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Fraport reviews 2016 performance
Fraport, operator of Frankfurt Airport – Europe’s biggest airfreight gateway – as well as a number of other airports around the world, has looked back at its 2016 performance and said that overall it was a “successful business year”.The operator achieved record financial results, despite what it described as “challenging ...
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ACI: Cargo on the up in January
Figures produced by Airports Council International (ACI), which represents most of the world’s bigger air gateways, show that airfreight traffic continued its recovery in January.Air cargo volumes as a whole were up by 5.7% year on year.International freight volumes continued to post relatively higher growth with an increase of 9.5%, ...
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Alitalia board gives the green light to 2017-21 business plan
The board of directors of Italian flag-carrier Alitalia has approved the airline’s turnaround business plan, which is said to include a range of “radical and necessary measures” required to stabilise and secure Alitalia’s long-term sustainability.Funding of the 2017-21 business plan by the company’s shareholders remains subject to Alitalia’s trade unions ...
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Cathay Pacific reveals encouraging February cargo performance
The latest figures from Cathay Pacific Airways show that its Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carriers handled a significant increase in cargo and mail in February compared to the same month of 2016.The two airlines carried a total of 137,674 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of ...
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Saudia Cargo takes the plaudits in Africa
Saudi Airlines Cargo has been awarded the International Cargo Airline of the year in Africa at the Air Cargo Africa event in Johannesburg, South Africa.The award received by Saudia Cargo VP Commercial Rainer Mueller & Saudia Cargo VP Operation Joseph Notter, they thanked the guest of honor South African Member ...
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Brussels Airlines makes profit despite headwinds
Despite the terrorist attack on Brussels Airport of 22 March last year and what it describes as “strong low-cost competition”, Brussels Airlines made a profit last year.It achieved a net profit of€ 15m euro, after a deduction of €2.5m – money that the airline will redistribute to its staff in ...
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Air Kiribati and Solomon Airlines collaborate on new service
Air Kiribati and Solomon Airlines have signed an agreement paving the way for a new service linking Tarawa in Kiribati with Honiara (the capital of the Solomon Islands), Brisbane and Nadi in Fiji.Kiribati’s national carrier only recently relaunched as an international airline.At the official signing of the deal in Tarawa, ...
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Volga-Dnepr flies three satellites into French Guiana
Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the cargo charter specialist within the Volga-Dnepr Group, has flown three satellites to the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.The AN-124-100 freighter flights were made in support of a long-standing deal with Bolloré Logistics and Thales Alenia Space.The movement of these valuable but delicate shipments saw Volga-Dnepr use ...
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Dachser grows its footprint at Singapore Changi
Dachser Singapore has expanded its office at Singapore’s Changi International Airport in order to cope with what it says is its “growing business” handled from the island.Another floor was added to the Dachser office, and the total space available at the office is now said to be five times larger.The ...
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CargoIT opts for Traxon cargoHUB
Stockholm-based logistics software provider CargoIT has connected to the Traxon cargoHUB.Traxon cargoHUB is CHAMP’s fully automated host-to-host communication product that links more than 100 airlines with approximately 3,000 forwarders, general sales agents (GSAs), ground handling agents (GHAs) and shippers.CargoIT is connected to Traxon cargoHUB using IATA Cargo-XML version 3.0, which ...
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WCS17: Quality group calls in the auditors
The IATA quality standards group, Cargo iQ has appointed SGS to run its member Audit and Certification Scheme.It will be the first time that Cargo iQ has worked with external auditors. Members have previously been audited internally, by the Cargo iQ’s own management team.Members will be audited to demonstrate, through ...
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Finnair hit by strike at Helsinki Airport
Finnair has confirmed that it will have to cancel more than 90 of its flights through its home hub of Helsinki Airport tomorrow (17 March) because of a strike at Finland’s biggest air gateway.The strike, to be held between 3pm and 7pm Eastern European Time (EET, two hours ahead of ...
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Brussels Airport’s cargo on the up in February
Brussels Airport handled 7.7% more cargo traffic in February compared with the same month of last year: a total of 40,696 tons.The airport authority attributed the increase to “strong growth in the full-freighter segment”, plus an increase in express volumes carried by integrators.The growth in traffic in the full-freighter segment ...
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LATAM sees cargo revenues down in fourth quarter and across 2016
South America’s biggest carrier, LATAM, has released its results for the fourth quarter of 2016 and details of its full-year performance.Cargo revenues fell by 7.7% in the fourth quarter compared to the same period of 2015.The carrier attributed the decline to a 3.1% decline in cargo traffic and a 4.8% ...
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K+N boosts pharma capability in Benelux region
Supply chain services giant Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has invested in 50 temperature-controlled trailers to grow its dedicated road-haul pharma network in Belgium and Luxembourg.The trailers have built-in Discharge Air Control (DAC) and Precision Temperature Control (PTC) technology, protecting their loads from temperature deviations.According to K+N, it is “one of ...
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WCS17: ULD firm ACL unveils plans to double size of business
ULD firm ACL Airshop has unveiled ambitious plans to double the number of container stations it runs around the world.At a press conference at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, the Greenville-headquartered company revealed that its investors were backing the company to increase the number of stations it operates from 37 ...
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Cargo slump leads Cathay into loss
A 13.2% fall in cargo revenue – HK$20,063m – contributed to a loss at Cathay Pacific Group in 2016, said the Hong Kong carrier in its annual results published on 15 March.While cargo tonnage increased by 3.1% and load factors by 0.2 percentage points to 64.4%, cargo yields fell by ...
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Volga-Dnepr rushes fire-fighting choppers to Chile
US-based Helicopter Express called upon Volga-Dnepr Airlines' expertise to move an urgent delivery of helicopters to fight wildfires in the Chilean countryside.One of the carrier’s An-124-100 freighters touched down at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport less than three hours after the helicopters themselves flew into the airport for 11-hour flight to ...
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More than just logistics – Panalpina opens new Dubai base
Panalpina has officially opened a new logistics manufacturing centre in Dubai South next to Al Maktoum International Airport. The 40,000sq m site, three times bigger than the one it replaces, will help the forwarder increase its logistics and freight business in the Middle East, Africa and CIS (MEAC) region. There ...
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WCS17: Incorrectly loaded ULDs in the frame for damage to aircraft
Mishandled Unit Load Devices (ULDs) are the second highest cause of damage to aircraft, while incorrect loading of cargo on an aircraft is reported on average 16 times per day.Bob Rogers, senior advisor, Nordisk Aviation Products, told the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Abu Dhabi that incidents of cargo shifting ...