Chris Lewis
The CargoAi technology group has appointed Veronica Ibarra as its vice president of operations, based in Miami, and Asako Sakurai as head of finance, in Singapore.
Both have worked for over a decade at the IATA trade association, Ibarra’s most recently as global billing operations manager and , Sakurai as settlement operation manager for Asia Pacific.
Launched in 2019, CargoAi aims to bring the best available technologies to airfreight and offers a ...
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Non-profit group the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) are to collaborate to accelerate adoption of DCSA standards and enable a better customer experience for shippers. The associations will leverage DCSA’s open-source, vendor-neutral standards to help their members and other business partners make data exchange ...
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Aviation will see radical change over the next century with new power sources, increased efficiency, and sustainability, argues the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK – CILT(UK) in a briefing paper published on 3 August.
It says that while many opportunities exist in the air freight market, support ...
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Maersk’s Costa Rica Express (CRX) service is to make its first call at DP World Southampton this week. The primary import for the new service is bananas in reefer containers and the port rotation is Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Veracruz, Altamira, Big Creek, Manzanillo (Panama), Moin and Cork to Southampton and back ...
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Etihad Airways has firmed up an order for seven new generation Airbus A350F freighters, following its earlier commitment announced at the Singapore Airshow, adding to its existing order for passenger versions, five of which have been delivered. The freighter version offers a 109 tonne payload, a large main deck cargo ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has approved the use of Envirotainer’s Releye RLP and RAP containers for pharmaceutical and life science traffic.
The carrier says that the Releye solutions offer the best in live tracking updates and ensure consistent and evenly dispersed cooling, managed through a service ‘control tower’.
The containers can maintain temperature ...
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HMRC is warning that 3,500 businesses risk losing the ability to import goods if they fail to switch to the Customs Declaration Service for import declarations from 1 October.
It says that while many businesses are already using CDS, around 3,500 businesses are yet to move from the former CHIEF system. ...
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The European Commission is planning to extend four European transport corridors to Ukraine and Moldova, including the ports of Mariupol and Odessa. Transport Commissioner Adina Valean said it was part of Brussels efforts to create ‘Solidarity Lanes’ and help Ukraine continue to export its grain in the face of Russia’s ...
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Kuehne+Nagel Ireland opened a temperature-controlled facility in late July near Dublin airport and seaport. Along with three existing healthcare warehouses, it expands Kuehne+Nagel’s healthcare footprint in Ireland to 40,000 sqm.
The new HPRA-approved facility uses energy-efficient equipment to maintain a temperature of 15-25°C and will house 34,000 Euro-pallet positions with segregated ...
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The Port of New York and New Jersey said on 2 August that it would implement a new quarterly container imbalance fee for ocean carriers in to handle record cargo volumes spurred by peak cargo season and a cargo shift from the West Coast.
The container management fee, targeting excess empty ...
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