The U.S. government’s mandate for a 10% reduction in flight activity at major airports for safety reasons will cause headaches for air logistics operators, but the impact on supply chains could be limited.
FedEx and DHL Express are moving to bigger and more modern package sorting facilities at airports in Turkey and Finland.
Turkish Airlines, Etihad Airways and My Freighter are adding all-cargo aircraft capacity to the European market.
The Government Accountability Office has documented outdated warehouse and road infrastructure at U.S. airports, but says the Department of Transportation has failed to monitor the situation or consider policy prescriptions.
Airlines are informing shippers not to send cargo to airports in the expected path of Hurricane Milton as the airline industry implements contingency plans to move people and equipment in Florida out of harm’s way. Tampa International Airport suspended all operations at 9 a.m. Tuesday, and Orlando International Airport said it will halt all activity […]
Melbourne Airport is moving ahead with plans to build a third runway, which is expected to increase the competitiveness of shippers in the region.
Passenger and cargo airlines are coping with a computer crash, which has disrupted many airfreight shipments.
Birmingham airport in Alabama has opened its first cargo facility and is leasing it to logistics provider Kuehne+Nagel.
The government’s long-awaited National Multimodal Freight Network has finally kicked off with a two-month request for information to help map out facilities and routes.
Mega-forwarder Kuehne+Nagel is working with one of its top air logistics vendors to make airport cargo transfers faster.
Toronto Pearson airport plans to replace an office park with a cargo facility with funding from the Canadian government, which is also helping an Inuit-owned airline move more cargo.
Smaller airports without big-city crowds offer many advantages to all-cargo airlines and shippers, which are taking more business to those locations.
Busy Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands is taking a large stake in Maastricht airport, which could become a feeder port as Amsterdam deals with overcrowding.
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A private investment group is rolling up large chunks of land at smaller airports to develop air cargo facilities.
A pair of trade associations wants the government to provide up to $5 billion to support massive redevelopment for cargo activity.
Air cargo is a premium shipping mode. Companies that want fast, reliable transfers are also seeing lease rates shoot up for logistics facilities near airports.
Los Angeles airport is finally moving forward on an ambitious project to overhaul its sprawling cargo terminals.
DHL is opening new package terminals at U.S. airports as demand keeps growing. The newest facility will be in Atlanta.
COVID lockdowns in major Chinese cities are bottling up freight shipments, but the full impact on global trade won’t be clear until this summer.
Freightwaves is taking logistics to the next level at The Future of Supply Chain on May 9-10, 2022, at the Rogers Convention Center in NW Arkansas.
The TaxiBot is not an autonomous taxi for city travel. It’s a robot vehicle that pulls aircraft to the runway.
A compilation of the past week in social media images includes major winter storms from the Southwest to Northeast.
Clean up on Runway 2, please! We’ve got rubber deposits.
More COVID control measures in China are impacting international goods movement.
Airlines scheduled & operated more flights in July 2021 than any month since the start of the pandemic in March 2020
In this week’s Drone Disruptors, Modern Shipper talked to Elroy Air CEO and co-founder David Merrill.
The top 3 U.S. airports together handled nearly 1/3 of the total landed weight of all-cargo operations
Air-truck service via Toronto is faster for some logistics companies than booking shipments direct to O’Hare, where delays are mounting.
Funding from the fifth round of FY 2021 Airport Improvement Program grants
Labor shortages at Chinese airports and pilot quarantine rules related to COVID are forcing airlines to scuttle many cargo flights to keep operations going and pilots from being put in isolation.
JFK Airport is boxed in by the city, so expanding cargo facilities isn’t easy. A partial solution is on the way, which means goods can get delivered faster.
Cargo handling companies at Chicago O’Hare International Airport are crying, “No mas.” They’re investing in warehouses outside the airport because cargo volumes are causing gridlock at airport terminals.
Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, forcing importers to wait several days to retrieve shipments and prompting two large logistics companies to migrate airfreight operations an hour west to an uncrowded facility in Rockford, Illinois. There is so much cargo piling up at O’Hare that airline-handling agents for […]
Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan relies heavily on rolling back Trump’s corporate tax cuts.
A second winter storm this week adds to supply chain issues from Texas to Tennessee (with forecast video).
Amazon is an e-commerce rocket ship. Making those deliveries possible is Amazon Air, which is growing so fast it could make it possible for more people to receive orders within a day.
Supply chain issues linger in the South even though a historic winter storm has ended (with forecast video).
Pharmaceutical companies often get nervous that carelessness by a transportation provider will spoil a shipment of COVID vaccines or other medicines. Airfreight experts say data sharing and teamwork can eliminate most glitches.
CDC implements President Biden’s executive order on mask requirements at transport hubs.
Biden’s executive orders address the COVID-19 supply chain and mask mandates among transportation modes.
Some Top 20 cargo airports still can’t get above water in terms of freight volume because there aren’t enough passenger planes flying.
Pittsburgh International Airport is a diamond in the rough when it comes to air cargo. The airport sits in a geographic sweet spot for reaching a huge chunk of the U.S. population by truck. Airlines and logistics companies are beginning to diversify their supply chains to cargo-friendly airports like Pittsburgh.
International travel is Qantas Airways’ bread-and-butter business, but it has been mostly wiped out by the coronavirus crisis. Now that underutilized side of the company is getting folded into the domestic unit to save money.
Rickenbacker Airport, a low-hassle alternative to some big airports, set cargo records in June handling COVID supplies.
While the storm is expected to weaken as it passes over the islands, Young Brothers pulls its interisland barges into calmer waters for the weekend.
When it comes to airports and cargo, bigger isn’t always better. Shippers are finding the benefits of airports that fly under the radar.
For specialized industries such as health care and aerospace, the stakes of supply chain interruptions and service failures have never been higher.
FAA cuts tower hours for air traffic control, but airports should continue to function smoothly.
The FAA is making it easier for airlines to survive the current economic crisis by quickly ruling on how to carry cargo in the passenger cabin and relaxing takeoff and landing quotas.
Assistant Commissioner Todd Owen said additional reimbursable services agreements help Customs and Border Protection facilitate commerce during COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines and airports have a symbiotic relationship, but there is tension over airlines’ interest in waiving airport charges and taxes during the pandemic recession.
Airlines are at the mercy of the coronavirus. About the only thing they can do is try to reduce operating costs and preserve cash flow until people are willing to start traveling again.
Your name is your face to the world. Forward Air wants a makeover since diversifying from its original business focused on air cargo, so it’s changing its name and logo.
The coronavirus could present a silver lining for freighter operators, but any boost in business may be weeks or months away, depending on how long the contagion lasts.
Representatives from airlines, logistics companies, truckers and airport authorities will attend Air Cargo 2020 in late January.
The latest statistics from airlines and airports reinforce what we already know: The air freight market is in a protracted recession. But filtering the data for seasonal fluctuations paints a slightly more optimistic picture. September marked the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year declines in freight volumes, the longest period in a decade. Freight volume, measured […]
“We’re continuing to see the erratic fire spread.” The Kincade Fire and other burning tens of thousands of acres in California.
US DOT awards $478 million in airport infrastructure grants to 232 airports in 43 states.
Scott Case writes about what recent FAA grants mean to airports and to the movement of airfreight and air cargo.
As the U.S. government works to ease restrictions on where drones can fly, they could become an attractive target for hackers.
