Körber acquires Siemens’ global mail and parcel business
International technology group Körber has signed an agreement to acquire Siemens Logistics’ global mail and parcel business. ➤
ABC’s digital bookings soar 270 per cent in 2021
Volga-Dnepr Group’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has seen a 274 per cent increase in digital bookings in 2021 compared with 2020. ➤
Silk Way West offers freighter capacity on WebCargo
Silk Way West Airlines is set to enable Digital Air Cargo real-time pricing and eBooking for thousands of forwarders on air cargo booking platform WebCargo. ➤
UPS opens Asia Pacific Innovation Centre in Singapore
Supply Chain Solutions (UPS SCS) today officially opened its first innovation centre globally, connecting businesses in Asia with emerging technologies in logistics. ➤
GEODIS invests in mobile robots for HK facility
Transport and logistics provider GEODIS is deploying Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) from Geek+, a global technology company, at its Yuen Long Warehouse Distribution Centre (YLDC) in Hong Kong. ➤
Awery Aviation launches new instant booking app
A new online tool – CargoBooking.aero – supports airlines and their General Sales Agents (GSAs) to deliver instant air cargo quoting and booking with Application Programming Interface (API) integration to freight forwarders. ➤
Drone Delivery Canada wins delivery contracts at EIA
Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) enters into commercial agreements with Edmonton International Airport (EIA), Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile to deploy its drone delivery solution at the airport. ➤
PayCargo snags $125 million Series B investment
Freight payment platform PayCargo announces a USD 125 million Series B investment by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. ➤
Rate benchmarking platform Xeneta integrates Clive Data
Xeneta, a globalocean and air freight rate benchmarking platform and container shipping index, announces the integration of CLIVE Data Services’ ‘dynamic loadfactor’ data and analyses. ➤
Finnair joins WebCargo as shift to digital bookings gathers pace
Finnair Cargo is joining WebCargo, the digital air cargo platform, to offer instant pricing, guaranteed capacity, and eBookings to WebCargo customers. ➤
Turkish Cargo goes digital with WebCargo e-booking
Turkish Cargo will soon provide global forwarders the ability to conduct real-time e-bookings, access live rates, and see available air cargo capacity through WebCargo. ➤
Air Canada to be first NAmerican carrier on cargo.one
E-booking platform cargo.one and Air Canada Cargo have signed a letter of intent for the carrier to offer its capacities on cargo.one’s air cargo booking platform. ➤
GMR Hyderabad, StaTwig bring blockchain to vaccine shipments
GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC) and Singapore-based technology startup StaTwig are teaming up to bring blockchain-based real-time tracking to vaccine shipments. ➤
IATA launches EPIC digital collaboration platform
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) launches a new platform to support the digitisation of the global air cargo supply chain. ➤
CargoAi names industry veterans to new advisory board
CargoAi is launching a Board of Advisors drawn from industry experts who represent the diverse views and perspectives of the airfreight industry. ➤
Serai launches traceability solution for apparel supply chain
Serai, a network-based digital B2B platform by HSBC, has launched a traceability solution enabling apparel businesses to track cotton and other raw materials going into their product. ➤
Qatar Cargo makes digital leap with WebCargo e-booking
Qatar Airways Cargo is making the move to real-time e-bookings, including live rates and available capacity through WebCargo, a Freightos Group company. Rollout will begin with France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa and Spain on ➤
Nallian nabs former BRU cargo head Steven Polmans
Former head of cargo at Brussels Airport and current TIACA chairman, Steven Polmans is joining effective immediately. ➤
Japan Airlines taps CHAMP for new domestic cargo service
Japan Airlines (JAL) implements CHAMP’s API Gateway solution to power a new domestic air cargo service in Japan. The solution enables the carrier to compete with other modes of transport, seamlessly integrating air and land ➤
WFS deploys Descartes’ Bluetooth tracking technology
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is offering its airline customers real-time visibility and asset management solutions with Descartes’ Bluetooth tracking technology. Currently live at WFS’ airport locations in Paris, London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Madrid, New York and ➤
ECS plugs Condor, TUI, Sunclass into cargo.one
Condor, TUI and Sunclass, managed by the ECS Group, are going live on cargo.one to offer their capacity for online booking with real-time pricing and instant confirmation. Starting from November, the capacity of Condor, TUI ➤
Singapore Airlines moves to a single digital platform with IBS
Singapore Airlines (SIA) appoints IBS Software to bring its global cargo operations onto a single integrated digital cargo platform. The aims is to improve operational insight across SIA’s entire network through the deployment of IBS ➤
American Airlines makes digital leap with full iCargo implementation
American Airlines Cargo continues the modernisation of its business with the implementation of all key modules in IBS Software’s iCargo platform. ➤
TIACA, Pharma.Aero highlight “concerning” lack of vaccine readiness
TIACA and Pharma.Aero express “strong concern” over the current state of air cargo industry readiness for the coming COVID-19 vaccine transport. ➤
CHAMP, Air Cargo Belgium sign MoU on tech roadmap
CHAMP Cargosystems and Air Cargo Belgium sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of an innovation roadmap of the air cargo industry. The agreement is for an indefinite period. The MoU outlines that ➤
Portugal’s Abreu Carga implements CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB
Portuguese freight forwarder Abreu Carga e Trânsitos implements CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB for its digital data exchange. Abreu Carga is one of the main transport companies in Portugal and operates air, land and ocean freight services ➤
Lufthansa Cargo renews CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB, CDMP
Lufthansa Cargo renews its agreement with CHAMP for its’ Traxon cargoHUB and Traxon CDMP solutions. The carrier’s continued partnership with CHAMP, represents a continued relationship of nearly 30 years between Lufthansa Cargo and CHAMP Cargosystems. ➤
Unilode to outfit all dnata warehouses with Bluetooth kit
Unilode Aviation Solutions and dnata are teaming up to equip all dnata warehouses with Unilode’s Bluetooth readers to enhance the efficiency of ULD operations in the global network of their customers. Unilode’s digital solution, for ➤
BRU gets efficiency boost with Nallian road feeder app
Brussels Airport streamlines airport-to-airport pick-ups & deliveries with Nallian’s new Road Feeder Management app. The Road Feeder Management app is part of Nallian’s Landside Management Suite for airports and is aimed at trucking companies and ➤
Kale PINGs industry with new AWB tool helpful in covid enviro
Kale Logistics Solutions is offering a wide range of e-services solutions for the logistics industry to facilitate tackling of the current COVID-19 scenario worldwide and ensure business continuity. Noting that ground handlers and freight forwarders ➤
Ethiopian brings mobile convenience to cargo customers
Ethiopian Airlines introduces a mobile app and chatbot-assisted shipment tracking service as the carrier leverages its in-house digital capabilities. The mobile app, which is now available for both Android and iOS, will bring convenience to ➤
ShipChain, Distichain announce SMB solution to facilitate trade
ShipChain, the blockchain-based logistics company, today announced a new partnership with the B2B e-commerce platform provider Distichain to help small- and medium-sized businesses access global markets. ShipChain notes that as businesses increasingly need to be ➤
Descartes’ MacroPoint gives Circle Logistics visibility in US Covid enviro
Descartes Systems Group says US-based Circle Logistics is providing the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and grocery customers with real-time visibility of critical medical supply and grocery shipments across the US with its MacroPoint ➤
ShipChain donates Petaflop of computer power in search of COVID-19 cure
ShipChain, a blockchain-based logistics solutions provider, is donating up to one Petaflop of computing power – approximately one quadrillion calculations per second – to assist [email protected] scientists attempting to find the cure for the COVID-19 ➤
PayCargo offers free service to help sector through corona crisis
PayCargo launches a new free communication mechanism via its online payment platform that allows Vendors such as airlines, ship terminals, and maritime operators to share key information with the 20,000-plus Payer users in the company’s ➤
ITU launches platform to help protect global telecoms in COVID-19 crisis
The latest turn in the ever-evolving Coronavirus pandemic sees the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the United Nations specialised agency for information and communications technologies – launching a platform today aimed at keeping vital global ➤
LUX goes with Nallian for cargo community system
With rising cargo volumes reaching nearly 900,000 tonnes in 2019, Luxembourg Airport (LUX) is engaging Nallian to implement a cargo community system (CCS). The CCS represents an important component of the Luxembourg Single Window for ➤
Freightos wins over FedEx units for sales, customs digitisation
Logistics technology platform provider Freightos has struck a deal with FedEx’s Logistics and Trade Networks units for digitisation of sales and customs brokerage operations. The agreement – with FedEx Logistics and FedEx Trade Networks Transport ➤
Swissport moves to Bluetooth-equip all its warehouses
Swissport is working with Unilode and Descartes to track and monitor Unit Load Devices (ULD) using Bluetooth technology at its cargo warehouses. The cargo handling division will equip its 115 cargo warehouses with tracking sensors ➤
Fleet Logistics switches on to Lufthansa’s smartBooking API
Fleet Logistics is now using Lufthansa Cargo´s smartBooking API following the introduction of the new API in 2019 as part of the cargo carrier’s expanding digital innovation portfolio. Lufthansa Cargo invested in Fleet in a ➤
All Nippon Airways joins booking platform Cargo.one
All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest airline, joins online booking platform cargo.one to offer its cargo customers e-booking capabilities. Cargo.one says it has been accelerating its growth by leveraging network effects over the past year ➤
Oman Air Cargo opts for CHAMP suite of solutions
Oman Air Cargo has awarded CHAMP a five-year contract for its suite of e-cargo solutions after the IT solutions provider won the contract in competitive bidding. In pursuit of what it says is the “next ➤
Etihad Cargo ups digital game with Freightos WebCargo
Etihad Cargo accelerates its digital transformation with a new partnership for Digital Air Cargo with WebCargo by Freightos, among the world’s largest air cargo rates and e-booking platforms. The WebCargo partnership extends Etihad Cargo’s digital ➤
SITA, CHAMP Cargosystems join trade facilitation alliance
SITA and its joint venture CHAMP Cargosystems announce plans to support international development as they join the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation as official business partners. The Alliance is a not-for-profit collaboration of governments, international ➤
Hartsfield–Jackson, Kale unveil cargo community system
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) along with the airfreight community in Atlanta have gone live with North America’s First New Generation Air Cargo Community System in partnership with Kale Logistics Solutions (Kale). The Kale team ➤
Uzbekistan Airways signs up for CHAMP’s FREIGHT.AERO
Uzbekistan Airways has signed for CHAMP Cargosystems’ dynamic online portal, FREIGHT.AERO to expand its online bookings. FREIGHT.AERO offers real-time availability and price, e-bookings, air waybill and house air waybill processing. FREIGHT.AERO is connected to 20+ ➤
Lufthansa Cargo now offering real-time spot prices
Lufthansa Cargo is expanding its digital sales channels with dynamic spot prices that can be booked immediately. These spot prices are now automatically generated in real-time via the Rapid Rate Response (RRR) mechanism and are ➤
Hermes implements Hermes 5 for Etihad Cargo
Hermes Logistics Technologies extends its contract with Etihad Aviation Group and is set to begin upgrading Etihad’s cargo management system (CMS) to the latest version of Hermes 5. The IT specialist will begin implementing Hermes ➤
IoT poised to become $96 billion market in APAC by 2023
The market for Internet of Things (IoT) related services, is projected to exceed USD 96.3 billion in sales in Asia Pacific by 2023, according to data and analytics firm, GlobalData. The market – which includes ➤
IAG Cargo successfully trials autonomous drone tech
IAG Cargo successfully trials autonomous drone technology within its warehouse facility in Madrid, aimed at automating freight checks, and improving efficiency and reliability of its operations. Video of the testing can be found here. Conducted ➤