Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

In an interview with Arab News, Prashant Saran, director of operations for Amazon in the Middle East and North Africa region, said that the new facility will provide sellers with more storage options and help them expand their online businesses to new markets. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2024

During a recent storm, 22-foot-swells slammed into the vessel every 15 seconds, cracking the hull and breaking the ship into four pieces.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2013

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 29, 2021

Nearly a week ago, a cargo ship — which if it stood on its end would be taller than either the Empire State Building or Eiffel Tower — ran aground in the canal completely blocking the waterway. Venturing south around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope adds at least 26 more days.”[3]

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Vásquez told the Associated Press, “In the first quarter of the fiscal year, the passageway saw 20% less cargo and 791 fewer ships than the same period the year before.” Drought is causing no end of human suffering; Just in the Horn of Africa, 23 million people were severely food-insecure at the end of 2022 because of drought.

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Shipsy

APRIL 19, 2021

By becoming a part of the WLP, business can have the opportunity to diversify into new markets such as Latin America, South Asia or Africa while shoring up their regional connectivity. We are delighted to welcome India, Indonesia and South Africa to the club,” he added. The post What is “World Logistics Passport” initiative?

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

A Middle-East-based B2B online platform, Tradeling, launched last year with an initial investment from Dubai Airport Freezone Authority to help businesses across the Middle East and North Africa to procure goods from around the world. Available in Rwanda, it plans to expand across Africa and around the world.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

As a result Zipline’s business and reach in Africa is expanding. While delivering medicines, food and spare parts, Skyports electric drones by design also eliminate all of the carbon emissions and much of the danger in ship to ship cargo transfers. We can hopefully expect more and more growth in this sector.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Europe and the Mediterranean the arrival window for this year’s peak season goods – taking into account longer transit times around the south of Africa and the upcoming Golden Week slow down in China – is closing, removing some demand side pressure on rates. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In air cargo, the surging volume of e-commerce packages out of China has been the biggest driver of strong demand, tight capacity and elevated rates for much of the year. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox. You can watch the full interview here.

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20Cube Logistics

APRIL 9, 2020

We, through our location offices in Australia, Sri Lanka, East Africa, China and Dubai including India are sending regular updates that will help our customers globally, make arrangements for their consignments to be delivered to the final destination. We are in regular touch with our shipping lines, Govt.

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Logistics Middle East

OCTOBER 12, 2021

IAG Cargo has five services a week on its new cargo route directly from Madrid to Dakar in Senegal, as trade between Europe and West Africa continues to grow. The post IAG Cargo announces new cargo route flying direct from Madrid to Dakar marking a first for the company appeared first on Logistics Middle East.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The news that cargo thefts at unsecured locations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region accounted for 173 or 85.1 percent of incidents reported in November 2017, is further evidence of the need for diligence in supply chain security, says international freight forwarding and logistics company, U-Freight.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance. Significance.

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Hard to Reach Rural Drones currently provide the most value to areas that have either poor infrastructure, such as rural Africa, or have geographic constraints, such as mountain communities that prevent efficient cargo delivery. This is all great, but not exactly life-changing.

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Freightos

JULY 2, 2024

With capacity already stretched thin by longer routes around Africa, additional delays and backlogs from an ILA strike, or, to a lesser extent, the looming Canadian rail strike possibly in July, would also put more or renewed pressure on ocean rates. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2022

There are other risks as well: logistics in these regions (especially Africa and Chile). Another a rticle in the same edition of the Economist s uggests that there are significant bottlenecks in Africa at bridges crossing rivers and other problems such as corruption to gain access to roads.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 24, 2024

Since January 15, Qatar has diverted at least six shipments destined for Europe around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance. Loading costs plummet.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The increased risk to ships in the region has led Maersk to join carriers charging a war risk premium for containers to and from Israeli ports, and ZIM will increase rates for its Asia – Mediterranean service that will avoid the Red Sea in favor of the longer route around Africa.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Top Five Air Cargo Carriers. The top five air cargo carriers by weight, according to the IATA , are: Fedex. As the biggest air cargo carrier by weight, Fedex had a revenue of $44.3 To support its air cargo business, Fedex has 634 aircraft and services 375 airports. Cargo makes up 30% of Cathay Pacific’s revenues.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2014

Nine pallets of caps, gowns, boots, and masks are sitting at the JFK airport in New York City awaiting the next available flight to West Africa. By consolidating cargo from various shippers, freight forwarders reduce the cost of air shipment significantly from express services, which is important when shipping multiple pallets.

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American Global Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2023

By combining different transportation modes to move your cargo offers economies of scale, you can achieve price discounts. For example, China's Belt and Road Initiative is a massive infrastructure project that aims to connect Asia, Europe, and Africa through a network of roads, railways, ports, and airports. We have a global reach.

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Logistics Middle East

JUNE 22, 2015

Etihad Cargo now operates to 11 freighter-only destinations, with Brazzaville in Africa being the latest addition.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Some Asia – US East Coast services, especially from the Indian Subcontinent, typically sail via the Suez Canal and will now divert around the south of Africa. In air cargo, some analysts are expecting the delays in ocean freight to lead to some shift of more urgent volumes to sea-air services or air cargo alternatives.

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Resilinc

MARCH 28, 2023

Per the contract, Eni will deliver one LNG cargo per month between 2017 and 2032. However, on January 26 th , Eni warned it would not be able to deliver the LNG cargo to Pakistan because of a force majeure incident. Ahead of the EU oil ban, Russia started diverting petroleum products to North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In just one day (30 November) there were at least 13 articles breaking down what it means for for Serbia , Africa , North East Asia , and the whole world , with a variety of perspectives from the railway , maritime , political affairs , financial , capital and gadget press. CARRIER & CARGO: CHOPPY SEAS AHEAD FOR CARRIERS.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2015

Airlink, the NGO that provided the air transportation, collaborated with the ACCEL logistics team to secure cargo space. Allen Family Foundation to establish an air bridge to West Africa. Most of the space was taken up by the ACCEL shipment, but spare capacity was made available to other humanitarian organizations.

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Freightos

JANUARY 10, 2024

The diversions are leading to higher costs for carriers using more fuel and more ships for the longer journeys around the south of Africa, and higher container rates for shippers. Longer ocean transits are expected to push some volumes to air cargo. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Freightos

MAY 26, 2015

MarineTraffic maintain an incredible live map of all ships in the ocean, with the ability to narrow it down to cargo ships alone. Given geopolitical changes, some have taken to exploring alternative shipping lanes that could help avoid some of the more problematic shipping routes, like the Horn of Africa.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Port of Long Beach sees highest Q3 cargo volume in history (Cargo Business News). The combined companies will have a more balanced geographical footprint with approximately 61% of revenue in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 17% in Americas, 16% in Asia (APAC) and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa. UPS Sets 2016 Rates.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 6, 2021

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Logistics Middle East

AUGUST 25, 2015

s Johannesburg based-team has deployed additional reservations and operations staff who will be dedicated to the Saudia Cargo portfolio. In response to this appointment, ACP?s

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What’s more, whereas cargo drones typically have a very limited capacity of only 5kg, delivery trucks can carry hundreds of packages at a time. They are now looking into expanding their services into more countries across East Africa. Read more about how drones are transforming delivery logistics in the infographic below.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries). This enables them to mitigate the risks they face in making sure product is available on the shelf when consumers are ready to buy. BRICS summit.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 15, 2020

Using passenger airliners to provide cargo-only services. In this case, there will be no sharp rebound in the volume of passenger-airliner capacity—which means no significant increase in cargo space. Indeed, it’s likely to be a turbulent year for air cargo carriers and freight-forwarding specialists everywhere. sulphur content.

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Logistics Middle East

AUGUST 8, 2015

Africa is a key growth market for Qatar Airways Cargo, which currently serves Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Entebbe, Nairobi, and Khartoum with dedicated freighters.

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