On August 19, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt established the first National Aviation Day through a proclamation declaring Orville Wright’s birthday as an annual celebration of all things aviation. As an Air Freight service provider, BTX Global Logistics would like to recognize the impact of air cargo on the global economy and more importantly, how we have arrived at keeping your shipments safe.

It’s never too early to prepare for the holiday peak season, especially with disruptions mounting amid solid consumer spending. Shippers and carriers are employing automation, data-based decision making, smart inventory management strategies, and tapping into lessons learned from last year to get into position for the 2024 peak season.

Source: The Washington Post

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary report provides the first detailed examination of what went wrong as the cargo ship, Dali, lost power, veered off course and slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD last March. It lays out a comprehensive timeline of the events leading up to and immediately after the crash, describing in technical terms a rapid-fire series of problems before the Dali struck the bridge.