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Leisure Cargo joins cargo.one portal
Virtual airline Leisure Cargo is the latest airfreight provider to begin offering its services through online portal cargo.one.The tie-up means that forwarders will now be able to make digital booking of Leisure Cargo's global freight capacity based on live spot rates and receive immediate confirmation."With the help of cargo.one, Leisure ...
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Air cargo as a UK engine of growth in a post-Brexit world
As Britain heads for the exit door to leave the European Union (Brexit), the head of UK flag carrier CargoLogicAir (CLA) outlined the need for negotiators in London and Brussels to recognise the importance of airfreight in future cross border trade.David Kerr, chief executive of CLA, said that the B747F ...
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Silk Way West Airlines pursues strategic co-operation with JAL Cargo
Japan’s JAL Cargo will access freighter capacity operated by Silk Way West Airlines under a co-operation agreement signed by the two carriers.JAL Cargo, which no longer operates its own freighters, will use the Azerbaijani cargo carrier's capacities on scheduled routes out of Europe, via its Baku hub, into Japan and ...
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NCA hit with business improvement order, while operations continue to restart
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has been hit with a business improvement order from Japan’s ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLITT), while a second aircraft has now restarted services.NYK Group – NCA’s parent - said in a stock exchange announcement that the airline received the order to improve operations ...
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LOT Cargo logs on for CHAMP's Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics
Poland's LOT Cargo has signed for two new CHAMP products, Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics.LOT Cargo has purchased eleven Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, and has four more on order, to service its new transatlantic routes. Both products will assist sales and revenue teams in support of this rapid expansion in cargo ...
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Descartes acquires Velocity Mail
Descartes Systems Group has acquired certain assets of Velocity Mail, a network that provides global air carriers with mail and parcel shipment scanning and tracking.Velocity Mail has been connecting commercial airlines and their logistics partners with government postal authorities around the world for more than 15 years.Velocity Mail is headquartered ...
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B777F conversion programme moves ever closer
The launch of a Boeing 777 Freighter conversion programme is moving ever closer as the aircraft becomes the freighter of choice for airlines.The start of this year has seen several orders for production B777-200F aircraft. At this week’s Farnborough Airshow DHL announced a deal for 14 of the plane and ...
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Councils set for court challenge on Heathrow's third runway
A group of local authority councils around Heathrow Airport is to seek a judicial review of the UK government's support for a third runway at the London hub.The group has today (July 19) formally notified the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, that it will launch a legal challenge ...
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Prince of whales: BelugaXL in maiden flight
Airbus has celebrated the maiden flight of its first BelugaXL freighter, which took off this morning from Blagnac in Toulouse, France, for a test flight over south-western France.A fleet of five BelugaXLs will be used to transport completed sections of Airbus aircraft among the company’s European production sites and to ...
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Kenya Airways helps rehome mistreated 'pet' lion cub
Kenya Airways has partnered with an international wildlife charity, Born Free, to airlift a one-year-old lion cub to the Big Cat Rescue Centre at Shamwari Private Game Reserve in South Africa.The cub, called King, was rescued from an apartment in Paris last summer where he was being kept illegally as ...
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Progress made in dispute over pay and conditions at Southern Air
Southern Air, Inc. and Local 1224 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reached an agreement for interim enhancements to the collective bargaining agreement covering pilots.The interim agreement increases pay rates for Southern Air pilots to the same wage scales as provided to pilots of sister company Atlas Air, Inc. ...
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K+N sees airfreight volumes grow ahead of the market in Q2
Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) recorded an above market increase in airfreight volumes in the second quarter of the year, while overall group profits were also on the rise.The Switzerland-based freight forwarder saw its airfreight volumes increase by 15.7% year on year during the April-June period to 441,000 tonnes compared with overall market ...
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Swissport integrating Aerocare in Australia and New Zealand
Swissport International is pushing ahead with the integration of the Aerocare organisation in Australia and New Zealand.Following the Aerocare acquisition in March 2018, the registered company name was changed to Swissport Australia as confirmed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Eric Born, group president and chief executive of Swissport International, ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group launches global AOG service
Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) has launched an aircraft on ground (AOG) service to manage the delivery of urgent spare parts for aircraft stranded around the world.Supported by a 24/7 team, the service will use either air charter or scheduled cargo flights, utilising VDG's fleet of Boeing 747, Boeing 737, An-124-100 and ...
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Peli BioThermal flexes its pharma packaging expertise
Peli BioThermal has added to its range of temperature controlled packaging with the production of its CoolPall Flex for bulk shipments.The system is a customisable range offering optimised solutions and thermal protection for the global transportation of payloads for pharmaceutical and life sciences applications.The new system, offering payload efficiency on ...
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Volga-Dnepr and CLA ink strategic deal with Liege airport
Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) and strategic partner CargoLogicAir (CLA) have inked a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic cooperation with Liege Airport in Belgium.The aim is to strengthen their positions in the European market through development of a regional hub and enhancement of freighter capacity.Within the next three to five years the ...
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Airbus to study use of aircraft or unmanned systems to deliver medical supplies
Airbus and International SOS, the medical and security risk services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly study the viability of using aircraft or unmanned systems to deliver medical cargo and supplies.Under the agreement, signed at the Farnborough International Airshow, Airbus will help to define and install ...
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Astral Aviation to acquire two drones for cargo delivery network in Kenya
African cargo carrier Astral Aviation has signed a letter of intent to acquire two Lucas-F250 drones, with plans to launch a cargo drone network in Kenya next yearThe Kenya-based airline has an option to purchase an additional ten drones in 2019 from the manufacturer, Dubai-based Falcon Drones Technology.Astral Aviation will ...
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Hactl in the pilot seat for IATA's Smart Facility Operational Capacity Audit
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) is the first cargo terminal operator (CTO) to complete a pilot for IATA’s Smart Facility Operational Capacity Audit (SFOC).SFOC is part of the Smart Facility program which aims to provide total transparency on capacities and services offered by CTOs, by means of a ...
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Green fingered American Airlines moves record levels of asparagus
American Airlines Cargo has carried nearly 12m lbs (5,500 tonnes) of fresh asparagus around the world in the first six months of 2018"The majority of what we move is green asparagus, but we do move very small amounts of both the albino and purple varieties,” said Joe Goode, American Airlines ...