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Virgin Atlantic's Steve Buckerfield - Like father, like son
A young Steve Buckerfield sampled his first taste of the air cargo business when his father Chris took him to the Seaboard World Airlines offices at Heathrow on a Saturday morning.Those first glances of a glistening Boeing 747 freighter on the tarmac and playing with the telex paper tape in ...
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WFS' Craig Smyth, back from the garden
It has been two years since Craig Smyth left his position as boss of ground handler Menzies Aviation.During his 22 year tenure at the company he played a big role in Menzies’ growth to become one of the largest aviation businesses in the world, so he is a man used ...
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Lars Syberg: Cargolux, airfreight’s flexible friend
Lars Syberg, a former freight forwarder and pharma shipper, has made a further shift within the supply chain as the new executive vice president of global logistics at Cargolux, the European all-freighter carrier.Danish-born Syberg, who has an MBA, also worked for Flying Tiger, not the famous and now defunct US-based ...
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Richard Forson: Cargolux, a new model airline
Cargolux’s new president and chief executive has commissioned a strategic review of the European all-cargo airline, to establish whether the current business model is sustainable and also to position the carrier for the twist and turns of a volatile industry.Richard Forson, who took on the role in August this year ...
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Drew Crawley: Sofa so good for IAG
When you change jobs it can sometimes take a while to settle into life at a new company.One thing helping IAG Cargo’s recently appointed chief executive Drew Crawley feel a bit more at home in his new office is a giant blue sofa.He explains that his wife was arranging to ...
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Vladimir Zubkov of TIACA
Co-operation is a word that is bandied around a lot in the cargo transport arena, perhaps because there are so many different parties involved in the industry, each with varying priorities.It is therefore unsurprising that the new secretary general of TIACA − an organisation that was created to bring together ...
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David Kerr - Etihad Cargo strikes a balanced approach
David Kerr runs a $1bn cargo business at Etihad Airways but grimaces at the phrase “billion-dollar man”, emphasising instead the teamwork behind the success.Interviewed against the backdrop of IATA’s World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Etihad’s home hub of Abu Dhabi, there was plenty to discuss: digitisation, disruptors, protectionism and a ...
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Flydubai renews with Mercator
Flydubai has renewed its contract with Mercator to provide a cargo platform for the end-to-end management of air cargo operations and cargo revenue accounting.The seven-year contract extension expands on the existing platform as flydubai will also have access to Mercator's Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem.This is an open API portfolio of air ...
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Halifax has doubts over sell-off plan
Halifax International Airport processed, 33,329 tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 4.1% over 2015, the airport total its annual public meeting on 11 May.New services included Qatar Airways Cargo’s weekly flight to Doha and a second weekly service by Korean Air Cargo to Seoul, South Korea. Much of the cargo ...
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Noise fines trigger Brussels freighter exodus
Noise fines imposed on carriers by the Brussels Capital Region are beginning to drive all-cargo airlines away, complains Brussels Airport.After the departure of Yangtze River Express in February this year, full-freighter operator Air Cargo Global has sent written confirming that it is stopping all its activities at Brussels Airport because ...
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Agility settles US government military supply contract case
Logistics firm Agility has now fully settled criminal and civil cases over allegations it defrauded the US government on a military supply contract.In the criminal portion of the case, Agility announced earlier that it has agreed to plead to a misdemeanor in connection with a single invoice valued at $551.In ...
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Hyderabad gets into mango exports
GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIA), which operates Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad, has entered the Indian mango export market for the first time, with a consignment of 2.5 tonnes of the exotic fruit bound for South Korea passing through its cargo terminal (operated by Hyderabad Menzies Air Cargo ...
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IATA calls for cargo transformation
At the 73rd IATA General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Cancun, Mexico, a resolution has been adopted to “accelerate the modernisation and transformation of the air cargo industry” through a customer-centric approach.Measures covered by the resolution include digitisation of the supply chain for instant information sharing to improve ...
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ALHA opens Rome Fiumicino cargo terminal
Alha Group, the Italian airfreight handling and trucking services provider, has opened a specialised goods cargo terminal at Rome's Fiumicino airport (FCO).The facility is able to offer security services — including active alarm systems, anti-intrusion devices and 24/7 CCTV monitoring — for high value cargo, plus specialist temperature-controlled areas for ...
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Boeing to convert three B767s into freighters for UPS
Boeing is to convert three B767 passenger airplanes into Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) for US parcels giant UPS.Boeing's current market outlook forecasts a need for 400 widebody conversions over the next two decades, with strong demand for B767 freighter conversions due to a rise in e-commerce and the express market.In ...
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Qatar awards Stockholm ground handling deal to WFS
Qatar Airways has selected Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide it with cargo handling services at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.The three-year deal will see WFS provide cargo handling for Qatar's 13 direct flights a week between the Swedish capital and Doha.WFS expects to handle some 12,000 tonnes a year for Qatar ...
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India-Afghanistan cargo flights take-off
The first air cargo service between India and Afghanistan was launched today by Ariana Afghan Airlines.Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra confirmed on his twitter account that the first return flight was set to leave Kabul for Delhi today.The service will bypass the land crossing between the two countries via ...
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Hong Kong sees double-digit cargo growth in May
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continued its strong 2017 cargo growth, seeing in May a sharp year-on-year increase of 12.9% to 409,000 tonnes handled.The world’s number one cargo hub by volumes in 2016 also saw passenger volume and flight movements increase in May, by 2.5% to 6m and 3% to ...
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Pilot project speeds cargo transport between Frankfurt and Schiphol
A new pilot project between various users of Schiphol airport has sped up the transport of cargo between Germany and the Dutch airport by as much as two hours.As part of the Smart Cargo Mainport Program a data sharing project has been created for shipments between Air France KLM’s Frankfurt ...
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Shippers want progress on air cargo digitisation
A new position paper from TIACA’s Shippers’ Advisory Committee (SAC) has urged the air cargo industry to work together to drive adoption of new technology to improve data flow and create greater transparency.The paper, which is supported by the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) and the European Shippers' Council (ESC), identifies ...