Category: cargo
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US port strike ends, leaving cargo backlog By Reuters
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By Doyinsola Oladipo and David Shepardson (Reuters) – U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports reopened on Friday after dock workers and port operators reached a wage agreement to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century, but clearing a backlog of cargo will take time. The…
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China test-flies biggest cargo drone as low-altitude economy takes off By Reuters
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Written by Ryan Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – China has launched the largest cargo drone yet designed for civilian use, as the world’s biggest drone maker ramps up test flights of autonomous aerial vehicles that could eventually carry everything from takeaway meals to people. The two-tonne, twin-engine aircraft took off on…
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KPA offloads cargo from vessel grounded off Mombasa port
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The Kenya Ports Authority has begun unloading cargo from a ship that ran aground more than two months ago while sailing from the port of Mombasa to neighbouring Dar es Salaam carrying 209 containers. The Mombasa port manager said about 96 shipping containers have so far been unloaded from the…
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Air Incheon to consider widebody freighter orders after Asiana cargo purchase By Reuters
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(Corrects paragraph 6 to reflect that Incheon Airlines plans to sell space directly to logistics companies.) By Lisa Barrington SEOUL (Reuters) – Air Incheon, set to become South Korea’s second-largest cargo carrier once it completes a deal to buy Asiana Airlines’ cargo unit, will consider buying Boeing and Airbus freighters…
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Court declines to stop new South Sudan cargo charge
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The High Court has refused to issue interim orders suspending the implementation of the directive to impose a fee of $350 (Sh44,878.51 at current exchange rates) on each container of all goods destined for South Sudan. A preservation order maintains the status quo to preserve a matter until the motion…