DHL, a major international express provider, is adding three Boeing 777 freighters that will expand its capacity and boost transit times along key growing trade routes between the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. DHL has signed an air service agreement with Southern Air to operate the new...

The state-run Tanzania Ports Authority is planning to build three more ports along the country's coastline to meet demand for increased capacity, improve handling services and accommodate future growth, reported the Daily News. TPA Corporate and Communications Manager Franklin Mziray said that...

Rickmers Group has named two more 13,100TEU container vessels in Ulsan, Korea. Leo Rickmers and Scorpio Rickmers will come into service for their charterer, Maersk Line, as Maersk Edmonton and Maersk Elba. Built by the world s largest shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, Korea, the two...

Korean Air has placed a firm order with Airbus for five A330-200s.The latest purchase agreement increases the total numbers of A330s ordered by Korean Air to 30 aircraft, of which 23 have already been delivered. As with the existing Korean Air A330 fleet, the newly ordered aircraft will be...

New contract will total 22 long-haul Airbus aircraft for airline Hawaiian Airlines, which became a new Airbus operator this year, has placed a firm order for an additional six A330-200s. These long-haul, twin-engine, widebody aircraft will join Hawaiian s fleet of three A330s and an existing...

The ocean carrier Maersk Line has dropped more calls at its West Mediterranean hubs in Algecrias, Spain and Tangiers, Morocco on its weekly services between Asia and North Europe. Maersk's AE7 loop has dropped calls at Algeciras in both directions, also dropping a westbound call at Xiamen and...

Atlas Air confirmed that it has accepted delivery of the company's second and third Boeing 747-8 freighters, reported Business Wire. The aircraft are part of Atlas Air's order of nine 747-8Fs with Boeing. Atlas Air expects to receive two additional 747-8Fs in mid-2012, two in the fall of 2012,...

Germany's Lufthansa Group says the group flew three per cent more passengers in September compared to last year. Capacity rose 3.7 per cent and passenger load factor improved 0.6 percentage points. Passenger numbers were higher in North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific, while it...

The Port of Long Beach reported May container volume totaling 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared to the same month last year and the highest monthly container volume since October 2010. Monthly exports, which increased 13.9 percent year-over-year to 147,073 TEUs, were...

Planemaker Boeing says Chilean airline LAN has ordered another five B767 aircraft on top of the existing order for three of the long-range planes. LAN, which is in the process of merging with Brazilian carrier TAM, already owns 28 767-300ERs and 11 767-300 cargo planes. The LAN order brings...