Cargoforwarder

K+N to axe jobs, demands more influence in Hapag-Lloyd

Kuehne + Nagel’s logistics business has only ever known one direction until now: upwards. However, the Covid-19 crisis has also hit this company hard. The management at its Swiss
headquarters announced a down-sizing process that will lead to the loss


ULD Dating in times of Social Distancing

Digital solutions have definitely become “essential workers” for air logistics in this COVID-19 crisis. With the disruption in flight schedules, the ad hoc addition of new,
sometimes even one-off destinations, and the boom in “preighters” (cargo-only passenger flights), skypooling, the




Aircraft converter EFW faces P2F conversion upswing

The Dresden, Saxony-based specialist enjoys increasing requests to convert the Airbus variants A330 and A320/A321. This was already apparent at the end of 2019 and has become increasingly
clear since the outbreak of the corona crisis led to a standstill


Sledgehammers, Clouds and COVID-19

Digital Transformation: What used to be a fashionable, futuristic buzz phrase, finally started gathering speed during the past couple of years, and now COVID-19 has catapulted the topic
to almost every company’s boardroom table, given its key bearing on the


Astral Aviation further connecting Africa

The grounding of many passenger airlines worldwide, has also badly hit the African continent, which similarly relied on passenger bellies for much of its cargo transportation. It has
created a severe imbalance on routes, with PPE coming in from China,