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  • A New Cargo to India Route from Africa as A Fifth Gateway

    Largest African cargo Airline has headed towards India to deliver express cargo to Ahmedabad

    Finally, the largest African cargo carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, is pleased to declare that they are going to India as their new destination for cargo and the addition of Ahmedabad airport is a new route for sending cargo to India, and it will be a fifth new gateway to its international cargo network on the 28th of March, 2017.

    Ahmedabad is one of the ancient Indian city of Muslim Emperor’s times and it is also proud to be India’s second oldest and hoariest stock exchange across India. Ahmedabad is the largest cotton producer in India, while it is an emerging industrial hub in the country and putting its maximum share into the economy of India, dwelling a population of six million people or even more.

    What Ethiopian Airlines says?

    The CEO of the freight at Ethiopian airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, is well informed about the cargo operations of the airline in India and says that the Ethiopian air cargo services to India were first started in the early 90’s. It was the time when the airline was operating from India and launching their first cargo station in Mumbai.

    Perfecting the booming economic associates of the clan between India and the African continent at weighty, Ethiopian airline have made liable cargo services available to Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and now to Ahmedabad.

    According to the CEO of the largest African cargo handler airline, this route will be the fifth Cargo Gateway to India. Even as operating within the principal trade lanes between Africa, Europe, Far East and Asia.

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    The CEO further stated that the cargo community is fruitfully linking the Indian sub-continent and Africa further with China and Hong Kong. The Ethiopian Airline is delivering the Indian market with minimal weekly import cargo of 240 lots per week.

    What CEO feels about the Indian Market?

    The CEO of the Ethiopian airlines feels that their new services to Ahmedabad will additionally beef up the existing trade and commercial ties between the two quickest growing regions of the world, India and Ethiopia.

    The Airline will become the medium of linking both friend countries through its services and this relationship will be further enhanced in the future when the airline will increase its destinations in the country.

    What is the reality of Ethiopian airline in Africa?

    Ethiopian airline is the largest airline in the African continent and it is the largest cargo network operator as well and one of the vital most international cargo players as well. The airline is serving 36 international locations and delivering cargo to them with a typical everyday uplift of 650 on the top of the belly,

    maintain potential of a hundred and fifty tons to more than 90 locations globally, deploying a full and powerful fleet of its all the 8 dedicated freighters together with six state of the art Boeing B777-200LRF and a couple of – Boeing B757-260F freighter aircraft for global operations.

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  • Future Prospects of Cargo Handling for Africa

    Air Freight from England to Africa will be double in coming years

    The old standard procedures have been replaced by the ways modern technology is involving and new operating rules. Now almost every single product can be transported to every part of the globe wherever a particular item is in demand.

    People related to Air cargo business have taken it to such levels that allow traders of all types to find new markets in different regions for items they have been dealing in.

    In pursuance of a cool chain with temperature maintaining facility from end to end has been provided on different airports for medical science products and other perishables. To cut short the time required for operations trained and well-equipped workers are today present at every stage.

    Due to wide scope in the field many new companies have joined the business so a sense of competition is also there to serve better the clients to retain their share of business.

    Potential of the continent

    Cargo from United Kingdom to African nations are on the rise as the continent is habitat of fifteen percent total world population and air freight share is just three percent. So there is huge potential that need to be exhausted. The recent repot of international air transport agency about African air cargo to and from Asia has suggested notable growth as compared to previous year first month.

    In the same way business sector of England is ready to find out areas where it can stuff its products. Introduction of new products through modern means of communications in the region has created reasonable demand so there is good amount of freight forwarding activity both in seas and by air for many countries of this land mass.

    Free Trade Zone in Africa

    One of the big steps that are part of plan is making Africa free trade zone and it would further improve relations with Commonwealth countries of the continent. After leaving the economic union of Europe such undertakings were likely to be initiated by the country that has competitive industrial base. With aforesaid countries, England has been planning to create a zone that has no barriers of trade so that could become hub of business activities in the continent.

    Trade relations with developing nations have become much more important particularly after Brexit. This plan of free zone would engage twenty-six countries in total, so a good presence of region certainly makes it a success for everyone.

    Renewal of Economic Agreements with African Nations

    With such trade agreements, there will be great increase in cargo services transportation through both means air and sea. The present resources allocated to this route for goods transportation would also become too little and hopefully new companies will join in to fill the vacuum.

    When United Kingdome joined European Union, it came out of all agreements that it would renew now for its future business. Thus there is much more to do on part of UK to sustain its exports and industrial output. That is why the authorities have been acting proactively to make sure that there will be no issue with companies having base in the country.

  • The Cargo and Logistics Specialists for Post Disaster Era

    The importance of cargo companies in disasters

    The post disaster era always poses difficulties for relief work and there are only two main participants who reach the place before any other. Did you know who they are? The paramedics and cargo with relief stuff. Although the emergency services work ends after a short time but cargo companies continue with their services for delivering relief to the area for a long time. Same has happened in the case of previous disasters in the American states, and companies that send cargo to Africa from the UK have played a vital role in this regard and sent relief goods to the areas.

    Post-disaster challenges to Cargo

    Cargo companies always face very critical challenges when there is no transport, roads and even addresses to deliver cargo. Even the most modern technology remains useless when the means of communications, safety and security are not good. He said that there was only consistent mean of communication was writing to the next party, otherwise the military satellite phones were not even working.

    A cargo Specialty

    Humanitarian relief cargo is difficult, but still promising domain of work being a cargo company. Many global cargo companies have elected for-profit humanitarian cargo divisions, but it is confirmed by experts and forwarders that only several of them are regularly active while the remaining are only earning profit.

    Maersk line, for instance in a proposal to behave faster and make expressed choices about sourcing and routing of alleviation objects, has developed Mass Response Vigilance Mapping, documenting measures for six catastrophe-prone countries to support identify the closest source port or transportation factor, Maersk feeder, and/or replacement routing choices to be used in case of disaster. The largest cargo forwarding companies such as agility, UPS, and Maersk have their disaster teams to respond to any disaster across the globe.

    How cargo and supply chain geared up?

    The world’s cargo companies and supply chain have geared up their emergency plans, and most of them changed their routes to cover these destinations. companies deliver their services to the rehabilitation process and cover the cargo from across the globe, and continue with making progress by providing their post-disaster services.

    The disasters and tragedies that always ruin the lives and infrastructure and destroy the cargo transit networks and mobility system. UPS, and Maersk Cargo companies impel the invasion of relief supplies and cargo for recovery.

  • Boeing 747’s Next Stop is Elephant’s Graveyard

    Cargo market was the playground of the Jumbo Jet for quiet long but it is having its fall now

    Citing the collapse in demand of Jumbo Jets, world’s most renowned aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has recently stated that it is reducing the number of 747s being produced to only one every two months. The original 747 is best known for its vital role in cargo services, delivering cargo to Africa, major Asian cities, U.S., and other countries around the globe.

    Previously, Boeing announced its plans to slow down the production of the 747 jets to just one jet a month from 1.3 jets but now this number has been cut down further. 747-8 is the newest model of 747 that arrived in 2012. It is featuring plenty of new and advanced manufacturing techniques used in 787 and other aircraft which are lighter, newer and cheaper-to-operate.

    Boeing has received only 121 new orders and of those, only 51 were in configuration to carry passengers, rest of them are air cargo freighters. The 747 has made a massive contribution to global tourism and cargo services. The 747-400 is a remarkable machine that doesn’t need a touchdown for more fuel on a twelve-hour journey, as an example, Europe to all major Asian cities.

    In jet engine manufacturing, significant improvements in power and reliability makes it possible to rival the capacity and range of Jumbo Jet with twin-engine aircraft. That eventually makes the 747 a less attractive buy and more expensive to operate. The 777 passenger carrier is working on the same idea and it can carry more than 450 passengers in some configurations.

    According to Boeing, the 2015 was one of the worst year as there wasn’t a single new order for 747 as the cargo operators are not buying anything at all. The air freight demand fall indicates the economic conditions are pretty bad.

    For Boeing 747, there is only one permanent customer left and that is none other than the White House. The new 747-8s check all the boxes to serve as presidential transport. This is only reason why the US military still likes quad-engine airliners. They can install anything in it to meet the requirements to keep the POTUS.

  • Ethiopian Airlines: A Real Success Story Of A State Owned Enterprise

    South African Airways (SAA) are in a very terrible situation said an internal memorandum on the 6th of November 2015,

    It was made public last month that the SAA is technically insolvent and thus mortified of careless and irresponsible trading.  It is also legally obliged under the Companies Act to file for the liquidation of the company. But after the investigation of the SAA failure, it is confirmed that the quality of management was responsible, not the state ownership.

    Ethiopian Airlines, largest African airline

    Ethiopian Airline is the fastest growing and largest profitable airline in Africa. The airline has grown at an average rate of around 20 to 25 percent every year.The profits for the fiscal year 2014/15 were amounted to $175 million, which was more than the profits of entire African airlines combined.

    Ethiopian Airlines network

    Ethiopian airlines is the most networked African airline because both in terms of schedule routes within the Africa as well as the international destinations. It serves almost 91 destinations internationally, where, 52 destinations in Africa, 15 destinations in Europe and America, however 24 destinations are in Asian countries from Gulf to Tokyo.

    It has a youngest and the largest cargo fleet in Africa. It has 68 passenger planes and makes more than 230 departures daily, it is an average of the previous five years.

    Cargo and freight within Africa

    The airline has around 1.2 million tonne annual capacity of cargo and freight and it has its major cargo terminal in Addis Ababa, airline hub. This hub is a massive setup and slightly smaller than London Heathrow Airport, which is the 4th largest in Europe.

    Ethiopian airline currently covers 48 cargo destinations where the largest  portion comes from Europe and Asia. The major part of cargo to Africa handled by the airline ad it has eight dedicated cargo carriers, however, by 2025, airline has a target to increase the fleet to 18 cargo carriers.

    The success factor

    The major success factor of the airline is strategically capturing of entire African market and the establishment of a multi hub system on the continent. The strategy and alliance president of the airline commented that Africa is a massive continent and it was not sufficient to control the continent with one hub.

    Thus, the airline bought the failing ASKy airline and Air Malawi and used them as a part of the multi system hub.

  • A Hefty Addition of Thousands of Truck Trailers in Amazon Fleet

    Amazon has already employed drones to get the parcels delivered to customers as soon as possible and this effort now goes to great lengths with …

     

    Putting thousands of its own truck trailers on the road. On Friday morning, the ever-ambitious online retailer had announced of purchasing “thousands” of truck trailers,

    in the wake of their rapid growth in business in North America and increasing their shipping capacity to move cargo to Africa and rest of the world.

    Where will they deliver packages?

    Well, they will not be used for door-t0-door cargo delivery to customers, instead they will be utilised to transport packages from one Amazon warehouse – also known as fulfilment centre – to another, also between warehouses and sort centres.

    The sort centre is the place where Amazon organises the parcels by zip code so they can be delivered to the local post offices for further delivery to the customers.

    How good is Amazon doing?

    Impressively well. Amazon’s North American retail business is doing so well that in the third quarter, the revenue of this unit grew 35 per cent. It is also due to the growth of Amazon’s Prime membership program – which is hugely popular – and apparel categories.

    This latest initiative is aimed at taking more control over company’s time to deliver goods into customer’s hands quickly and safely. Amazon will continue to utilise its trucking partners to transport merchandises within its fulfilment centre network, and UPS and FedEx for bundle delivery to customer doors.