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Kohlsaat joins Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport has appointed John Kohlsaat as senior vice president sales, responsible for the development of the passenger and cargo airline business.Kohlsaat’s recruitment is part of a restructuring of the German airport’s sales department which will see Frankfurt-Hahn Airport put “a stronger focus on the different requirements in the passenger ...
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Wildtgrube becomes Finnair Cargo's head of global sales
Fredrik Wildtgrube has been appointed Finnair Cargo's head of global sales, effective from January 11 next year.Wildtgrube has broad experience in logistics and sales, having worked in multiple freight forwarding companies and most recently at Nokia and Microsoft Mobile."I warmly welcome Fredrik to Finnair Cargo. Together with Fredrik's business and ...
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IATA tackling lithium battery risk for air cargo
IATA Cargo is working with regulators, postal authorities, airlines and forwarders to combat the threat posed by unauthorised or wilfully mis-declared airfreight shipments of lithium batteries.Dave Brennan, assistant director of cargo safety and standards at airline industry grouping IATA, said that 400m lithium batteries are manufactured each week.Lithium batteries are ...
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Jettainer and Thomas Cooks extend their ULD cooperation
Outsourced ULD management specialist Jettainer and Thomas Cook Group Airlines are expanding their cooperation.The new contract not only covers Condor, a Jettainer customer since 2006, but also Thomas Cook Airlines UK and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.As a result, all the carriers’ ULDs will now be looked after by the same ...
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ACS brings home the bacon as ham takes flight
Air Charter Service last week brought home the bacon when it flew 17 tonnes of ham to Puerto Rico as the island was close to running out of the meat.ACS North America president of operations Richard Thompson explained the emergency flight was required because an order had been missed: "Someone ...
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Volga-Dnepr makes first-ever air drop
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed its first-ever ‘air drop’ by parachuting 208 barrels of fuel from an IL-76TD-90VD freighter onto a remote airfield in the Antarctic.The delivery will be used for inland scientific missions, vehicles and small airplane operations.The 34-ton shipment was placed onto 26 special parachute platforms and was dropped ...
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Schiphol Cargo eBook provides guidance for pharma logistics managers
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has produced a pharma e-book which features interviews with seven experts in the pharma and pharma logistics sectors.Vision Pharma Logistics 2020: Insights and practical advice is published by Schiphol Cargo – the European airport’s dedicated cargo department.One of the main conclusions in the book is that pharma ...
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FPS to allow multiple membership
Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) freight forwarding group is to change its constitution to allow multiple membership in each territory.The decision was reached at this year’s AGM and conference, which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, attended by representatives of the network’s global membership.Advisory board chairman Sam Aparo, co-owner of one of ...
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Hire fliers: Cargolux begins hunt for new pilots following union deal
Cargolux Airlines has begun the hiring and training process for 100 new pilots in Luxembourg.The airline said 52 candidates had already been selected and Cargolux plans to begin the training process for eight candidates per month from January until July 2016.Candidates for the remaining 48 open positions are expected to ...
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IAG Cargo appoints new chief executive
Andrew Crawley, currently British Airways chief commercial officer, is to become chief executive of IAG Cargo from January 2016.He will report into IAG chief executive Willie Walsh and become a member of the Group’s management committee.Crawley will replace Steve Gunning who is leaving IAG Cargo in January to become British ...
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FedEx considers appealing French cartel fine as it reports profit improvements
FedEx has said it is considering appealing against the fine issued by France’s competition authority for alleged price fixing in the parcel delivery sector as it announced its latest quarterly results.The Memphis-headquartered integrator recorded an increase in second-quarter fiscal year revenues of 5% to $12.5bn, operating income was up 4.6% ...
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The challenge of meeting pharmaceutical supply chain requirements
Air cargo carriers face the challenge of balancing the need to make investments to meet the needs of pharmaceutical shippers and justifying those investments to finance departments.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals conference, American Airlines manager cold chain strategy Tom Grubb provided an example of how ...
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France slaps price-fixing fines on 20 express carriers
France’s Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence, FCA) has ordered 20 parcels delivery firms to pay a total €672.3m for price-fixing.Some 20 companies including Chronopost, Exapaq (now DPD France), Dachser France, DHL Express France, FedEx Express France, Gefco, Geodis, GLS France, Norbert Dentressangle Distribution, Schenker-Joyau (now Schenker France), TNT Express ...
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European court overturns fines imposed on carriers for alleged air cargo cartel
The General Court of the European Union has annulled fines totalling nearly €800m imposed by the European Commission against a range of airlines for the alleged fixing of airfreight charges.According to the Court, "the grounds and the operative part of the decision are contradictory".The airlines named in the original lawsuit ...
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Winter jackets for refugees delivered by China Southern
China Southern Airlines has transported thousands of winter jackets to Europe for Syrian refugees in Germany, part of a donation by Chinese-Australian businessman Henry Ngai.The 1.5 tonnes load spurred a major logistical effort involving China Southern Airlines, the German government and the German Red Cross.The A$1.15m donation for 100,000 jackets ...
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Sören Stark joins Lufthansa Cargo in operations role from 2016
Sören Stark will be appointed to the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo with responsibility for operations, effective from April 2016.The 48-year-old industrial engineer is currently in charge of aircraft maintenance at Lufthansa Technik. In this post, he is responsible for all the maintenance events and cabin modifications that are carried ...
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Kahala Aviation bags converted B737-300F
US-based freighter conversion specialist PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered a Boeing 737-300F aircraft to Ireland-based Kahala Aviation, a leading lessor of narrow-body freighter aircraft.The freighter, converted at PEMCO’s headquarters in Tampa, has now entered service. This conversion marks PEMCO’s third redelivery of a B737-300 to Kahala since 2008. A ...
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European Court judgement ruling
Here is the full text of a press release published by the General Court of the European Union regarding its annulment of the fines imposed by the European Commission on several airlines for an alleged cargo rate cartel:The General Court annuls the decision by which the Commission imposed fines amounting ...
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Va-Q-tec opens rental station in Mumbai
Cool chain equipment lessor va-Q-tec has opened its first container rental network station in India for pharmaceutical shipments.The recently qualified and trained network station in Mumbai, opened in cooperation with Japan's Yusen Logistics, is the first of multiple hubs to follow in India.Siddarth Kasturia, senior general manager at Yusen Logistics, ...
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LatAm pharma boost for IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate pharma product will have access to three new passenger routes in Latin America from the summer of 2016, offering bellyhold capacity to growing life science markets.From summer 2016, the carrier will operate direct flights from London Gatwick to San Jose, Costa Rica and Lima, Peru. In ...