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Antonov denies liquidation reports
Antonov has denied reports that the company has been liquidated, pointing out that the manufacturer has actually been transferred to a different state concern.Several media reports have carried stories on the demise on the iconic aircraft manufacturer over the last few days.In response, the company said it had transferred the ...
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Qatar Marches on with freighter routes to Budapest, Prague and Ho Chi Minh
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch A330F freighter routes to Budapest, Prague and Ho Chi Minh in March, filling a “definite gap in the market” and increasing the Middle East airline’s freighter destinations in Europe to 14 and in Asia/Pacific to six.An Airbus freighter will fly twice a week from Qatar ...
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Air cargo industry set to benefit from easing of Iranian sanctions
The logistics industry stands to benefit from the removal of Iranian sanctions but uncertainties remain “substantial”, according to one logistics consultant.In a research note, Transport Intelligence practice leader Thomas Cullen said that the removal of certain aspects of the Iranian sanction regime had “triggered a flood of business, much of ...
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Air Partner teams up with TALA for urgent flights for aerospace industry
The Aerospace Logistics Alliance (TALA) and air charter service provider Air Partner have co-operated in providing a number of flights for aerospace industry over the past few months.On one flight, a small King Air turboprop was chartered out of London Southend Airport to Zurich on behalf of TALA UK carrying ...
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Lowrie to head SEKO aerospace and aviation business
SEKO Logistics has created an aerospace & aviation industry vertical that will be headed by Bryan Lowrie, managing director, and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the world’s second largest aerospace market.SEKO has served leading manufacturing and production customers in the industry for a number of years. Now it is increasing its ...
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WACO System launches vendor membership
Global freight management network The WACO System has created a new associate vendor membership level, with Chapman Freeborn and Cargoguide as the first two members in that category.The new membership is open to suppliers providing “critical services” to The WACO System’s independent forwarder members.Richard Charles, executive director, The WACO System, ...
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NewsMAG Cargo sees 4.3% UK network tonnage rise in 2015
MAG Cargo saw a 4.3% growth in 2015 tonnages across the UK airport group’s four hubs, as “spare capacity and favourable economic conditions led freight operators to increase their volumes”.Collectively, MAG’s airport portfolio of East Midlands, London Stansted, Manchester and Bournemouth handled 672,206 tonnes in 2015, up from 644,486 in ...
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BIFA award winners take a bow
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has revealed the winners of its Freight Service Awards competition 2015.Robert Keen, BIFA director general, speaking at the 27th freight services awards luncheon ceremony, said: “I know that every year BIFA members look forward to attending the Awards luncheon as I do. It has ...
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NewsGlobal economic weakness is air cargo's biggest concern in 2016
The Air Cargo News annual reader survey has revealed that the current state of the global economy is the single biggest challenge to the industry, while the pharmaceutical sector offers the best potential for growth.This year’s survey asked freight forwarders, airports, handlers and air cargo carriers their opinions on a ...
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Singapore Airlines Cargo extends handling contract with Frankfurt Cargo Services
Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) and Singapore Cargo Airlines have renewed the carrier’s handling contract at the German airport, Europe's largest airfreight hub by volumes.Hans-Georg Emmert, managing director of FCS, said: “We are very pleased that Singapore Airlines, one of Asia’s leading airlines, has decided to extend its contract with FCS ...
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'Marginal' 2015 cargo growth for Asia Pacific airlines
Asian Pacific airlines saw a “marginal increase” in cargo markets during 2015, while passenger traffic recorded “robust growth”.Preliminary full year 2015 traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) saw international air cargo demand, measured in freight tonne km (FTK), register a 1.6% increase for the year, ...
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From lamb cargo to LAN Cargo, 2,000 Magellan sheep flown to Ecuador
LAN Cargo has begun transporting more than 2,000 sheep from the Magallanes region, destined for the sheep-farming and wool-weaving indigenous communities that inhabit Ecuador’s central mountains.Following an agreement between the governments of Chile and Ecuador, the Marin Magellan Meat Merino specimens — 1,500 females and 507 males — will be ...
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Luxembourg cargo on a three year high
Luxembourg airport ended 2015 on a high note with a total of 738,136 tonnes of freight and post transported by air — up 4.2% compared to 2014 and continuing the trend of the past three years.October and November saw a growth surge of 9% while August was up 8% and ...
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Qatar adds east Europe options
Qatar Airways has announced a clutch of service improvements from its Doha hub to eastern Europe in 2016.They include increases in the current daily service to Zagreb and Budapest to ten times a week and to Baku from daily currently to 11 services a week.One of the airline’s double-daily services ...
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US East Coast still snowbound
Air services on the US east coast are only just beginning to resume after the recent snowstorm put all major airports out of action, along with most surface transport.United Airlines, which suspended services as a precautionary measure ahead of some of the worst winter weather of recent years, said it ...
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Rico squares the Circle
Troubled UK airfreight collection and delivery specialist Circle Express has found a new home in Rico, part of the TVS logistics group.Rico has taken a majority shareholding in Slough-based Circle, which entered into a company voluntary arrangement in 2012 and appointed turnaround specialists KSA Group to allow it to continue ...
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Green sky thinking in Scandinavia
SAS, KLM and Lufthansa are taking part in a biofuel trial at Oslo Gardermoen airport, the first international gateway where biofuel is regularly available on a regular basis, says airport operator Avinor.The three carriers have signed a purchase agreement with fuel supplier Air BP, in the hope that it will ...
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Londoners ‘favour Gatwick expansion’ claims airport operator
Londoners are more in favour of expanding Gatwick than the alternatives says the airport operator, quoting a YouGov poll, the first to be carried out since the UK government once again delayed a decision on the issue.Gatwick scored more highly than Heathrow on issues such as the effect on air ...
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Iran poised to buy planes again
Iran is poised to begin the long process of rebuilding its civil aviation fleet, following the ending of UN sanctions this month.The country’s government is expected to sign a deal for about 114 Airbus aircraft in Paris this week, which would allow state carrier Iran Air and other operators to ...
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Airfreight prices down in December
Airfreight prices ended the year on a low note as underlying market weakness caused rates to sharply decline, but improvements are expected in January.The latest Drewry East-West Airfreight Price Index shows that airfreight rates slid to $2.96 in December from $3.22 in November. It is the second monthly decline in ...