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  • Third Biggest Sea Cargo Growth at Panama Canal

    Gigantic Figures for the Fiscal Year 2016 and Different Factors for Major Growth

    The 2016 fiscal year is about to close and according to Panama Canal Authority (ACP), it recorded the third-highest annual tonnage in its history. The figures tell that there is cargo shipments of 330.7 million tons transferred through Panama Canal from 13,114 vessels from 1st Oct-15 to 30th Sep, 2016.

    Amongst these 13,114 vessels, the 238 vessels were neopanamax vessels which took advantage of the newly opened expanded canal within three months of its operations having the transfer weight of 18.2 million PC/UMC.

    What Did Panama Canal Administrator Say?

    Jorge L. Quinjao, the administrator said, “Despite the international shipping downturn this past year, we recorded one of the highest annual tonnage figures since the opening of the original canal 102 years ago. The latest success reinforces the continued strategic importance of the route and the growing value that recent investments in the canal will bring to the maritime industry.”

    According to his statement, the Panama Canal Management is happy on this massive cargo growth in Africa and South America which took them on to the third spot of the Annual Cargo Tonnage.

    Main Factor of Growth

    According to the analysis done to monitor the flow from where the traffic came, it showed that the container segment continued to be leading foundation of Panama Canal traffic. After the accountability, it presented that there is a total of 36% growth from this segment which total cargo received.

    At the total figures, 119.6 million container vessels contributed transit through the waterway in which 13.4 million PC/UMS are transferred through the expanded canal.

    LNG Segment

    There is another factor of this mighty growth and that was the introduction of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) during the ending months of 2016 fiscal years. The figures showed that the LNG contributed the total transit of 1.5 million PC/UMS and surpassed initial Panama Canal forecasts.

    Future Predictions for Panama Canal

    Taking in mind, the cargo gurus are of the view that in the coming 2017 fiscal year, the Panama Canal will continue its way on enhancing the sea cargo transit by advancing the projects such as Corozal Container Terminal, which is currently an ongoing process.

  • At Least, the Lackluster African Air Cargo Smells Sweet with Red Roses

    The sweet smell of red roses and an up surge in e-commerce in African countries adore the air cargo in Africa

    Common cargo volumes declining all over the places across the world. In the global markets, the start of regular national and worldwide ‘special events’ – such as soon coming Valentine’s Day, Mothers’ Day and in Russia, the Women’s Day – gives a boost to air cargo in the temperature-controlled freight services. The cargo deliveries of Roses from the wild rose fields in Africa delivered across the globe.

    What giants believe?

    Big players of the Air cargo industry said that the red roses demand across the globe remained at its peak in 2016. Where Carnations, pompoms and chrysanthemums remained at the top with more than 50 percent increase in demand.

    The initial figures of the IAG Cargo Show, that cut flower for the American destinations, an increase of flat 50 percent has been recorded compare to the last season.

    The Upswing in air cargo

    This upswing moreover shows a much broader trend: improved e-commerce capabilities which at the moment are enabling patrons, peculiarly in the developed countries where ecommerce is more reliable and widely used like the United States, to buy their flowers from farmers without any middle man, for the most part, the farmers are in East Africa.

    How ecommerce help?

    Buying instantly and direct from farmers or the florists can help them order exactly. The IAG cargo officials said that they have their cargo hubs at London Heathrow which deals cargo to Africa and other one is in Madrid, Spain.

    Both are very well organised and managed for handling and managing flower cargo across the globe. Handling of these perishable goods, guaranteeing that they are kept fresh and delivered in time with full bloom. The traditional rose is probably the most popular flower shipped on Cargo flights, with ninety five per cent of them crimsons and carnations.

    With the rush sought after, it is no wonder that February has ended up a principal month for Kenyan and South American flower growers as the height-season interval for cut-flower transportation in most cases starts within the final two weeks of January and ends after February.

    Lufthansa Cargo on the other hand is transporting not less than 1,500 tonnes of blooming roses this year, almost equal to forty million roses or the fully loaded sixteen MD-11 freighter flights.

    The German cargo handler consistently provides special approvals to its regular flights to handle more rose cargo in February with additional services from Quito and Nairobi to Frankfurt to meet the high demand on Valentine’s Day next year.

  • Rwanda starts using Drones to deliver cargo

    The Rwandan Government has started drone operations to delivery emergency supplies to remote areas

    East African nation has taken a very bold step to save lives of their citizens and started emergency supply deliveries with the help of drones. While on the other hand, American giant companies like Google, Amazon and couple of others are working on the cargo delivery and door to door parcel services with the help of drones.

    Rwanda is one of the African nations where the companies like Zipline and UPS are working on different causes and helping the nation. The government has announced that they have started the operations through drones to deliver blood and there will be more than 150 deliveries per day to the different blood transfusion centres in the western part of the country. These drones will deliver emergency supplies to the remote areas and these instant deliveries will help in saving precious lives.

    What are these drones?

    The American company Zipline is a robotics manufacturing company and they are taking their 15 drones to help in delivering the emergency services to the remote areas. These drones are called as the Zips and they are especially designed to use in the emergency operations in the African countries. It has been designed to safely deliver the vaccines during the lengthy rainy seasons in Rwanda.

    Partnership on delivering the emergency supplies

    The drone delivery service will initially focus on the delivery of blood in the western Rwandan areas but Zipline has confirmed that the UPS and Vaccine alliance Gavi will join them in 2017 and then they will deliver all kind of medicines to all across the Rwanda.

    Rwandan government has plans to expand the drone operations in the eastern half of the country too but they will expand the Zipline drone delivery operations in early 2017. These operations will cover more than 11 million people in the country and they will be in the instant delivery reach of the centre from where the lifesaving drugs have been distributed to the entire country. It is truly amazing that a zip can travel more than 150 kms with a payload of around 1.5 kg.

    Zipline is not working under any non-governmental organisation, it has actually has a commercial agreement with the Rwandan Government. The UPS foundation has donated more than 1.1 million US dollars to the foundation. The Foundation is expecting to save more than thousands of lives with the help of this process in the next three years.

     

    What Zipline believes of Drone deliveries?

    The CEO of the Zipline organisation stated that the incapability to transport lifesaving drugs causes millions of avoidable life losses every year across the globe. Zipline is working to solve this problem for ever with the help of its delivery system.

    This instant delivery system helps Zipline to deliver medicines and emergency services to any remote area within 150 kilometres. It is a system that offers delivery on demand anywhere around the country. Rwanda has opted for this solution to save the lives of their people in the western part of the country.

  • Enormous Cargo Expansion by Emirates Group

    Emirates in planning to expand their cargo business in addition with Controlled Temperature Cargo

    Emirate is a renowned airline company serving for its customers since many years. It has also entered in the cargo line to give additional supportive services to customers. The evolution doesn’t stop here. The Emirates group has opened a Dh600 million cargo-handling extension, with a special cool-storage facility which is dedicated to pharmaceutical shipments to Africa from Dubai International Airport.

    Emirates Sky Cargo Extension

    The cargo business of Emirates is known as Sky Cargo and has expanded its existing 80,000 squares meter facility and added another 11,000 sq meters for massive cargo shipping projects. Out from the new expansion area, the 4,000 sq metres are dedicated to the SkyPharma which deals in pharma cargo.

    Last year, Sky Cargo was also expanded to 15,000 sq metres by Dh 700 million cargo-handling extension. This mighty expansion in the very next year is intimating that the coming years will bring mighty massive cargo developments.

    What Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Said?

    The Chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Emirates group, Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed said’ “this will be a good facility to serve the market and the whole region”.

    Before this expansion, the pharma handling and cargo operations were handled at Emirates general cool chain cargo areas. Now, Dubai South and Dubai International Airport has opened their segregated areas for temperature controlled cargo shipments.

    Strict European Union Guidelines

    In 2013, there are some strict guidelines forwarded from the European Union that there must be segregation for controlled temperature cargo shipping. Sky Cargo has expanded its cargo segregation and now handles products such as diabetes and cancer medicines, blood derivatives and vaccines.

    According to a recent survey, the total Cargo volume for Emirates regarding pharma shipping is 11,000 tones out of 2.5 million tones. Emirates Airlines is planning to capture massive cargo market, and this is one of their effective results towards their goal achievement.

  • Cargo Crimes on the Rise in Africa

    Cargo Crimes have risen in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    The Latest TAPA Report

    According to the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) Incident Information Service (IIS) database, cargo crimes in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region have grown in frequency.

    The IIS reveals that there were 598 new freight-related cargo crimes recorded in the second half of this year, which is a massive 92.9% increase on the same quarter in 2015. The combined loss value for products stolen in the three months ending on 30th June was €19.3m ($21.4m), which is a rise of €5.3m ($5.9m) figure for the same period of 2015.

    Increase in Loss

    Based on the crimes reported to IIS, the total losses over the first six months of this year across the EMEA region were of €27.3m ($30.3). TAPA recorded cargo losses in Africa and 18 other countries in the EMEA region which also included 21 major thefts involving a loss value of €100,000 ($111,000) or more.

    UK – The Main Target

    UK saw the highest number of high-value losses; 8 out of 21 and TAPA’s information on product theft shows that 91.4% of all reported crimes in the second quarter happened in just six countries: the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Russia and Italy.

    Overall, 47.5% or 284 of the recorded crimes in the quarter took place in the UK, mostly in the east of England and the East Midlands. TAPA has a well-respected security system for both freight facilities and trucking and is now looking at a new standard to increase the quality and number of secure parking locations, particularly throughout EU.

    Highest Type of Theft

    Theft from Vehicle was the most recorded type of incident with 315, or 52.7% of cases. The data also shows that 527 of the 598 new cargo crimes were thefts or attempted thefts involving trucks.

    The data shows that most losses happen when trucks are stopped at unsecured parking locations, often when drivers take the mandatory rest breaks. In the first quarter, TAPA EMEA recorded 251 incidents at unsecured parking locations which mean 42% of all crimes in this reporting period.

    Category with Most Theft

    The type of good most frequently stolen during 2015 and the first three months of 2016 were food & drink products. Once again food & drink products were the IIS product category with the highest number of losses in the April-June period with 76 cases or 12.7%, of the second-quarter loss.

    What did the TAPA Chairman say?

    Thorsten Neumann, chairman of TAPA EMEA, observed: “These figures should be a great cause for concern for all manufacturers and logistics service providers because they clearly show the escalation of cargo crime.

    “People wrongly assume that our crime data relates entirely to incidents suffered by TAPA EMEA members. In fact, very few of these losses were suffered by our members because of the risk management strategies they have put in place, including adoption of the TAPA Security Standards.

    “The greatest risk is to the industry-at-large and, in particular, companies that have yet to fully recognise the issue of cargo crime,” Neumann declared.

    “However, we also want to stress the importance of companies reporting cargo crimes to the police in the first place because this is another big challenge, particularly with cross-border shipments. “It is important that all stakeholders work together and support each other,” he concluded.

  • Fashion Icon Brand, The Deacons, Reduces Cost by stopping Airlifting Cargo

    Switching towards Sea Cargo from Air Cargo, The Fashion Retailer expands business

    The Fashion retailer Deacons in Nairobi, East Africa has been struggling for a long time ago to cut their costs through any mean. Now they are finding the way how to get rid from huge expenses. They have targeted big plans to reduce their shipping costs. The plans are too big in their economic view that they reduce the cargo costs to 80%. They totally shifted airlifting cargo to sea transport.

    What Peter Njoka, Deacons Chairman Said?

    Deacon has already experienced a big cost saving by delivering their products direct to the customers rather than going through South Africa. The Deacon’s chairman said, “We are seeing out transport costs reduce by up to 80% on the Dubai-China route”. He also said that their decision of skipping the air Cargo via South Africa and moving it through sea has already reduced 50% of cargo cost. By doing this, they will surely get better position to compete on pricing with its rivals in the fashion retail sector.

    Deacons Plans after Cost Cutting

    A cost deduction up to 80% in any sector means you have added profit wings with you. The same is the case with the fashion retailer. After smartly planning cost cutting, they planned to open new outlets away from Nairobi by doing rental agreements. Eldoret, Kisumu and Meru are their next target markets.

    Muchiri Wahome, the retailer’s chief executive said, “we will go in as soon as the malls are completed”. Furthermore, he also explained that it is not possible to reveal which store will open first because the decision depends on completion dates from real estate developers.

    The retailer’s chief executive has also explained that they are working to increase the outlet numbers to 66 after the big cost saving from air cargo.

    The smart decisions from Deacons are made after smart planning of Air cargo cost cuttings. That’s why they are able to expand their business to the new horizons.

  • How Airlines Becoming Humanitarian to Save More Lives

    More than 50 Airlines serving the lifesaving program with humanitarian efforts and 1.4 million kilograms of presents for the needy humans

    It is for the first time when a manufacturer asking to do something great through its Humanitarian cargo Flight application, Boeing has laboured with 50 airline buyers to deliver around 1.4 million kilo grams of presents. 26 of those flights had been on Ethiopian airlines fleet. So it is clearly mentioned that the majority of presents will be cargo to Africa through the new humanitarian regime. Airways, which have been creating wealth hand over fist as power bills decline and passenger traffic rises, are making use of some of that bounty towards humanitarian functions.

    Where these presents coming from?

    It is all about the air cargo industry that helps to offset a $15 billion funding gap in world disaster remedy by means of air cargo supplies to needy international locations. A contemporary United countries document located that even as a minimum $40 billion in humanitarian aid is needed annually to aid victims of common failures and armed conflicts worldwide, the arena spends most effective $25 billion on yearly bases on securing and preserving the available food as well as getting more food, water, refuge, medical supplies including lifesaving medicines cargo deliveries and different emergency resources to far flung regions.

    Any similar efforts in the past

    It is not for the first time when any company has done that for the needy international destinations. On the bases of that 2008 trend, when airlines such as Emirates, JetBlue, South African Airways, Thai Airways and Vietnam airways have worked with Airbus on as a minimum 30 delivery flights. Those flights have brought greater than 250 tons of humanitarian remedy to areas of Nepal, Colombia, Thailand, Haiti and Africa as well. The airlines certainly have their work reduce out for them. A tumultuous international family airlines and the manufacturer, the Boeing is giving a start to new mess ups essentially, and the charges related to rushing humanitarian comfort to the place it’s going to do the most good are high. For that reason, a sort of alliances between airlines, plane manufacturers and nongovernmental corporations have stepped into the void.

    By way of its foundation arm, Airbus, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers on the globe, has been satisfying with the new empty plane in Germany and France with humanitarian alleviation presents destined for catastrophe-hit areas. It is not being done by the manufacturer for the first time but they have previously done it for more than 15 occasions, Airbus has also used its experiment planes to give further presents rapidly in the aftermath of disasters.

    What airbus thinks about helping the humanity?

    The flights are going down anyway and the payments for the pilots and the fuel are already been released in advance so, it is confirm that the planes will complete their tour to Africa, Airbus spokeswoman Deborah Waddon was talking to the media. Nongovernmental companies prepare for the cargo to Africa and its far away areas, we make donations for the fee of the cargo, the loading is mainly executed for free and the airlines duvet simply an incremental gas fee for the additional cargo. These flights have helped grow to be lives with their priceless cargo. Bill McSherry, Boeing’s vice chairman of presidency operations said on a media report.

    Recent flights to Devastating areas

    In 2015, a scan plane loaded with 50 humanitarian staff and about 22 tons of food and scientific aid flew to Nepal after its devastating earthquake. In the meantime, a Nepal airways plane supply flight was once used to transport more than five fully loaded cargo planes with plenty of relief goods and medical apparatus to Kathmandu. That sort of effort does no longer go left out, or unappreciated.

    Transporting relief supplies is one in every of our foremost expenditures, so this manner we are able to support extra people and more affected areas in the world, said Olaug Bergseth, a senior officer for company partnerships with the international Federation of RED Cross and RED Crescent Societies, one of the crucial Non-Governmental Organisations that works carefully with Airbus. It can be faster, it’s extra effective and it is cheaper. It also help the donators to identify more needy people and areas.

    What is Boeing about to do?

    By means of its humanitarian supply flight application, Boeing additionally works with non-profit NGOs to load the whole thing from scientific supplies such as remote laboratories and medical supplies and clothing to academic materials into empty cargo space in new airplanes. These flights then transport and give supplies to areas of want. Manufacturing facility-recent planes being delivered to patrons are most often filled with items and presents destined for disaster-hit areas. For the reason that 1992, Boeing’s application has made one hundred eighty humanitarian delivery flights, working with greater than 50 airline purchasers to give greater than 1.4 million kilograms of presents.

    Where the major part of relief will be delivered?

    At least 26 of those humanitarian cargo delivery flights were on Ethiopian airlines which has additionally helped its neighbouring African countries like Somalia, through bringing back needed supplies. These flights have helped change into lives with their worthy cargo, stated invoice McSherry, vice chairman of government operations at Boeing business Airplanes. Delivery flights and cargo freighters don’t constantly get relief supplies exactly where they must go. Thus, Boeing regularly groups up with Air link, a Washington, D.C., non-profit disaster alleviation group that works with dozens of airways and NGOs, to transport provides and relief staff.

    Airlink in the Ebola Disaster

    For the period of the Ebola challenge in West Africa, Airlink despatched wellness-care workers and one hundred shipments of help for 37 extraordinary NGOs utilizing eleven airways. Extra not too long ago, Airlink used donated miles and cash from Air Canada, Alaska airways and United Airlines to ship 19 army veterans from crew Rubicon America and workforce Rubicon Canada to castle McMurray in Alberta. These excursions helped residents return dwelling after devastating wildfires destroyed more than 2,400 properties.

    The Airlink executive director said that they focus quite a bit on disaster response. The organization also pay attention to what you would name gradual-burn hobbies, corresponding to an education software in Africa that is instructing kids to not play with land mines and different remnants of struggle.

  • Another Airline Vanished Off the Radar! Mediterranean Left No Clue

    The Egyptian airline flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears over Mediterranean with 68 On-board

    An Egypt air airbus 320, flight number MS804 has followed the path of Malaysian Airline MH370 and disappeared on the Mediterranean with 68 passengers on board. There is no clue so far that where MS804 has gone?  Is it going to be the next MH370 or it has been crashed? If it has been crashed, where is its wreckage? Where are the passengers and all the air cargo on board? There are thousands of question to be answered but Egyptian Army, Greek forces and French Authorities are trying to find it in assistance with Airbus experts.

    When MS804 disappeared?

    Flight MS804 vanished at 02.30 hours nearby time after leaving Greek airspace. Up to now the intent of vanishing off the radar screens isn’t known and Egyptair has asked the media to halt gambling apart from information and facts are actually recognized. The missing plane, registration SU-GCC used to be dropped at Egyptair in November 2003 and has flown about forty-eight thousand flight hours successfully in the past 13 years with Egyptair.

    What Egyptair says?

    Egyptair denies all misleading expertise opinions and news published by using information web pages and on the social media channels regarding the enlightenments of the Egyptair flight MS804 disappearance and the Airbus confirms that the cause of vanishing of the radar hasn’t been confirmed.

    Egyptair calls for media resources to be guaranteed of the understanding they submit or free up and to abide by the professional press releases issued via Egyptair media centre.

    What Airbus says about the disappearance?

    Airbus as usual regrets to verify that an A320 operated via Egyptair used to be lost at the round 02:30 am Egypt local time over the Mediterranean. The Flight MS804 used to be running a scheduled service from Paris, France to Cairo, Egypt.

    Greek Sources Wreckage Claim

    Greek officials have cast doubt on Egypt’s affirmation that it determined particles belonging to flight MS804, giving a contradictory justification of the findings to the media. They have started giving the statements like in the case of MH370 that the debris and belongings.

    Egypt Ambassador to France

    Egypt’s ambassador to France, Ehab, Badawy, on the BFM television said that all he will say is that Egypt embassy in Athens instructed that it used to be contacted by way of Greek authorities, who signalled that they found white and blue debris akin to Egypt Air’s colours.

    It’s still a Mystery

    However, Greek sources have informed that the material that they had located thus far was once now not blue and white. The media meanwhile has word from an unnamed senior Greek official, who says the particles determined thus far does now not belong to flight MS804.

    Egypt’s Civil Aviation ministry had stated floating material, together with lifestyles jackets and plastic objects, have been found in the sea off the Greek island of Karpathos, practically the suspected area of the airplane crash. The media also got the opinion of a former transport authentic from the United States, who mentioned the sparse evidence up to now indicates a bomb is extra probably than mechanical failure.

  • Swissport Tanzania Lets Itself to Develop the Best Cargo Terminal in Africa

    Swissport Tanzania is about to complete its unique 13 million US dollar state-of-the-art import cargo ability by the end of this month

    The terminal has the capacity of handling 80,000 tones. It is first Cargo Terminal in Tanzania that let itself to use the radio frequency identification for assisting cargo identification. What did Swissport Tanzania Chief Executive Officer Gaudence say? Let your heart to be patient to know about his words. He said that the use of RFID kills not only the tracking process but also time from the past 30 minutes to just ten minutes now.

    What did Mr. Temu Say? Let Our Hands to Write his Spoken Words

    Mr. Temu, who has a done tour of facility, said In Africa, there is only one facility that let itself to use state art gadgets. He further said that they have respectively invested for the future and almost double the capacity. The terminal shows some main places with a lot of capacity for some certain things. It let itself to have some special areas for animal mainly dangerous goods named radioactive material – morgue, pharmaceutical while including two cold storage facilities of between -20 and 8 degree Celsius with a vast room.

    What did Swissport say?

    Swissport says,” The terminal is about to have the facility to handle 30 tones while chasing the future, but, the biggest airline that land at the Julius International Airport supplies 15 tones at present.

    Are you ready to run your eyes over Mr. Temu Spoken words?

    Let your eyes to run over the spoken words of Mr. Temu, which are amazing. He said that the small parcels that may less than 50 kg are fixed into some special racks that sort them as automatic to get handling and deliver as easy as for as possible. The future plan is to simplify cargo handling as the business is customer oriented. Yeah, there is something such special as people are waiting for a long term.

    In future, they will let the robots to handle the facility to save more time. The building will have magnitude and different from all others cargo terminal of world. It is going to be built for multipurpose while having a bank, business facilities, TRA offices, Swissport head office, training center with a gym and housing other stakeholders, clearing and forwarding agent offices, airline cargo offices.

  • Cargo and Logistics Industry Responds to Ecuador Disaster

    Cargo companies working in Caribbean are contributing in the progress of these countries and now the Disaster Response Workforce to respond in Ecuador

    The air cargo transport and road logistics industries have strongly responded to the deadly earthquake in Ecuador and in order to help the victims of this 7.8 magnitude earthquake they begun contributing toward relief efforts to help those in Ecuador affected by a giant earthquake in the remote areas of the country at the weekend.

    The Deadly Disaster

    On Saturday evening, the country used to be struck by dint of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and not only that but more than 300 very strong and some weak aftershocks leaving more than 450 individuals dead and not less than 500 persons injured, according to the international press news and local media reports from Ecuador.

    How cargo companies Responded?

    In order to completing their social responsibility as usual, Deutsche Post DHL has come forward before anybody else and they are sending its catastrophe Response workforce (DRT) to Manta city of Ecuador and its team of volunteers, who will provide pro-bono logistics support by using the Eloy Alfaro international Airport as their disaster management base within the city areas.

    DHL has proved itself several times by responding to the natural disasters and all those relevant activities such as the Ebola Disaster in African states, where they help the locals with the aid of their dedicated cargo flight to Africa. They sent free medicines and teams of doctors to Africa for the treatment of deadly Ebola virus.

    How they will help?

    They’ll coordinate incoming international help, preparing it for onward transportation to areas affected by the quake. DRT manager Gilberto Castro said in an interview to the local press that whenever a common disaster strikes, an express response is needed to get imperative remedy presents to men and women in need. Efficient handling of incoming help by authorities is also very essential and we are using the DHL Cargo in this regard as DHL has experience of moving cargo in emergency.

    Any other cargo companies are there to help?

    For the time being, aviation agency Air link, which consists of not less than 35 industrial and chartered airways and which supplies a hyperlink between aviation and humanitarian businesses, has assisted within the transportation of personnel and medicines.

    This involves a response crew from all fingers Volunteers, and personnel from Waves for Water who will provide entry to scrub water for those in need. Everyone is helping in its own way and cargo industry is setting another example in the region by helping the needy people.