Innovation

Digitalisation and expansion to meet cargo demand

Menzies Aviation is accelerating its digital transformation and operational expansion, leveraging technology such as the MACH cargo management platform to

Data drives logistics

WorldACD has enhanced its offering with volumetric metrics, rate spread visibility, and forthcoming forecasting tools, enabling airlines and stakeholders to

Betting on ‘human in the loop’ AI for Reliability

Flexport is leveraging AI to automate repetitive airfreight tasks—like data entry, terminal calls, milestone updates, and customs checks—while keeping humans

The next battleground for African cargo networks

In 2025, air cargo growth shifted toward emerging markets, with Africa and other Global South corridors seeing rapid expansion, while

AI and automation shrink entry-level roles, sparking workforce rethink

Rising costs, labour shortages, sustainability pressures, and maturing technologies are accelerating automation across supply chains, with AI, robotics, and “Automation

Predictive tracking and sustainability metrics

BlueBox Systems’ Trade Lane Intelligence platform extends real-time airfreight visibility into predictive ETAs, reliability analysis, and forward-looking carbon benchmarking, helping

How Hybrid UAVs Are Reshaping the Logistics Frontier

Traditional logistics modes are often too slow, costly, or infrastructure dependent for urgent or remote deliveries, creating a gap for

The case for the tracing, lost and found platform

Growing airfreight volumes and increasingly complex networks have exposed the limits of manual, fragmented processes for managing loss, delay, and

Airfreight’s evolution: Improvisation to ambitious systemisation

Early air cargo began after World War One, using passenger or military facilities, with small high-value loads like silk flown

Autonomous Logistics Needs Autonomous Charging

Manual charging remains a critical bottleneck in autonomous freight operations, undermining utilisation, safety, and scalability by introducing labour dependency, operational

The case for smarter, more secure cargo tracking in a fractured supply chain

Fragmented cargo visibility remains a critical vulnerability in global supply chains, with outdated tracking methods creating blind spots that expose

Windracers to operate UK’s first international civil drone flight

Windracers received UK CAA approval for the first civil BVLOS unmanned flight across international airspace, allowing its ULTRA MK2 drone

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