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Brussels Airport cargo volumes up by 6.5% in October
Brussels Airport handled 46,603 tons of cargo in October, up by 6.5% on the figure for the same month of 2015.Cargo carried on the main deck of full freighters was up by 28.8% year on year to reach 17,119 tons. The gateway’s operating authority, Brussels Airport Company, noted that freighter ...
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Lufthansa pilots to extend strike action into second day
The German pilots’ association Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has extended its strike action to add a second day of problems for Lufthansa.Today (23 November) now marks just the first of two days that will cause significant disruption to the carrier’s flight schedule.In a statement released on 22 November, Lufthansa Cargo confirmed ...
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UPS confirms investment in Columbus facility
UPS has announced that it will invest more than US$175m to expand its main Columbus, Ohio ground package hub on the City’s west side, just one part of what it says is a “multi-year plan to modernize its global network operations and capacity”.When completed in the autumn of 2018, sorting ...
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Cathay Pacific Cargo B747F takes off from Wellcamp
Cathay Pacific Cargo’s inaugural Boeing 747-8 freighter service connecting Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport and Hong Kong left the Australian gateway late yesterday, touching down in Hong Kong in the early hours of this morning.The freighter will fly once a week on a Sydney – Melbourne – Brisbane – Hong Kong ...
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Muhammad Albakri to serve as IATA regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that Muhammad Ali Albakri will join IATA as its regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East (AME) in a move effective as of 1 January.He will be based at IATA’s regional office in Amman, Jordan.“Muhammad Ali Albakri is stepping into ...
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ACS and Antonov Airlines deliver the Americas’ heaviest ever air cargo
Last week, the Brazil and Florida offices of global charter broker Air Charter Service (ACS) collaborated on a charter involving Antonov Airlines’ giant AN-225, the world’s largest freighter aircraft.Moreover, this particular charter involved the heaviest single piece of air cargo ever flown into the Americas.The cargo in question was a ...
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ABC awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo carrier arm of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has become the first airline in Russia and only the seventh in the world to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) certification for the global transportation of pharma products through its ...
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Chris Welsh joins ICHCA board
Chris Welsh, the secretary-general of the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF), has been invited to join the Board of Directors of the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), which describes itself as “the voice of global cargo handling” and of which GSF is a member.Welsh enthused that he was “honoured to ...
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Etihad Cargo flies race horses into Kuwait
Etihad Cargo, the freight division of UAE flag-carrier Etihad Airways, has flown a total of 72 racehorses on a single flight between London and Kuwait.Flying out of the UK at the end of the European racing season, the horses were flown to the warmer climes of the Middle East, where ...
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TransAsia admits defeat
Established in 1951, senior management of Taiwan-based private carrier TransAsia Airways have conceded defeat and closed down the airline.TransAsia, which has carried small amounts of cargo, suffered two crashes in recent years – one in 2014 and one in 2015 – and lack of confidence in the airline’s safety did ...
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Lufthansa Cargo responds to strike threat
A statement from Lufthansa Cargo has said that while the strike action to be undertaken by members of the German pilots’ union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), tomorrow (23 November) will hit its short-haul, medium-haul and long-haul passenger flights, Lufthansa Cargo freighter flights will operate as scheduled.Austrian Airlines and Eurowings flights will ...
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DHL Express invests in the Americas
DHL Express, the world’s leading express shipping and logistics provider, has confirmed that it intends to maintain the ongoing investment in its footprint and capability in the US and the wider Americas region while growth there continues to “meet expectations”.It said that the $185m investment it has earmarked for the ...
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ABX Air crews stay on the ground
Up to 250 pilots working for US cargo carrier ABX Air are believed to be going on strike today (22 November).A release from political public relations firm BerlinRosen explains that approximately 75 flights are likely to have been cancelled.For nearly two years, ABX Air, which is owned by Air Transport ...
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Lufthansa faces further strike action on 23 November
The Frankfurt-headquartered German airline pilots’ association Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has called for strike action on 23 November from between 00:01 and 23:59 (local times). A statement from Lufthansa confirmed today (22 November) that the German flag-carrier‘s short and long-haul flights out of the country will be affected.VC has been in ...
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Kevin McAllister appointed president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Kevin McAllister has become president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, succeeding Boeing Company vice chairman Ray Conner in the role.McAllister has joined Boeing from GE Aviation.Meanwhile, Conner is to continue to serve as Boeing vice chairman through 2017. Amongst other tasks, Conner will be expected to provide strategic ...
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National Airlines on an upward curve
Orlando, Florida-headquartered National Airlines has enjoyed “a meaningful improvement in business trends in the fourth quarter and remains optimistic for the outlook for global trade”.Since the beginning of October, the global charter and scheduled service passenger and cargo airline has seen overall business trends improve by 5%-10% year on year, ...
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Brussels Airport lays out its strategy for the next 25 years
Brussels Airport Company chief executive Arnaud Feist has laid out the gateway’s long-term strategy in the form of a programme called Strategic Vision 2040.According to Feist, the airport has an ambitious plan to prepare itself for what it envisages will be significant growth in air traffic over the next 25 ...
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Drewry East-West Airfreight Price Index on the rise
At an average of US$3.15 per kg, Drewry’s East-West Airfreight Price Index reached its highest point of this year in October.At 97.0, the index was up 5.1 points on the September figure. However, the index remains some way off the value of 99.7 it was at in October 2015.A Drewry ...
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Antonov to transfer An-124 sales to UK team after Ruslan JV ceases
Antonov Airlines' team in the UK will takeover the sales and marketing of its An-124 aircraft after its joint venture with Volga-Dnepr that was set up to tout the aircraft comes to an end on December 31.In the wake of confirmation from both Ukraine’s Antonov Company and Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group ...
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Saudia Cargo looks to Bangladesh and Kenya
Saudia Cargo has been reporting strong improvements in demand on its Kenyan and Bangladesh services over recent months.The airline’s vice president commercial, Rainer Mueller, told Air Cargo News that at the start of October it had increased its capacity from Kenya by 25% through the addition of new freighter flights ...