Airlines are increasingly sending their fleets of idle passenger aircraft on freight missions. While most fly with full belly holds, cargo is finding its way into passenger seats and overhead bins, as well. A Lufthansa Airbus A330 was loaded to the gills on a recent flight from Shanghai to Frankfurt, carrying urgently needed goods, mostly for the healthcare sector.

Cargo volumes between Hong Kong and China are “gradually returning to normal” as manufacturing in the mainland starts to stabilize after weeks of lockdown due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

The Rhenus Logistics distribution centre in Tilburg, the Netherlands, known as The Tube, is considered one of the most sustainable industrial buildings in the world.

With few passengers flying during the coronavirus pandemic, airlines have launched charter flights using passenger aircraft to move crucial goods around the world. A Korean Air Boeing 777-200 passenger plane carried 500,000 Covid-19 tests from Seoul Incheon to Baltimore, in what is said to be the first visit by a Korean Air passenger plane to Baltimore/Washington International Airport.