UNCTAD, IATA Extend Partnership to Facilitate Global Trade

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and UNCTAD have extended their collaboration to facilitate international trade, particularly e-commerce. The extended partnership will enrich their history of working together. This includes the successful integration of air cargo messaging standards (Cargo-XML) into UNCTAD’s automated customs management system, ASYCUDAWorld. For the 100 counties choosing to deploy the latest […]

Aeroméxico inaugura ruta carguera entre México y Wuhan, China

Aeroméxico Cargo inauguró una ruta directa entre el Aeropuerto Internacional de Wuhan-Tianhe y el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México para transporte exclusivo de carga. Esto se celebró en un evento llevado a cabo en el aeropuerto de Wuhan, en presencia de el Embajador de México en la República Popular de China, autoridades del […]

DHL Express adds B777F capacity between Asia Pacific, the US and Europe

DHL Express has added capacity between destinations in Asia Pacific, the US and Europe to meet growing demand, particularly for e-commerce. The carrier said it will utilise Boeing 777 freighters to offer weekly capacity of almost 2,350 tonnes. One of the B777Fs will be operated by DHL Express’ partner airline Kalitta Air, flying five times […]

DHL Express braces for ‘historical’ peak season

DHL Express is predicting “unprecedented” levels of online shopping and shipping volumes during the upcoming peak season and is preparing its business accordingly. The express firm said that it had already experienced around 35% e-commerce volume growth in 2020 in its network and added that the upcoming peak season will further accelerate this and result […]

Amazon to invest in Canadian freighter operator Cargojet

E-commerce giant Amazon will invest in a third freighter operator as it takes a stake in Canada’s Cargojet. The two have been working together over recent years with Cargojet providing overnight air cargo services and charter flights. Under the new strategic agreement, Cargojet will issue warrants to Amazon to purchase variable voting shares that will […]

Chile, Colombia y Argentina lideran el e-commerce de viajes en la región

La tecnología financiera está desarrollándose a pasos agigantados y en el mundo hoy existen más de 300 formas diferentes de pagar viajes, según ha detallado Amadeus en el estudio Travel Payment Guide 2019, realizado en Alianza con PPRO Group, donde se detalla cómo los países del mundo están haciendo sus gastos de viajes a través […]

Emirates SkyCargo looks to diversification and digitisation

Product diversification, digitisation of the air cargo supply chain and an ambition to build an e-commerce hub in the Middle East are just three of the projects under way at Emirates SkyCargo. The Dubai-based airfreight giant will also monitor demand for its freighter capacity in these turbulent times for the world economy, but the carrier […]