Freight volumes handled at Europe’s fifth-largest air cargo hub, Leipzig/Halle Airport, grew significantly again in August. Compared to the same month in the previous year, the volume of air freight rose by 12.7% to a figure of approximately 109,048 tonnes. This meant that the volume of cargo handled during the first eight months of the […]
Air Partner, a leading global charter and freight solutions specialist, has established its first physical presence in South Africa with a Johannesburg sales office that will provide localised support to freight clients within the region. The expansion follows record growth of the freight division over the last three years and will be overseen by newly […]
DHL Express, the world’s leading international express service provider, announced a price increase today that will take effect on January 1, 2021. The increase in the UK will be 4.9%, compared to 2020. This is to continuously ensure the resilience of its network and constantly maintain high service standards. “Supporting our customers in reaching their […]
Temperature controlled packaging company Peli BioThermal continues its commitment to sustainability by planting 25 trees for each person who participated in its 2020 Biopharma Cold Chain Logistics Sustainability Survey. The trees were planted at nine sites across the south west of Western Australia by One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation focused on reforestation. One Tree […]
Boeing has announced a firm order from an unidentified customer for two 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF), as well as agreements to open additional conversion lines in Guangzhou, China, and Singapore to meet strong market demand. Based on the popular Next-Generation 737, the 737-800BCF offers operators newer technology, lower fuel consumption and higher reliability than […]
[By Olive Heffernan] In late March, as most of the world was adjusting to lockdown, oceanographer Daniel Harrison was setting sail for the Great Barrier Reef. Though Harrison, a native Australian, had sailed these waters many times before, this particular expedition was different. On reaching Broadhurst Reef, 100km off the Australian coast, Harrison and his […]
Yachtsmen have a new and rare danger to confront off the coast of Spain: orca attacks. According to Spain’s maritime search and rescue agency, Salvamento Maritimo, multiple sailing yachts have been damaged or disabled by aggresive orcas ramming their hulls. One of the vessels, the Urki 1, captured video footage of an attack off A […]
[By Yoichiro Sato] In August 2020 China lifted the annual summer ban on its fleet’s fishing in the East China Sea (ECS). Amid speculation that China may use the opportunity to assert its claim over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, U.S. and Japanese naval forces conducted a joint exercise in the ECS to deter China. While […]
Marine engineers and crew members can now train and learn about DESMI Ocean Guard’s CompactClean ballast water management system with two digital offline tools. One is a computer-based training (CBT) program and the other is a mobile app. While the e-learning tools were in development long before the Covid-19 pandemic, they come at a good […]
Earlier this month, a team of Royal Navy sailors, Royal Marines and the U.S. Coast Guard team on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship RFA Argus hauled in 11 bales of cocaine weighing nearly 360 kilos. It was just the first of three Royal Navy drug busts in seven days. Patrol ship HMS Medway and her U.S. […]
Knut Utstein Kloster, one of the true pioneers of the modern cruise industry, passed away on September 20, 2020 at the age of 91. In the 1960s, he built a deluxe ferry called the Sunward and took a chance on converting his family’s shipping company into passenger shipping. With that small ship he would modernize cruising […]
One of the most historic cargo ships in the world, the four-masted bark Peking recently returned to Hamburg, Germany after an extensive restoration. She is destined to become the fourth large museum ship docked along the Elbe River in Hamburg. Although the Peking arrived in Hamburg being towed instead of under sail, the return of […]
