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Logistics company DHL Express South Africa announced on Wednesday that, with effect from this month, the global DHL Express group’s GoGreen Plus initiative would be available to South African customers. GoGreen Plus allowed customers to reduce the carbon emissions generated by moving their cargoes, by having them flown on aircraft using sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). DHL Express was the first global express carrier to offer such a service. “Our customers, like us, are dedicated to environmental conservation and committed to reducing their carbon footprint and I am thrilled that DHL Express has taken such a bold step to further reduce emissions,” affirmed DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa CEO Hennie Heymans.

Dube TradePort, which is responsible for the Dube Cargo Terminal at Durban’s King Shaka International Airport, in South Africa’s Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) province, has actually reported a strong healing in its air cargo organization over the period from April last year, to now, compared with the comparable duration in the previous year. The recovery was attributed to the restoration of scheduled operations to the airport by both global and domestic airline companies. The number of such scheduled flights increased …

State-owned national flag-carrier South African Airways (SAA), which resumed business operations in late September in 2015, is hoping to relaunch two global paths before the end of this month, respected business air travel news site “ch-aviation” has reported. SAA also wanted to expand its domestic network in the future. The source for the details was a Travel News Weekly webcast interview with SAA interim COO Tebogo Tsimane. The global routes to be triggered prior to the end of this fiscal year (which ended on March 31) are to São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil and to Perth International Airport in Australia. They will be run using the provider’s rented Airbus A330-300 widebody airliner.

Air Seychelles, the State-owned national flag provider for the Indian Ocean archipelagic nation, released its operational report for 2022 on Monday. The airline company described 2022 as having actually been “filled with decision, resilience and effort”. It was also marked, in November, by the business emerging from Administration (comparable to Business Rescue in South Africa, or Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy defense in the United States). And in December it presented a brand-new seasonal route to Almaty in Kazakhstan, which covers the northern winter duration and will be run up until March this year, to total 18 roundtrips (36 different flights). The airline runs a fleet of 2 new-generation, 168-seat, Airbus A320-200neo (neo = brand-new engine option) single-aisle jet airliners and five, 19-seat, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter twin turboprop ‘feederliners’. The A320neos serve on worldwide, and the Twin Otters on domestic, paths. Both types undertake both arranged and charter flights.

The international representative body for the airline company industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has actually highlighted the function of industrial air travel in the relief and rescue efforts under way in south-east Türkiye and northern Syria, following two destructive earthquakes in that location. The earthquakes struck on February 6. The first had a magnitude of 7.8, while the second was tape-recorded at 7.7. So far, in Türkiye alone, more than 35 000 individuals have been reported as having actually been eliminated.