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Air Canada adds more freighter flights
Air Canada is adding a second weekly freighter to its Canada, US and South America schedule. The new rotation operates on Sundays between Toronto, Atlanta, Bogota, Lima and Toronto, in addition to the existing Friday service.The expansion follows a commercial agreement signed in April with Cargojet Airways to operate the ...
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Air Canada Cargo looks forward to raft of new destinations
Air Canada has announced that it is to add six new destinations to its network next year.The Air Canada summer 2017 schedule will include the following new long-haul connections: Toronto – Mumbai; Vancouver – Taipei (subject to government approvals); Toronto – Berlin; and Vancouver – Nagoya, as well as seasonal ...
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DSV sets up US Solutions division
Danish-owned freight forwarder DSV has set up a Solutions division in North America, following its acquisition of US-based UTi.DSV said it had gained substantial contract logistics work as a result of the merger and that these had been merged with the limited amount of similar activity it was already handling ...
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London runway decision ‘soon’
UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has said that a decision on south-east England airport expansion is imminent, according to the BBC.The Government has been pondering whether to build a new runway at Heathrow or Gatwick or to extend one of Heathrow’s two existing runways. A decision appeared to be imminent ...
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Hactl speeds truck processing at SuperTerminal 1 facility
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals' (Hactl) new automated truck lanes at its SuperTerminal 1 facility have helped speed up vehicle processing times.The new automated lanes, which replaced manned booths, register trucks and obtain details of vehicle size and purpose of visit.“Together with the doubling of entry lanes, these have eliminated ...
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Cargolux takes early delivery of B747-8F to meet increased high season demand
Cargolux has taken early delivery of its 14th Boeing 747-8 freighter to meet increased demand during the coming high season.The aircraft ─ LX-VCN, ‘Spirit of Schengen’ ─ was originally scheduled to be delivered in 2017. However, Boeing and Cargolux agreed to advance the delivery, with a handover ceremony at the ...
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NewsCold Chain Technologies launches Koolit Advanced PCM Gel
Cold Chain Technologies (CCT), a Massachusetts-based developer and manufacturer of temperature-sensitive packaging options for the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, clinical trial distribution and medical device industries, has officially launched what it says is “the first solid phase change material (PCM) to maintain the integrity of drugs and vaccines during transport”.Said by ...
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UPS tests drone deliveries to remote places
UPS has begun testing drones to make commercial deliveries of packages to remote or difficult-to-access locations, working together with drone-maker CyPhy Works.The two companies staged a mock delivery of an urgently needed asthma inhaler from Beverly, Massachusetts, to Children’s Island, three miles off the Atlantic coast.The drone flight is part ...
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Swissport International appoints Nils Pries Knudsen to chief commercial officer
Swissport International has appointed Nils Pries Knudsen to chief commercial officer as of October 1, 2016. He will continue to report directly to Eric Born, Group President and chief executive Swissport International.Knudsen joined Swissport International in January 2009 and has since been instrumental in taking the Cargo Division forward to ...
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DHL launches SameDay Speedline for urgent airfreight shipping
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight forwarding operation within Deutsche Post DHL Group, has launched a new urgent shipping offering: DHL SameDay Speedline.Every unaccompanied shipment will be “proactively monitored from origin to destination” (at SameDay Contact Centers in the US, Singapore and Ireland), while other benefits will include ...
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Airlines warn that noise restrictions could damage the competitiveness of Frankfurt Airport
Airlines operating out of Europe’s busiest freight hub, Frankfurt, have warned that proposals for new noise restrictions could damage the airport's competitiveness.On Wednesday, the Hessian Ministry of Economy and Transport presented the plans for noise ceilings at the airport.The Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) described the proposals as ...
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IAG Cargo inks rental deal with va-Q-tec for temperature-controlled containers
IAG Cargo, the freight operations wing of the joint Anglo-Spanish carrier enterprise, has signed a global container rental deal with thermal packaging provider va-Q-tec.As a result, IAG Cargo will be able to use va-Q-tec’s va-Q-tainers to transport temperature-sensitive freight.va-Q-tainers offer control over six different temperature ranges, from -70°C to +25°C, ...
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Damco gets new head in reshuffle
Klaus Rud Sejling, the current head of East West trades for Maersk Line, will become CEO of Maersk freight forwarding operation Damco with effect from 1 October.The current Damco CEO, Hanne Sørensen, has decided to leave the Maersk Group.Sejling has previous experience of working in Maersk Logistics, still a part ...
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ANA to offer new temperature-controlled technology option
Tokyo-based carrier ANA is now offering a new temperature-controlled service on its flights out of Japan.ANA will offer PRIO IB Fixed Temp, a product that employs ‘IceBattery’ technology developed by Innovation thru Energy Co of Japan, as a new element within its PRIO series of products designed for added-value cargo ...
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Air Logistics Group moves into Norway
Global general sales and services agent (GSSA) Air Logistics Group has confirmed that it opened the doors at a new office located in Norway on September 1.The Oslo office is managed by Frank Da Cruz, the GSSA’s station manager Norway, and overseen by Henrik Spove, Air Logistics’ regional director Scandinavia ...
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Drewry reports on mixed figure for August freight rate
Drewry’s East-West Airfreight Price Index reached a figure of 87.5 for August (the index was based at 100 in May 2012). This compares to a figure of 94.3 a year previously, in August 2015, but a 0.7 point increase on the month previously (July 2016).It continues a 6-month trend of ...
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Moderate August rise for Asian air cargo
Preliminary traffic figures for August by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed a moderate rise in international air cargo markets although "persistent weakness" in global trade remains a concern.Asia Pacific airlines saw international air cargo demand in August grow by 2.5% in freight tonne kilometre (FTK) terms. The ...
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Good news for Garuda
Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda enjoyed an impressive 22.5% year on year increase in its cargo volumes in August, reaching a figure of 34,350 tons.The cargo load factor increased by 7.85 percentage points compared to August 2015 to reach 51.8%.Over the course of the January – August period, Garuda carried a total ...
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Strong month for cargo at Changi
Singapore Changi Airport handled 163,150 tonnes of cargo in August, 7.6% up on the same month of 2015.Including August, Changi has handled 1.27m tonnes of freight so far this year, up 5.2% year on year.The last three months have seen particularly good results; as well as August’s 7.6% year on ...
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Röhlig appoints Jens Haas as national air freight manager in Germany
Jens Haas has been named by international logistics company Röhlig as national air freight manager for its business in Germany.Based in the company’s Frankfurt office, he has been responsible for air freight business since September and also forms part of the management team of Röhlig Deutschland.Haas is expected to expand ...