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Air industry to raise its game in Africa
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and The African Union Commission (AU) have agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to improve air transport.Signed in Geneva by IATA director genera and chief executive, Tony Tyler and the AU’s commissioner for infrastructure and Energy, Dr. Elham Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim, it aims to ...
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CargoLogicAir gets the keys to its first 747-8F
New UK-based carrier CargoLogicAir has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-8 freighter at the Farnborough International Airshow.Chief executive Dmitry Grishin, received the 'keys' to the aircraft from Boeing’s vice president sales for Middle East, Russia and Central Asia, Marty Bentrott, at a ceremony on board the aircraft at the ...
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Cathay to fly a B747-8F to Portland from November
Cathay Pacific Cargo is to operate a twice-weekly scheduled Boeing 747-8 freighter service between its Hong Kong home hub and Portland, Oregon, in the US from November 3, subject to government approval.Portland — the carrier’s 18th cargo station in the Americas — will be served by a Hong Kong-Anchorage-Los Angeles-Portland-Anchorage ...
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Cool container firm recruits Alitalia
Italian carrier Alitalia has signed an agreement with low temperature technology specialist Va-Q-tec to rent its passive containers. Under the deal, pre-conditioned units will be sent to the customers’ door for loading and temperature will be guaranteed for over 120 hours, independent of ambient temperature.The partnership allows Alitalia to expand ...
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24-hour party people
With the summer music festival season in full flow, Brussels Airlines is getting into the swing of things. For the fifth year in a row, the carrier will be flying in thousands of visitors to Tomorrowland, dubbed the world’s biggest electronic music event. It takes place in the town of ...
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Chongqing is sixth Chinese city for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added flights to leading commercial centre Chongqing to its network from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, its sixth Chinese destination.The new twice-weekly service operates on Wednesday and Friday, and will be linked with ABC's Shanghai flights returning to Moscow, complementing its frequencies and accommodating cargo flows from central ...
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Volga-Dnepr and Boeing sign back-to-back deal as 747-8F order is confirmed
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group confirmed an order for 20 Boeing 747-8 freighters at the UK’s Farnborough Air Show today.At the same time, the plane maker has signed a reciprocal deal with the Russian firm’s subsidiaries, AirBridgeCargo Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines, to provide long-term logistics support for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and its ...
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Temporary suspension of Astral's South Sudan freighters
Kenyan-based carrier Astral Aviation temporarily suspended its three times a week cargo flights from Nairobi to Juba, following the outbreak of fighting in South Sudan.It has however been operating a chartered Fokker 100 on an evacuation mission, landing in Nairobi on July 12 with 96 passengers on board, after Juba ...
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New recruits help Emirates ride Columbus freighter boom
Emirates Skycargo is planning to recruit sales and operations managers and a supervisor to support its growing US freighter operation at Columbus Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport.The recruitment drive is to cope with burgeoning freight volumes, said Emirates Skycargo's central US regional manager, Arthur Brown.It follows an increase in frequencies between ...
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Munich freight volumes surge
Cargo growth at Munich Airport outstripped passengers in the first half of 2016, according to the airport authority’s latest figures. The total of about 163,000 tonnes of flown airfreight was 4% up on the same period a year earlier.Passenger traffic gained 2.3% to reach nearly 20m in the first six ...
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Chapman Freeborn sells load data arm to dnata
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has sold Air Dispatch, its specialist centralised load control subsidiary, to ground handler and service provider, dnata.Founded in 2007, Air Dispatch calculates the weight and balance conditions for aircraft prior to flight. It produces over 800,000 load-sheets a year and in 2013 became the first dedicated centralised ...
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Keeping walking on down Electric Avenue
Green logistics experts have always been keen on the idea of bikes and similar human-powered deliveries – less so the people who actually have to deliver the packages.Now, though a new consortium including UPS and the University of Huddersfield think they have made a breakthrough – a new generation delivery ...
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Drones could be more than cargo carriers
Much of the interest in drones has centred on their potential as cargo carriers but they could also help keep larger aircraft flying.At the Farnborough Airshow, European plane maker Airbus demonstrated how the lightweight craft, fitted with a high definition camera, could carry out a visual inspection of one of ...
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Kerry round the clock in Schiphol
Asian-owned Kerry Logistics Network can now offer a 24-hour warehouse operation at Amsterdam Schiphol following its move to new premises. Located at Freight Terminal 207, the facility is five minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from the port of RotterdamIt offers 20,000 sq m of warehouse space, 38 loading ...
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Cargo and earnings surge at MAG airports
UK airport group MAG – owner of Manchester, London Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth – reported that its cargo income had grown strongly in the financial year ended 31 March.Continued growth in internet shopping and new routes boosted freight revenue by 7.0% year-on-year to £22.7m, while cargo volume across the ...
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DHL provides airfreight links for mobile phone firm Transsion
DHL Global Forwarding has become the airfreight solutions provider for mobile phone specialist Transsion Holdings.The carrier will provide services from Transsion’s manufacturing base in South China to 28 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, along with seafreight and warehousing in India.Hong Kong based Transsion, which sold 59m cell ...
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Round the world in 80 weeks
Two Swiss pioneers are nearing the end of a round the world flight – without touching a drop of petrol.Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg landed in Egypt after crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Seville in just over 48 hours in their Solar Impulse 2 – the penultimate leg of the ...
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Public would welcome drones, says survey
The public would welcome the use of drones for some commercial purposes, according to a survey carried out on behalf of the Royal Aeronautical Society.The research, conducted by the ComRes on behalf of the society, found that 46% of respondents agreed that drones could make a significant contribution to the ...
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RiverOak consults on Kent air cargo hub
US-owned hedge fund RiverOak is to hold a local public consultation on 18 July on its plans to redevelop the closed Manston Airport in Kent, south-east England, as a cargo hub. It follows publication of a scoping report outlining plans for the site.The scheme, which is subject to a Governmental ...
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Qatar Airways to take LATAM stake
Qatar Airways signed a deal at the Farnborough Air Show today to acquire up to 10% of shares in LATAM.Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker, described the move as “an exciting opportunity to invest and support the development of our long-term relationship. As a leading airline in Latin ...