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Horse specialist firmly on course for Australia
Equine specialist New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) has gained approval from the Australian government’s veterinary department for its new UK quarantine station in Sussex.Approval allows NZB’s airfreight arm to offer a monthly horse transport service ex UK to Australia from November this year. NZB Airfreight already offers a similar service from ...
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Jochen Thewes new chief executive of Schenker AG
Jochen Thewes has been appointed chief executive of Schenker AG and will lead the Germany railway Deutsche Bahn’s DB Schenker Logistics business unit.He will take up his new position on September 1, 2015, replacing Karl-Friedrich Rausch, who held the position on an interim basis. Dr Rausch has now left the ...
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What slump? Boeing still sees $950bn market in China
Boeing expects China to order over 6,300 new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, despite the country’s current economic turmoil.In its annual China Current Market Outlook (CMO) released on 25 August – the day after a major slump in the local stock market – the plane manufacturer estimated the ...
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Hong Kong and Taiwan boost Kerry interims
Hong Kong-based logistics firm Kerry Logistics Network showed little sign of the Chinese financial crisis in its interim results for the six months ended 30 June.However, group managing director William Ma warned that the global economy “continued to be plagued with volatility in the first half of 2015” although its ...
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Asia slowdown impacts Schiphol’s cargo first half
Asian and European volume declines saw Amsterdam Airport Schiphol handle 784,567 cargo tonnes in the first six months of 2015, down 2.1% on 2014. The figures were mainly impacted by declines in Asia traffic (down 3.8% at 293,293 tonnes) and Europe (down 16.2% to 64,198 tonnes). Other regions held up ...
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Jettainer to help standardisation of ULD processes
Jettainer is to help further the development of international standards for handling air cargo containers, unit load devices (ULD).Michael Popp, Jettainer’s director of operations at the outsourced ULD management company, will take part in IATA’s designated ULD Panel and has joined the board of the organisation ULD Care.Popp will help ...
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UPS Canada renews Cargojet agreement
Cargojet has entered into a new air cargo service agreement with United Parcel Service (UPS) Canada.It replaces the original 2003 agreement for the Canada-based freighter operator to provide domestic overnight air cargo services throughout Canada for the US-based express parcel and logistics giant.The initial term of the agreement is for ...
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Laser lights...action...charter
Delicate laser technology cargo has flown by freighter from Sweden to Japan after six months of detailed planning and preparation.The high value industrial laser equipment was carried from Orebro in Sweden by Volga-Dnepr Airlines on one of its IL-76TD-90VD aircraft.The cargo required a non-standard engineering solution and a temperature-controlled environment ...
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Nigeria looks to set up new national carrier
The Nigerian Government has set up a committee to look into re-establishing a national airline.It will be chaired by former Discovery Airlines chairman, Captain Mohammed Abdulsalam, and is tasked with reviewing reports by previous consultants and the collapse of the now defunct Nigeria Airways, along with other failed private carriers.The ...
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Saudia Cargo resumes freighter operations to JFK
Saudi Airlines Cargo will start operating weekly freighter flights between Jeddah and New York’s JFK airport from September 4 “in response to the size of the growing demand for shipping operations”.The airline's acting VP Commercial, Rainer Mueller, said: "This step will enhance the activity of air cargo operations to and ...
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United Cargo signs pharma container rental deal with va-Q-tec
United Cargo has signed a global rental agreement with va-Q-tec, a provider of temperature controlled containers used to transport pharmaceuticals in the air cargo cool chain.The airfreight arm of United Airlines is the first North American carrier to announce the availability of va-Q-tainer rentals directly through the airline and plans ...
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Leipzig/Halle airport hits record volumes in July
Freight volumes at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany’s second-largest cargo hub, set a new record in July with throughput totaling 84,397 tonnes, an increase of 7.7% over like month 2014.July was the third record-setting month in 2015, said the airport authority, which added that the volume of cargo between January and July ...
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Vienna bids to raise Malta stake
Flughafen Wien (Vienna Airport) is to make a €3 per share offer for Canadian-based SNC Lavalin’s stake in Malta International Airport.Since the Mediterranean island airport was privatised in 2002, 40% of it has been held by Malta Mediterranean Link Consortium, in which Flughafen Wien AG has a 57.1% holding via ...
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Korean keeps up a 747 tradition
Korean Air has taken delivery of the first of a fleet of ten 747-8 Intercontinental passenger planes. The carrier is the first airline in the world to operate both the passenger and freighter versions of the 747-8.Korean Air currently operates seven 747-8 freighters. Its 28-strong cargo fleet also includes 747-400, ...
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Cochin is India’s first all-solar powered airport
Cochin International Airport in India says it has become the first in the country to operate completely on solar power.Chief minister Oommen Chandy has inaugurated a 12 MWp solar power plant, comprising 46,150 solar panels laid across 45 acres near the cargo complex. The plant is now producing 50,000 to ...
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Ask before you ship, FedEx chief tells aerospace exporters
Aircraft part manufacturers should get proper advice and provide customs brokers with information well in advance, says FedEx Europe managing director, David Poole.With a growing market, particularly in Asia, UK aerospace companies need more support and assistance he argues. One of the largest stumbling blocks to the transport of aerospace ...
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Saudia appoints ACP as GSA in South Africa
ACP Worldwide has been appointed South African cargo general sales agent (GSA) for Saudia Cargo.The carrier currently operates three times weekly B747 freighter flights from Johannesburg to Jeddah and Amsterdam, shared with Nairobi, and ACP will also sell belly space on the carrier’s three times weekly B777-200 wide-body flights between ...
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Now we’re getting rally cross
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and logistics partner GAC transported 19 Rallycross cars from Canada to Norway on a chartered Kalitta Air B747-200F for the FIA World Rallycross Championship.It is the first time cars for the competition have been transported by air.The occasion was attended by Norwegian rally drivers Petter Solberg and ...
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Close encounters of the drone kind
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said there had been a dramatic increase in encounters between aircraft and unmanned drones in its latest report, released on 21 August.It lists pilot, air traffic and citizen reports of possible encounters with unmanned aircraft between 13 November 2014 to 20 August, 2015.The FAA ...