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Garnadt leaves Lufthansa Cargo
LUFTHANSA CARGO’S chief executive Karl Ulrich Garnadt is leaving the freight airline to become a member of the German carrier’s executive board and the new head of its passenger business.Peter Gerber, previously responsible for human resources, IT and services and a Lufthansa executive board member since June 2012, will assume ...
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Cargolux hunts for new CEO
CARGO airline Cargolux has confirmed it is hunting for a new chief executive (CEO). Executive recruitment firm Spencer Stuart, has been commissioned with identifying and shortlisting the most suitable candidates for the position (the deadline for applications is 12th February), a statement says. Meanwhile, Richard Forson remains interim president and ...
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Cathay Pacific: The declining role of freighters in air cargo
If Cathay Pacific had stuck to the plans it had at the end of 2011, it would have had a fleet of 35 freighters by the end of 2016: 10 B747-8Fs, eight B777Fs, six B747-400ERFs, six B747-400Fs and five B747-400BCFs.That was always the most optimistic scenario, and probably Cathay would ...
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Landing in the wrong place
PILOTS attempting to land at the wrong airport happens more often than is realised, it seems.I’ve been reading reports from the USA about how some 150 commercial flights have at least started a descent to the wrong airport in the last 25 years.I was intrigued by this phenomenon after the ...
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Celebi acquires Aviapartner in Germany
ÇELEBI, a Turkish ground-handling, cargo and warehouse operator, has made a major advance into the German air cargo business with the purchase of Aviapartner Cargo GmbH.The €4.6 million acquisition is part of its strategy to expand in the international arena, says the Istanbul-based company.Aviapartner Cargo is currently active at Frankfurt ...
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Work on DB Schenker's new Dubai facility under way
GLOBAL transportation company DB Schenker has started construction work on a new logistics facility in Dubai.It will offer general cargo warehousing, distribution and value-added services, with a warehouse space of 8,500 sq m and a total storage capacity of 8,500 pallet positions with two mezzanine levels dedicated for value added ...
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Aviation leader Dr Assad Kotaite dies
UNIVERSALLY recognised as one of the most prominent and respected figures in the world of civil aviation, Dr Assad Kotaite, council president emeritus of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), has died at the age of 89.A respected leader and visionary who devoted his life to the safe and orderly ...
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Air cargo boosts K+N's growth
A MARKET-BEATING airfreight contribution helped Swiss global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel [K+N] back on the road to profitable growth last year.Overall operational profits (EBITDA) increased by 4.6 per cent to US$1,083 million after an ‘excellent’ airfreight performance, states Dr Detlev Trefzger, chief executive.The company met its profit margin target ...
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Panalpina expects airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent
AIR, ocean and logistics company Panalpina made steady progress in 2013 – and expects the airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent this year.In 2013, the Swiss group reported pre-tax earnings of US$54million, more than double the 2012 result. The company outperformed the market in both air and ocean ...
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Edging towards e-freight
IF you have the idea that targets for the IATA e-freight programme keep slipping, you are not wrong.At the 2010 Air Cargo Forum the expectation was that the whole air cargo industry would be paperless by 2014, but the target IATA now has is for 22 per cent of feasible ...
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New cargo sales manager at Chartersphere
GLOBAL aircraft charter provider Chartersphere, has promoted Nacho Carretero as is its new cargo sales manager.Spanish-speaking broker Carretero, who has been with the company since 2012, has developed the UK-based business in key market areas, including Europe and Latin America, says a statement.Paul Bennett, managing director of Chartersphere, comments: “Nacho ...
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New senior vice-president of sales at Etihad
ETIHAD AIRWAYS has appointed James Mueller as senior vice-president of sales.Mueller, who has more than 20 years experience in the aviation industry, previously worked at United Airlines for five years. During this period, he held a number of senior roles, including vice-president, Asia Pacific and vice-president, Atlantic and Pacific sales.He ...
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Asian e-commerce fuels UK firm’s growth
UK-BASED Europa Worldwide Logistics has seen its Asian air cargo operations soar, fuelled by the continuing boom in e-commerce, especially from China.The company’s Hong Kong office experienced year-on-year growth of 116 per cent last year.Consignments are consolidated locally and then shipped on daily services into the UK. Europa offers what ...
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New CEO at Dimerco
TAIWAN-BASED global logistics service provider Dimerco Express Group has promoted Edward Lin as its new chief executive officer.He replaces Paul Chien, founder and chairman of the company. Lin is currently Dimerco’s chief operating officer.This change represents ‘inheritance by generation’, says a statement.Prior to joining Dimerco 10 years ago, Lin worked ...
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New interim chief financial officer at Air Partner
CHARTER broker Air Partner has promoted Neil Morris to the role of interim chief financial officer.Morris, who replaces Gavin Charles, is currently the company’s interim group financial controller – a position he has held since last July.Prior to joining Air Partner, Morris was group finance director of the cruise and ...
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'Local hero' forwarders can survive globalisation
Not so long ago, the orthodoxy was that medium-sized forwarders based in a single country – so-called ‘local heroes’ – would either get taken over or become niche players.Davies Turner has done neither and is still thriving after 144 years of existence as a family-owned firm, recently rising into the ...
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The cost of modal shift
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual growth since 2000.The problem is set to continue at a moderate pace, says a report conducted by research firm Seabury Group and IATA.It reveals that airfreight’s share of total global ...
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How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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Columbia excites Canadian exporters
THE NATION of Columbia is turning into a growing trade ally with Canada, with companies such as McCain Foods, Red Eagle Mining and Mansour Mining embracing the Latin American country as an exports partner.The Canada/Colombia Free Trade Agreement that came into force in August 2011 has lowered trade barriers and ...
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SEKO opens shop to e-tail forwarding
LIKE mid-sized forwarders, bricks-and-mortar retailers have been the subject of a host of obituaries, whose authors predict a world dominated by on-line ‘virtual’ shopping.In these prophecies of doom, physical high-street stores seem to exist solely so that consumers can personally check out the products – and then order them from ...