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IAG Cargo launches B787 Austin, Texas route
BUSINESSES in Austin, Texas are benefiting from the launch of a new air-conditioned B787 IAG Cargo belly-hold connection with London Heathrow.The US city’s first ever regular transatlantic service, gives a direct air link between the hi-tech Texan hub and Europe.IAG Cargo has launched the service in part to help support ...
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Qatar Cargo freighters to Hyderabad, London and Zaragoza
QATAR Airways Cargo (QAC) is to launch scheduled dedicated freighter services to Hyderabad (India), London Stansted (UK) and is reinstating services to Zaragoza (Spain).Textiles, agricultural products, footwear, automobile and pharmaceuticals are among the commodities likely to be shipped on the carrier’s scheduled twice-weekly A330 freighter service to Zaragoza, which began ...
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United launches Control Tower for temperature control
UNITED Airlines Cargo [UAC] has launched Control Tower to run the rule over its growing temperature-sensitive shipments business.It features a highly-trained team of dedicated specialists who provide the carrier’s TempControl product customers with a single point of contact through all phases of their shipments’ lifecycle.Located at UAC’s customer contact center ...
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US Customs digitises cargo entries
US CUSTOMS and Border Protection (CBP) has admitted Lambert-St Louis International Airport (STL) into its ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) cargo release pilot scheme, with immediate effect.The simplified entry scheme allows importers to file a streamlined set of data earlier in the import process, and update their entries right up to ...
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Two more B737 conversions
AIRCRAFT conversions company Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) is to produce two additional B737-400SF passenger-to-freighter [p2f] conversions for Brazilian customer Sideral Air Cargo.Both aircraft will be modified at Commercial Jet Services’ facility at Dothan Alabama starting in June.This order brings Sideral Air Cargo’s freighter fleet to five, with one AEI B737-300SF ...
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Bright start to year says IATA
JANUARY produced a strong rise in global airfreight growth compared to the dep-ressed state of affairs of a year before, IATA statistics reveal.Global freight-tonne-kilometers (FTKs) increased by an encouraging 4.5 per cent in the month compared to January 2013.“This is a significant acceleration on the 2.2 per cent year-on-year growth ...
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Emirates takes e-freight lead
EMIRATES Airline has stolen Cathay Pacific’s ‘e’-crown in the e-freight race, IATA figures show.It is now ranked as the carrier that operates the most eAWB shipments, according to the latest IATA top-10 league table.In other moves, Korean Air has supplanted SIA in third place, KLM has moved up to the ...
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Acrobatics with acronyms
AIR CARGO job titles used to be pleasingly uncomplicated and therefore easy to understand. Rarely did they succumb to the world of acronyms.Unfortunately, even though many aspects of this business grow infuriatingly complex by the day, some organisations are now intent on introducing further obfuscation by creating lofty-sounding positions with ...
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More cars take the high road
Despite the ongoing economic malaise, automotive sales and related logistics cruised through 2013 in top gear, with sales records broken in growth markets like China and Brazil.“We had some growth last year, mainly from existing accounts,” reveals Lucas Kuehner, global head of airfreight at Panalpina. Both automotive original equipment manufacturers ...
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Edging towards e-freight
IF you have the idea that tar-gets 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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CHEP acquires Airworld
ULD repair specialist CHEP Aerospace Solutions has acquired Airworld Services and Airworld Containers, a unit load device maintenance organisation (MRO), with facilities at London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester and East Midlands airports in the UK.The transaction increases the number of CHEP-owned MRO facilities to 29 stations worldwide.Airworld employs 86 staff ...
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January's air cargo volumes up 3.2 per cent
Worldwide January air cargo volumes were up 3.2 per cent year-over-year (YoY), according to data from Netherlands-based consultancy World ACD.It observed that the modest increase was “not too bad given the fact that January 2014 was already part of the recovery that started in autumn 2013”.World ACD, which sources data ...
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Record year for Etihad
ETIHAD AIRWAYS enjoyed a record financial performance last year, with net profit up 48 per cent to US$62 million on revenues up 27 per cent to US$6.1 billion.2013 also saw earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) up 22 per cent to US$208 million and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation ...
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Swissport revenues up
GROUND handler Swissport International achieved revenues of US$2.39 billion in 2013, an 11 per cent increase, in a year that could be characterised by recovering cargo markets, the company says.Swissport grew ahead of the market and was able to increase its airfreight tonnage by 18.4 per cent, reflecting the recovery ...
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Third MD-11F for AV Cargo
AV CARGO Airlines has added a third MD-11F to its fleet and may add two more.The latest aircraft has positioned into Jakarta for a heavy C check and repaint into AV Cargo livery and is expected to enter service at the end of next month.“Our plan from inception last year ...
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Search for missing Malaysia Airlines B777-200
AN INTERNATIONAL air and search continues in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam for a missing Malaysian Airlines B777-200 aircraft, with 239 people on board, reports say.Flight MH370, which disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur, was due to land in Beijing at ...
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Malaysia Airlines jet still missing
NO wreckage has been found in the search for the Malaysia Airlines’ B777-200 with 239 people on board, which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, reports say.Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s Minister of Transport, has suggested the aircraft may have tried to turn back.An international air and sea search, ...
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Etihad Cargo increases bellyhold capacity to China
ETIHAD Cargo is increasing its services to China from this month with new bellyhold capacity between Abu Dhabi and Chengdu.From the end of this month, cargo capacity to and from Chengdu will grow 40 per cent to 930 tonnes a month – a result of the current five-weekly A330 passenger ...
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Search for Malaysia Airlines continues
THE fate of the Malaysia Airlines’ B777-200, which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, has been described as a ‘mystery’.Officials are reportedly ‘puzzled’ by the jet’s disappearance at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday). It was scheduled to land ...
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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 ...