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E-commerce: UPS boxing clever
Thinking outside of the box has never been truer when it comes to e-commerce and the social media trend of ‘unboxing’.Unboxing is defined as the “an act or instance of removing a newly purchased product from its packaging and examining its features, typically when filmed and shared on a social ...
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VIDEO: Prime Air fuelled and ready to go for Amazon's US e-commerce bonanza
E-tailer Amazon’s Prime Air cargo planes are “fuelled and ready to support” Prime Day in the US in an air express debut for the leased freighter fleet.Amazon is kicking off its third annual Prime Day six hours early this year – giving members 30 hours to shop, beginning at 9pm ...
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Delta Cargo awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification
Delta Cargo has been awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma and is the first US Global carrier to receive this certification.It was awarded to the airline at the headquarters level and at Delta’s largest cargo operation, located in Atlanta.Said an airline spokesperson: "With this certification, Delta ...
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Cathay to buy partner DHL's stake in Air Hong Kong
Asian airline Cathay Pacific is to buy the 40% stake held in freighter carrier Air Hong Kong (AHK) by joint venture partner DHL, the German-owned global logistics and express parcels operator.Cathay Pacific currently owns 60% of the AHK stock.In a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing, Cathay Pacific and DHL confirmed ...
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Interjet and Swissport Canada sign ground handling contract
Swissport Canada has signed a contract with Mexican low cost carrier Interjet to provide ground handling services for the airline’s operations at Montreal Trudeau International Airport and Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport.Swissport will provide Interjet with ground handling services including passenger and ramp handling, baggage services, operations coordination and ...
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Approval for underground warehousing near Heathrow
An underground warehousing project near Heathrow Airport has taken a major step forward after councilors at local authority Hounslow approved the proposal, described as “visionary” by its backer, Formal Investments.Above the subterranean warehouse would be created the largest new park in West London for more than 100 years, using extracted ...
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Logistics sector can prove Barnier wrong, says FTA
The UK's logistics industry has issued a "wake-up call" as Britain's chief Brexit negotiator David Davis met today (July 7) with the nation's business leaders to discuss the trading implications of Britain leaving the European Union (EU).The Freight Transport Association (FTA), which represents more than 16,000 companies nationwide, urged all ...
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UK freight forwarders welcome Customs fallback system
UK freight forwarders have welcomed the setting up of a new Customs declaration fallback system to prevent an airfreight meltdown if the primary network collapses.The back-up facility would prevent the catastrophic impact of a systems failure by the HM Revenue & Customs' CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight) ...
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Gartner: Worldwide device shipments will decline 0.3% in 2017
Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to decline 0.3% from 2016 to around 2.3bn units in 2017, according to Gartner, the research and advisory house.The market is forecast to return to growth in 2018 with a 1.6% increase in shipments, it added. Hi tech devices such as ...
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Boeing and FedEx Express test green technologies on B777F
Boeing and FedEx Express will use a new B777 freighter to test emerging technologies, such as propulsion advancements and flight deck innovations.The ecoDemonstrator program, now in its fifth phase, serves as a series of flying testbeds designed to improve the environmental performance and safety of future airplanes."The ecoDemonstrator program is ...
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NewsBelly enhancer as Norwegian opts for Telair cargo loading system
Low cost carrier Norwegian has taken delivery of the first Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft equipped with the Telair Sliding Carpet Edge loading system for bellyhold freight.Anders Helmner, chief executive of Sweden's Telair International, said: “The most advanced model of the world’s most popular aircraft arrived with the most advanced ...
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Pemco inks Asia Pacific freighter conversion alliance with Gameco
Asia-Pacific's booming market for passenger to freighter aircraft conversions, fueled by e-commerce demand for parcel delivery networks, has another strategic alliance put in place.Boeing 737 passenger-to-freighter conversion specialist Pemco World Air Services has reached agreement with China-based MRO Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co (Gameco) to perform B737-700, -400 and -300 ...
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Ein Prosit: Record half year cargo tonnages for Munich airport
Over the first six months of 2017, Munich Airport's airfreight segment posted a new all-time high, with a nine percent year-on-year increase in cargo turnover to approximately 180,000 tons.Michael Kerkloh, the German airport's president and chief executive, commenting also on 2017's increased passenger and aircraft movement numbers for the half ...
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Emirates celebrates 30 years in the UK
Emirates has marked 30 years of operations in the UK and is on track to carry 5m passengers between the UK and Dubai in the 2017/18 financial year, making it a record year for the Middle East airline.Its airfreight business, Emirates SkyCargo, flies 140,000 tonnes of cargo in and out ...
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Senior appointments at Virgin Atlantic Cargo
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has announced two senior appointments to its sales team as it sees “soaring volumes”, most notably from its UK home market.Ryan Ellis takes up the position of head of global accounts while Ray Wood joins the airline as regional sales manager for the UK.Ellis joined Virgin Atlantic ...
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ATSG subsidiary CAM to lease three B767s to Northern Aviation Services
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) is leasing three Boeing 767-300 freighters to Northern Air Cargo, the Northern Aviation Services (NAS) subsidiary.The aircraft will serve three NAS airlines: Aloha Air Cargo based in Hawaii, StratAir based in Florida, and Northern Air Cargo based in Alaska.NAS operates ...
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AMI UK passes one million spot-rate milestone
Airfreight and express wholesaler AMI has provided its one millionth cargo spot-rate quote in the UK.AMI opened its Spot Rate desk — specialising in live market quotes — in 2007. The Spot Rate team originally comprised three members and has now grown to ten, based in both London and Manchester, ...
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NewsAir cargo on the up in May, but growth could have peaked
Airfreight demand growth improved at a double-digit pace in May, but indicators suggest improvements have peaked.The latest statistics from airline association Iata show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 12.7% year on year in May, up from the 8.7% registered in April and well ahead ...
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Qatar and StarBroker join forces for energy charter
Qatar Airways Cargo has transported more than 80 tonnes of oil and energy equipment from Zhengzhou in China to Cabo Frio in Brazil for DHL Global Forwarding.The Qatar Airways Boeing 777 freighter saw the Middle East carrier's first charter flight into Cabo Frio, an airport located close to the most ...
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Airfreight growth set to slow over summer months
Airfreight growth looks set to slow over the coming months after a bumper start to the year, according to one forwarder index.The latest APAC Forwarding Index shows that in June fewer Asia Pacific forwarders noted month-on-month growth than they did in May.The index showed that 41.4% of respondents registered higher ...