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PIA awards UK trucking and cargo handling contract to WFS
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) with a three-year contract to provide cargo handling and trucking services in the UK.WFS will handle export and import cargo for PIA’s wide-bodied flights at London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester, connecting customers in the UK with Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.At ...
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NewsUnited Airlines sees cargo revenues decline despite demand improvements
United Airlines saw its third-quarter cargo revenues decline compared with last year despite a double-digit increase in demand.The US airline recorded cargo revenues for the period of $224m, a 4.7% decline compared with a year earlier.Meanwhile, demand increased by 11.6% year-on-year to 714m cargo ton miles (CTM).It is the second ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker look to cut carbon
An environmental partnership between Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker has helped the two companies reduce their carbon dioxide output by around 10,000 tonnes over the first five years of the tie up.Following the success of the first five years, the two companies said they are hoping to reduce their carbon ...
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ACS sees 9% improvement in first half charter demand
Charter broker Air Charter Service (ACS) has recorded a 9% improvement in the number of charters it has arranged in the first half of its financial year.ACS said the increase had come despite any disruptive events, such as the US west coast sea port strike at the start of last ...
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FedEx unveils €1.4bn commitment to Paris CDG hub
FedEx has revealed it will make a billion dollar commitment to its logistics hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport, a move that will almost double the facility's capacity.At an announcement ceremony held this morning at the Paris airport the express operator said it would spend a total of ...
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K+N: Third quarter airfreight market "remained tense"
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) reported that the global airfreight market "remained tense" in the third quarter and added that pressure on margins continued due to "shrinking demand and further capacity increases".Against this trend, the Switzerland-based global logistics giant grew its air cargo tonnage by 3.8% and gross profit per 100 ...
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Now the hard work on the cargo agency programme really starts
Freight forwarder association Fiata and IATA have officially signed the long-awaited reforms to the IATA Cargo Agency Program and said that now the hard work of implementing the agreement begins.The new IATA-FIATA Cargo Agency Program (IFACP) was hailed as a “historic” agreement at an official signing ceremony held today during ...
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Merger of air cargo container station service providers
Air cargo container freight station service provider St George Logistics has swooped on rival AZ Corporation.The combination of St George Logistics, which claims to be North America’s largest provider of outsourced container freight station services, and the AZ Corporation will create a single company with 24 port and inland facilities ...
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Lufthansa Cargo says Marhaba Egypt
A Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F freighter now bears the name “Marhaba Egypt” and will carry this message with it around the world.The aircraft with registration D-ALCF received its name at Cairo International Airport from the Egyptian Director of Civil Aviation, Hani Al-Adawy, the German Ambassador to Egypt, Julius Georg Luy and ...
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Call for Germany to improve airfreight infrastructure or lose out to neighbours
Germany's airports must invest in infrastructure or they risk losing cargo volumes to their European rivals, according to the Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (Barig).Speaking at a conference organised by the Federation of German Industry and the Federation of the German Aviation Industry, Barig secretary general Michael Hoppe said ...
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Mallory Alexander adds new Miami facility
Mallory Alexander International Logistics has opened a new office and warehouse in Miami to cater for cargo heading to and from South America.The facility includes a Foreign Trade Zone, as well as a Container Freight Station, Bonded Warehouse, and an In-Bond Export Consolidator Warehouse.“Miami is an important international gateway located ...
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NewsAmericas cargo monthly: A bumper month for American and United
September was a bumper month for American Airlines' and United Airlines' airfreight demand, while Delta recorded another decline.The latest monthly figures show that United saw air cargo demand increase by 15.7% year on year in September to 245m cargo ton miles (CTM) and American reported a 9.8% improvement to 207m ...
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Cargolux appoints Bannerman as vice president corporate development and strategy
Cargolux has appointed Christoph Michael Bannerman as its new vice president corporate development & strategy.Bannerman succeeds Maxim Strauss, who recently took over the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer.Bannerman has held a number of positions in the aviation and logistics industries, including various roles in corporate strategy, ...
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New pharma transport community launched
A new pharma logistics community has been launched that aims to help supply chain participants collaborate to improve transport services for medical goods.The new Team-up community was launched at IATA's AirPharma conference in Brussels by founder Alan Kennedy, who also represents several pharma logistics service providers in a PR role."With ...
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NewsWorld's first national drone delivery service takes off
The Rwandan government has today launched the world's first national drone delivery service to transport medical supplies to hard-to-reach places.The drones, designed and operated by Californian firm Zipline, will make up to 150 on-demand deliveries of blood to 21 transfusing facilities located in the western half of the country.While the ...
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Miami Airport reveals new sea-air perishables services
Miami International Airport (MIA) has revealed plans to launch sea-air services, offering ocean transport from Latin America to the US airport before onward transport to Europe and Asia by air.In September, the US Department of Agriculture approved the airport’s plans for ocean to air transhipments that will target the perishables ...
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NewsDelta Air Lines records declines in third quarter cargo revenues and demand
Delta Air Lines reported yet more declines in its cargo revenues and volumes during the third quarter of the year.The US airline suffered a 14.8% year on year decline in third quarter cargo revenues to $167m while traffic was down 9.5% during the period to 504m cargo ton miles.Delta does ...
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VIDEO: Wondering how an automated pallet handling system actually works?
At an event to celebrate the opening of two new terminals at DHL's Leipzig hub, the express operator was keen to show off what it claims is the world's first automated pallet handling system (see end of article for video).The system is fairly similar to DHL's parcel and flyer system ...
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DHL opens two terminals at Leipzig and debuts automated pallet handling system
DHL Express has opened two new terminals at its fast growing Leipzig hub, with one of the operations featuring the world's first automated pallet handling system.The new Terminal Two and Terminal Three were built at a cost of €230m, more than doubling the surface area of the hub's sorting centre ...
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Spectre awards mega-order for B737 freighter conversions
Texas-based aircraft lease-finance specialist Spectre Air Capital has announced an initial firm order, plus rolling options, for 15 Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 passenger-to-freighter conversions with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).Spectre also confirmed a launch order from Seoul Korea-based Air Incheon for three 737-800 freighters on long-term lease for delivery beginning in ...