Imperial Logistics holds first ever safety week 
Imperial Logistics has held its first ever safety week, as the latest element in its ongoing “safety takes us home” campaign, which seeks to raise safety awareness among the crews of its major barge operations in Europe and South America. In Europe, a task force of fifteen... plus
Boeing's big cargo drone makes first outdoor flight 
Boeing has completed the first outdoor flight tests of the cargo air vehicle (CAV), taking off, hovering, transitioning to forward flight and then landing safely. Powered by an electric propulsion system, the CAV is designed to carry a payload up to 500 pounds (227 kg), opening... plus
Additional rail capacity for Western Canada 
Canadian National Railways (CN) is increasing its operations in Western Canada with two additional export supply chain projects. The projects are both focused on maximising the use of rail services into the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The first train shipping... plus
Alitalia Cargo to lift up CSafe RAP 
CSafe Global, a leading provider of active and passive temperature-controlled packaging solutions for pharmaceutical products, has announced that Alitalia has approved the recently launched CSafe RAP for lift. This container from the Dayton (Ohio)-based manufacturer, is the... plus
Dachser USA launches automotive competence centre 
Continuing its commitment to developing automotive sector logistics solutions, Dachser USA recently inaugurated the automotive competence centre in Atlanta, which provides dedicated customer service teams that are trained to address the complex logistics operations associated... plus
Hawaiian Airlines renews digitisation partnership 
Hawaiian Airlines has renewed its five-year contract with SmartKargo, continuing the cloud-delivered real-time management of the carrier’s air cargo business using the end-to-end software as a service (SaaS) solution. Since adopting the platform in 2014 as the first US... plus
Paycargo picks Lionel van der Walt as CEO USA 
Paycargo, which operates a patented online payment system in the global freight industry providing overnight settlement of invoices between shippers and carriers, has appointed Lionel van der Walt, a veteran of the air cargo industry with more than 20 years of international... plus
China Airlines to introduce new freighter model 
China Airlines (Taiwan) and Boeing (USA) have signed a memorandum of understanding for three firm and three option aircraft orders for B777 freighters. Before 2016, China Airlines introduced a total of ten B777-300ER passenger aircraft. A current B777-300ER pilot could... plus
B767 operations keep ATSG flying high 
Air Transport Services Group announced three-year extensions of agreements under which subsidiaries of ATSG will continue to lease fourteen B767F to DHL and operate eight of those aircraft within DHL’s North American network. ATSG President and CEO Joe Hete: "We are... plus
Terminal network gets links to class I railroads 
USA-based Watco has entered into a joint venture with SCH Services (SCH) to create an inland terminal network in the four rivers area of Illinois-Kentucky capable of handling bulk materials. Watco’s Cora terminal in Illinois along with the SCH’s Calvert City terminal and... plus

