• Transpacific ocean freight rates jump to 18-month high Jun 12,2020

  China-US West Coast ocean rates have climbed 17% in the past week due to tight capacity and an “unexpected” jump in demand, lifting rates to their highest level since January 2019, according to digital rates specialist Freightos.China-US West Coast prices jumped 17% since last week to an a... [learn more]

• Freight unaffected by Swissport Belgium bankruptcy Jun 12,2020

  Global airport services and air cargo handling group Swissport International is to close its Belgian ground handling and cleaning operations after the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic added to many years of loss-making operations to make the businesses unviable.But the group’s cargo business at Br... [learn more]

• Reduced waiting hours with trucking CDM platform Jun 11,2020

  As the air logistics industry struggles back to resume its vital role, there is a greater than ever need to reduce costs and for more transparency and efficiency in all aspects of the supply chain process.This is especially true of ground operations where cargo can often be delayed unnecessarily thus creating... [learn more]

• Air cargo operations at Frankfurt Airport are running at full speed Jun 11,2020

  “[Some] 3.5 billion respiratory protection masks and other protective equipment in 22,000 shipments plus medical equipment and pharmaceuticals as well as urgently required industrial goods, post, packages and food for the German and European markets. That sums up air cargo in Frankfurt since the wor... [learn more]

• Drone Delivery Canada inks agreement with GlobalMedic for COVID-19 project Jun 11,2020

  Drone Delivery Canada (DDC), with the assistance of Air Canada and the Pontiac Group, has entered into a commercial agreement with GlobalMedic to deploy DDC’s patented drone delivery solution to provide service to the Beausoleil First Nation (BFN) community in Ontario. Funding for the project was ... [learn more]

• Editor’s Blog: How much supply chain resilience do we have? Jun 10,2020

  Today I hosted the first Logistics Manager webinar, part of our series focusing on the key issues facing the supply chain at the moment, and I‘d like to thank all our readers who attended. Those who watched the webinar, which is now available to view at your leisure on logisticsmanager.com, w... [learn more]