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Vic Karjian to Serve as Interim CEO of Amerijet International, Inc.

Vic Karjian, Amerijet International, Inc.’s Executive Chairman, will become the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Amerijet effective September 18, 2021. Vic is succeeding Tim Strauss and will be in the role while the Company conducts a search for a new CEO. Prior to Tim joining Amerijet in August 2020, Vic was Amerijet’s CEO and oversaw a period of robust growth for the Company, including its receipt of ETOPS certification in ... [+]

BLR Airport Cargo in India Sets a New Record

Cargo volumes at the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB/ BLR Airport) in India continue to see impressive growth, achieving its highest monthly throughput since commencement of operations. Under challenging circumstances due to the pandemic, BLR Airport has processed 37,319 Metric Tonnes (MT) of cargo in August —the highest ever since the ... [+]

cargo-partner renews for CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB

cargo-partner has renewed its contract with CHAMP for its Traxon cargoHUB community. The forwarder has benefitted from access to the largest air cargo community, with digital access to thousands of stakeholders throughout the supply chain, enabling doing business with all community players via a single system regardless of message format ... [+]

Open for Business: Port of New Orleans

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) container vessel operations resumed Sept. 7, 2021, just nine days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a category 4 storm. The first two ships worked at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal were the MSC Charleston at New Orleans Terminal and ... [+]

Port of Baltimore welcomes new Maersk container service

The first vessel of a new Southeast Asia/Vietnam and China container service from Maersk Line arrived the week of September 6 at the Seagirt Marine Terminal of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore. The Xiamen is part of a Transpacific/Panama Canal service named the TP20 that includes up to ... [+]

ABC extends global partnership with WFS

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has awarded a 10-year cargo handling contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Liege, further extending the all-cargo airline’s global strategic partnership with WFS, the world’s largest air cargo handler. Under the terms of the new contract, as well as handling import and export cargo on AirBridgeCargo’s 15 ... [+]

Capacity crunch elevates air cargo rates

Resilient international demand for air cargo capacity in August versus a shortfall in supply pushed average global air cargo rates up 112% to their pre-Covid level as a local lockdown in Vietnam and the closure of cargo handling terminals at Shanghai Pudong International Airport after a handful of new Covid ... [+]

Emirates to receive final A380 in November

Emirates will receive three more A380 aircraft from Airbus this year with its last unit on order scheduled to join its fleet in November, bringing forward the original deliverytimeline from June 2022. These deliveries will bring Emirates’ total fleet of A380s to 118 units in November. As travel restrictions ease with the ... [+]

President Emmanuel Macron visits CMA CGM

French President Emmanuel Macron visiting CMA CGM’s headquarters in Marseille on September 2. He was greeted by CMA CGM CEO Rodolphe Saadé at the CMA CGM Tower. This was the first visit to the steamship line’s headquarters by a sitting French President. [+]

Georgia Gov. Kemp suspends restrictions

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has suspended enforcement of federal limits on hours of service for commercial vehicleoperators in Georgia. He also loosened weight restrictions for trucks on Georgia highways. The announcement came by an update to Kemp’s executive order declaring a COVID state of emergency. The adjusted trucking rules will remain ... [+]

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