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The STAT Trade Times
E-commerce Logistics Where Speed Matches Need
The logistics needs of the e-commerce industry is evolving rapidly with the changing business requirements. Air cargo is riding high on e-commerce, and the industry is building infrastructure to support it. Last-mile delivery that constitutes 40-50 percent of logistics cost in India is ridden with challenges. However the logistics infrastructure being built by e-commerce companies and 3PLs has allowed 100 percent timely fulfillment of orders in India even during peak sales period.
7 min |
February 2018
The STAT Trade Times
Strategic Partnership For Growth
In November last year the Franco-Dutch airline partners Air France-KLM singed an "enhanced cooperation agreement" with Jet Airways in Mumbai. The important part of this agreement was a separate Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the cargo heads of these airlines to further strengthen their existing cargo cooperation. Marcel de Nooijer, EVP Air France KLM Cargo, details some aspects of the partnership in an exclusive interview to Reji John. Edited excerpts.
4 min |
February 2018
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Hactl To Handle Cargo For YTO In Hong Kong
YTO Cargo Airlines (YG), the aircraft operating arm of Chinese courier firm YTO Express appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (HACTL) as its handling agent in Hong Kong.
1 min |
February 2018
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Far East Demand Pushes Up Cargo Output For Schiphol In 2017
Schiphol Cargo reported an increase of 5.4 percent on yearly tonnage in 2017 largely owing to the strong demand coming in from the Far East.
1 min |
February 2018
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Kempegowda International Airport Posts Impressive Growth In 2017
Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR) had 25.04 million passengers passing through in 2017, which is a growth of 12.9 percent year-on-year and air traffic movements (ATMs) in the same year grew by 4.3 percent.
1 min |
February 2018
The Stat Trade Times
Balancing Act With Changing Regulations
Pharmaceuticals makes for the most lucrative and niche product that the air cargo players transport today. Indisputably valuable, the product however demands strict adherence to changing regulations that comes along. The air cargo industry will have to continuously adapt to these requirements for better business returns and to make it a win-win situation for both the sectors.
10 min |
September 2017
The Stat Trade Times
Accessing The Inaccessible
As a result of no territorial access to the seas, limited border crossings and transit dependence, landlocked countries are looking to air cargo for their future to increase their competitiveness on the global trade map. at the same time, air freight industry sees an opportunity of business in these countries.
5 min |
September 2017
The Stat Trade Times
Digital Trendsetting In Logistics With A Human Touch
Dachser is about ‘intelligent logistics’. The 87-year-old and fully family owned company is making every effort to showcase itself as a technological trendsetter in the logistics industry; but never without being humane.
4 min |
September 2017
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Air Cargo Taking Off On The Digital Pad
The air cargo industry has been undergoing, and will continue to undergo, a major transformation in the way it handles information.
5 min |
September 2017
The Stat Trade Times
Chapman Freeborn Charters A 60-tonne Shipment From Sharjah To Houston
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering led a time-critical delivery of 60 tonnes of pipe spooling from Sharjah to Houston for an equipment upgrade at a gas-to-liquids processing plant.
1 min |
September 2017
The Stat Trade Times
Hungarian Racehorses Take Off To China From Budapest Airport
Hungary bred fourteen racehorses were flown to China, on board Cargolux’s Boeing 747.
2 min |