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Cargo Champion – Lisa Brock
LISA BROCK’s strategic mind, her imperturbability, coupled with a pleasant countenance could have made her a very successful football manager or a very rich poker player. Not even the most artful inquisition will entice her to peel back the layers of reserve to reveal the real person behind the title: ...
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Cargolux to increase share capital
EUROPEAN all-cargo carrier Cargolux is to increase the share capital of the airline by US$175m in cash, in exchange of newly issued common shares.The news follows an “extraordinary general meeting of the company’s shareholders”, says a company statement.Dirk Reich, the new president and chief executive, comments: “The share capital increase ...
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Why security data processes must be harmonised
SERIOUS disruption to the flow of world trade will be inevitable unless there is significant further testing into advanced data provision for air cargo and mail shipments.The precaution, which is being enforced to make shipments more secure, requires common global standards and harmonised procedures, says air cargo industry association TIACA.In ...
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Airfreight ground handler LuxairCARGO celebrates GDP status
LUXEMBOURG appears to be maintaining its status as the air cargo industry’s standardbearer for the air transportation of pharmaceuticals, following the Good Distribution Practice (GDP)-certification of LuxairCARGO (LC) operations.According to a statement, LC is the first European freight ground-handling agent to be awarded GDP status by Bureau Veritas Certification, Germany.The ...
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Cargo Airline of the Year 2014 voting opens
VOTES for the 2014 Cargo Airline of the Year competition have started to come in – and tables are already being snapped up two months before the illustrious London awards night.With only a few tables left for the popular, celebrity-hosted gala dinner – at which airlines, ground handlers, airports, forwarders ...
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Upward trend in Asia imports encouraging
CATHAY Pacific ended 2013 in high gear. Having taken delivery of three B747-8 freighters in the days before Christmas, the Hong Kong-based carrier placed an order for one more B747-8F on 27 December. The ‘plane, which is due for delivery in 2016, will bring Cathay’s tally of B747-8Fs to 14.Korean ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo surges ahead (copy 2)
WHEN he was chief executive of Cargolux you might have said that Ulrich Ogiermann had the dream job in air cargo. But now that he is chief officer, cargo, for Qatar Airways, a role he took up in November 2012, he is arguably in an even more exciting position.At a ...
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PEMCO in B737 freighter conversion deal with COOPESA
AIRCRAFT conversions specialist PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) has agreed a new B737 freighter conversion partnership with COOPESA (Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales) in San Jose, Costa Rica.PEMCO’s expansion into Central America provides additional freighter conversion capacity to meet extraordinary demand for its B737-300 and -400 freighters, the world’s only ...
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Dreamliner in demand, says Boeing
PLANEMAKER Boeing has rolled out the first B787 Dreamliner built at the rate of 10 airplanes per month.The aircraft, a B787-8 and the 155th Dreamliner built, will be delivered to International Lease Finance for operation by Aeromexico.The new 10-per-month rate is the highest ever for a twin-aisle aircraft.The B787 programme ...
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AirBridgeCargo up five per cent
RUSSIAN carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) achieved a five per cent hike in tonnage (340,000 tonnes) in 2013 – the highest ever volume across its network linking Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline reports that the uplift improvement on all of its major routes was matched ...
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Lufthansa Cargo steps up e-freight drive
THE systematic digitisation of the airfreight business is at the top of Lufthansa Cargo's (LC) 2014 agenda, a conference has heard.Addressing more than 200 logistics industry representatives at the Lufthansa Cargo in Dialogue event, Dr Andreas Otto, LC's board director, stressed the company’s commitment to ensuring “goods find their way ...
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Lufthansa Cargo optimistic for 2014
LUFTHANSA Cargo (LC) increased the capacity of its aircraft utilisation in 2013, and moved more than 1.7 million tonnes of freight – almost matching the previous year’s level.The German carrier, which saw its freight load factor climb to 69.9 per cent, credits its success to a “highly flexible and demand-oriented ...
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Fedex scraps flight paper documents and gives pilots iPads
GIANT US parcels company FedEx is scrapping 32 tonnes of paper whilst equipping its pilot workforce with 4,300 iPads.The company has launched what it describes as ‘an environmentally-friendly initiative’ aimed at reducing its carbon footprint.Removing this amount of paper from its entire aircraft fleet is the annual equivalent of removing ...
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Air cargo drags Cathay Pacific figures down
DESPITE continuing high fuel prices and a drop in turnover (-0.6 per cent), the Cathay Pacific Group returned to a small profit of US$3.09 million in the first six months of 2013, after a loss of $120m in the first half of last year.But its cargo business has been in ...
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Record year for Saudia Cargo
SAUDI Airlines Cargo performed well last year, despite the difficult economic climate.Total cargo carried in 2013 climbed to 557,800 tonnes, an increase of eight per cent on 2012. Scheduled cargo revenue rose six per cent.In a strong finish to the year, the carrier achieved record results for both scheduled revenue ...
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Virgin adopts hi-tech onboard cargo tracking
ONASSET, which provides hi-tech onboard cargo tracking solutions to the airline industry, has a new customer in Virgin Atlantic Cargo.Its SENTRY Flightsafe GPS device allows customers moving vulnerable and valuable shipments around the world to monitor the location and environmental conditions of their shipments on the ground and in the ...
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Finnair Cargo adds MD-11 freighter services to Hanoi (copy 1)
FINNAIR Cargo has strengthened its Brussels cargo hub connectivity by adding twice-weekly MD-11 freighter services to Hanoi, Vietnam."Finnair flew seasonal passenger operations to Hanoi until the end of October and adding Hanoi to our freighter network brings year-round continuity to the Finnair Cargo offering to and from the Vietnamese capital,” ...
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Fuel for thought in the desert
IT MAY not be long before jet-fuel comes from desert shrubs.Boeing and research partners, including Etihad Airways, have made what seems to be a remarkable breakthrough in sustainable aviation biofuel development by discovering that desert plants – fed by seawater – produce biofuel more efficiently than others.Since 97 per cent ...
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Finnair Cargo positioned for success
IN recent years very few European carriers have been adding freighter services, but one exception has been Finnair Cargo, which has operated an MD-11 freighter since August 2011.Interestingly in an era where the growth of widebody belly capacity is often cited as making freighters uneconomical, it is just that factor ...
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Air France/KLM to axe more freighters
AIR FRANCE-KLM-Martinair Cargo is to cut four more freighters over the next year and a half, reducing its fleet to just 10 all-cargo aircraft by 2015, compared to 26 fielded by the three carriers in 2005.Erik Varwijk, the carrier's executive vice-president, says the cuts are necessary to adjust to a ...