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Zipline, Rwanda
MSC starts services to announce partnership for

instant logistics
Congo Republic, Democratic

Republic of Congo

SC has announced the opening and Southeast Asia. India will be
Mof new markets: Congo connected to Pointe-Noire via
Republic (CR) with Pointe Noire transshipment Colombo," says an
and the Democratic Republic of official release. Pointe-Noire will
Congo (DRC) with Matadi. "The be added to the Angola service,
first sailing from Asia to Pointe- serving as a transshipment call ipline, the global leader in instant
Noire, on the Africa Express for cargo from Asia to Angola Zlogistics and deliveries, announced
service, will be on January 4, calling Lunda and Namibe ports, a partnership with the Government of
2023, from Xingang with the and Walvis Bay in Namibia. "Also, Rwanda that aims to complete nearly
MSC VIRGO, voyage FY301. It we will be able to ship cargo from two million instant deliveries and fly
will enable a direct connection Europe via transshipment to Lomé, more than 200 million autonomous
with China, South Korea, Japan, Togo, to CR and DRC." kilometers in Rwanda by 2029. "Under
the new partnership, Rwanda will
triple its delivery volume by adding
new delivery sites in rural and urban
locations throughout the country
and opening up Zipline's service to
other government entities. In doing
so, Rwanda is bringing innovative and
environmentally friendly logistics and
delivery to the country, and it will be the
first country in the world with the ability
to make autonomous instant deliveries
to its entire population," says a release
from Zipline.

AFKLM Martinair Cargo partners with Oceanographic Institute of

Monaco to transfer 46 African spurred tortoises to Senegal

ir France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP
ACargo) has announced that it has worked
with the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
to transport 46 juvenile tortoises to Le Village
des Tortues in Noflaye, Senegal, as part of a
population reinforcement project. This transfer
is one phase of a three-year programme. Since
2012, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco has
been home to several African spurred tortoises
(Centrochelys sulcata), the third largest land
tortoise in the world. These herbivorous reptiles,
from a breeding centre in Mali, were
entrusted to Robert Calcagno, director-
general of the Oceanographic Institute
of Monaco, in order to educate
visitors about the need to protect this
endangered species.

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