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Airlink Cargo South Africa and Kenya’s Astral Aviation have signed an interline agreement to connect their networks. through their hubs in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Airlink Cargo will include Dubai in its network while Astral Aviation will have access to services operated by Airlink Cargo beyond Johannesburg including those in Mozambique, South Africa, Congo DRC, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Madagascar and Namibia. Earlier, Silk Way West Airlines signed an interline agreement ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group has delivered over 110 tons of essential cargo from Madrid and Liege to Porte-au-Prince following the earthquake in Haiti on 14 of August. It organized two charter flights on An-124-100 and Il-76TD-90VD aircraft to deliver cargo including tents, water purifiers and mobile kitchens.
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Austria’s Gebrüder Weiss is to acquire family-owned Bavarian-based transport and logistics company Spedition Lode in October. The Waldkraiburg site, 70km east of Munich, will connect with Gebrüder Weiss' southern German land transport branches in Aldingen, Esslingen, Lindau, Memmingen, Nuremberg and Passau.
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Xpediator is to rebrand its Nidd Transport subsidiary as Delamode Nidd. Xpediator acquired the Yorkshire based freight forwarder in October 2020 for £4.6 million. Nidd’s focus on Western Europe complements the Group’s freight forwarding expertise in central and eastern Europe, Italy and Germany.
Nidd Transport will continue to focus on its ...
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Air Malta and Network Airline Services (NAS) have extended their Total Cargo Management (TCM) Agreement for a further two years.
The carrier says that NAS has vastly expanded its cargo business and helped it establish itself in the global market during the two years of the existing TCM. It has built ...
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Stena Line will replace the Stena Foreteller with the Stena Vinga on the Rosslare to Cherbourg service from 6 September, operating alongside the Stena Horizon. The Vinga can carry accompanied and unaccompanied freight, it said. The Stena Foreteller will be redeployed to the Belfast-Liverpool (Birkenhead) service to replace the Seatruck Panorama, adding 10% additional ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has ordered another 75,000teu of dry containers from a manufacturer in China, due to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2021. The line has ordered a total of 625,000teu since the beginning of 2020. It said that due to massive congestion at ports, terminals and inland operations worldwide, ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis says it will expand its ad hoc chartering of vessels to move containers from the Far East to Europe into a semi-regular operation.
Senior vice president global ocean freight, Matthias Hansen, said that, with no sign that the market disruption that has plagued liner services throughout the year ...
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The container shipping market is “rapidly disintegrating” as capacity fails to keep pace with returning demand and rates escalate beyond reach for many, says the latest MDS Transmodal and Global Shippers Forum Market Review.
GSF director James Hookham, said that importers and exporters are facing “a meltdown of the container shipping ...
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The British Ports Association (BPA) has welcomed HMRC ‘s publication of guidance for operators on operating Freeport customs sites for England but warns that this is in stark contrast to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales. It says it raises new calls for parity of the Freeports process for ...
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