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Frankfurt freight on the move again
The German Customs computer problem that caused a backlog of import cargo at Frankfurt airport over the weekend has now been cleared, Air Cargo News has learned. However, it will take a few hours to clear the backlog, according to our sister newspaper, DVZ.DVZ reports that handling companies have restarted ...
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United becomes a DHL cool carrier
United Cargo has won one of the first DHL carrier awards for reliability and excellence. Aiming to set a new industry standard for air transport of temperature-sensitive life science products, the accolade was presented at DHL’s recent Global Life Sciences and Healthcare Conference in Miami.Award winners were ranked on performance, ...
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ECS acquires Asia’s AVS
Airfreight general sales and service agency group ECS has acquired Asian specialist AVS, in a deal signed at the latter’s Singapore regional office on 21 June.AVS GSA Group, founded in 2007 and with 100 staff, consolidates cargo from the ASEAN region on its network of flights and interlines to the ...
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Cargo is the rising star in Frankfurt
Cargo at Frankfurt bucked an overall falling trend in June, rising 3.3% to 179,808 tonnes in the month. This was in contrast to a 4.1% drop in passenger numbers, due to weather and strike-related flight cancellations.Cargo in the first half of 2016 also slightly improved, rising 0.7% year on year ...
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Faster than a speeding Boeing
CargoLogicAir is to help the Bloodhound Project in its quest to break the land speed record and to break the 1,000mph barrier. The new British freighter operator has signed a memorandum of understanding as the exclusive air cargo partner for the attempt to set a new world land speed record ...
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Boeing sees uptick in freighter demand but prices slump
US plane-maker Boeing has marginally increased its forecast for world freighter demand in the latest edition of its Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2016-35.It predicted that replacement of ageing airplanes, and growth, would create a demand for 2,370 freighter deliveries over the next 20 years to 2025. Of these, 1,440 ...
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Jumbo freighter set for Indian summer in Russia?
The Boeing 747 may be in retreat as a passenger plane but the freighter version could receive a boost if Boeing signs a deal with Russian carrier Volga Dnepr at the UK's Farnborough Airshow tomorrow.News agency reports suggest that the US plane maker is expected to firm up at least ...
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More and bigger planes, predicts Airbus
European aircraft-maker Airbus predicted that the global market would grow at an average 4.5% a year to 33,000 new planes by 2035.In its report published at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, the Toulouse-based pan-European company added that the estimated $5trn order book would include 645 freighters with capacity of ...
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Qatar becomes cargo carrier number three
Qatar Airways Cargo became the third-largest cargo operator in the world in October 2015, said the Middle East carrier in its 2015/16 annual report.In what it described as a record year, Qatar increased its dedicated freighter destinations to 54, adding Dallas, Budapest, Prague, Ho Chi Minh City, and New York ...
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Luxembourg pilots join call for Mid East carrier curbs
The Luxembourg pilots’ association has joined a group calling for fair competition in European aviation, which they argue is "competing with the state-funded airlines of the Gulf region".The Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) said that it, together with other pilot associations and the European Cockpit Association, had become ...
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NewsBoeing pegs up plane market prediction
Boeing has notched up its predictions for aircraft demand in the next 20 years in its current market outlook, published as the UK’s Farnborough Airshow got underway.The planemaker raised its forecast demand for new aircraft over the next 20 years, by 4.1% to 39,620 and put the total value of ...
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Rhenus signs JV in Japan
German forwarder the Rhenus Group has set up a joint venture with Sankyo Corporation, part of Japan’s Fujiki Group.Rhenus Sankyo Logistics will mainly handle imports and exports to and from Japan, along with domestic distribution and warehousing. Rhenus Asia already works with Sankyo’s US subsidiary, Clearfreight.Rhenus board member Tobias Bartz ...
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Virgin signals end of the Jumbo with A350-1000 order
Virgin Atlantic announced a firm order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, worth $4.4bn, at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow. The aircraft, the largest in the A350 family and with a cargo capacity of up to 14 pallets, will replace the carrier’s remaining Boeing 747-400s and Airbus A340-600s when deliveries start in ...
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Heathrow chief repeats expansion call as cargo jumps in June
Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye called for a quick decision on the airport’s third runway as the London gateway revealed a jump in cargo in June.Tonnage grew 2.1% year on year to 125,536 tonnes with China up 11%, India 3.3% and Turkey 3%. The moving annual total to June 2016, ...
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Queuing for Cuba: 10 services between US and Havana gain tentative approval
Scheduled airline services from 10 US cities to Cuba have been granted tentative approval from the government to operate services to Cuba.US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx proposed to select eight US airlines to begin scheduled flights between Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York City, Orlando, ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: FedEx takes six B767s
Each month Air Cargo News reports the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.FedEx in for six B767sExpress operator FedEx continued to order new aircraft during June, this time placing an order for six Boeing 767-300 freighters.These aircraft bring the total number of freighters ordered by FedEx in 2016 to ...
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NewsTop 25 air cargo carriers 2015: FedEx maintains top spot
FedEx has once again topped the list of the world’s busiest air cargo carriers in 2015, with the top 25 seeing demand increase ahead of the overall market, fuelled by Middle Eastern and all-cargo airlines.The annual IATA World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) report revealed that FedEx managed to maintain its ...
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Southwest Cargo adds new Wichita services
US airline Southwest Cargo has announced it will begin offering four daily departures from a new facility in Wichita, Kansas.The Texas-based airline’s cargo arm said that from July 14 it will begin offering cargo service on four daily departures from Wichita to Las Vegas, Phoenix, and St Louis with connecting ...
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New Chinese cargo airline opts for B737s from Pemco
New Chinese airline Guangdong Longhao Aviation Group (GLHA) has signed up for the conversion of three Boeing 737-300 aircraft from Pemco.Pemco said the conversion will be carried out by Jinan Shandong-based STAECO, one of PEMCO’s three conversion partners throughout the world.The aircraft, which is the first conversion Pemco has secured ...
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NewsFreight traffic at European airports up 2.8% in May
European airports continued to see improvements in freight traffic in May, but demand improvements did slow from the April level.Airports Council International (ACI) Europe figures show that airfreight demand at European airports increased by 2.8% year on year in May.This compares with the April increase of 5.5% as the region ...