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Freightos joins Neutral Air Partner
Online platform Freightos has joined air cargo networking group Neutral Air Partner as an associate member to enhance the group’s digital solutions.Neutral Air Partner said it hoped the addition of Freightos would help deliver “competitive airfreight and express services, and outstanding service”.Freightos chief executive Zvi Schreiber said: “Neutral Air Partner’s ...
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Operations back under way at Hartsfield-Jackson after power outage
Airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport – the world’s busiest passenger hub - after a power outage grounded aircraft at the gateway.Power has now been restored, but Delta Air Lines said this morning that it would cancel 300 flights today at its Atlanta ...
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Panalpina in South Sudan relief flight
Panalpina has assisted the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) by flying relief aid to Africa to help children suffering in South Sudan.A Panalpina chartered cargo aircraft landed in the early hours of Saturday morning in neighboring Uganda, carrying nearly 80 tons of supplies including emergency shelters, water treatment equipment ...
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NewsFinnair opens ‘cool’ new Helsinki hub
Finnair Cargo has held the official opening ceremony for its new €80m Cool Nordic hub at Helsinki Airport.The airside facility measures 31,000 sq m, has a capacity of 350,000 tonnes per year and has 3,000 sq m dedicated areas for both pharma and perishables shipments.The centre also boasts 550 10ft ...
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Second B747-8F arrives in Qatar
Qatar Cargo has announced that it has taken delivery of its second B747-8 freighter aircraft.The airline made the announcement in a short update on its cargo website. Qatar received the first of two B747-8Fs in September, with group chief executive Akbar Al Baker hinting that it could order more of ...
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SF Express continues to develop China cargo hub plan
SF Express has confirmed its plans to set up a huge new air cargo airport in central China.According to reports, the express firm on Wednesday signed an agreement with the provincial government and an investment company to invest a total of Yuan5bn in a joint venture that will build the ...
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Cargolux buoyed by windfarm cargo
Cargolux has flown two shipments of outsized and highly sensitive German-made measuring buoys from Luxembourg to Xiamen in China.The flights were made in conjunction with Globaltrans Internationale Logistik and saw the two high-tech buoys with a length of 8.10 meters, a diameter of 2.55 meters and a weight of around ...
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European Union hopes new regulations will boost cross-border e-commerce
The European Union (EU) is hoping new cross-border regulations will help boost e-commerce trade.Yesterday, EU negotiators reached a provisional agreement that it is hoped will make prices for cross-border e-commerce more transparent and affordable and increase regulatory oversight of the parcel market.To improve price transparency, the regulations aim to foster ...
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New local rule proposed to end Schiphol's freighter slot deadlock
Schiphol Airport's key cargo stakeholders have agreed a proposed "local rule" that would ease the slot constraints on freighter flights at Europe's third largest freight hub.The solution for the Amsterdam gateway now goes to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, with the request to consider the proposal as ...
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Wolfgang Meier to become president of Silk Way West Airlines in 2018
Wolfgang Meier will be appointed as the new president of Silk Way West Airlines from January 1, 2018, the Azerbaijani all-cargo carrier has confirmed.The current president, Kamran Gasimov, will remain in the top management team of Silk Way West Airlines as chief operation officer (first vice-president).Meier, formerly with Volga-Dnepr and ...
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Lufthansa Cargo adds transatlantic charter flights to cover e-commerce demand
Lufthansa Cargo will carry out six charter flights between Frankfurt and New York on behalf of Deutsche Post as the postal operator looks to meet e-commerce demand.The Frankfurt-hubbed airline began the MD-11 flights in mid-November and they will continue until shortly before Christmas Eve, flying each Monday.Lufthansa Cargo chief product ...
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Perishables 'hard truth' discussed by Cool Chain Association
The Cool Chain Association has discussed a “hard truth” about perishables cargo which sees one-third of all food in the US either wasted or lost.The association says that it is now, more than ever, time to act on standards and care in transporting perishables and pharma.Cool Chain Association’s chairman Stavros ...
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va-Q-tec and Japan Airlines cooperate in cold chain logistics
Airfreight cold chain container company va-Q-tec has announced a global cooperation with Japan Airlines.The collaboration offers an extended availability of passive thermal containers in one of the largest pharmaceutical markets in Asia.Takehiro Takasaki, country manager at va-Q-tec Japan, said that the cooperation "increases the network in Japan tremendously.”In Sook Yoo, ...
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Hungry bellyholds help Brussels pass the 500,000 ton flown cargo milestone
Full bellyholds helped Brussels Airport pass the 500,000 ton milestone of flown cargo on December 7, doing so for the first time since DHL Express moved its European hub from the Belgian airport to Leipzig in Germany.“Although not an all-time high, this is a symbolic milestone for us and our ...
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November boost for cargo hub Leipzig
Leipzig/Halle Airport’s monthly freight volumes exceeded 100,000 tonnes for the first time in November.Germany’s second-largest cargo hub handled 105,100 tonnes of freight last month as volumes rose by 9.4% in comparison with the same month in 2016.Cargo volumes also broke through the one million tonne barrier for the second time ...
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Obituary: Richard Norris
“If you find meaning in running, chances are, you’ll find meaning in life.”No phrase more aptly describes Richard Norris’ approach to everything he did, whether conducting business in far-away locales, raising cattle in Virginia, running marathons in Paris and Padova (Padua), or riding a camel in Dubai. Running instilled an ...
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UPS ready for package delivery peak season after cyber week surge
US logistics giant UPS reports that demand for its services remains "very strong" and that the company has returned to normal delivery time-in-transit after the "initial cyber week surge".In a statement, UPS said: "Black Friday and Cyber Week sales in the US were record-breaking and UPS delivered more than originally ...
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Ocean rate platform Xeneta targets air cargo
Ocean freight platform Xeneta is moving into air cargo with a rates benchmarking service, planning a full launch in the 2018 second quarter.The Norwegian data company has announced its intention to bring “fresh levels of transparency to the volatile airfreight market”.Xeneta for airfreight will soon be available to selected beta ...
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Success for Air Cargo News' Roger Hailey at journalist awards
Air Cargo News editor Roger Hailey last night scooped the Air Cargo Journalist of the Year Award 2017 at the prestigious Seahorse Club Awards.As well as Hailey scooping the overall air cargo award, sponsored by Air Canada Cargo, regular Air Cargo News contributor Chris Lewis received the runner up prize ...
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ABC and DHL complete a multi-modal RKN vaccine shipment to Miami
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has completed a successful multi-modal pharma trial shipment for DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) to deliver healthcare products from Moscow to Miami.The shipment, which replaced real vaccines with service water for test purposes, used an RKN active cargo container in accordance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) cool chain ...