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New DHL AI Tool Analyzes Customs Tariff Data

DHL Global Forwarding has launched an artificial intelligence-based tool that allows shippers to use natural-language queries to analyze customs declarations, tariff exposure, duty spending and clearance performance across global operations. TradeNavigator operates within DHL's TradeConnect platform, which integrates local customs declaration data from more than 75 countries into a harmonized environment. Customers can query the data down to individual declaration line items and receive analytics and charts without manually combining reports ... [+]

United Tightens Dangerous Goods Controls

United Airlines has introduced a system control preventing regulated dangerous goods shipments from being manifested or loaded unless they successfully complete IATA’s DG AutoCheck process. The enhancement, deployed globally through United Cargo’s UC360° cargo management system, requires dangerous goods shipments to receive a “PASS” response from ... [+]

DHL Earnings Rise 30% as Demand Strengthens

DHL Group reported a 30 percent increase in second-quarter operating profit as higher shipment weights, stronger freight volumes and constrained international airfreight capacity helped lift earnings. Group revenue increased 13 percent to €22.4 billion from €19.8 billion a year earlier, while operating profit, or EBIT, rose ... [+]

UPS Restructures Around Global Logistics Growth

UPS is reorganizing its operating structure around a more globally integrated logistics network as the company shifts its attention from domestic network restructuring toward international, healthcare and supply chain growth. The changes, effective Sept. 1, follow UPS's completion in June of its Amazon volume reduction and ... [+]

MOL Partners in Direct Ocean Carbon Capture

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Hitachi Ltd. and Japan Airlines (JAL) will conduct Japan's first pilot project using Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology, testing a process that removes dissolved carbon dioxide directly from seawater with the goal of supporting future low-carbon fuel production. The companies signed a ... [+]

UK SAF Mandate Could Cost Airlines £2B, IATA

The International Air Transport Association warned that key design elements of the U.K.'s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate could impose billions of pounds in compliance costs on airlines unless supplies of advanced SAF increase significantly. Unlike the European Union's ReFuelEU Aviation program, the U.K. mandate includes ... [+]

IATA Appoints Zahidi as Next Director General

The International Air Transport Association has appointed Saadia Zahidi as its next director general, effective Nov. 1, making her the first woman to lead the global airline trade association. Zahidi joins IATA after more than two decades with the World Economic Forum, where she serves as ... [+]

Cargo iQ Reshapes Board to Drive Standards

Cargo iQ has restructured its board to give airlines, freight forwarders and ground handling companies more balanced representation as it pushes wider adoption of its air cargo quality standards across the supply chain. Three new members joined the board: Jeanne-Mari Reardon, vice president air product EMEA ... [+]

IATA Objects to EU Emissions Trading Beyond EU

The International Air Transport Association has sharply criticized proposals to extend the European Union Emissions Trading System beyond Europe's borders, warning that the move could provoke international disputes, undermine European competitiveness and complicate global aviation decarbonization efforts. IATA Director General Willie Walsh called the proposal a ... [+]

IATA Data Tracks Airlines’ Evolving Network

Airlines continued to modernize their fleets and expand global air transport in 2025, according to the International Air Transport Association's annual World Air Transport Statistics, underscoring long-term shifts that influence passenger networks and the belly cargo capacity supporting international freight. The annual statistical review, based on ... [+]

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