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Jettainer appoints Trapp as IT director
Lufthansa Cargo’s ULD management subsidiary, Jettainer, has appointed Arnd Trapp as its new IT director as it looks to enhance its container track and trace capabilities.Trapp has worked in the airfreight sector for more than 20 years, holding various management positions within the Lufthansa Group. Most recently head of the ...
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Florea joins CHAMP
Air cargo IT provider CHAMP Cargosystems has appointed Gabriel Florea as the new group chief financial officer, taking over from from Susan Boulton."Gabriel brings a wealth of knowledge in finance & controlling as well as multi-cultural competence to our organisation. He is a great addition to the CHAMP team and ...
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Zimmerman to lead Cargo 2000 change programme
Ariaen Zimmerman is the new full time executive director of Cargo 2000 (C2K), an IATA interest group established to lead the drive towards “enhanced quality throughout the air cargo industry”.Zimmerman is leading the group’s change programme, which will see C2K adopt a new auditing system, neutral benchmarks, and “embrace a ...
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Allport lands Damco's Kenning for supply chain role
Allport Cargo Services (ACS) has appointed Alan Kenning as executive director of its Supply Chain Management (SCM) division from rival forwarder Damco.Kenning has worked in logistics and supply chain management for more than 23 years, starting as a management trainee with Maersk in 1992 and working his way up through ...
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De Pauw re-joins DHL in Africa
DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Daniella de Pauw as chief executive, Sub-Saharan Africa.De Pauw will be based in Johannesburg and will be responsible for driving growth in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.She said: “Having served businesses in the region for over 35 years, we continue to ensure that the markets have ...
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American chills out with Envirotainer's e1 and e2 units
American Airlines Cargo has added the Envirotainer e1 and e2 containers to its fleet of temperature-controlled equipment for shipping healthcare products.From November, American will begin accepting both containers and is the first US passenger carrier to receive FAA carriage approval for the larger RAP e2 unit and offer the full ...
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Freighters expected to win marketshare from bellyhold
Freighters are expected to maintain and even grow their marketshare compared with bellyhold despite the increased cargo carrying capacity of passenger planes that are joining the market.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and chief commercial officer Michael Steen said that since ...
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IAG's new 787-9 Dreamliner packs a punch
IAG has taken delivery of its first 787-9 Dreamliner, a pharma-friendly bellyhold aircraft.While by no means the largest aircraft in the Anglo-Spanish carrier's fleet, the dash 9 variant of the Dreamliner will offer one of the largest cargo capacities — 22 tonnes over seven pallet positions — larger than a ...
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Exclusive content: Handling tremors raise opportunities and service questions
The cargo handling scene has undergone tectonic shifts this summer, with tremors that have involved the largest players.Dnata acquired Aviapartner's handling operations at Amsterdam, HNA Group agreed to fork out a cool Sfr2.73bn for Swissport and Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) – itself the object of a takeover by an equity ...
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Step forward the super-freighter
DRONES have been grabbing all the headlines as last mile delivery options for the express and freight industry, but an equally futuristic bigger brother is waiting in the wings.The airship technology variant, as espoused by US-based Aeros with its 66-tonne payload Aeroscraft aircraft, is well known, but there are also ...
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Flight at the end of the tunnel for cargo screening
Rapiscan Systems has launched a long tunnel cargo security screening scanner designed to meet the technology requirements of air cargo carriers.The 638DV 320kV (pictured) was specifically designed to increase throughput and meet international regulatory requirements to support a more efficient security design, said US-based Rapiscan.It stated: “Government entities across the ...
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Forwarders welcome Transpacific Partnership agreement
The US Airforwarders Association (AFA) and Boeing have welcomed the conclusion of the Transpacific Partnership negotiations.Yesterday, the US, Japan and 10 other Pacific rim nations reached an agreement on what is set to become the world’s largest regional trade agreement.However, the agreement, described as a first step, now needs to ...
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Economic volatility rocks TNT's Q3
Europe-based parcel and logistics operator TNT said that “economic volatility” in Brazil, China and Australia weighed on the takeover target’s third quarter performance.TNT, which is the subject of a $4.8bn takeover bid by US parcels giant FedEx, said in its latest trading update that the management team “remains focused” on ...
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Air Partner delivers 90 tonnes of food to the Central African Republic
The cargo charter arm of UK-based Air Partner has arranged an urgent B747 freighter flight for nearly 90 tonnes of food items to the Central African Republic on behalf of Ecolog International, a Dubai-based integrated service solutions company.The aid was delivered in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization ...
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TIACA calls for solutions to EU migrant crisis
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has called on world leaders to work together to find solutions to the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe.More than 514,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, with almost 3,000 people perishing on the journey or reported missing.“We must act together now ...
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Airbus A320/321 conversion prospects
A SMART career move for suitable members of the A320 and A321 passenger aircraft family is to become a converted freighter, as heir apparent to the integrator’s Boeing 757 workhorse.There are two companies positioning themselves in the A320/321 narrowbody passenger to freighter (P2F) conversion market, estimated at 2,200 suitable airframes ...
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An-70 calls at Leipzig Halle airport
An Antonov AN-70 military cargo aircraft has visited Leipzig/Halle Airport for the first time.The Ukrainian transport aircraft made a stopover at the central German airport, arriving from Istres in France, before it continued its journey to its home base at Kiev Gostomel Airport.This was the third time in all that ...
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Freight operators discover Columbus
Columbus, Ohio, is a fashion centre of the US, and local airfreight gateway Rickenbacker airport has ambitions to grow from an S size cargo hub to XL.Europe’s Cargolux, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific and Dubai’s Emirates SkyCargo all now operate scheduled freighter services to Rickenbacker (LCK), a dedicated cargo hub and ...
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Aeroflot's takeover of troubled Transaero falls apart
Aeroflot’s proposed takeover of debt-laden Russian airline Transaero has fallen apart because the airline’s shareholders failed to submit a formal proposal in time.State-controlled Aeroflot’s board of directors said that Transaero shareholders had failed to submit the proposal before the deadline stipulated in a tender offer for a 75% stake in ...
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Cargolux analysis: China airline waiting in the wings
Cargolux boss Dirk Reich had a spring in his step when he arrived back at home hub Luxembourg aboard the European carrier’s new Boeing 747 freighter – the 13th ─ a plane dazzlingly bedecked with colourful images to celebrate the airline’s 45th anniversary.Reich, fresh and surprisingly un-jetlagged from the first ...