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FlyUs appointed GSSA for Riyadh Cargo in France, Spain, and Portugal

FlyUs Aviation Group has been appointed General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) for Riyadh Cargo in France, Spain, and Portugal. Under the agreement, FlyUs will oversee cargo sales, customer support and capacity management in all three markets. The appointment expands FlyUs' partnership with Riyadh Cargo following its selection as the airline's GSSA in the UK and Ireland in October 2025, coinciding with the launch of Riyadh Air's inaugural services to London Heathrow Airport. The announcement also follows the introduction of a dedicated Riyadh-branded trucking service connecting the Benelux region with the airline's network via Heathrow. "Being entrusted with additional markets is a strong endorsement of the partnership we have built with Riyadh Cargo since its launch," said Carlo de Haas, president and chief executive, FlyUs. "Our local teams have extensive knowledge of their respective markets and long-established relationships with forwarders across France, Spain, and Portugal. "We look forward to leveraging this to provide dedicated, on-the-ground sales representation, while ensuring customers have direct access to Riyadh Cargo's growing network and capacity." Pravin Singh, global head of cargo, Riyadh Air, said: "FlyUs has been a part of our cargo journey in Europe since October 2025 and has consistently demonstrated a strong understanding of our business, customers, and growth ambitions. "Their expertise and commitment to excellent service have made them a valued partner, and we are pleased to expand our collaboration into France, Spain, and Portugal as we continue to extend our global reach."

Analysis: Expeditors - fiduciary duty is not a crime scene

(Editor's note: this is Lawrence Lim's debut for Premium as senior columnist. Lawrence is an investment professional at private equity firm EmergeVest, owner of EV Cargo. More details about Lawrence can be found at the bottom of this column.) Key takeaway: Adam Clermont has built an impressive corpus documenting Expeditors' layoffs, and I don't doubt the pain behind it. But sympathy for the laid-off and a sound financial theory are two different things, and several of the theories built on ...

Maersk returns West Africa service to the Red Sea as Suez comeback gathers pace

Maersk has announced that it is returning a third service to the Red Sea routing, its Mediterranean-West Africa WAF 6 service. "We are pleased to inform you of immediate structural changes to our WAF6 service," the carriers said in a statement yesterday. "WAF6 is solely operated by Maersk and is a service that connects the Middle East, Mediterranean and West Africa. "It will now transit via the Red Sea between Salalah and West Mediterranean. "This change marks another step towards a gradual return to the trans-Suez corridor," Maersk added. It is the third Maersk-linked service to return to Suez in recent days, following its US-flagged US east coast-Middle East MECL services, and the Gemini Asia-Med Loop 2 string operated with Hapag-Lloyd. Meanwhile, the recent history of the WAF6 service is a great example of how carriers have redesigned their networks in response to geopolitical developments. An analysis of Xeneta's eeSea liner database shows that until this March, the WAF6 had a relatively simple east Mediterranean-west Mediterranean-west Africa routing with a typical port rotation of Port Said-Algeciras-Tanger-Tena-Lagos, with west African-bound shipments from Asia, Europe and North America able to be transhipped either in Port Said or at Algeciras and Tanger. In that structure it deployed five vessels with an average capacity of 4,600 teu However, following the outbreak of the US-Israel-Iran conflict, Maersk dropped the east Mediterranean coverage and instead introduced a call at its Oman transhipment hub at Salalah, presumably to carry cargoes from Asia. It offered a new port rotation of: Tanger-Algeciras-Tema-Apapa-Cape of Good Hope-Salalah but now had to deploy nine ships instead of five and effectively transformed the service into a Middle East-Europe string. In May it added a tenth vessel to the service which led to marked improvement in the WAF 6's schedule reliability, which according to Sea-Intelligence's monthly schedule reliability report went from 0% of on-time vessel arrivals in February/March to 40% on time the following month. By reverting to Red Sea routings Maersk ought to be able to remove two to three of the vessels from the string for redeployment elsewhere in its network, as well as being able to offer additional options for cargo from Asia by transhipping over Salalah. However, much will also continue to hinge on the geopolitical situation - shortly after its WAF 6 announcement news broke that Saudia Arabia and Yemen's Houthis had traded missile attacks, threatening the short-lived peace in the region. "Maersk will continue to monitor the security situation in the Middle East region very closely. The safety of the crew, the vessels, and customers' cargo remains the highest priority. "Should the security situation change in the Red Sea, which may necessitate reverting individual sailings or the wider structural change of the service back to the Cape of Good Hope route, we have contingency plans in place," the carrier said.