Turkish Airlines and Boeing have announced an order for four 777 Freighters to further strengthen the airline's position in the global air cargo market. "This new investment in expanding our cargo fleet underscores our commitment to meeting the growing global demand for air freight services," - Ali Türk https://lnkd.in/g_fGkBsP
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Asia Cargo News is the only newspaper for the people directly managing the logistics and cargo supply chains in the Asia Pacific region. Asia Cargo News brings together the leaders in Asia’s freight and logistics industry. Every issue carries up-to-the-minute and often exclusive news articles on airfreight, sea freight and logistics written by our outstanding network of professional transport and supply chain journalists around the world.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged #SouthAfrica's new Government of National Unity to continue prioritizing the development of its #aviation sector. "It is important for the new government to keep this as a strategic focus. The economic and social benefits of aviation will be maximized with a sharp policy focus on keeping costs low, providing sufficient capacity to grow, monitoring the cost-effectiveness of regulations, and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050," - Kamil Alawadhi https://lnkd.in/gf2RbR75
IATA URGES SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW GOV'T TO LEVERAGE AVIATION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
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Global shipping schedule reliability improved by 3.8 percentage points month-on-month (M/M) in May, marking its highest year-to-date level. It noted, however, that on a year-to-year (Y/Y) level, schedule reliability in May 2024 was 11.0 percentage points lower. Sea-Intelligence https://lnkd.in/gx5pufr8
GLOBAL SCHEDULE RELIABILITY INCREASES TO HIGHEST YEAR-TO-DATE LEVEL
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that as part of the MOL Group's environmental strategy, its group company MOL Chemical Tankers (MOLCT) signed Japan's first sustainability-linked lease agreement with Tokyo Century Corporation / 東京センチュリー for the chemical tanker BONITA ANA. The agreement sets #sustainability performance targets that are consistent with the group's environmental #strategy, and lease payments are reduced based on the #achievement of these targets. https://lnkd.in/gFVStZdD
MOL SIGNS JAPAN'S FIRST SUSTAINABILITY-LINKED LEASE AGREEMENT
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#China-Europe freight train trips surpassed 10,000 this year as a train bound for #Duisburg in #Germany departed on July 10 from #Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province. According to China State Railway Group Co., Ltd, the trains have transported more than 1.08 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of goods this year, up 11% from last year. XInhua News Agency https://lnkd.in/gGu7fTc8
CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAIN VOLUME UP 11% YEAR-ON-YEAR
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DHL Supply Chain has announced three new key leadership appointments in Asia Pacific to boost its operations in the region. These new appointments follow Andries Retief's appointment as chief commercial officer, DHL Supply Chain Europe, Middle East, and Africa, effective September 1, 2024. DHL said Edwin Wong will take on a new role as CEO of DHL Supply Chain Southeast Asia; while Fanny Huang will assume the additional position of head of the Taiwan & China representative office effective July 1. https://lnkd.in/gRN-CFR3
DHL SUPPLY CHAIN ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP CHANGES IN ASIA PACIFIC
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CEVA Logistics, the #logistics subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, announced that it will soon begin the process of welcoming Bolloré Logistics into its new organizational model. "CEVA Logistics and Bolloré Logistics will move forward under one unified brand— CEVA Logistics. The company expects to complete its rebranding process by the end of 2024," it said. https://lnkd.in/g6Bs8Z_U
CEVA STARTS BOLLORÉ LOGISTICS INTEGRATION
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Airlines in the #AsiaPacific reported another month of cargo growth in #May, driven by an acceleration in global economic activity. Traffic figures released by the Kuala Lumpur-based Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed that international air cargo demand — measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK) — increased 17.9% in May, compared to the same period in 2023. https://lnkd.in/gAwVb4im
ASIA PACIFIC AIRLINES RECORD CONTINUED EXPANSION IN CARGO DEMAND
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Supply chain activity growth remained slow at a global level, according to a new S&P Global Market Intelligence, while manufacturing new orders are at their highest since March 2022, though growth is inconsistent by region, with #Europe lagging and #Asia leading. As a result, global trade growth is expected to increase slightly to 4.8% in the fourth quarter, led by #electronics and #capital goods. https://lnkd.in/gwPdZVBA
S&P: GLOBAL TRADE GROWTH EXPECTED TO RISE TO 4.8% IN Q4 2024
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for May 2024 global air cargo markets showing continuing strong annual growth in demand - rising by 14.7% compared to May 2023 levels (15.5% for international operations). https://lnkd.in/gfUHCRCr