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Freight down at Frankfurt
Frankfurt Airport cargo volumes fell 1.6% year on year in March and 1.2% in the year to date. Passenger business meanwhile rose 3.9% in the month and 3.3% for the year to date.Cargo traffic appears to be continuing the trend seen in 2015, when cargo traffic for the year fell ...
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Boeing holds Tehran talks
US plane-maker Boeing says it has launched preliminary discussions with Iranian airlines about possible aircraft sales. It followed the as yet unconfonfirmed agreement announced by rival builder Airbus in January that it had agreed to sell 118 aircraft worth $27 billion to Iran.Boeing said no firm deal had been made ...
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Melzie Wilson joins Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness
Melzie Wilson, vice president–compliance at Mallory Alexander International Logistics, has been appointed to the US Department of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC).Wilson, who has worked for Mallory Alexander for close to 23 years and is a Board Member of the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of ...
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UPS names Cindy Miller as president of global freight forwarding
UPS has promoted Cindy Miller as the first female president of its global freight forwarding arm.Miller began her career with the US parcels and logistics giant as a driver in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1988.“The air freight industry is central to the development of trade and the global economy,” said Miller, ...
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Alexey Isaykin enters the TIACA Hall of Fame
Alexey Isaykin, president of Moscow-headquartered freighter operator Volga-Dnepr Group, has been brought into the Hall of Fame of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA).He will be formally inducted at TIACA’s Executive Summit in Florida at the end of May. The TIACA Hall of Fame honours air cargo professionals who have ...
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US and Azerbaijan sign open skies deal
The US and Azerbaijan have signed an open skies agreement in Baku, capital city of the southwest Asian country.Jahangir Asgarov, president of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), and Robert Cekuta, the US ambassador in Baku, signed the open skies agreement on April 6 for the liberalisation of air transport market between ...
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DuPont extends temperature span of ULD protective covers
ULD cover manufacturer DuPont is launching a new product that will offer protection from a wider range of temperatures.DuPont said its Tyvek Xtreme W50 ULD cover retained the reflective and permeability characteristics of its existing products for pharmaceuticals while extending both the hot and cold temperature performance span.This means the ...
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UPS moves to annul European veto on TNT takeover
UPS is asking the Luxembourg-based General Court to overturn a European Commission veto on its failed bid three years ago to take over European express operator TNT, a company which is now on course to be acquired by FedEx, arch rival to UPS.News agency Reuters said that the UPS challenge ...
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LATAM Cargo introduced as single, united brand
LATAM Airlines Group has announced the creation of a unified, single brand for its various airfreight affiliates.The LATAM Cargo brand will unite LAN Cargo, TAM Cargo, LAN Cargo Colombia and Mas Air – in so doing becoming the largest cargo airline group in Latin America.The move forms part of LATAM ...
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ABC's Santoro to co-chair BARIG's cargo committee
Ivan Santoro, regional operations and ground handling director EMEA at AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), has been appointed as co-chairman, alongside Michael Hoppe, for the cargo committee of the Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG).Santoro has worked for several forwarding agents and was employed by British Airways before he switched to ...
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Atlas Air Worldwide completes Southern Air acquisition
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has completed its acquisition of Southern Air Holdings in a deal worth $110m.The deal, which was funded with cash on hand, was first announced in January this year but was finally completed today.Atlas said the deal would provide it entry into the Boeing 777 and B737 ...
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Kerry Logistics appoints Ronnie Kempf as boss in Germany and Switzerland
Kerry Logistics has appointed Ronnie Kempf as the new managing director for Germany and Switzerland.Kempf took up his new position on April 1 and is based at the Kerry Logistics Europe headquarters in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.From here, he will run the operative business in Bremen, Hamburg and Frankfurt as well as ...
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NewsAirfreight demand and load factors take a tumble in February
Air cargo demand and load factors slipped in February but figures are skewed by strikes at US seaports last year and the date of the Chinese New Year.The latest IATA figures show that freight tonne kms (FTKs) slipped by 5.6% year on year in February while capacity was up by ...
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CargoLogicAir to fly Beirut freighter for ABC
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is furthering its partnership with UK-registered CargoLogicAir (CLA) by launching a weekly Boeing 747 Middle East freighter link to Beirut out of London-Stansted via Amsterdam.The Beirut service is due to begin on April 17 and extends the operational contacts between Stansted-hubbed CLA and Russian-owned ABC.CLA conducted its ...
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NewsHong Kong holds on to hub top spot
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) remains the world's largest air cargo hub, said Airports Council International (ACI) in its preliminary world airport traffic rankings.Cargo at the Asian gateway was up 0.4%. Memphis in the US was second (up 0.8%), followed by Shanghai Pudong Airport, which was up 2.9%.Other highlights were ...
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Kestrel Liner Agencies opens dedicated airfreight office
Shipping line agency Kestrel Liner Agencies has opened a dedicated airfreight office following on from recent growth in the air cargo side of the business.The forwarder opened an office at Heathrow earlier this month with John Fiddies, who previously worked for forwarder Link Shipping UK, running the operation.Kestrel chief executive ...
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AF-KLM's de Juniac to lead IATA from June
Another high ranking Air France-KLM executive is leaving the airline as boss Alexandre de Juniac has been announced as the successor to IATA chief executive and director general Tony Tyler, who is retiring.After confirmation by the IATA annual general meeting in June, de Juniac will take up his duties after ...
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NewsChennai airport prepares for role as aid and relief hub
A four-day “Get Airports Ready for Disaster” (GARD) workshop is underway at India's Chennai International Airport to help prepare for its role as an aid and relief hub during natural disasters.The workshop has been launched by Deutsche Post DHL Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).After a natural disaster, ...
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Metro Supply Chain buys Evolution Time Critical
Canada’s Metro Supply Chain Group has acquired Evolution Time Critical, the Europe-based specialist in automotive emergency logistics.The deal — financial terms were not disclosed — provides 3PL provider Metro with an opportunity to increase its automotive industry presence beyond North America.“We have the platform from which to expand our capabilities ...
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Emirates launches MD-11 freighter to Phnom Penh
Emirates Skycargo has launched a weekly freighter service to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, becoming the Middle East carrier’s thirteenth all-cargo destination in the Far East.The Dubai-hubbed operator will start the service with a leased MD-11 freighter aircraft, providing dedicated outsourced capacity for 80 tonnes of cargo. The aircraft’s ...