Share this article April 5, 2018: In what appears to be a Series C round of funding, Porter has raised Rs 50 crore from Mahindra Group. With this, the B2B logistics marketplace has accumulated about Rs 135 crore from investors such as Sequoia, Kae Capital, Anupam Mittal and Sandeep Tandon. Earlier…

Share this article April 4, 2018: Vistara, India’s finest full service carrier has received its 20 th aircraft and its seventh Airbus A320neo powered by CFM engines. The aircraft landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport recently. With this addition to its fleet, Vistara completes its initial…

Share this article April 5, 2018: Global trade enabler DP World operated India Gateway Terminal (IGTPL) at Cochin witnessed a 19 percent increase in volume in the first quarter of 2018 compared to its performance in the first quarter of 2017. The terminal also handled the highest monthly volume of…

Share this article April 3, 2018 - In Q4 2017, India recorded a strong 14 percent containerised export growth, exceeding collective increases seen in the previous quarters, resulting in full year growth of 10 percent. Maersk in a detailed report has said that this came as a welcome relief, as India…

Share this article 3 April, 2018: Rhenus Logistics Vietnam has signed a three-year contract with ConCung, Vietnam’s leading mother and baby products retail chain, for warehousing services and nationwide distribution. The operations for the new client will take place at a new warehouse in Binh Duong.…

Share this article April 3, 2018: Maersk Line India has announced the introduction of export and import service offerings at Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh. This end to end service (store door) will enable customers in the region to reach global touch points. Maersk Line said that this offering…

Share this article March 31, 2018: In order to augment the skill-set of its middle-senior level employees identified for succession planning, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM – Bangalore). As per the…

Share this article March 30, 2018: Delta Cargo and the cargo division of its joint venture partner, Air France/KLM, have co-located cargo warehouse facilities in Seattle, a move that will allow more space for cargo capacity and make shipping easier and more convenient for the airlines’ shared…

Share this article March 29, 2018: Kale Logistics Solutions has recently launched a specialised e-Booking Platform by the name of RIGEL at WINGS INDIA 2018 at Hyderabad. The platform is one of Kale’s Trade Facilitation initiatives, focused on driving ease in cargo booking for the air cargo industry.…

Share this article March 29, 2018: USC Global Supply Chain Symposium India 2018 recently brought together business executives and professionals from the supply chain industry into a single platform to discuss how to strategically manage supply chains in rapidly evolving local and global markets. The…

Share this article March 29, 2018: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has collaborated with Airports Authority of India (AAI) for developing green corridor along Varanasi Bypass covering 16.55 kilometers of NH 56 and NH 29. A formal Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed towards this…

Share this article 28 March, 2018: Vakrangee Limited through its wholly owned subsidiary company Vakrangee Logistics Private Limited (VLPL) has entered an alliance with Blue Dart Express Limited to offer last mile courier and logistics services on a PAN India basis. As per the arrangement with Blue…

Share this article 28 March, 2018: On the back of a strengthened global economy and trade, the air freight market has shown remarkable resilience to disruption in the last year. As per latest data released by the Airports Council International (ACI) World, at the regional level, nearly all regions…

Share this article 28 March, 2018: The government has invited bids to sell 76 percent of Air India Ltd, which owns 100 percent stake in low-cost international subsidiary Air India Express. Along with Air India (AI), bids are also being called for sale of AI’s 50 percent stake in AISATS, a ground…

Share this article March 28, 2018: Privately-run logistics conglomerate J M Baxi Group is teaming up with IBM in a digital push to help the company expand in newer areas of business, transform their internal processes and jointly develop technology-led solutions and offerings leveraging IBM…

Share this article March 22, 2018: FarEye, a digital logistics platform, has launched its supply chain visibility suite - ORBIT, which allows enterprises to have complete visibility of goods while in transit from the plant right through to the final destination. The suite which is a “platform for…

Share this article March 21, 2018: Turkish Cargo recently carried 1.5 million live Gilt-head breams weighing 100 tonnes to Oman from Izmir by providing the environment, needed by the fish underwater, above the clouds. For this trip, Turkish Cargo used its Boeing 777F wide-body freighter on charter…

Share this article March 20, 2018: Cathay Pacific Cargo has announced a new partnership with va-Q-tec, a leading provider of thermal packaging solutions for temperature controlled transportation. va-Q-tec’s advanced passive thermal containers, which are designed to maintain a constant temperature…

Share this article March 20, 2018: Rajen Gohain, Minister of State of Railways recently attended the formal handing over ceremony of 18 th AC-DC 1350 HP diesel electric locomotive to Myanma Railways, supplied by RITES and manufactured by Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi, India. These 18 locomotives…

Share this article March 19, 2018: Hindustan Infralog Private Limited (HIPL), a joint venture between DP World and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), announced the acquisition of a 90 percent stake in Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Ltd (CWCNSL), an integrated…

Share this article March 19, 2018: In 2017, CMA CGM carried nearly 19 million containers, a strong increase of +21.1 percent compared to 2016. This increase is driven by the contributions of all the shipping lines operated by the Group in addition to APL’s full-year contribution. The strong momentum…

Share this article March 19, 2018: Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT) continued to improve connectivity and ease of doing business for JNPT users with its first barge and train volumes recently. A 90 TEUs block train departed for Mandideep on 13 March 2018, while a second train left for Nagpur…

Share this article With increasing globalisation and ease to trade, Indian firms are demanding new logistics capabilities and more complex solutions from their 3PL partners. Greater acceptance of demand driven logistics practices brings forth a plethora of complexities into the supply chain and…

Share this article The biggest congregation of global air cargo industry stakeholders, at the seventh edition of Air Cargo India, was testimony of the fact that India-a country that is poised for substantial air cargo growth in 2018, is being looked at as a land of opportunity. Nahida Jafferi…

Share this article In the wake of the recent investment from Alibaba Group, Amitava Saha, the Co-Founder and CEO, XpressBees, an e-commerce specialized logistics’ company, discusses plans for positioning itself as the leader in e-commerce logistics, in a tête-à-tête with Nahida Jafferi. XpressBees…

Share this article March 15, 2018: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in a report has said that the Indian Railways (IR) should look into innovative ways for revenue generation and closely monitor its expenditure. The report was earlier tabled in Parliament. Expressing concern over railways…

Share this article March 15, 2018: The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) recently released a revised draft policy on the generation of e-way bills. The government has made certain amendments in e-way bills and relaxed certain conditions which will significantly address concerns of…

Share this article March 15, 2018: GVK Mumbai International Airport Private Limited (MIAL), the company that manages the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), was conferred with an ‘Excellence Award’ at the 7 th Global Economic Summit held in Mumbai recently. The award given to Mumbai…

Share this article March 14, 2018: Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha has reportedly said that the grounding of 11 aircrafts with the new Airbus 320 neo series engines was a proactive decision by the government. According to a ET report, Sinha said that on A320neo, they had taken the…

Share this article March 13, 2018: Commerce and industries minister Suresh Prabhu has been given additional charge of the civil aviation ministry. The move comes a day after the resignation of TDP’s Ashok Gajapathi Raju was accepted by President Ram Nath Kovind. Raju and another Telugu Desam Party…

Share this article March 14, 2018: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has placed its bet on four priorities for the future success of the air cargo industry: accelerating the digitisation of the supply chain, enforcing regulations for lithium batteries, more efficient trade…

Share this article March 13, 2018: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is partnering with India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University (RGNAU) to enhance human resource development to support the tremendous growth of India’s aviation…

Share this article March 9, 2018: India will require 1,750 new passenger and cargo aircraft over the next 20 years to meet an exponential rise in both passenger and freight traffic, according to Airbus’ latest India Market Forecast. To help meet this growth, India will need 1,320 new single-aisle…

Share this article March 8, 2018: Neewee and EFLIGHT, two start-ups accelerated at Airbus Bizlab India, have signed their first contracts with Airbus and subsidiary NAVBLUE to bring to life their unique innovative ideas in aerospace that are in line with the Indian government’s ‘Make in India’ and…

Share this article March 7, 2018: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 8.0 percent in January 2018 compared to the year-earlier period. This was up from the 5.8 percent…

Share this article March 7, 2018: On the occasion of the 18th TPM Annual Conference currently taking place in Long Beach, California, the CMA CGM Group has unveiled its customer centricity strategy to create the customer experience of tomorrow. A year ago Rodolphe Saadé, chairman and CEO of the CMA…

Share this article March 7, 2018: Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), operated by GVK MIAL, and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), operated by GMR-led consortium, have been jointly rated as the World’s Best Airport for customer experience in the 40 million…

Share this article March 6, 2018: Airports Authority of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. (EESL) to replace existing lights with energy efficient LED lights at various airports and buildings of AAI. The MoU was signed by Anil Kumar Sharma,…

Share this article March 5, 2018: Qatar Airways Cargo’s pharma solution now includes CSafe’s newest RAP container. The RAP unit is perfectly suited for large volume pharma shipments and has been approved by the cargo carrier’s team of pharma specialists for use across its expanding pharma network.…

Share this article March 1, 2018: Emirates SkyCargo has become a certified member of the UAE Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme. The certification was awarded to Emirates SkyCargo by the Federal Customs Authority of the UAE government. The Authorised Economic Operator programme is a…