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Seko invests in UK ecommerce agency amid online sales boom
GLOBAL forwarder SEKO Logistics has acquired an equity stake in UK ecommerce agency, Metakinetic, to capitalise on the growing number of online retail sales, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Metakinetic will operate in tandem with another SEKO-owned company, Red Hot Penny, which specialises in end-to-end services for online retailers.Both agencies boast ...
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Amerijet closes failed Rickenbacker cargo hub
Amerijet International has shut down its cargo-hub operations at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus, Ohio only months after launching it. The Florida-based cargo carrier started Rickenbacker operations in July from a 20,000-square-foot warehouse leased at the airport.Amerijetís president, Dave Bassett, said the site had been an experiment to trial a hybrid ...
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eAWB take-up hits its stride
August set the record for the fastest month for e-AWB growth, at 2% globally. Adoption speed is now four times that of the same period last year. There are now 20 airlines that have achieved over 20% e-AWB penetration, compared with only seven at the start of the year. Airports ...
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Air cargo leaders call for collaboration
Greater collaboration between the air cargo industry and regulators is essential to deliver safe, reliable and efficient global trade, according to the Chairman of The International Air Cargo Association, Oliver Evans.Speaking at the opening of TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum at Seoul’s Incheon Airport on October 7, Evans told delegates that ...
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Formula One arrives in Sochi
Three flights conveying Formula One racing cars and spare parts from Nagoya following the Japanese Grand Prix arrived at Sochi International Airport on October 7, as part of the preparations for the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix.Operated by the Basel Aero subsidiary of Russian industrial group Basic Element, the airport lies ...
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Handlers anxious to raise their profile
For a man who has just established his first foothold on a new continent, Olivier Bijaoui is surprisingly grumpy.The continent: South America. The ill temper: the president and CEO of WFS - the world’s largest cargo handling company, processing four million tonnes per year - believes air cargo handlers are ...
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United Cargo: A dutchman in America
Jan Krems may have just taken over as president cargo at United Airlines after a 27-year career with KLM (Air France-KLM since 2005), but he is no stranger either to the US or to the weather in his new Chicago base.He was for four years based in the Windy City ...
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Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight
Modal shift is occurring in part because of the air cargo industry’s snail-paced adoption of e-freight and reluctance to share data. Airlines and forwarders are looking after their own interests when they should be “protecting air freight as a mode,” according to James Fernandez, VP global commercial operations at technology ...
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Pistole: cargo security must not slow the flow
The air freight industry has a collective responsibility to maintain the highest standards of security. But this is “not mutually exclusive” with the free movement of goods, insists John Pistole, administrator for the US Transportation Security Administration.In a keynote speech at the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul, Pistole said passenger ...
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Aurora Air International selects MidAmerica St Louis as headquarters
AURORA Air International President Carlos Smith announced the airline’s intentions to establish its world headquarters at MidAmerica St Louis Airport in the USA on October 9.Aurora Air International ceased operations in 1995, but has recently seen an opportunity to re-enter the air cargo market. It has chosen MidAmerica in Illinois ...
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Why China still depends on Hong Kong
As the civil unrest on the streets of Hong Kong gradually abates, the interesting question emerges of whether China needs the former British colony just as much as Hong Kong needs China.Mark Whitehead, CEO of handler Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), is clear that the relationship is two-way, ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Iraq crisis a temporary setback, believes dnata
Dnata, which holds the sole cargo and ground handling concession at Iraq’s Erbil airport, is confident about the future there despite the current turmoil.Erbil began attracting a lot of freighter calls as investment poured into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, where most of the country’s oil reserves are ...
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Korean Air Cargo and LUG extend Frankfurt partnership
SkyTeam Cargo Alliance member Korean Air Cargo has extended its co-operation arrangements with LUG Aircargo Handling at Frankfurt International Airport for a further five years to 2019. LUG has handled freight for passenger and cargo aircraft as well as road feeder services on behalf of Korean Air Cargo for 17 ...
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Tone of cautious optimism for final quarter of 2014 for global air cargo
"The air cargo industry is seeing stability" Michael Steen, Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings told attendees at Cargo Facts Aircraft Symposium in Miami. "The question to ask" he added, "Is it sustainable growth? While there is solid growth in many markets of between 3-5% ...
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Kuehne + Nagel: Simplicity is the solution
For airlines worried about the shift of cargo from air to sea, Tim Scharwath, executive vice president air logistics for Kuehne + Nagel, has both good and bad news. The bad news is that yes, air freight is playing a smaller role in the logistics of some key industries than ...
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Panalpina airfreight sees stable growth
INTERNATIONAL freight forwarding and logistics company Panalpina maintained overall profitability in the first nine months of 2014. Undeterred by ongoing restructuring, airfreight volumes grew four percent year-to-date, but unit profitability decreased due to margin pressure and currency effects.“We have managed to keep up profitability in the first nine months of ...
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LH Cargo fights Dutch flower ban
THE Dutch government is expected to review its controversial ban of Lufthansa flower shipments through Schiphol Airport.The previous government banned Lufthansa in 2012 from flying flowers from Colombia and Ecuador through the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico to Schiphol. It warned of a €40,000 fine per cargo flight.Joop Atsma, the ...
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Agility appoints Esa as coo for Europe
Logistics provider Agility has appointed Mohammed Esa as chief commercial officer (COO) for Europe, assuming responsibility for all commercial activities, including sales, marketing and product management.“With his background in emerging markets and experience in operations, sales, and marketing, Esa brings insight and expertise that will be invaluable in his new ...
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Eastward push for global trade
A substantial shift to emerging economies is pushing eastward the world’s economic centre of gravity, says global logistics giant DHL in its latest study.The third edition of DHL’s Global Connectedness Index (GCI) indicates that emerging countries are now involved in the majority of "international interactions".This is in contrast to pre-2010, ...