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Lufthansa honours road feeder partners
Lufthansa Cargo has presented 12 of its most important road feeder service (RFS) providers with a premium road partner award.The German carrier said that the award recognises “good, reliable cooperation” including flexibility, while “punctuality was also a key criterion in the selection process”.Some 600,000 tonnes of cargo are transported via ...
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Air France KLM's flower boost
Air France KLM Cargo recorded a boost in flower volumes over the last five weeks on the back of demand for Valentine’s Day and International Women’s Day.The Franco Dutch airline handled around 5,000 tonnes of flowers from countries like Kenya, Ecuador and Colombia during the last five weeks.The carrier said ...
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AF KLM Cargo looks ahead to a more stable year in Africa
Air France KLM Cargo expects the African market to stabilise over the coming year after a year of adjustment.Air France KLM Cargo (AF KLM) director eastern and southern Africa Noud Duyzings said that Seabury figures show that air cargo traffic to and from Africa increased by 9% last year.However, the ...
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NewsDHL sees airfreight demand decline despite end of year surge
Deutsche Post DHL’s (DP DHL) airfreight division saw volumes, revenues and gross profits decline last year despite an end of year surge in demand.Airfreight volumes at DHL Global Forwarding, which is the world’s largest airfreight forwarder, declined by 1.3% year on year last year to 2m tonnes but in the ...
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CEVA sees airfreight demand improve but records another loss
CEVA Logistics saw airfreight volumes grow ahead of the market last year but revenues decreased and it recorded another loss.The forwarder recorded a 5.5% year-on-year decline in revenues for 2016 to $6.6bn, while losses came to $159m last year compared with $195m in 2015.Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines promotes Rick Elieson to president–cargo
American Airlines has appointed Rick Elieson as president–cargo overseeing all aspects of the US carrier's worldwide cargo business.Elieson will report to Jim Butler, who recently succeeded Art Torno as senior vice president–international and cargo, following Torno's retirement."We often look at cargo as an airline within an airline," said Butler, adding: ...
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DP DHL sets 2050 as net zero emissions target for logistics
Deutsche Post DHL Group (DP DHL) will reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by the year 2050, including that of its transport subcontractors.In pursuit of this ambitious new target, the Germany-based global logistics giant hopes to “contribute meaningfully” to achieving the goal of limiting global warming to well below ...
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Supply chain firm Tigers launches e-commerce offering for customers
Supply chain company Tigers has launched an online shopping portal that allows companies to sell their products in China and southeast Asia.As well as listing products, Tigers’ eShop takes payments, offers supply chain management, order fulfilment and returns.Tigers chief executive and group managing director Andrew Jillings said: “Tigers eShop offers ...
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Strauss to replace retiring Turpin at Air Canada
Tim Strauss is about to swap his Hawaiian shirts for warm winter gear. The genial American will relinquish his role at the helm of Hawaiian Air Cargo at the end of this month and move to Montreal, where he is to take over the reins of Air Canada Cargo from ...
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Emirates SkyCargo appoints Ross Barnett as UK Cargo Manager
Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Ross Barnett as UK cargo manager.With over 30 years’ experience in the industry, he joined Emirates in 1995 and was most recently cargo manager for Northern England and Scotland where he was responsible for over 20 staff based in the region.Now based in London, he will ...
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ICAO agrees new aircraft CO2 emissions standard
The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has adopted a new aircraft CO2 emissions standard which will reduce the impact of aviation greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate.Contained in a new Volume III to Annex 16 of the Chicago Convention (Environmental Protection), the aircraft CO2 emissions measure ...
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ATSG full-year profits down due to Amazon start-up costs
Aircraft lessor ATSG reported a double-digit percentage improvement in revenues last year but profits took a hit as it was affected by the start-up of its Amazon contract and pilot strikes.The Wilmington-based airline saw revenues for 2016 increase by 24% year on year to $768.9m, while earnings from continuing operations ...
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Oz funding to develop advanced data analytics
Information technology company Unisys and Data61, Australia’s largest data innovation group, are to develop an advanced data analytics solution for automated security risk assessment of travellers and cargo at air, land and sea borders.Under the collaboration, Unisys will fund joint research with Data61 to develop an advanced data analytics solution ...
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Kewill and LeanLogistics become BluJay Solutions
Kewill and LeanLogistics have rebranded as BluJay Solutions following the completion of an integration process put in place after Kewill acquired LeanLogistics in May 2016.In conjunction with the rebranding, the newly named company has also unveiled the BluJay Global Trade Network, which it described as a “fundamentally new model that ...
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Air Astana extends handling contract with Frankfurt's FCS
Kazakhstan’ Air Astana has extend its handling contract with FCS Frankfurt Cargo Services.Hans-Georg Emmert, managing director of FCS, said: “Air Astana is a growing airline, not only for passenger services but also in the cargo sector. The handled tonnage has more than doubled in the last years.“We very much appreciate ...
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Cargo iQ: Air cargo should focus on reliability not speed
Cargo iQ has called on the air cargo industry to stop focusing on speeding up transport times and to instead concentrate on differentiating products based on the level of reliability on offer.Cargo iQ executive director Ariaen Zimmerman said that the industry has spent too long trying to speed up transport ...
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Vallair orders three B737 freighter conversions from AEI
US-based Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) has signed a contract with Luxembourg based Vallair to provide three B737-400SF passenger to freighter conversions.Vallair is a player in the aviation asset management business, specialising in the acquisition of "end of life" Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and ATR aircraft.On its website, Vallair states that ...
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Forwarder Crane reshapes European team
Freight forwarder Crane Worldwide has appointed Chris Lee, formerly global account manager, as UK managing director based at the firm's new warehouse facility in London Heathrow.Lee has been with Crane Worldwide since 2011 and has over 20 years of experience in the industry starting out in an operational role with ...
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American breaks another Heathrow cargo record
American Airlines Cargo has broken its fourth daily volume record since August 2016 at London Heathrow airport (LHR).The team this week moved nearly 1.1m lbs (489,849 kg) of freight into and out of LHR, a new record for a single day's throughput.The US carrier transported 276,672 kg from the UK ...
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Bolloré chooses CHAMP for Canadian advanced filing
Bolloré Logistics has selected CHAMP Cargosystems in order to comply with the latest Canadian Customs requirements for e-manifest Advance Commercial Information (ACI) reporting.Using CHAMP’s Traxon Global Customs (TGC) service, certified by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Bolloré Logistics will be able to file air cargo consignment details prior to ...