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Van de Weg joins Volga-Dnepr Group
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo carrier, has appointed former key Cargolux executives Robert van de Weg and Peter van de Pas as senior vice-president, marketing and sales, and senior vice-president, scheduled operations, respectively.Van de Weg will be responsible for the management of scheduled cargo sales, as well as the ...
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New CEO at Cargolux
CARGO airline Cargolux has appointed former Kuehne + Nagel management board member Dirk Reich as its new chief executive.He replaces Richard Forson, senior vice-president and member of the executive committee, who has been interim CEO since 3 August 2012.Forson will continue to serve as senior vice-president and chief financial officer, ...
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Agility's profits up
AGILITY’s overall profits climbed 37 per cent to KD46.2m (US$164.09m) in 2013, despite revenue from its core Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) business falling by 4.5 per cent.Tarek Sultan, chairman and managing director, blamed the decline on “underlying challenges in the freight forwarding industry, including difficult airfreight conditions and falling ocean ...
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LH Cargo extends Jan de Rijk contract
LUFTHANSA Cargo has extended its road-feeder contract with ground transportation and distribution specialist Jan de Rijk Logistics.The extension is “a positive development in the current cargo market and proof of the trust Lufthansa Cargo has in our extensive trucking network”, says a statement by the Netherlands-based trucking company.Jan de Rijk ...
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IATA cargo boss Des Vertannes stepping down in June
DES VERTANNES, head of cargo at IATA, is retiring from his position in June.A universally popular and hard-working professional, Vertannes is stepping down to spend more time with his family.Under his leadership, IATA’s cargo division has been responsible for numerous significant advancements, including the widespread adoption of new security regimes, ...
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AEI launches B737-800 conversion
CARGO aircraft conversions specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has formally launched a passenger-to-freighter (12-pallet) and passenger-to-combi (five) programme for the B737-800.The twin projects have been under study in the past year and will be marketed as B737-800SF (Special Freighter) and B737-800C (Combination Passenger and Freighter) respectively.Development costs are being fully ...
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DHL Global Forwarding to open Paris cargo warehouse
DHL Global Forwarding (GF) has strengthened its presence at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport with the signing of a contract for this new 16,000-sq m airfreight warehouse and office building.GF has experienced “significant growth” in its cargo activities in the region and needs to relocate to bigger premises, admits Jean-Claude ...
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DB Schenker: 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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Have you given paper the boot?
I HAVE absolutely no idea how many companies out there are totally ignorant of the urgent need to digitise their documents.If there are any – and remember, this is the airfreight business I’m talking about – here’s a brief word of warning: we’re in the age of technology, the age ...
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Panalpina beats the market in 2013
PANALPINA increased its airfreight business by three per cent last year, beating the market’s one per cent growth.It transported some 24,000 tonnes more, reaching an annual total of 825,000 (2012: 801,000].At the same time, increasing competitive pressure led to gross profit per tonne decreasing by approximately two per cent.In total, ...
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Jettainer opens new Abu Dhabi office
ULD outsource specialist Jettainer, has opened a new office in the Abu Dhabi Airport Business City’s Logistics Park.The company hopes to capitalise on the huge potential in the region.Carsten Hernig, Jettainer’s new managing director, comments: “Due to the positive development we are facing in the Middle East and Asia regions, ...
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K+N air freight volumes edge ahead
KUEHNE + NAGEL saw airfreight volumes increase 1.4 per cent in the 2014 first quarter to 285,000 tons, although divisional air cargo turnover fell 0.9 per cent to just over SFr1bn.The Switzerland-based logistics operator said that the volume increases in air cargo were mainly realised in Europe and North America, ...
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Swissport management changes
SWISSPORT International, a leading provider of ground and cargo services to the aviation industry, has announced that Erich Bodenmann, executive vice-president of group services, is to take early retirement from the end of this month.Luzius Wirth takes over responsibility for group services and will report directly to chief executive Per ...
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CAL starts Greater Moncton service
LIÉGE, Belgium-based CAL Cargo Airlines is expanding its reach with a series of B747-200 freighter flights to Greater Moncton, Canada.The initial service, with a full payload of temperature-controlled seafood shipments (lobsters) and industrial goods, is a manifestation of the company's 2014 strategy, focusing on North America, says a spokesperson.Originating at ...
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GEFCO appoints new sales and marketing director
AUTOMOTIVE logistics specialist GEFCO UK has appointed Charlie Weale as its new sales and marketing director.He is charged with leading the development of sales and promotional strategies as the company focuses on increasing visibility and generating commercial opportunities in air, ocean and international logistics, says a statement.With more than 30 ...
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Schiphol cargo up 7.3 per cent in Q1
CARGO volumes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol rose by 7.3 per cent to 392,990 tonnes in the first quarter of 2014.This year’s first quarter was also the second best in more than three years, beaten only by the final (peak) quarter of 2013, when a total of 410,698 tonnes passed through ...
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WACO enjoys members boost
GLOBAL forwarder network WACO has welcomed four new businesses from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.Kuwait Maritime and Mercantile Co, Lyn Cargo Express of the Dominican Republic, Iraq-based BCC Logistics and OMA Group, representing Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa, were officially appointed as members during ...
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CHAMP: A man with all the right connections
THE PAST year has been a busy one for CHAMP Cargo-systems and the next one looks to be no less busy. For a business that is continually urging modernisation and change on others, one cannot accuse the IT company of shirking it itself.Successful ticks on the 2013 to-do list of ...
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New air cargo head at DB Schenker UK
THE UK arm of global logistics services provider DB Schenker Logistics has appointed Matthias Kraus as its new director of airfreight.Kraus, who has been working for the DB Schenker Group since 1997, has held several roles including business development manager and assistant to the managing director at Schenker Taiwan.In 2012, ...
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Norbert Dentressangle’s €1,078m revenue hike
NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE’s consolidated revenues rose by 13.6 per cent to €1,078m in the first quarter of 2014.The forwarding giant also enjoyed a 5.5 per cent increase in its transport business revenues to €527m and a 19.8 per cent hike to €522m from its logistics activities “reflecting a more positive trend ...