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Green is the new brown
US parcels and logistics global giant UPS, or ‘Big Brown’ as it is affectionately known, is turning green.The great challenge for any global parcel carrier, with sizeable and international freighter fleets, is how to be a responsible, environmentally aware corporate citizen.Mike Mangeot, spokesman for UPS Airlines, says: "The definition of ...
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Shippers prepared to pay more for greener airfreight
Shippers and forwarders are prepared to pay higher freight rates for environmentally-friendly air cargo.That is the message from Lufthansa Cargo, which says that a number of shipper and freight forwarders have asked for a green rate quote for their airfreight shipments.As consumers demand that the goods they buy have been ...
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Freighter to door delivery
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered an 11-ton oil and gas pump right to the door of a customer in the town of Farab, Turkmenistan.The oil production unit was transported from Maastricht Airport in the Netherlands on behalf of the airline’s customer, Agility Projects Rotterdam.The pump was packed inside a two-ton wooden ...
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Finnair adds widebody capacity to London links
Finnair will add belly cargo capacity to its Helsink-London Heathrow route from the end of October with a three times a week Airbus A340 widebody passenger aircraft.The carrier said in a statement: “Finnair has recently established its third cargo hub in London to better connect the UK with its extensive ...
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More cash for online freight network
Hong Kong-based Freightos says it has gained a further US$14m worth of funding for its automated global freight network.Existing investors Aleph, Annox Capital, ICV and OurCrowd have been joined by MSR Capital and Sadara Ventures in a Series B funding round, bringing the total raised to $23.3m.Freightos says it has ...
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UPDATE: UPS pilots set to vote on strike action
Another airline is facing up to the prospect of strikes after a union representing UPS pilots announced it would hold a member vote to authorise industrial action.The Independent Pilots Association, which represents 2,600 pilots at the US-based parcel and logistics giant, today announced that it would hold a vote of ...
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AF-KLM offers real time notification when a problem occurs
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo is offering RealTime Care, a service that tells customers automatically when a shipment is affected by an “irregularity”.As part of the European carrier's Let's Get Digital programme, customers will be “notified about the situation, its cause and the repair solution that has been found for them”.RealTime Care ...
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AMI offers agents instant online quotes in the UK
Airfreight and express wholesaler AMI UK has launched a new online booking portal that also offers instant price quotes.The Quote&Book portal is accessible only by AMI approved agent customers in the UK and allows prices to be filtered using the wholesaler's consolidation or direct air waybill service, as well as ...
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K+N signs cool chain deal with Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics has awarded a six-year contract to Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) to manage its cold and temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution in the US.“We need a partner with demonstrated capability managing high volume cold chain distribution operations and who understands the strict regulatory rules and logistics challenges of our industry,” said ...
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Lufthansa will see 1,000 flights cancelled today due to strike action
Around 1,000 Lufthansa flights will be affected by a pilot strike that began at midnight targeted at short and medium-haul routes.The German airline said that of the 3,000 flights due to take place across the group, 1,000 would be cancelled because of the strike action.But despite the pilot walk-out, Lufthansa ...
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United CEO steps down amid corruption investigation
United Airlines chief executive Jeff Smisek and two other senior officials have stepped down from their positions as a result of an ongoing US federal investigation into alleged corruption.The airline said that along with Smisek, the executive vice president of communications and government affairs Nene Foxhall and senior vice president ...
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Exclusive interview: AstraZeneca's move to seafreight continues
A few years back when hints of modal shift first appeared in airfreight, the received industry wisdom was that it would have limited impact, because most cargo that goes by air has to go by air.The idea was that many shipments were so time-sensitive or valuable that seafreight was not ...
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DHL goes greener in Asia Pacific
DHL Express has improved its carbon efficiency by 12% year on year in the Asia Pacific region despite a growth in volume of about 10%.In 2014, the global parcel and freight giant saw its CO2 efficiency over 2013 improve across the region, with savings of 21% in Malaysia, 15% in ...
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The strike goes on as Lufthansa pilots extend action for another day
Lufthansa Group pilots have announced they will extend their strike into Wednesday, this time targeting medium and short-haul routes.The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union said that all departures from Germany which use the aircraft types Airbus 320 Family, Boeing 737 and Embraer, effectively the airlines short and medium-haul aircraft, would be ...
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NCA says changed market conditions behind B747F order cancellation
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has given a few more details on the reasons behind its decision to cancel a $1.5bn order for four Boeing 747-8Fs.In a statement to Air Cargo News the Japanese all-cargo carrier said: “Market conditions have really changed since 2007 when we went ahead with firm orders ...
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Lufthansa: freighter flights unaffected by tomorrow's strike
Lufthansa expects more than half of all long-haul flights and all cargo flights to go-ahead as planned tomorrow despite a pilot strike.The German airline group said that 84 out of a total of 170 long-haul flights and all seven planned cargo flights will operate tomorrow.This comes despite the Vereinigung Cockpit ...
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Webinar on Middle East air traffic
A panel of experts will discuss in a live webinar how increased aircraft movements and fewer delays could bring significant economic benefits for both airports and passengers in the Middle East.With aircraft fleets across the Middle East forecast to grow at an annual rate of more than 10% over the ...
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Hong Kong was the top cargo hub in 2014
Hong Kong was again the world’s number one cargo airport by freight tonnages, registering a six percent increase during 2014 to 4.4m tonnes.Annual statistics released by Airports Council International (ACI) show that FedEx hub Memphis was in second place with 4.3m tonnes, a rise of 2.9%, followed by Shanghai, up ...
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Volga-Dnepr goes green with tree transport
The air cargo industry’s drive to go green was given a new spin when Volga-Dnepr transported 28 cypress trees from the Czech Republic to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent.The 7.5 metre trees were flown from Brno in the Czech Republic onboard one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL-76TD-90VD freighters on behalf of ...
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Lufthansa pilots announce Tuesday strike
Lufthansa pilots have announced they will launch strike action on Tuesday which they say will affect all cargo flights from Germany.The Vereinigung Cockpit union today announced that all Lufthansa departures from Germany with Airbus 380, A330 and A340 aircraft and Boeing 747 aircraft would be affected, as would all flights ...