Air Canada Cargo is taking drones under its wings. The Canadian airline has signed a sales agency agreement to market the routes and capacity of Drone Delivery Canada (DDC), an Ontario-based drone operator poised to embark on commercial operations.
Unlike …

German forwarder FH Bertling’s former UK subsidiary was this week handed an £850,000 fine by a UK judge after being found guilty of paying bribes to Angolan officials that had secured the company some £20m in freight forwarding contracts.
Seven …

When I recently heard that Stefan Karlen, the chief executive of Panalpina (PAN), was flying to the US to reassure his staff that the new entity being forged, DSV Panalpina, would take good care of them, several DSV insiders tried …

Germany is attempting to define itself as the world’s leading logistics country, as Transport Logistic in Munich kicked off this morning.
An impassioned speech by the Federal Minister of transport and digital infrastructure, Andreas Scheuer, launched the proceedings, calling for …

The TAC Index, which provides independent, regular data on air cargo rates, has expanded the number of routes and baskets of routes it covers. 
From this week the index will include Singapore to south east Asia; London Heathrow to North …

FedEx plans to extend the Christmas shopping season throughout the year. After the 2019 Christmas rush the integrator will not shift down a gear on residential deliveries in the US seven-days-per-week to a Monday-through-Saturday pattern as it normally does.
Instead, …

Improvements in meteorological forecasting have opened a “critical window” for supply chains to mitigate risks posed by weather phenomena including cyclones and hurricanes.
Forecasts for the 2019 hurricane season indicate a “below-average” number are expected to hit North America, with …