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AeroVision turns to B&H Worldwide at Heathrow
Michigan-based AeroVision International has confirmed that it is to open a new forward stocking location in the UK to serve customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in collaboration with B&H Worldwide, the London-headquartered logistics provider and a specialist in the delivery of aerospace parts.“Our newly initiated warehouse will ...
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Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics opens new facility in Constance
Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL) officially opened its new manufacturing facility in Constance, Germany, on February 20.Siemens manufactures products and systems for the postal, parcel and airport logistics market at the new plant.“We are proud of this modern production site, where we manufacture innovative products and solutions for ...
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Manchester Airport looks to the future… and further investment
Manchester Airport has revealed the latest phase of the UK northern gateway’s £1bn Transformation Programme, unveiling a number of new images showing what it might look like following the massive investment.Manchester Airport’s Transformation Programme represents the largest single private sector investment in the north of England.Airport chief executive Ken O’Toole ...
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Perishables centre officially launched at India's Kempegowda airport
Air India SATS Airport Services has officially launched AISATS COOLPORT, India’s first integrated on-airport perishable cargo handling centre, at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru.The 11,000 sq m facility is designed to meet handling requirements for perishable cargo such as pharmaceuticals, fruit, vegetables, flowers, meat and seafood.It is able to handle up ...
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C H Robinson spreads its wings
Third-party logistics services provider C H Robinson is continuing to expand its worldwide freight forwarder network.The 3PL recently opened new offices in Asia and Canada and also acquired APC Logistics, a Melbourne-headquartered provider of freight forwarding and customs brokerage services in the Australasia region.These expansions have led to the creation ...
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UPS hits out at plans to triple Alaska's jet fuel tax
UPS has hit out at proposals to triple the jet fuel tax in Alaska − home to the world’s fifth busiest cargo airport − a move that the integrator says could impact the state’s role in the cargo industry.In a letter to Alaska Transportation Committee Co-Chair Adam Wool, UPS vice ...
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Moscow’s Sheremetyevo saw 2016 cargo surge
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport saw a near 30% surge in freight volumes during 2016 to around 231,000 tonnes.Moscow Cargo is the main handler at Sheremetyevo Airport, handling more than 90% of total air cargo throughputs at the Russian hub where Russian Federation national carrier Aeroflot and freighter operator AirBridgeCargo (ABC) are ...
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Alitalia faces 24-hour strike this week
Alitalia, the Italian flag-carrier, has announced that a 24-hour strike on Thursday of this week (23rd) will hit some of its domestic and international operations.Alitalia has been forced to cancel 60% of its flights on the day due to the planned industrial action which comes after the Alitalia board of ...
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Schiphol nears capacity crunch
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has published its results for 2016 and president and chief executive Jos Nijhuis has warned that the gateway is now “nearing the limits of its capacity”.That observation accompanied the revelation that the number of passengers passing through the airport again increased significantly last year (up by 9.2% ...
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UK office handles Antonov Airlines charter
Antonov Airlines has carried out the first charter operation from its new UK headquarters at London Stansted Airport: the shipment of a British-manufactured helicopter.The outsize load, almost 4.4 m high, was flown from the UK to Southeast Asia on one of the airline’s seven Antonov AN-124-100 freighters.Specially designed machinery was ...
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Chart of the Week looks back on 2016 freight load factors
IATA has produced its latest Chart of the Week (COTW), which focused on ‘asset utilisation’ – namely, aircraft load factors.According to the COTW, despite a strong pick-up in the (seasonally adjusted) freight load factor during the second half of 2016 – due to stronger demand and only moderate cargo capacity ...
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Cathay Pacific reveals ‘solid start’ to the year
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon (formerly known as Dragonair) flew a total of 151,133 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of 2.3% compared to January 2016.The combined cargo and mail load factor rose by 0.3 percentage points to reach 61.9%.Capacity, as measured in available cargo/mail tonne-km, was ...
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Volga-Dnepr's supermarket offering supports LNG pipeline logistics
This year has seen continuation of flights flown by Volga-Dnepr Airlines and sister freighter operator AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) under the Volga-Dnepr Group’s Cargo Supermarket offering.One ongoing project involves Volga-Dnepr Airlines operating a series of Antonov AN-124-100 and Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VD charter flights in addition to using capacity on the scheduled Boeing ...
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Greencarrier finalises CargoWise One implementation
Greencarrier Freight Services has completed the global implementation of WiseTech Global’s CargoWise One end-to-end logistics management software.Greencarrier Freight Services is a multimodal freight forwarding company with offices in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China.CargoWise One is a single-platform software solution designed for logistics businesses.Chief financial ...
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BIFA creates new directors
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) board has approved the promotion of Robert Windsor and Spencer Stevenson to directors of BIFA.BIFA is the trade association for UK-registered companies engaged in the international movement of freight by all modes of transport: air, road, rail and sea.Windsor, who joined the BIFA secretariat ...
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NewsHeathrow goes hopping mad while Manchester is cock-a-hoop for Chinese New Year
UK airports have jumped at the chance to crow about Australia Day and the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations for the start of the year of the rooster.Today has seen the normally conservative UK airport industry loosen its ties and undo its top buttons to join celebrations taking place in ...
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Air Canada reports results for 2016
Air Canada has reported record EBITDAR (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortisation and aircraft rent), excluding special items, of C$2.77bn for 2016.The previous record was last year’s figure of C$2.54bn. The 2016 result represents an increase of 8.9% over that.Operating revenue reached C$14.68, compared to C$13.87 in 2015.A C$30m recovery ...
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DHL to inaugurate domestic Norwegian connection
Avinor, the national airport operator in Norway, has confirmed that DHL is to launch a new domestic freighter service linking Oslo Airport with Lakselv Airport Banak, a gateway in the far north of the country.The Airbus 300 freighter link will offer a cargo capacity of approximately 40 tons. Depending on ...
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De Boer helps out at Brooklands
De Boer, a specialist in the provision of semi-permanent structures for events and other temporary purposes, recently delivered two bespoke temporary hangars for the UK’s Brooklands Museum.Forming part of its ‘Re-engineering Brooklands’ project, which represents the largest ever development of the site, is the refurbishment and relocation of its World ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo celebrates Miami freighter launch
Qatar Airways Cargo inaugurated a Boeing 777 freighter connection with Miami International Airport (MIA) from its Doha hub on February 2, the route also taking in South American stops at Sao Paulo in Brazil, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Quito in Ecuador, as well as in Luxembourg.The inaugural was celebrated ...