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DHL seeks CEIV status across the Americas
DHL’s Global Forwarding, arm is to certify a further seven of its 11 Americas stations to IATA’s CEIV Pharma Standard. It has already achieved CEIV status at Bogota, Colombia and the seven remaining stations – Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia and San Juan - are expected to follow ...
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WCS17: Cutting edge technology
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Svilen Rangelov of Dronamics is promising to shave off a flowing beard when his company’s first cargo drone ‘car’ is ready to fly, by the end of 2017.The Bulgarian entrepreneur and his equally bearded brother vowed to forsake the facial razor 2.5 years ago when they ...
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Carrier springs into action to keep gas plant going
CargoLogicAir positioned extra aircrew in Rome to help move an urgent shipment for an industrial gas plant. The UK-based all-cargo carrier was responding to call to shift 96 tonnes of adsorbents from Leonardo Da Vinci Fiumicino International Airport to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on board its 747 freighter on behalf of ...
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ABC turns its hand to charters
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) says demand for charters of its 747 freighters grew 47% in 2016, although it is primarily a scheduled carrier.Its latest flights were operated on behalf of DHL Global Forwarding for high tech coating firm Evatec, delivering a series of seven-tonne boxes of machine tools from Europe to ...
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Delta takes Aeromexico stake
Delta Air Lines has completed its acquisition of an additional 32% of the outstanding capital stock of Latin American carrier Aeroméxico Group, for about US$620 million.The US carrier now owns 36.2% of Aeroméxico shares and holds options to acquire an additional 12.8%, which would bring its stake in the carrier ...
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UPS scores top marks in healthcare survey
UPS and its specialist pharmaceutical supply chain arm, Marken have been recognised as top providers of temperature data collection and management services for clinical trial materials by an industry survey.New York-based Nice Insight’s 2017 Clinical Supply Chain Logistics Survey quizzed 320 healthcare decision-makers at large and midsize organizations in North ...
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Damco offers digital dashboards
Third party logistics company Damco is offering its customers a new supply chain intelligence solution. It provides a suite of interactive ‘dashboards’ delivering up-to-the-minute information on their supply chains, fully integrated into Damco’s operational systems.Damco says that using data to provide actionable insights for decision making has until now been ...
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Ethiopian scoops Brussels cargo award
Ethiopian Airlines won the Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at the Brussels Airport Aviation Awards on March 9.It was in recognition of the largest African carrier’s commitment to expand its cargo network and for becoming the largest cargo airline at Brussels Airport.Ethiopian Group CEO Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam remarked: "With ...
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Volcano alert for North Pacific
Airlines have been warned of possible disruption following a major eruption of an Alaskan volcano.The Alaska Volcano Observatory reported that the Bogoslof Volcano had erupted on the night of Tuesday 7 March for three hours, sending an ash cloud up to 35,000 feet.It was Bogoslof’s 36th eruption since mid-December and ...
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DHL centre taps into Asian e-commerce boom
DHL eCommerce has extended its global fulfilment centre network with a new facility in Hong Kong. It will cater to the growing demand for cross-border services in Asia Pacific particularly from greater China and will allow online sellers to move their goods closer to their end customers and speed up ...
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Frankfurt's February freight fillip
Frankfurt, Europe’s largest cargo airport by volumes in 2016, saw a 1.3% increase in freight tonnages during February 2017.For the first two months of this year, Frankfurt’s cargo throughput was ahead of prior year by 3.4%, compared with a decrease of 0.8% in 2016 versus volumes for the first two ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: LATAM sees load factors improve
LATAM continued to see cargo load factors improve in February, while US carriers American and United recorded strong growth in demand.The latest carrier figures show that American Airlines Cargo saw cargo demand increased by 9.7% year on year to 191m cargo ton miles (CTM) in February.This improvement follows on from ...
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VIDEO: Swiss WorldCargo unveils new customer website
Swiss WorldCargo has released a new customer website that can be used on a range of devices and provides greater visibility of cargo.The cargo division of Swiss said it had designed the new website after holding months of seminars with customers around the world to understand their needs and to ...
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KQ Cargo revenues hit by decline in the pound
Kenya Airways Cargo (KQ Cargo) has seen revenues on its busiest route decline as a result of the Brexit vote and subsequent decline in the value of the pound.KQ Cargo general manager Peter Musola explained that the airline had been hit twice by a decline in the value of the ...
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Dnata Heathrow completes safety standard audit
Dnata has completed a new IATA safety and security audit for its ground operations at London Heathrow.Heathrow is dnata tenth station to complete IATA's Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO), following on Dubai (DXB and DWC), Geneva, Zurich, Manila, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.ISAGO is an internationally-recognised system for assessing ...
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NewsAirfreight's positive momentum continues in January
Air cargo demand growth continued its “positive momentum” in January in line with a steady rise in new export orders.The latest monthly statistics from IATA show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 6.9% year on year in January.While this lags behind the 9.8% improvement registered ...
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WCS17: World Cargo Symposium conference programme
As well as presenting opportunities to network with other air cargo professionals, the World Cargo Symposium is also host to one of the industry's most important conferences and an exhibition featuring more than 30 companies.In 2017, the plenary session will be kicked off by Etihad's James Hogan before a series ...
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WCS17: We can’t get no innovation
The key theme for this year’s IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) is innovation. This is an appropriate subject, not least because many in the air cargo sector, including a number of high profile large air cargo volume shippers, believe it is in short supply. IATA will no doubt provide an ...
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WCS17: A thousand delegates at WCS 2017
Join over 1,000 air cargo leaders and more than 40 exhibitors in Abu Dhabi for the action-packed World Cargo Symposium (WCS) 2017.The event will feature plenary sessions, specialised tracks, workshops and executive summits, tackling aspects related to technology & innovation, security & customs, cargo operations, and sustainability.The 2017 event venue ...
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WCS17: Frank conversation and Arabian hospitality
David Kerr, senior vice president Etihad Cargo, the host airline for the event, said: “The IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) is such a vital forum for our industry and we are proud to host it in Abu Dhabi for the first time.“I can think of no place that better embodies ...