EC Air adds Bamako and Dakar 
Starting today (23 March 2015), Equatorial Congo Airlines (EC Air) is expanding its network in West Africa with the introduction of a thrice weekly service linking its hub Brazzaville with Bamako (Mali) and Dakar (Senegal). Served at first by a B757, the airline will switch to a... more
CINS with new structure
The cargo incident notification system (CINS), founded in 2011, has established itself as an independent organisation. It comprises the shipping lines CMA CGM, Evergreen, Hapag Lloyd, Maersk Line and the Mediterranean Shipping Company. CINS aims to highlight risks posed by... more
Grimaldi polishes up MEX service
The Italy-based Grimaldi Group is further enhancing its Mediterranean express service (MEX) with the deployment of an additional vessel, which regularly links the Mediterranean to West Africa. The vessel "Grande Ghana" joins the three other units, two of which are... more
Air Seychelles for South Africa shopping
Air Seychelles Cargo has expanded the Seychelles box airfreight service to South Africa, offering customers a simple way of sending items from Johannesburg to Mahé, the largest island in Seychelles. The newly-launched offer allows personal items and gifts of up to 20 kg to be... more
Paving the way for sustainable transport
The eight Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) that committed themselves to supporting sustainable transport in 2012, are making progress. In 2013 alone, the MDB approved more than USD 25 billion for transport projects, according to a joint report. That funding represented more... more
Walvis Bay airport extension progressing well
Namibian media have cited the Namibia Airport Company (NAC) as saying that upgrades to Walvis Bay airport are progressing well. Work started with the runway extension, and is being followed by the rehabilitation of the apron (the designs for which have been finalised), the... more
Hutton Group opens Luba terminal
Hutton Group, a UK-based ship supply company, has opened its new depot in Luba Freeport (Equatorial Guinea). The new facility will serve maritime and offshore customers in West Africa and provide a range of frozen and dry provisions, as well as a wide selection of cabin... more
Johannesburg and Leipzig - global partners
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa), the owner and manager of South Africa's nine principal airports, and Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding, representing Leipzig/Halle airport (Germany), signed a cooperation agreement during last week's Air Cargo Africa 2015 Conference and... more
LPG shipping earnings benefit from cheap oil
Analyst Drewry says in its latest edition of the LPG Forecaster that LPG shipping earnings are going to remain buoyant on the back of low oil prices and the absence of fuel substitution. So far, low oil prices have not triggered the substitution of LPG as the industry's fuel,... more
Johannesburg airport aims to become logistics hub
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) estimates that the country's flagship airport O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, where currently the Air Cargo Africa exposition and conference is taking place, is well positioned to be a logistics and distribution hub for air... more