Bye bye, Bei Bei! 
Today, 19 November 2019, Fedex "Panda Express" will fly again, for the 8th time. This time the specially decaled B777F will carry Bei Bei, a four-year-old giant panda, 13,700 km from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC (USA) to Chengdu, China. Bei Bei... more
Chinese-Russian efforts to create an «Agroexpress»
RZD Logistics in Russia and the platform company YuXinOu in Chongqing, China, have signed an agreement on the joint development of services for the railway delivery of Russian food products to China. According to the provisions of the agreement, the two companies intend to... more
China Airlines Cargo to launch Indian maindeck destination
Starting tomorrow, 16 November 2019, Taiwan's China Airlines is to launch a freighter service from Mumbai (India) operating four flights a week, two per week coming from Taipei (Taiwan) to Mumbai and going forward to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and two per week coming from... more
Partners achieve active pharma shipment record
Moscow-based AirBridgeCargo airlines (ABC) has recently completed a record transportation of 27 RKN Envirotainer containers on board a single flight, delivering an important and urgent vaccine product from Milan (Italy) to Beijing (China) for one of their global partners,... more
A train that goes down in history
The first freight train in history recently crossed the Marmaray tunnel in Turkey under the Bosporus. The train departed from the Chinese city of Xi'an and is on the way to Prague in Czechia. China Railway Express handled the journey on the Asian part of the route and the... more
Northport New Zealand opts for new equipment
The Pacific port of Northport is enhancing its deep-water facility at Marsden Point, on the north island of New Zealand. Northport is the island's northernmost multi-purpose, dry-cargo port in New Zealand, with its three berths handling traffic to and from most of the country’s... more
Thai Airways celebrates and expands
Thai Airways is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its arrival in Switzerland. On 4 November 1984 the Southeast Asian airline landed at Zurich airport for the first time, a milestone that was remembered at the airport a few days ago. Together with its customers, Thai Airways... more
ECS Group deepens footprint in Southeast Asia
Thai LCC Nok Air, represented by CEO Wutthiphum Jurangkool and Pravej Ongartsittigul, chairman of the executive committee (2nd and 1st from right), has concluded a total cargo management (TCM) agreement with AVS GSA Thailand, a subsidiary of ECS Group. The subsidiary,... more
ICTSI makes good progress in the first nine months of 2019
Philippines-headquartered port and terminal operator International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) has just published its unaudited consolidated financial results for the first nine months of 2019. Revenue from port operations amounted to USD 1.1 billion, an increase of 10%... more
Blockchain: UPS and Herd X ship beef from USA to Japan
UPS will work with Herd X, a USA-based agri-tech solutions provider, to deliver blockchain-verified traced beef from an American farm to Japan. The delivery represents a significant step forward in quality assurance and traceability in the beef industry. UPS and Herd X... more