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DB Schenker seeks $2.5bn in cargo cartel compensation
German logistics giant DB Schenker is seeking estimated damages of $2.5bn after filing lawsuits in US and Germany against airlines involved in a global air cargo cartel between 1999 and 2006.It has warned that the total damages could add up to more than $3.3bn.The parent company, German rail operator Deutsche ...
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SDV Belgium gains pharma handling certification
SDV Belgium is now fully certificated to handle and transport all pharmaceutical products that require an unbroken cold chain.The logistics operator completed the pharma certification programme organised by Brussels Airport and IATA that means it can handle all pharmaceutical air freight shipments in accordance with the European Union’s Good Distribution ...
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Scholten to step down at Saudia Cargo
Peter Scholten is stepping down as Saudia Cargo vice president commercial from January 15, to pursue other interests.Scholten joined Saudia Cargo in October 2010. “His contribution has been instrumental to the growth and positioning of Saudia Cargo in the global air cargo business”, says Nabil Khojah, chief executive of Saudia ...
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Chinese economic growth slows and sustainability pressures mount
Economic and environmental pressures are coming to bear on the Chinese economy, and the logistics industry has a key role to play in responding to the challenge.That was the message delivered by Lv Jijian, deputy director of trade in services for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, to the Sino International ...
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Cologne-Bonn provides air cargo support to fight Ebola virus
Cologne-Bonn Airport has allocated a staging area free of charge to facilitate the consolidation of air shipments in support of humanitarian organisations fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.The Logistics Cluster, a group of humanitarian organisations led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), will ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: Finding the right balance
Strikes are never easy to navigate. So, for Peter Gerber, Lufthansa Cargo’s new chief executive officer, having to deal with nine in 2014 should have been quite the challenge. Fortunately, he says, while the strikes disrupted passenger flights, freighters saw only minor changes to their scheduling. Nonetheless, there is still ...
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Dentressangle appoints US manager for air and sea
French logistics operator Norbert Dentressangle has appointed Christophe Bigot to head up its US air and sea business, boosted in August with the acquisition of major US logistics player Jacobson.Bigot will build on Dentressangle’s air and sea forwarding expertise in the hi-tech, luxury and fashion goods, aerospace, chemicals and project ...
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FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package
THERE’S a whole lot of shaking going on at Federal Express, plus a whole lot of heating, chilling and dropping.But it is all in the name of supply chain science, to design the best packaging for fragile and sensitive goods.FedEx TechConnect has opened a 30,000 sq ft package laboratory in ...
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Hactl helps e-AWB uptake
Two major forwarders have completed a successful trial to produce electronic air waybills using Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited’s web-based e-AWB generation module, COSAC-AWB.BEL International Logistics and Rhenus Logistics Hong Kong are now ready to generate IATA-standard e-AWBs for any carrier handled by Hactl that accepts electronic bookings.The two ...
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Kirchner resigns at UTi Worldwide
Eric Kirchner has resigned as chief executive of US-based logistics provider UTi Worldwide. Edward Feitzinger was voted by the UTi board as Kirchner’s successor.The move comes a few days after Scandinavia-based logistics company DSV confirmed that it had ended talks about a potential acquisition of UTi.Feitzinger has been ...
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Heathrow volumes rise in November
A surge in cargo to Mexico, Brazil, India and Turkey helped London-Heathrow airport freight volumes rise 2.3 per cent in November to 136,400 tonnes, compared with like month 2013.For the 11 months in the year to date, the UK’s top air cargo hub registered an overall 5.3 per cent increase ...
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Top five sign roadmap to combat cybercrime
Five major international aviation organisations have agreed a “common roadmap” to combat attacks from hackers and other cyber criminals.The group is made up of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Airports Council International (ACI), the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International ...
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Qantas management reshuffle
A top level management reshuffle at Australian carrier Qantas has seen Gareth Evans appointed chief executive of Qantas International and Freight.Evans, currently chief financial officer for the Qantas Group, has been a senior executive at Qantas for 15 years and brings experience from previous roles that spanned network, pricing, scheduling ...
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Panalpina and Luxair combine for UNICEF Relief Flight
Panalpina has joined forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support the ongoing fight against the Ebola crisis, donating a charter flight from Luxembourg to Freetown in Sierra Leone to bring almost 80 tons of vital supplies and equipment destined for community care centres in the Ebola-affected region.Adding ...
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PACTL's record November
Shanghai's Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) saw November year-on-year freight volume growth of 13.9 per cent to 147,267 tonnes, the strongest monthly result in its history.PACTL’s domestic cargo volume grew by just under 13 per cent year-on-year to 9,744 tonnes in November, while its international cargo volumes rose by ...
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Costly Cartels
Lawyers rarely go hungry and they may be about to feast on a billion dollar lawsuit relating to the airlines’ air cargo cartel, writes Roger Hailey, Air Cargo News Editor.German rail and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn (DB) made a great media fanfare of its minimum $2.2bn claim in the US ...
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LAN Cargo: The shift to belly capacity
There was a brief moment in the late 1990s when LAN Chile (as it was then) looked like becoming a combination carrier with more revenue from cargo than passengers. Serving Latin America’s rugged geography, it built up a stable of twelve 767-300Fs - the largest non-integrator 767F fleet - and ...
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My Opinion
Speaking about the growth in road feeder services by the terminal operator’s trucking subsidiary, HACIS.Mark Whitehead, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals’ chief executive says:“HACIS is already highly successful in its scheduled road feeder services between Hong Kong and China, but even in this it has barely scratched the surface of ...
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Exelsius launches pharma programme
Exelsius has launched a pharmaceutical qualification programme (PQP) for companies involved in the handling and transportation of pharmaceutical & life science products.The UK-based international cold chain management consultancy says that its programme allows airports, freight forwarders and logistics service providers to become certified to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards.The PQP ...
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US port chaos boosts ex-Asia Pacific air cargo revenues
Inbound US west coast container port congestion provided a November boost for transpacific air cargo revenues out of Asia to North America, although ex-US revenues fell.WorldACD’s latest monthly market data found that the transpacific was the best of the large markets in November.The Netherlands-based research house posed the question: “Did ...