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Students earn their GDP spurs at IAG Cargo/Exelsius workshop
A further 18 students have graduated from the IAG Cargo/Exelsius Good Distribution Practice (GDP) Academy — the fifth such international training course — this time held in London.Attended by students from Singapore, India and the UK, the course was of particular benefit to forwarders and ground handlers who are either ...
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Record start to the year for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) had a record breaking start to 2016 but has warned of a challenging year ahead.The Russian airline recorded a 30% year-on-year increase in demand in January to a new high for the month of 43,605 tons after it added new freighters and expanded its network last year.Newly-launched ...
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TIACA adds Incheon's Lee to board of directors
TIACA has added Seoul-Incheon International Airport vice president marketing Kwang-Soo Lee to its board of directors as the organisation looks to continue its move towards e-freight.Lee graduated from Korea Aerospace University in 1984 and received his Master’s degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University School of Business.He joined Incheon, which ...
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Forwarder AVI-AD recruits former CAL Cargo COO
Former CAL Cargo Airlines chief operating officer Rami Marom has been appointed as the new chief executive of Israeli forwarder AVI-AD Logistics Services.Marom started his new role at the Hellmann Worldwide Logistics-owned forwarder on January 1, taking over from Avi Cohen who will become an active chairman of the board.Cohen ...
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Cargolux appoints new regional director west and north Europe
Cargolux has appointed Gerard Ter Bruggen as its new regional director west and north Europe, covering Benelux, the UK, Scandinavia and Baltic States.Ter Bruggen has 35 years’ experience in the airline industry, having held a variety of roles in operations, customer service, country management and sales and marketing.He joins Cargolux ...
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CEVA appoints new SVP for global healthcare operations
CEVA Logistics has appointed Kamaljit Hunjan to the position of senior vice president global healthcare operations.Hunjan will be based from the company’s London Heathrow office and will report directly to chief operating officer contract logistics Brett Bissell.He joins CEVA from General Electric (GE) Healthcare in the US where he was ...
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Air Charter Service appoints new head of São Paulo cargo business
Air Charter Service has appointed Andre Rodrigues to head up the cargo division in the company’s São Paulo office.Rodrigues brings more than 25 years’ aviation experience with him, having worked for a number of airlines, GSAs and other charter companies, arranging both cargo and passenger flights.In one of his previous ...
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Lorrain to lead CEVA's new ground transportation arm
CEVA Logistics is introducing ground transportation as a fourth business division, to run alongside the company’s existing air, ocean and contract logistics businesses.It will be headed up by Jérôme Lorrain as chief operating officer.Lorrain will relocate to CEVA’s US corporate headquarters in Houston from Dubai, where he served as executive ...
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Volga-Dnepr looks to expand in aerospace, humanitarian and oil & gas
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced the appointment of three global directors to push its expansion in the aerospace, humanitarian, and oil & gas sectors.Axel Kaldschmidt has been appointed global director, aerospace Industry.Aerospace customers account for 30% of Volga-Dnepr’s annual business and since its launch, the airline has operated over 5,250 flights ...
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Fuat Adoran to lead CEVA’s Balkan, Middle East and Africa cluster
CEVA Logistics has appointed Fuat Adoran to lead its Balkan, Middle East & Africa cluster.Adoran served as managing director, CEVA Turkey, for the last three years. He will continue to be based in Istanbul and will report to company chief executive, Xavier Urbain. He has worked at CEVA since the ...
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UPS nominates Abney as chairman of the board
The UPS board of directors has nominated chief executive David Abney as its new chairman following on from current incumbent Scott Davis’ decision to retire from the role.The board of directors also created a new lead independent director position, and appointed William Johnson, former chief executive of HJ Heinz, to ...
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Barnes heads back to the UK for new role at Crane Worldwide
Crane Worldwide Logistics has appointed Andrew Barnes as head of country sales for the United Kingdom.Barnes has been working for Crane Worldwide Logistics for the last seven years and previously opened the forwarder's operations in Jakarta.Prior to working with Crane Worldwide, he worked for Panalpina and Kuehne+Nagel in China, Hong ...
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TNT returns to the black in the fourth quarter
Express delivery firm TNT returned to the black during the fourth quarter of last year on the back of revenue growth and cost cutting measures.The Amsterdam-headquartered company, which is the process of being taken over by FedEx, reported fourth-quarter revenues of €1.9bn, up 4.1% compared with the same period in ...
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US-Cuba to sign air services agreement
A bilateral agreement between the US and Cuba will be signed today, re-establishing scheduled air services between the two countries after more than 50 years.US Department of Transportation (DoT) Secretary Anthony Foxx and Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin will travel to Cuban capital Havana ...
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Queuing for Cuba: US airlines eye services as relations restored
US airlines are eyeing the launch of new services to Cuba following the thawing of relations between the two countries.Yesterday at midnight, the diplomatic missions in Cuba and the US became full embassies for the first time since diplomatic relations were severed in 1961.However, the trade embargo stopping US companies ...
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Toll records revenue and operating income declines
Freight forwarder Toll has seen revenues and operating profits decline since its takeover by Japan Post last year.The Japan Post Group, which is reportedly interested in the purchase of DHL Global Forwarding, released its results for the nine month period until the end of December.Its international logistics business, which is ...
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Cargo partly to blame for low profitability at Asian carriers
Cargo is one of the main reasons carriers based in Asia continue to suffer from lower profitability levels than competitors from most other regions of the world.Speaking at the Singapore Airshow Aviation Summit, IATA chief executive and chairman Tony Tyler said the overall airline industry was expected to return profits ...
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CSafe launches CATS container tracking system
Temperature-controlled container supplier CSafe Global has launched its Container Automated Tracking System (CATS) to provide customers with detailed, real-time, active-container information.CATS allows container lessees to manage and oversee their RKN (insulated container) inventory from their desks and gives authorised users unlimited access to RKN log file decryption and charts at ...
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NewsMarket Talk: Deutsche Post considers future for DHL Global Forwarding, says Reuters
DHL Global Forwarding may be sold or spun off by German parent group Deutsche Post, with Japan Post Holdings a possible buyer, claims news agency Reuters, citing "two people familiar with the matter".Deutsche Post and Japan Post, which owns top-20 forwarder Toll Global Forwarding, both declined to comment.According to Reuters, ...
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CargoLogicAir's launch customer named as Chapman Freeborn
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has revealed that the charter flights it carried out earlier this year were arranged by Chapman Freeborn Italia on behalf of freight forwarder Savino del Bene.CLA’s first charter flights flew from Stansted to Bari via Frankfurt and carried a total of 113 tons of automotive parts, including engine ...