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Brussels Airport launches airside pharma transporter to avoid temperature fluctuations
Brussels Airport has developed an airside pharma transporter in order to get around the problem of temperature fluctuations during the transfer of air cargo to and from the aircraft.The Belgian airport said its airside pharma transporter, which will swoop into action this month, is a trailer on which an insulated ...
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AstraZeneca on course for pharma modal shift to ocean from air
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca (AZ) is still on course for a modal shift from air to sea that will see 70% of its products transported by ocean within two years.But Julian Wann, global category manager, freight and logistics at AZ, said airfreight will still have an important role to play in ...
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If you have a hoverboard, you won’t fly warns Qatar
Qatar Airways has banned hoverboards and similar devices as checked-in or cabin baggage on all its flights. It applies regardless of the watt-hour rating of the Lithium battery that power the devices “due to concerns regarding the questionable quality of such items and the potential fire hazard associated with their ...
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Hactl welcomes back Mynmar
Myanmar National Airlines has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) –to handle its newly-launched services from Yangon.The airline, which as Union of Burma Airways, can trace its origins back to 1948 and operated flights to Hong Kong in the 1950s, is emerging after 22 years of isolation and ...
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Yangtze River gets into passengers
Hitherto all-cargo Chinese carrier Yangtze River Express Airlines yesterday has gained Civil Aviation Administration permission to operate domestic passenger flights from Shanghai. Yangtze River Express, owned by Hainan Airlines, will operate passenger flights from Pudong International Airport to Sanya, Guiyang and Zhuhai with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It already has 26 ...
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The show goes on, thanks to Qatar Cargo
In the absence of a magic carpet, Premium Events moved its production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from Bucharest to Doha’s on one of Qatar Airways cargo aircraft. The 70-tonne shipment, arranged by Qatar Airways Cargo’s dedicated charter team, took up an entire B747 freighter and included the full ...
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GDP doubts over airline certification
Airlines cannot be certificated for Good Distribution Practice (GDP) along the entire supply chain for pharmaceutical transport but can still be compliant to GDP standards.Annette Kreuziger of Lufthansa Cargo told a pharma conference in London that “it is not just possible” for airlines to assess all the varied third party ...
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Expeditors opts for single GDP standards for all stations
Freight forwarder Expeditors has implemented a single pharmaceutical Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliance standard across all of its stations in order to avoid the issue of operating with different procedures in each country.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Science and Pharmaceutical conference, Expeditors global director healthcare vertical Andrew Lester ...
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China Postal Airlines orders ten B737-800 freighter conversions
China Postal Airlines has signed up with US planemaker Boeing for ten Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), pending a program launch."This is a historic order both for China Postal and Boeing," said Yufeng Li, president of China Postal Airlines, who signed the agreement with Boeing in Beijing. He added: ...
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Emerging markets buck flat Heathrow trend
Cargo to and from emerging markets at London Heathrow increased 1.8% over the past 12 months, said the airport authority. Traffic with Mexico was up 31%, Turkey 27% and China 3%.The airport said this underlied the export growth potential of an expanded Heathrow which would be able to offer up ...
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Strike hits Frankfurt freight
Frankfurt Airport said its November traffic was badly hit by a Lufthansa flight attendant strike which led to the cancellation of 3,400 scheduled flights. Cargo for the month was down 3.9%; for the year-to-date it fell by 2.7% to just over 1.9 million tonnes.The Fraport Group’s Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide ...
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Cathay’s freight fails to catch up with passenger growth
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair passenger and cargo traffic showed divergent trends in November with a sizeable increase in the former but a fall cargo and mail uplifted compared with the same month in 2014.The two airlines carried 160,120 tonnes of cargo and mail in November, a 3.0% decrease compared to ...
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Ethiopian switch hurts Brussels’ cargo
The switch by Ethiopian Airlines to Dutch hub to Dutch hub Maastricht-Aachen hit Brussels Airport’s cargo traffic in November, said the Belgian airport.Cargo for the month fell by 5.7% and the full freighter segment by 15.5% after Ethiopian failed to get Belgian traffic rights for its onward flights to Dubai, ...
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Brussels sooths TIACA’s customs fears
European Union tax officials have reassured the airfreight industry that there will be no abrupt changes to the rules for temporary storage, says TIACA secretary general Doug Brittin. The trade will also be invited to join a new project group on the issue that will work with member states and ...
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Flat picture for freight at world airports
World airfreight was significantly weaker than passenger traffic, inching up by only 0.3% in October, reports Airports Council International (ACI). International freight grew by 0.3% and domestic only 0.2%.The results for major freight hubs were mixed, with Dubai reporting a 10% increase in freight while Frankfurt, Tokyo-Narita and Taipei seeing ...
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Gloomy November for Hong Kong cargo
Cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) dropped by 3.1% to 407,000 tonnes in November compared to the same month last year. The fall was mainly due to a 6% drop in transshipment and 4% in imports, compared to the same month last year, with traffic to and from ...
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e-AWB target of 56% by end of 2016 says IATA
IATA Cargo has set a 56% target for electronic air waybill (e-AWB) usage by the end of 2016, despite missing the 45% target for 2015.In October this year, the figure for e-AWB penetration was just 35.1% but Guillaume Drucy, IATA’s head of cargo e-business management, remained hopeful that ratio would ...
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IATA Cargo working closely with forwarders
IATA Cargo will acquire a leaner look as it cuts back on bureaucracy and complexity, as well as building a closer working relationship with the freight forwarder industry via the latter’s global body, FIATA.Glyn Hughes, IATA’s global head of cargo and now 18 months into the new role, said that ...
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IATA to meet US security chiefs on continued mutural recognition for European airfreight
IATA will meet next week with representatives of the Washington air cargo security community to safeguard a mutual recognition agreement between Europe and the US that is currently “under jeopardy”.The mutual recognition agreement (MRA) means that cargo being transferred or transited through the European Union (EU) is not subject to ...
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Paris attacks and strike action take their toll on European air cargo carriers in November
The November monthly statistics from European air cargo carriers paint a bleak picture for the end of the year as demand declines, the Paris attacks and strike action affected European airlines cargo operations.IAG, Air France KLM, Lufthansa and Finnair all recorded year-on-year demand declines in November, with the German group ...