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Cargo Airline of the Year: how to win it
WHAT does it take to be voted Cargo Airline of the Year?Continuous innovation and an expansive outlook that embraces imaginative promotion and marketing, certainly helps, advises Air Cargo News editor Nigel Tomkins.“That’s why companies like Emirates and Lufthansa Cargo have done so well over the 30-plus years of this competition,” ...
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Cargo crime up 66 per cent
A SUPPLY chain watchdog is calling for greater collaboration between European law enforcers and businesses following an increase in air cargo crime.An annual report conducted by the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) reveals 1,145 individual crimes involving high value, high risk goods across Europe, the Middle East and African regions ...
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Two days faster – or become extinct
SHIPMENTS need to arrive two days earlier than is normal – or the air cargo industry will continue to lose customers to other modes.Reducing transit times is the number one priority if air cargo is to remain competitive and give shippers compelling reasons to stay.Recognising the need for urgent improvements, ...
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Coming soon: a global air cargo standard for pharma
MEDICAL authorities are devising a GDP-style global standard regulation covering the air transportation of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.It will shake up the air cargo industry and weed out the bad operators.All 44 members of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) are working on draft documentation inspired by the game-changing new ...
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Manston Airport holds talks over possible closure
THE UK’s Manston Airport is holding talks over its possible closure, it is reported.144 staff at the loss-making airport located to the east of London have been given details about a 45-day consultation.The airport was acquired last year for £1 by Ann Gloag, co-founder of the Stagecoach transport group.Last September, ...
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AirCargoGroup celebrates 10th Anniversary
TEN years ago this month a group of like-minded airfreight wholesalers got together and formed the AirCargoGroup (ACG) at a time when such activities were not so common.From those humble beginnings, ACG has grown into a powerful network of international wholesalers and consolidators, which has made great strides, the organisation ...
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One Question
Eugen Egetenmeir, managing director, Messe München, answers:"WE feel that the show has become more Chinese this year, because more Chinese businesses are attending – in bigger numbers than before. In the past, the vast majority of exhibitors were international organisations. For example, Sinotrans – one of the biggest transportation and ...
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IATA rides to the rescue
FULL CREDIT to IATA for upping its air cargo game in the last few years.For an airline association, which traditionally appeared to be more favourably focused on passenger affairs, cargo suddenly has great drive and energy at its core as it wrest-les with a panoply of growing pains.I say suddenly, ...
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Air cargo consultancy firms work together
A COLLABORATION between aviation consultancy groups Steer Davies Gleave (SDG) and Strategic Aviation Solutions International (SASI) offers unique services to the air cargo industry.The agreement combines Steer Davies Gleave’s air passenger, regulatory and wider business strategy expertise with SASI’s airline management, cargo fleet management, and cargo facility design and logistics ...
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Video game technology boosts air cargo monitoring
TECHNOLOGIES originally designed for video games and smartphones are now being used in the goods distribution industry.A study conducted by DHL has found that this marks a complete reversal of past practices in which new technologies were initially first applied in business – and then migrated to private users later.According ...
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Dubai air cargo climbs
DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT’S (DXB) freight volumes rose 3.4 per cent to 188,702 tonnes in February in comparison with 182,580 the previous year.Home carrier Emirates Airline’s cargo capacity expansion plan at DXB is expected to boost future volumes.Nabil Sultan, divisional senior vice-president of cargo at Emirates SkyCargo, reveals: “We are enhancing ...
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Lufthansa Cargo optimistic despite profit drop
LUFTHANSA CARGO (LC) recorded an operating profit of €77 million (US$106m) in 2013 – €28m less than the previous year.The German carrier also saw its overall revenue drop by 9.2 per cent to €2.4bn. But despite the less than favourable balance sheet, Karl Ulrich Garnadt, chief executive and chairman, is ...
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Emirates' e-freight rallying cry
EMIRATES SkyCargo’s head of freight has warned the air cargo industry needs to adopt a much more focused approach in order to tackle the complexities involved in trying to roll out efreight.Nabil Sultan, the divisional senior vice-president of cargo, observes: “Coming from primarily the passenger side of our business, where ...
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AF-KLM Martinair Cargo adds pharma capacity
AIR FRANCE-KLM-MARTINAIR Cargo has reinforced its commitment to the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry by introducing a new scheduled belly-cargo service to Brasilia – and increasing freighter capacity out of Bombay.The carrier has launched a new thrice-weekly B777-200ER service between Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Brasilia, the federal capital of ...
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Emirates starts Atlanta B777 service
EMIRATES SkyCargo is starting weekly B777 freighter services to service from Dubai to Atlanta, Georgia in April.“This decision to operate a direct route from Dubai to Atlanta further elevates Atlanta as a globally competitive city and also grows our cargo capacity significantly,” says mayor Kasim Reed.Emirates is now the 11th ...
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Device designed to screen air cargo
THIS awkward-looking device is a metal detector, which has been designed specifically to screen air cargo shipments.It seeks out metal secreted in all types of paper, perishable foods and organic material, says manufacturer Mettler Toledo Safeline.The US company’s PowerPhasePRO Select digital metal detector automatically screens air cargo shipments for the ...
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UK airfreight in danger of being overlooked
THE importance of the UK’s airfreight business is in danger of being overlooked, warns the Freight Transport Association (FTA).In a report called ‘Sky-high value – the importance of airfreight to the UK economy’ report, the association calls for renewed investment in capacity and infrastructure, which is is essential for trade ...
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China Southern Airlines adds Vienna to B777-200 Frankfurt freighter
GUANGZHOU-BASED China Southern Airlines has added Vienna to its five-times-a-week B777-200 Frankfurt freighter services.With the added stopover at Vienna, China Southern is now providing 450 tonnes freighter capacity a week on the route.The Chinese carrier launched Guangzhou-Frankfurt-Guangzhou direct flights in July 2013.This enlarged service becomes the first one from southern ...
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ANA Airline Management freighters to relocate from Ostend to Liege
TO REDUCE fuel costs, ANA Airline Management is relocating its freighter fleet of two MD-11Fs and a single B747-400F from Ostend to Liége from 29 May.The company’s managed fleet operates a network of scheduled routes to and from Africa, as well as long-term and ad hoc charter flights on a ...
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IATA to facilitate a unified industry position on aircraft global tracking
IATA has called on governments and industry to focus on partnerships, data analysis and runway safety in the ongoing quest to make flying even safer.Tony Tyler, the association’s director general, speaking amid the ongoing search for MH370, also committed IATA to facilitating a unified industry position on global tracking of ...