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NewsDachser appoints Krüger as EMEA MD
Thomas Krüger has been appointed managing director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business unit at German-owned forwarder Dachser Air and Sea Logistics.He has held a variety of management positions at the company, and was most recently responsible for the Northern Central Europe region. He succeeds Rüdiger Klug, ...
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Cathay’s cargo revenue slips in weak market
Cathay Pacific Group’s cargo revenue fell away by 17.2% in the first six months of 2016, to HK$9.4bn, said the Hong Kong carrier.Cargo capacity on Cathay Pacific and Dragonair increased by 0.6% while load factor decreased by 1.9 percentage points, to 62.2% and tonnage carried decreased by 0.2%.Cathay attributed the ...
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Finnair unveils plan to save €20m a year as cargo market remains uncertain
Finnair unveiled a €20m cost efficiency programme on the same day that it announced its half-year results, in which it admitted that the outlook for cargo and passenger traffic in its main markets remains uncertain.The Finnish flag carrier said that while savings programmes in 2011-14 have improved its performance, it ...
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Cargo demand weakens at Brussels Airport as airlines reduce services
UPDATE: Brussels Airport saw cargo volumes decline in July as airlines reduced services and cancelled flights in response to weakening demand.The European airport saw total cargo volumes decline by 8.8% year on year in July to 39,689 tons. The largest decrease in percentage terms was felt by its belly cargo ...
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Japan gives go-ahead for Iberia to join airline grouping
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has extended anti-trust immunity to include Spanish flag carrier Iberia in the cooperation between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair.It will allow the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan, including a new service between Madrid and Tokyo ...
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Jet-setters lift ACS business
London-based Air Charter Service had its best month on record in July, despite a fall in UK cargo business.Group chief executive, Justin Bowman said the company had organised more than 1,100 charters in the month, or one every 36 minutes.He added: “Full cargo charter numbers did appear to suffer a ...
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Good day for American in London
American Airlines Cargo shipped a record 575,000lbs (260,000kg) of freight and mail from London Heathrow (LHR) in a single day on Sunday 31 July, setting a new daily record for the station.American Airlines, which completed a merger with US Airways last year, broke its previous daily record in London in ...
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Tech loss drags down Air T
US-based overnight air cargo and aviation support company Air T reported a loss of $3.68 million in the first quarter of the 2016/17 financial year, which ended June 30.However, the figures included those of new acquisition Delphax Technologies, which ran up an operating loss of $6.9m including $5.6m in impairment ...
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Ceva appoints specialist in Costa Rica
Ceva Logistics has appointed Willie Parra Fonseca as country manager Costa Rica, based at the San José office.A specialist in retail, fast-moving consumer goods, technology, life science and healthcare, he has an extensive track record in project management and the design and implementation of distribution centres in Latin America.He reports ...
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Çelebi chief Onno Boots steps down
Çelebi Aviation chief executive Onno Boots has stepped down but will continue as a consultant to the Turkish-owned handling company for its planned initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.He has been at the helm of Çelebi Aviation Holdings Group since 2014.Çelebi added that it expects a new chief executive to be ...
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DHL locks up security contract for another four years
DHL’s Global Forwarding air and ocean freight arm has renewed its contract with security hardware specialist Southco for four more years.DHL Global Forwarding has provided Southco with logistics services for the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific since 2009, providing air, ocean, domestic and customs brokerage services on various trade lanes, ...
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BAE looks to launch RJ100 P2F conversion programme
BAE Systems is hoping to launch a passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for the Avro RJ jetliner and is seeking customer feedback to asses market potential.The principal variant for conversion would be the RJ100 aircraft, which are now starting to come out of passenger service and will be available over the next ...
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Better late than never
More of interest to travellers than cargo shippers maybe, but recent probing by the BBC has revealed that Gatwick, not oft-maligned Heathrow was the worst airport in the UK for flight delays.On average, Gatwick flights were delayed 18 minutes per flight between January 2015 and March 2016, whereas for Heathrow ...
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Emirates to fly A380 to Guangzhou
Emirates is to replace the 777-300ER on its daily Dubai-Guangzhou route with an A380 from October 1. It follows recent announcements of A380 deployment on its Milan and Johannesburg routes.Other destinations served by Emirates A380 include Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, London, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland, Bangkok, and Seoul.Although the ...
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World's largest aircraft take-off delayed
We will have to wait a little while longer before the world’s largest aircraft makes its maiden flight.Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) expected its airship Airlander 10 to take off from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire last Sunday (August 14) but last-minute technical hitches have forced a postponement.The helium-filled Airlander 10 measures ...
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Cargojet delivers growth surge despite flat market
Canadian express freight airline Cargojet defied flat overall growth to deliver “exceptional” financial results in the second quarter of the year as its contract with Canada Post results in demand growth.Total revenues were up by C$4.1 million or 5.5%, to C$79.3 million, versus quarter two of the previous year. Gross ...
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Fall in freight pulls down Latam revenues
A 22.3% decline in cargo revenues, along with a 13.7% decline in passenger income, helped push Latam Airlines Group’s total revenue down by 12.5% in the second quarter of 2016, the South American carrier reported in its latest financial results.Total revenues in the second quarter 2016 were $2.1bn, compared with ...
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Flexport goes online in Hong Kong
US-owned forwarder Flexport has opened an Asian regional headquarters in Hong Kong.Backed by Founders Fund, Google Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator and others, Flexport is a licensed freight forwarder built around an online system which provides clients with real-time shipment visibility and analytics for international routes, rates, speeds and customs ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: declines at LATAM and Delta and improvements at United and American
Demand patterns at America’s major bellyhold cargo carriers continued along a similar trend to the rest of the year with United and American recording increases while LATAM and Delta reported declines.American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015. The ...
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Munich on the up
Munich Airport handled 29.686 tonnes of cargo (airfreight and mail, excluding military cargo) in July, up by 2.9% on the same month of 2015.Over the seven-month January-July period, the Bavarian gateway processed 202,174 tonnes of cargo, up by 4.1% year on year.Of that total, 75,635 tonnes was unloading cargo, 115,318 ...