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ACI reports on moderate gains in January for cargo gateways
Airports Council International (ACI), the industry body that represents airports around the world, has revealed that its gateways saw comparatively little in the way of year on year freight growth in January. Across all its member airports worldwide, cargo traffic rose 1.5% over the first month of 2015 compared to ...
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PACTL becomes first Chinese air cargo terminal to gain CEIV
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (Pactl) has successfully completed the validation process to obtain IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) in Pharmaceutical Logistics.As a result, Pactl now operates the first Chinese air cargo terminal that has obtained the CEIV certification.“Having satisfied the IATA CEIV Pharma regulations, our ...
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Turkish Cargo makes promising start to 2016
Turkish Cargo carried a total of 111,691 tons of cargo in the first two months of this year, up 14.6% on the same period of 2015. Of that, 103,309 tons of cargo was carried on international services, 8,382 tons on domestic routes.Considering regional performance, volumes carried within the Middle East ...
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Brussels Airlines: “dynamic and competitive”
Brussels Airlines has published financial results for 2015 that show turnover rose by 6.9% compared to 2014 to reach €1.27bn, while net profit totalled €41.3m.Due to what is perceived to have been a successful repositioning in the market and ongoing cost control measures, “Our efforts to make Brussels Airlines a ...
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Gebrüder Weiss reveals healthy 2015 results
Lauterach, Austria-headquartered international transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has said that its 2015 fiscal year figures prove that it “surpassed the result of the previous year and successfully strengthened its position in several growth markets and sectors”. Enjoying a year on year increase of 3%, the group has revealed ...
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CHEP and Cargolux extend their collaboration up to 2020
Luxembourg-headquartered Boeing 747 freight operator Cargolux and CHEP Aerospace Solutions , a provider of outsourced ULD pooling and repair services, have signed a new agreement to extend their existing collaborative deal out to 2020.Cargolux has been a CHEP client since 2009; in fact, it is one of CHEP’s biggest customers. ...
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Brussels handles major horse shipment
On the morning of 16 March, a Boeing 747-400F took off from Brussels airport destined for the Middle East carrying 86 horses in what was the largest shipment of horses in one aircraft for many years.Steven Polmans, head of cargo at Brussels Airport Company, remarked: “A horse transport of this ...
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Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings fall 40% in 2015
Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings contribution to the parent group airline declined 40% to €74m in full year 2015 as seasonal “sizeable overcapacities” in the airfreight market hit load factors and yields.In addition to the excess capacity from the beginning of the summer onwards, cargo earnings were also depressed by the strike ...
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Heathrow offers another weapon in fight against cargo-related emissions
London Heathrow has revealed plans to create an online portal aimed at consolidating freight loads and thereby lessen the number of trucks and volume of unwanted emissions on the roads around the airport. Encouraging freight company partners to operate sustainably is one of the ten priorities that Heathrow has set ...
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Aviation industry gets together to combat wildlife trafficking
A total of 40 public and private sector bodies, many of them major players within the global transport industry, have signed a declaration at Buckingham Palace in the heart of London that will help tackle the illegal trafficking of wildlife products. At the palace for the signing was Britain’s Duke ...
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PEMCO on the up
PEMCO World Air Services, the Florida, US-based maintenance and conversion company, enjoyed a successful 2015 fiscal year. It delivered passenger-to-freighter conversions to new as well as long-standing operators, the company confirms, while turnaround time on its B737 cargo door conversion was reduced by 14 days.Lean production procedures were implemented throughout ...
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Jettainer develops new ULD software to assist in fleet management
ULD management firm Jettainer and the University of Cologne are in the process of developing a new tool that will offer live decision making assistance to improve the management of ULD fleets based on analysis of large amounts of data.Jettainer sales director Thorsten Riekert told Air Cargo News that it ...
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DB Schenker bucks the trend on 2015 airfreight volumes
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has released its financial results for the 2015 fiscal year, and those that relate to freight forwarder DB Schenker’s air cargo business are positive. Airfreight volumes handled by Schenker were up 1.4% over the 2014 figure. That’s an impressive result when compared to how some of the ...
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Aircargo Club Deutschland plans new innovation forum
Germany’s air cargo industry is hoping to push forward innovation in the sector through the creation of a new forum.The Aircargo Club Deutschland (ACD) has announced plans to create a new forum named The Future of Air Cargo Supply Chains in an attempt to restore international competitiveness in a “sustainable ...
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NewsAmerican cargo carriers monthly: Tough times for US carriers
America-based airlines’ monthly airfreight statistics for February made for difficult reading as American, Delta and United all recorded year-on-year demand declines for the first time in years.While demand declines are not good news for the airlines, the comparisons with a year ago are affected by the west coast US port ...
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CHAMP and GLS Hong Kong extend their partnership
Luxembourg-headquartered logistics IT systems provider CHAMP Cargosystems has extended its partnership with e-freight specialist Global Logistics System Hong Kong (GLS Hong Kong, or GLSHK) to provide a joint solution designed to enable small and medium-sized freight forwarders in Hong Kong to create and submit electronic air waybills (e-AWB) quickly and ...
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Fraport’s freight volumes fall, but its financials are healthy
Airport operator Fraport has reported that the group’s 2015 annual revenue climbed by 8.4% year-on-year to reach €2.58 billion, while operating profit (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, or ebitda) increased by 7.4% to €848.8 million.The positive business performance was mainly due to increased passenger numbers passing through Frankfurt ...
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SAS opts for lightweight ULDs
Scandinavian airline SAS is extending its contract with ULD service provider CHEP Aerospace Solutions.In future, SAS will use CHEP's 65kg containers which are over 20% lighter than its existing units and as a result will save over 13,000 tonnes of CO2 during the five-year term of the new agreement.SAS head ...
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alpha trans rings the changes
Munich, Germany-headquartered multimodal freight forwarder alpha trans Luft- und Seefrachtspedition has named two joint managing directors to replace its one current managing director, Fred Eichenseher, who retires at the end of 2016.Tim Teubert, one of the two joint MDs, has responsibility for the company’s ocean freight services and administration activities. ...
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Panalpina’s 2015 annual report hits the streets
Global supply chain services giant Panalpina has published its full annual report for 2015. It adds some more flesh to the bones of the summary of 2015’s performance that was released a couple of weeks ago. It also offers some more insight into the company’s plans for the rest of ...