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Atlas Air's net income drops to $21million in Q2
ATLAS AIR’S net income plummeted by a third from US$31.2 million in the second quarter of 2012 to $21million in the second quarter of this year.Quarterly revenue for the USA-based cargo and passenger charter airline was $403.6 million in total, down from $424.7 million in the same quarter last year.However, ...
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AA's Kenji Hashimoto leaves air cargo
BARELY 18 months into the role of president of American Airlines Cargo, Kenji Hashimoto has suddenly moved on, as part of a big management reshuffle at the US carrier.His cargo leadership role has been given to Jim Butler, previously managing director of commercial planning and performance.Butler is the new president ...
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Geoff Corpe returns to air cargo
FORMER chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding, Geoff Corpe is making an air cargo comeback after illness.After being incapacitated for almost a year due to an undiagnosed disorder, Corpe is back in top form and has joined the search and consulting firm, BiS Henderson, in the UK.“I’m looking forward to ...
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Can air cargo shipment profiling intercept security risks?
AIR CARGO remains one of the most vulnerable and critical areas of aviation security today.It has been seven years since the US Congress passed the 9/11 Commission Act, which required the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to create a system capable of screening all air cargo shipments transported on passenger aircraft.Only ...
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Why BIG is not always best
During the late 1990s, there was a lot of talk about how the big global forwarders were going to take over the world, squeezing out the medium-sized players and leaving only smaller niche forwarders. A buying spree that saw many famous names swallowed up by larger companies – Danzas, Excel ...
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Fire-proof ULDs for UPS sparks heated discussion
MORE than once the integrators have blazed new trails for the rest of air cargo to follow. Is UPS writing a new chapter, this time in safety?From now until next spring, the integrator is taking 1,821 new containers on board, all of them built with new materials and made to ...
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Qatar Cargo's A380 maiden flight to Hamburg
QATAR AIRWAYS’ first A380 takes off for its maiden flight to Hamburg for painting and cabin installation.The Doha-based carrier has firm orders for 10 A380s and is the eleventh airline to join the club of A380 operators when it takes delivery of this aircraft in 2014.Since first entering service in ...
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Has the US shot itself in the foot?
TO SAY that the US government shutdown couldn’t have come at a worse time has to be among the biggest understatements of the year.The impasse between the Democrats and the Republicans left international political and economic commentators incredulous that such a crisis situation was allowed to escalate unabated well into ...
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Cargo remains a core business, says Air France-KLM
IF YOU WANT an illustration of how the rise in belly capacity is changing air cargo, look at Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo. In 2005, before they merged, the three carriers had 26 freighters – 12 B747Fs at Air France, three B747Fs at KLM, and seven MD-11Fs and four B747Fs at Martinair.Fast-forward ...
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Will TIACA join the real world?
WHAT’S going on at TIACA?First there was the abrupt and unexplained departure of Daniel Fernandez, the organisation’s secretary general for the last 14 years. Then there are rumours that the sudden resignation of committee man and retired freight forwarder Issa Baluch was not all done with sweetness and light.Apparently, opinion ...
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The seafood capacity crunch
WHICH COMES first, capacity or market? Is air cargo capacity put in place to serve an existing need, or by becoming available can it create a whole new type of demand? Colin MacDonald, chairman of Clearwater Seafoods Inc, clearly thinks the latter is the case in his home market of ...
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Cool-chain handling two-tier warning
INCONSISTENT investment in technology and infrastructure among air cargo firms handling pharmaceutical and healthcare products is resulting in a two-tier supply chain, a conference on ground handling has heard.There are those companies who invest and those who do not, explains Marcel Fujike, senior vice-president of products and services, global air ...
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Who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing?
IT SEEMS crazy to me but, in the hardbitten commercial world of air cargo, there is one subject that practically nobody wants to talk about any more.Price has become a taboo subject now that people and companies have been prosecuted the world over for alleged price-fixing arrangements.Just comparing notes on ...
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Saudia Cargo expands global network with European routes
SAUDIA CARGO is to increase its belly and freighter capacity on a number of routes across its global network.In its scheduled freighter service network, the airline is adding one additional flight a week from Guangzhou to Brussels, bringing the total number of weekly flights to three; one additional flight a ...
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Fire-risk lurking in containers
A RAPIDLY accelerating blaze – which started in a ULD containing undeclared lithium-ion batteries – turned the inside of a UPS B747-400 freighter into a ‘catastrophic’ chain reaction of flames and smoke before a crash three years ago in the Dubai desert, according to a 322-page probe into the disaster, ...
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The seafood capacity crunch
WHICH COMES first, capacity or market? Is air cargo capacity put in place to serve an existing need, or by becoming available can it create a whole new type of demand? Colin MacDonald, chairman of Clearwater Seafoods Inc, clearly thinks the latter is the case in his home market of ...
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Qantas Freight expands its global reach
BIG CHANGES have been afoot in Qantas Freight. The division has changed its European strategy, bought out its partner in a domestic joint venture, and introduced new technology. And all this has been achieved in just one year.One of the more surprising changes is that the European hub for Qantas ...
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Russian air cargo in retreat
THE RANKS of Russian freighter operators swelled in April, as Transaero entered the maindeck market with the start of all-cargo operations with a leased Tupolev 204-100C aircraft.The ‘plane was first deployed on a domestic routing from Moscow to Novosibirsk and Yakutsk, but management indicated that it wanted to use TU-204 ...
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The bear necessities
READING my esteemed colleague Thelma Etim’s informative round-up of the latest animals-by-air innovations in this issue (see pages 10 and 11 of Air Cargo News 17 June 2013 - Issue No 754) got me to wondering if whether, anytime soon, humans might be treated with as much respect and dignity ...
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Cargo expansion for Bahrain International Airport
A PLANNED expansion of cargo facilities at Bahrain International Airport (BIA) is at preliminary stages as part of a wider airport improvement programme, reports cargo manager Robert Mills.“Cargo is being recognised as a key driver at BIA and it is without doubt an area which will see facility investment and ...