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Reckling scoops top job at DHL Express Germany
DHL Express has appointed Markus Reckling as its new chief executive for Germany.With effect from January 2017, he has taken responsibility for further expanding the express division’s business in Germany and will continue to drive the focus on customer service, quality and employee engagement.He takes over from Wolfgang Albeck, who ...
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Singapore Airlines enjoys cargo upswing in third quarter
Singapore Airlines has released traffic and financial performance details for the third quarter of its 2016-17 financial year – the period between October 1 and December 31 2016.Its cargo division enjoyed a rise in freight volumes of 6.6%, boosted by stronger than expected peak season demand. SIA Cargo carried a ...
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Saudia Cargo renews human organ transportation agreement
Saudia Cargo has renewed its commitment to human organ transportation by re-signing its agreement of collaboration with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, a publicly funded organisation that oversees the organ donation process in Saudi Arabia.Faisal Shaheen, the organisation’s director general, re-signed the deal – originally agreed in January 2014 ...
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Jettainer takes over management of Brussels Airlines’ ULD fleet
Jettainer, the Raunheim, Frankfurt-headquartered provider of outsourced unit load device (ULD) management services, has taken over responsibility for the management and maintenance of Brussels Airlines’ container fleet.A specially designed ULD has been handed over to the airline to mark the start of the collaboration, with Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary Jettainer having ...
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Swissport to handle Emirates SkyCargo at three French airports
Swissport Cargo Services France, a subsidiary of global aviation service provider Swissport International, will handle the freight of Emirates SkyCargo at the three French airports of Paris Charles de Gaulle, Lyon and Nice.The agreement comes into force on April 1 this year. It covers the full range of cargo handling ...
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Cargo IQ to offer new smart data portal
Cargo iQ, the IATA interest group that seeks to create and encourage the implementation of quality standards for the worldwide air cargo industry, is to launch a smart data program that will give its more than 80 members – major airlines, freight forwarders, ground-handling agents, trucking companies and IT solution ...
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Hamad International Airport still on the up
Doha’s Hamad International Airport (HIA) handled a total of 1.7 million tonnes of airfreight (cargo and mail) last year.This represented a 20.8% increase over the previous year’s throughput.The Qatari capital’s air gateway also processed a total of 245,800 landings and take-offs during the year, up by 15.8% on the figure ...
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US carriers seek Tillerson meeting in Gulf states subsidy row
US passenger airline bosses have asked to meet the new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to discuss allegations that Middle East Gulf states are unfairly subsidising state-owned carriers.This latest move in a long simmering row has seen the chief executives of American Airlines, United and Delta Air Lines post ...
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Pedro Garcia joins WFS in IT role
Pedro Garcia has joined Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as chief information officer, based in Paris.Prior to joining WFS, Garcia spent 10 years with Swissport, including the last five years in the role of vice president, cargo information systems.At WFS, he is responsible for the development of "robust, sustainable and standardised" ...
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Good start to the year for Leipzig/Halle
Leipzig/Halle airport, Europe’s fifth-busiest and Germany’s second-biggest airfreight gateway, handled 84,782 tonnes of cargo in January this year, an increase of 6.9% over the same month of 2016.Operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (which also operates Dresden airport as well as cargo and ground handler PortGround), Leipzig/Halle handled approximately 1.05 million ...
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JAL reveals mixed cargo results
Flag-carrier Japan Airlines (JAL) has revealed its consolidated financial results for the nine months that ended on 31 December last year, and they make for some mixed reading.In terms of its international cargo operations, JAL benefited from the improvement in demand for capacity that the industry enjoyed from the middle ...
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Cross-border e-commerce set to outpace domestic online orders
Cross-border e-commerce is predicted to grow at twice the rate of domestic online retail, with an estimated 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) until 2020 worth $900bn, according to a new survey.Ken Allen, chief executive of research sponsor DHL Express, said: “Going global and going premium is an opportunity for ...
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Aircoolbox targets air cargo pharma market
A new company has entered the air cargo container market, taking aim at the pharmaceutical sector.At last week’s Temperature Controlled Logistics event in London, Aircoolbox announced it would begin targeting the air cargo pharmaceutical market with its passive container product.Aircoolbox managing director Keith Packer said the re-usable container can be ...
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Fashion firm Missguided signs up with Kerry Logistics
Multi-channel fashion retailer Missguided has selected Kerry Logistics to provide air and ocean services.The contract will see Kerry handle all international air and ocean needs for the UK-based retailer, as well as providing a wide range of value-added services and on-the-ground logistics support through its network across the Greater China ...
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Agility adds new Hyderabad pharma facility
Logistics firm Agility has opened the first temperature-controlled life sciences storage and handling facility in the Hyderabad Airport Zone.The 6,000 sq ft Life Sciences Excellence Center (LSEC) at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport will serve pharma manufacturers in Hyderabad, Goa, Pune, Vishakhapatnam and Bangalore.The centre will provide conditioning, preparation and storage ...
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Airlander 10 expected to fly again later this year
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has confirmed that it expects its Airlander 10 airship – the world’s largest aircraft – to fly again in the near future.The Airlander 10, of which HAV is the designer, assembler and owner, suffered a crash landing in August last year during a test flight from ...
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Accelya and Mercator to come together
Accelya, a provider of financial and commercial products to the airline industry, and Mercator, a global provider of IT services to the travel and transportation industry, have confirmed their intention to combine in a move that is intended to create a “leading global technology-enabled solutions provider to airlines, travel agents ...
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PEMCO appoints John Wing as senior MRO manager
PEMCO World Air Services, the aircraft conversion and MRO firm, has promoted John Wing from the position of programme manager to senior MRO manager.He is to be based in Tampa, Florida, where PEMCO has 340,000 sq ft of hangar space. From there, he will oversee all PEMCO’s maintenance operations.Indeed, as ...
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Qatar expands Pharma Express services
Qatar Airways Cargo is adding further frequencies to its Pharma Express services that link the two European pharmaceutical hubs of Basel and Brussels with its home hub of Doha.An additional weekly frequency, operating on Fridays, was introduced on the route out of Basel on 3 February, while two further weekly ...
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Miami completes first sea-air shipment
Miami International Airport (MIA) has completed its first-ever ocean-to-air perishables transhipment - 10 tons of peas from GuatemalaThe peas arrived aboard the Crowley Maritime Corp. vessel Tucana J at Port Everglades on January 30, were trucked to MIA, and then departed to Amsterdam via a Centurion Cargo flight on February ...