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TIACA re-invents itself
AIR cargo association TIACA has become a very broad church and is no longer dominated by North American interests, insists its chairman Oliver Evans, who is also head of cargo at Swiss International Air Lines.Evans went to great lengths to convince a round table of air cargo editors that the ...
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Schiphol's air cargo up 3.2 per cent
AMSTERDAM Airport Schiphol achieved a 3.2 per cent improvement in its cargo business last year.The Dutch airfreight hub handled 1,53 million tonnes – close to the facility’s all-time record set in 2007.A total of 410,698 tonnes (up eight per cent on 2012) passed through Schiphol during a strong fourth quarter, ...
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AF-KLM opts for DWC
AT THE request of customers, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo is to start operating 14 weekly freighter flights to and from Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) – its new freighter hub in the region – from next month.Once completed, the new UAE airport will have the capacity and state-of-the-art facilities to handle ...
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Emirates increases air cargo capacity in Nigeria
EMIRATES is to expand its presence in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, with the start of a daily linked A340 service to Abuja and Kano from August.The announcement follows Emirates’ recent milestone of 10 years of successful operations to Lagos, to which the airline flies twice-daily.Abuja, located in the centre ...
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Emirates SkyCargo adopts real-time tracking device
EMIRATES SkyCargo has adopted an onboard shipment monitoring and tracking device across its entire fleet.Approval of SENTRY Flightsafe applications will allow real-time location and sensor monitoring of consignments from origin to destination anywhere on the globe for the UAE carrier.Supplier, OnAsset Intelligence, claims market leadership in air cargo tracking solutions.“Emirates ...
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Cathay boosts Mexico freighters
CATHAY Pacific Airways is expanding its freighter services into Latin America by launching a thrice-weekly scheduled service to Mexico City from March.At the same time, the airline will also increase the frequency of its service to Guadalajara from two to three freighter flights per week.The Mexico City service will operate ...
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2014 'a better year for air cargo'
AIRLINE profitability expectations remain strong for 2014 and in line with levels seen since April 2013, according to IATA’s quarterly survey of airline chief financial officers and heads of cargo.There is confidence that air transport volumes will continue to grow over the next 12 months and that input costs and ...
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DWC welcomes Cathay’s first freighter
CATHAY Pacific has begun operating freighter flights from Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC).The Asian carrier’s inauguration flight with a B747-8F arrived at DWC from Hong Kong (China) on 1 February.Cathay has moved its weekly freighter service from Dubai International (DXB) to DWC – its new freighter hub ...
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Reliable air cargo services return to Libya
LIBYA is to have an air cargo industry again after the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, Air Cargo News exclusively reveals.Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has struck a game-changing deal with carrier Air Libya to launch reliable, interconnected air cargo services into and within the war-ravaged country.The mutually beneficial strategic partnership allows the ...
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Cargolux becomes first airline awarded GDP status
CARGOLUX is the first airline to be officially awarded Good Distribution Practice (GDP) status by Bureau Veritas Certification, Germany.It attests that the company’s management system fulfills the requirements of the EU directive ‘Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use’ and World Health Organisation guidelines.The certification underscores ...
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Singapore airfreight 'an exciting market'
REMEMBER the Asian Tigers? In the 1990s, economies such as Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan were the wonders of the age, developing fast and grabbing the world’s economic headlines. Their airports and airlines developed likewise, with carriers such as Singapore Airlines and China Airlines [of Taiwan] rapidly expanding their freighter fleets.Then ...
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UK air cargo shipper fined £5,000 over wrong packaging
THE UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a warning to companies shipping dangerous goods by air to follow the correct procedures to avoid endangering the safety of aircraft.It comes after the successful prosecution of an aircraft component supplier for sending an oxygen generator by air to the United States ...
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Second Cargolux boss quit
TWO key executives at cargo airline Cargolux have walked out, following the handover of control of the business to a Chinese shareholder.Highly experienced head of sales, Robert van de Weg, and chief of operations, Peter van de Pas, have both handed in their resignations in the space of a few ...
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Southern Air extends DHL B777F contract
ACMI airline Southern Air has extended its around-the-world B777F partnership with integrator DHL Express.A new long-term flight services agreement will continue the operation of the four B777 freighters that Southern currently flies in support of DHL’s international air express network.DHL notes that the aircraft are the most environmentally-advanced, fuel-efficient, wide-body ...
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IAG Cargo boosts Cape Town services
IAG CARGO is offering belly-hold capacity on three additional flights on its busy London Heathrow-Cape Town route, bringing the total number of weekly frequencies on the sector to 10.The new flights, serviced by a B777-200ER passenger jet, will benefit businesses in the region by enabling greater capacity across the entire ...
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Economic outlook favours air cargo
STORM clouds which have been blackening global economic skies in recent years are forecast to gradually shift away in 2014, with a sunnier outlook for the United States, the European Union – and the Asia Pacific regions in particular.All the economic signs point to growth in Asia-Pacific markets strengthening, supported ...
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AMI’s new click2ship service in Australia
AMI, which claims to be the world’s largest trade-only airfreight and express wholesaler, has launched its click2ship service in Australia, after a successful three-month pilot.First launched in the UK in 2010, click2ship customers can obtain all-inclusive cargo quotes online, easily convert these to bookings, arrange collection, then track their shipments ...
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Air cargo figures slowly on the rise
AIR CARGO’S gradual improvement is continuing, as a trend that started in the third quarter of this year, now shows that airfreight markets are responding to better economic confidence and improved consumer demand.The latest IATA report demonstrates that global air cargo markets are continuing a gradual recovery, with the industry ...
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Cincinnati cargo boosted by DHL
CINCINNATI/Northern Kentucky International Airport’s (CVG) cargo tonnage climbed by nine per cent year-over-year mainly because of DHL’s growing presence at the Tri-State facility.Since 2009, the integrator has spent more than US$100m upgrading its hub at the airport, currently ranked as the 10th largest in the USA, based on throughput.Candace McGraw, ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo surges ahead
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 ...