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CSafe adds Puerto Rico service centre in response to pharma growth
Temperature-controlled air cargo container supplier CSafe Global has opened a new service centre in Puerto Rico.The new dedicated service and support centre is adjacent to San Juan's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport and will provide ULD supply, lease, drop-off, maintenance, calibration and technical support services.The company said it had decided ...
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Cargolux adds frequency to Ho Chi Minh service
Cargolux has added a third weekly frequency to its Ho Chi Minh operation in response to growing demand from the country.The extra frequency started today (April 14), with the outbound flight routed via Doha and the return leg via Singapore and Luxembourg.The airline said it had served the city since ...
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Detection dogs fail to sniff out crime at airport, but do hunt down sausages
Air Cargo News claims no expertise in the deployment of detection dogs to sniff out drugs and explosives at airports, but a recent story about our four-legged friends’ success rate at the UK’s Manchester Airport gave us pause (or should that be paws) for thought.The use of the animals came ...
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Ceva recruits Panama healthcare and IT specialist
Ceva Logistics has appointed Rodrigo Jaén Cabalcagary as its country manager for Panama. Based at the Panama City office and reporting to executive vice president and head of the Central America cluster, Mike Wilson, he brings specialized experience of the healthcare and technology markets as well as IT project development. ...
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Airport figures the latest to point to weak start to the year for airfreight
Airports Council International (ACI) traffic data for February is the latest information to point towards a difficult start to the year, although the organisation admits figures for the month were skewed by the timing of the Chinese New Year.ACI figures for February show that total airfreight traffic at airports declined ...
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First freighter for Canada-Latin America route
Air Canada and Cargojet Airways are finalising a commercial arrangement to operate the only direct scheduled freighter service between Canada and Latin America. A Cargojet Boeing 767-300ER freighter will fly from Canada to Latin America, offering 52 tonnes of net cargo capacity from June 9, subject to regulatory approvals.Initial service ...
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Shanghai is China’s centre of cool
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) has officially opened a new cool centre, certified to IATA CEIV Pharma standards - the first Chinese facility to achieve this. It can handle 100,000 tonnes of temperature-sensitive goods a year on a 3,500sq m footprint.Facilities include freezers (+8 to -18 degrees Celsius) ...
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Kerry raises stake in Indian forwarder
Asia-based Kerry Logistics has signed a memorandum of understanding to increase its stake in Chennai, India-based Indev Logistics.The announcement was made at the re-branding ceremony held on 13 April in New Delhi in the presence of minister for commerce and industry, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman.Indev will be renamed as Kerry-Indev Logistics, ...
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February freight surge at DXB
Freight volumes at Dubai International (DXB) increased 3% in February, rising from 191,002 tonnes in 2015 to 196,730 tonnes in February 2016. Cargo growth was however outpaced by the rise in passengers, which jumped 6.9% to over 6.3 million passengers in February 2016, according to the latest traffic report by ...
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Dnata adds Heathrow air cargo facility for Cathay Pacific
Cargo handler dnata will open a new cargo location at London Heathrow to cater for customer Cathay Pacific.Dnata UK will move into building 521a at the airport, which will be dedicated to Cathay Pacific, when the refurbished facility opens its doors in April.The cargo handler has invested £40m in the ...
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BT brings intelligent IT to Panalpina
Panalpina has signed a contract with BT to streamline its IT systems, replacing a string of existing local and regional services with a single provider.BT will overhaul the global forwarder's network infrastructure, which connects 500 offices in over 75 countries and move it to a single integrated platform. BT will ...
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Alitalia approves cargo tracker
OnAsset Intelligence’s Sentry500 FlightSafe cargo monitoring and tracking device has been approved for carriage on all Alitalia flights. It follows recognition by the European Aviation Safety Agency that the device complies with legislation covering the use and carriage of cargo tracking devices.Airborne asset tracking specialist OnAsset Intelligence says there is ...
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Industry condemns ‘insensitive’ Belgian ATC strikes
Belgian air traffic controllers have been condemned by the airline industry for going on strike just days after Brussels airport reopened following the terrorist attacks of 22 March. The controllers staged a wildcat action on 12 April, causing widespread disruption.IATA director general Tony Tyler described the walk-out as “a kick ...
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NewsMixed year for Europe's largest airfreight forwarders
Europe’s leading airfreight forwarders had a mixed year in 2015, with Panalpina and DHL Global Forwarding reporting demand decreases and Kuehne+Nagel (K+N), DSV Sea and Air and DB Schenker benefitting from increases.The forwarder that recorded the largest decrease in airfreight volumes was DHL Global Forwarding, which had a tough time ...
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Atlas Air chief calls for air traffic overhaul
Atlas Air president and chief executive William Flynn has called for a root and branch overhaul of the air traffic control system in the US.Addressing the CNS Partnership Conference in Nashville on 11 April, he urged the industry to support Congressman Bill Shuster’s Aviation, Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act. ...
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NewsEuropean cargo carriers monthly: cargo declines at Lufthansa and Air France
IAG Cargo and Finnair both managed to record air cargo demand increases during the first quarter of the year while Air France-KLM and Lufthansa suffered declines.While all four carriers recorded a spike in demand during March, compared with February, the level of increase was weaker than in previous years, although ...
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Qatar adds express option
Qatar Airways Cargo has added a time-critical airport-to-airport product to its portfolio. QR Express offers high boarding priority and rapid handling, along with short and flexible close-outs, dedicated ramp transfer and priority unloading at final destination with a 90-minute retrieval time.Chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann said the new service was ...
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Ontic opts for B&H Worldwide for AOG support
Logistics services provider B&H Worldwide has been appointed by Ontic, a wholly owned subsidiary of BBA Aviation, to act as a warehouse and inventory management company to support Ontic’s aircraft on ground (AOG) service provision around the world.A B&H climate-controlled facility near Heathrow will act as a principal service centre. ...
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Etihad's new freighter begins operations on Malpensa-Bogota service
Etihad Cargo has transferred its recently delivered Boeing freighter onto its service between Milan Malpensa and Bogotá.The service has been running since November 2014 with a wet lease Boeing 747, but Etihad has now transferred one of its own B777 freighters onto the route.The new aircraft joined the fleet at ...
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China's HNA bites into bigger Swiss role
Following its purchase of cargo and luggage handler Swissport International in July 2015 for Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has agreed to buy a second Swiss company, Gategroup Holding AG, the world’s second-largest airline catering company, for US$1.5 billion.Gategroup, headquartered at Zurich Airport, is responsible for providing catering, hospitality, provisioning and ...