IATA’s Global Head of Cargo, Brendan Sullivan, talked about the focus areas of sustainability, digitalisation, and safety for the air cargo industry.

The oil company’s Eastern Trade arm pledged to work with the port authority to develop charging infrastructure to reduce emissions from vessels.

A Category 1 status permits a country’s airlines to operate and expand their services to US destinations and enter a codeshare agreement with American carriers.

Global traffic scaled 89.7 per cent in February 2023 against February 2022, led by the Asia Pacific region.

The Abu Dhabi-based group has signed a concession agreement to develop and run Egypt’s Safaga port in a deal worth USD 200 million.

The new carrier aims to cover over 100 destinations globally, thus boosting the annual passenger traffic from Riyadh three times to 330 million by 2030.