stop shop

Hong Kong Air Cargo Industry Services Limited (Hacis) – Hactl’s wholly-owned, value-added services subsidiary – has signed a partnership with logistics and supply chain technology expert, Flexport, to establish the gateway as the latter’s transit hub. Hacis initially provided mail handling services to Flexport, and gradually expanded its offerings to include ... [+]

All change at AP Moller-Maersk

AP Moller-Maersk has made changes to its regional leadership team. Current Asia-Pacific chief Ditlev Blicher will assume the role of regional president for North America Region while chief financial officer for Asia-Pacific, Scott Andrew Elliott, is appointed interim regional president of Asia-Pacific Region. Charles Van Der Steene steps into the role ... [+]

Choppers fly to Brazil with a little help from Rhenus and Avianca

Rhenus Logistics and carrier Avianca Cargo have transported crated civil helicopters from Miami International Airport to Vitória–Eurico de Aguiar Salles International Airport, the first time that a shipment of this kind has landed in the Brazilian gateway. Over 35 similar shipments are expected to be completed by end of the ... [+]

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