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AIA supports Parkinson's sufferers
GSA Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) has launched a fund-raising initiative for Parkinson’s sufferers.The UK-based company wants to raise awareness of the disease.Parkinson’s is the result of an insufficiency of a chemical called Dopamine, which happens when some nerve cells in the brain have died.People can find their movements become slower ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's second new B777F arrives in Frankfurt
LUFTHANSA CARGO’s (LC) second brand new B777F has arrived at the German carrier's Frankfurt base just days after the first one made its maiden flight to New York.The new D-ALFB registered ‘plane christened Jambo Kenya – meaning Hello Kenya – symbolises the significance of Africa as one of the most ...
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Mid-size crisis: has Airbus got it right?
ASK A B747-8 operator about the ‘plane, and you will likely hear an enthusiastic accolade to the aircraft’s operating economics.Outfits that have not embraced the new behemoth are more likely to warn that present market conditions make it challenging to load 140 tonnes both ways on most routes, undermining the ...
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IT specialist given a seat on Panalpina board
IN AN industry first, Panalpina has appointed an IT specialist onto its main board of directors.Rod Angwin the company’s chief information officer (CIO), has been appointed to the company’s executive board, effective January 1st 2014.The appointment reflects the ever growing importance of IT for Panalpina and the industry as a ...
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Should shippers talk to carriers?
MESSAGE to airline heads of cargo: Your customer's customer is on the phone, and he wants to talk to you! This spring brought not only the inevitable round of industry gatherings around golf courses but also a rather unusual development. Various shippers have expressed a desire to talk to carriers.Robert ...
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The elusiveness of air cargo quality
THE biggest single problem with the airfreight industry is not so much low yields or overcapacity, but poor quality.Poor quality is when customers (whoever they are) do not receive value for money.Lost and damaged shipments, misdeclarations, missing documentation, tautly stretched deadlines, broken promises . . these are just a few ...
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Agility's flexible business model
IF YOU WANT to know why big hub airports continue to thrive in the air cargo business, you could do worse than study the new 6,300-sq m airfreight hub that Agility Logistics opened in Frankfurt airport’s CargoCity South at the start of April.It was aimed initially at Asian manufacturers – ...
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American Airlines and US Airways to fight justice department merger block
AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines and US Airways Group, is to mount a “vigorous and strong defence” to the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to block their proposed merger.A strongly-worded statement from the airline insists: “We believe that the DOJ is wrong in its assessment of ...
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Lufthansa Cargo launches paperless security process
PAPERLESS airfreight is moving closer and closer at innovative Lufthansa Cargo.From now on, customers can send consignment-specific security information electronically to the airline.The new electronic Consignment Security Declaration (eCSD) has been officially recognised by the German Federal Aviation office for transport in/from Germany.The aim of the process is to provide ...
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Panalpina offers US$35m to settle US lawsuit
PANALPINA has entered into a preliminary agreement to settle a US class action lawsuit alleging anticompetitive industry practices regarding freight surcharges.The Switzerland-based air and ocean logistics company has agreed to pay US$35million, which includes previously received proceeds (from airlines) of $5.8million, in an unrelated class action against various carriers.The settlement ...
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Schiphol's e-freight leap
SCHIPHOL Cargo, Cargonaut, KLM Cargo and Air Cargo Netherlands are among the signatories to a revolutionary new information exchange between parties in the Dutch logistics chain.Signed in the presence of Melanie Schultz van Haegen, the Netherlands minister of infrastructure and environment, the ‘Neutral Logistics Information Platform’ (NLIP) will give Holland’s ...
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More air cargo support for the Philippines
TWELVE days after Typhoon Haiyan hit central Philippines, the air cargo industry has been ratcheting up its efforts to send humanitarian aid to the millions of people left without food, water or shelter.The storm (on the 8 November), which had some of the strongest winds ever recorded on land, killed ...
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Nordic air cargo volumes fell by nearly 20 per cent in 2012
THE PERCEIVED success of the Nordic countries appears to be the envy of the world.Some socio-economic commentators have even gone as far as to describe the region as ‘the next supermodel’ (the Economist) because the small ensemble of open economies there have systematically struck pitch-perfect chords, resulting in a model ...
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Air Canada leads way in piece-level tracking
AIR CANADA (AC) Cargo is poised to track shipments at individual piece level.The airline is getting ready to introduce radio-frequency-based RFID tracking and tracing, starting with its route between Montreal and Frankfurt.RFID is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying ...
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Etihad Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo to exchange capacity
ETIHAD CARGO and Singapore Airlines Cargo are to exchange confirmed cargo capacity on their services from Abu Dhabi (AUH) to London Heathrow (LHR) and Frankfurt (FRA).Under the agreement, Etihad Cargo will supply capacity on one of its weekly freighter services from Abu Dhabi to Frankfurt as well as access to ...
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United Cargo equipped for a new era
A MAJOR MERGER and switching to an entirely new IT system must be two of the more stressful things that a company has to deal with, so imagine what it has been like for United Cargo in the past eighteen months having to deal with both.The merger between United Airlines ...
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United Cargo equipped for a new era
A MAJOR MERGER and switching to an entirely new IT system must be two of the more stressful things that a company has to deal with, so imagine what it has been like for United Cargo in the past eighteen months having to deal with both.The merger between United Airlines ...
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Cattle asphyxiated on freighter
AUSTRALIAN exports authorities have launched an investigation after dozens of cows were suffocated to death on a B747-8 freighter flight from Melbourne to Almaty, Kazakhstan.The export cattle, said to be part of a Kazakh government breeding programme, were among 213 loaded into specially-designed boxes and placed on the top deck ...
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Air cargo charter airline Evergreen in trouble
RISING debts have forced US air cargo company Evergreen International Airlines to the brink of bankruptcy.The ACMI and charter airline, which for decades has supported the US military and operated thousands of commercial operations with a fleet of old B747Fs, ran into trouble last year, as debts soared.Bond rating agencies ...
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Chapman Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo airlift humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees
CHAPMAN Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo have successfully collaborated on a high-profile charter project which utilised the cargo facility on the site of Germany’s new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which is still under construction.The operation – a humanitarian airlift arranged on behalf of the Red Cross – was the first time the ...