Damian Brett

Vietnam Airlines has selected ECS Group to provide GSSA services in South Korea as it looks to capitalise on trade between the two countries. Under the agreement, ECS will provide services including sales development, capacity management, operational supervision, digital services and customer support. ECS said that South Korea ranks among the top three cargo markets

Google Cloud has signed up to Kuehne+Nagel's (K+N) sustainable aviation fuel programme in a further signal of the growing importance of the cloud infrastructure segment in air cargo. The agreement covers 5.2m litres of SAF, representing a reduction of up to 12,600 tonnes of CO2e emissions and serves as a pilot for future collaboration. K+N

Hong Kong Air Cargo has appointed Aeroprime as its GSSA in India as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing cargo market. Under the agreement, Aeroprime will be responsible for cargo sales, marketing, customer engagement, and business development activities for the airline's services to and from Delhi. The two companies said that the

Cathay-owned Air Hong Kong has signed a lease deal to add a converted Airbus A330 freighter to expand its regional operations. The A330 freighter will join Air Hong Kong's fleet in the fourth quarter of 2026 under a long-term lease agreement with Air Transport Services Group subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management. Air Hong Kong currently operates

Hong Kong cargo handler Hactl has signed a 15-year extension of its handling franchise at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). The deal was signed with the Airport Authority of Hong Kong and will run from July 2028 through to 2043. The signing of the deal comes after the airport added a third runway that has

Freight forwarders are expected to see profitability remain under pressure despite a peace deal being reached by the US and Iran. The founder and chief executive of forwarder profitability platform OntegosCloud Oliver Gritz said that the forwarding market will be hoping the peace deal will lead to a period of reduced supply chain disruption and

Charter firm Chapman Freeborn is targeting growth in the aerospace sector with the launch of a new service providing rapid transportation of shipments. The company's aerospace product will bring together air charter, time-critical and aerospace logistics services into a single offering. This includes full charter, part charter, next flight out (NFO) and on-board courier (OBC) solutions,

Booming volumes of semiconductors combined with the Middle East crisis have pushed aircraft cargo utilisation levels on the transpacific trade to their maximum, according to data provider Xeneta. Figures from Xeneta show that the dynamic load factor - taking into account space and weight - on services from Asia Pacific to North America currently stands

The aviation industry is entering one of the biggest hiring cycles in its history. An estimated 2.3m new professionals will be needed globally by 2044, with 1.5m people required in the next decade, writes Menzies Aviation chief people officer, Juliet Thomson. Competition for talent is already intense. Employers who limit their search to traditional pipelines

The Baltic Exchange and TAC Innovation have expanded their airfreight spot indices with the addition of three new routes out of Shanghai in response to increased market volatility. The new indices will cover routes from Shanghai to Central Europe, the US west coast and the US mid-west> They join existing spot indices originating from Hong