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MASKargo boss resigns
MASKARGO boss Mohd Yunus Idris has resigned as the company’s chief executive officer.Unconfirmed local press reports suggest that poor ground handling standards and complaints from forwarders may have triggered the resignation, but a spokesperson for MASKargo said: "His decision to leave has nothing to do with what was reported".The country’s ...
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John Batten leaves Coyne Airways
COYNE AIRWAYS has appointed Liana Coyne as chief operating officer as part of a restructure that sees managing director John Batten leave the charter airline after seven months in the role.Batten, a former Swissport Cargo executive vice-president, joined the all-cargo carrier in September 2013 with the intention of launching services ...
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New editor at Air Cargo News
ROGER HAILEY has been appointed Editor of Air Cargo News. Roger has been writing about freight and logistics for 30 years, most recently as editor of Containerisation International, part of the Lloyd’s List Group.During his 18 years at the group Roger held a variety of senior roles, including news editor ...
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New sales manager at Geodis India
GLOBAL freight management company Geodis Wilson has appointed Sascha Von Ometzinski as national sales manager.Von Ometzinski will be responsible for sales and marketing development of Geodis' freight forwarding and logistics division in India.His main priorities will be strengthening and increasing the company’s trade lane activities, particularly with a focus on ...
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Lee leaves SIA Cargo to join Tiger Airways
SINGAPORE AIRLINES CARGO president Lee Lik Hsin is to be the new group chief executive of Singapore-based budget passenger airline Tiger Airways, in which the SIA group has a 40% stake.A public affairs spokesman for Singapore Airlines said that a statement on Lee’s successor at the cargo division would be ...
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New boss for SIA Cargo
SINGAPORE Airlines Cargo has appointed Chin Yau Seng as its new president.Chin takes over from Lee Lik Hsin, who has taken a leave of absence to join Tiger Airways Holdings as chief executive.Chin is currently Singapore Airlines’ senior vice-president, sales and marketing.Between July 2011 and September 2012, he was also ...
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New air cargo boss at CEVA
GLOBAL supply chain management company CEVA Logistics has appointed Michael Schaecher as its new chief operating officer of global airfreight.The former chief executive (CEO) of Air Cargo Germany has held a wide selection of management and operations roles, including executive positions with DHL Global Forwarding, Star Broker and Panalpina World ...
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Panalpina's new 'lean' business model
PANALPINA is the first global logistics company to gain accreditation for its ‘lean training’ programme.The achievement comes two years after the company’s logistics division set out to incorporate lean manufacturing principles into its global operations.The Lean Competency System (LCS) accreditation, developed in partnership with the UK’s Cardiff University, means that ...
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Düsseldorf Airport's cargo boom
LAST year saw the best cargo results for a dozen years at Germany’s Düsseldorf Airport.A total of more than 110,000 tonnes saw the Rhine-Rhur gateway’s airfreight business grow by an impressive 9.1 per cent over the previous year.Extra belly capacity on airlines collectively operating some 180 international routes served by ...
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Hamilton Airport to build US$11m air cargo facility
JOHN C MUNRO Hamilton International Airport has released details of this US$11million new Air Cargo Logistics Facility, which is due to open in 2015.It will have direct airside access on a redeveloped parcel of land at the Canadian airport.The project is being funded through a joint partnership between the federal ...
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Emirates to launch Boston service
EMIRATES Airline is expanding its transatlantic belly cargo offering with services to Boston in the USA.Daily flights from the carrier’s Dubai hub to Boston Logan International Airport will be serviced by a passenger B777-200LR.It is the airline’s eighth route into the United States, its ninth into North America and twelfth ...
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2014 'a challenging year for air cargo'
GLOBAL air cargo grew by only 1.4 per cent last year as the whole industry fought its way out of a world recession.IATA figures show that cargo markets made very slow progress during the first half of the year, but acceleration took root in the latter half of 2013, eventually ...
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United Cargo orders portable explosives detectors
UNITED Airlines Cargo has ordered 54 portable explosives trace detectors (ETDs) to screen airfreight shipments at US domestic and international locations.They are replacements for old legacy systems and comply with latest US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) cargo screening mandates, says Angel Ramirez, managing director of United Cargo’s global operations.The lightweight ...
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Aer Lingus starts Boston service
AER LINGUS has inaugurated daily B757 services from Shannon Airport to Boston.The new service marks the start of the Irish carrier’s major transatlantic expansion in 2014, which includes new routes from Dublin to San Francisco and Toronto, as well as increasing frequency on services from Shannon Airport to Logan International ...
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Volga-Dnepr completes 1,100th flight for oil and gas industry
VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines has completed its 1,100th flight for customers in the oil and gas industry with this delivery of 45 tonnes of equipment from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Prestwick, Scotland.The cargo consisted of specialist equipment for a water-driven excavation system and auxiliary equipment for use in drilling operations ...
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One Question
James Woodrow, cargo director, Cathay Pacific. answers:‘AIR cargo is moving into an era of fewer freighter operators. Those that remain will have to invest in modern, fuel-efficient aircraft, and that is a difficult decision. Most carriers could provide a better business case for a new passenger ‘plane than for a ...
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Jacques Ancher wins TIACA ‘Hall of Fame’ award
AIR CARGO veteran Jacques Ancher is the 2014 winner of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) Hall of Fame award.The former executive vice-president of KLM Cargo is credited with changing the way air cargo is perceived in airline boardrooms around the world. He is the 49th industry executive to be ...
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Fast cargo connections for Emirates’ Dubai switch
EMIRATES SkyCargo’s plan to complete the transfer of its freighter base to Al Maktoum Airport (DWC) by May has gathered momentum with the signing of a five-year trucking contract.Under the deal, Dubai-based Allied Transport will provide road feeder services between the congested old Dubai International (DXB) airport and the new ...
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B777s make Cathay one of the quietest at Heathrow
CATHAY PACIFIC is now one of the most environment-friendly ‘quiet’ airlines operating out of London Heathrow, it is claimed.The airport’s Fly Quiet league table, which ranks the top 50 airlines according to their noise performance, shows the Hong Kong airline has jumped from 24th to 12th place as a direct ...
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Air Canada installs explosives detectors
AIR CANADA is using new desktop explosives trace detector devices to screen air cargo shipments in situ.Morpho’s Itemiser DX detectors have been deployed at Air Canada cargo locations to replace legacy systems and maintain compliance with enhanced US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) cargo screening mandates.Karen Bomba, chief executive of Morpho ...