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Get smarter or get squeezed
AFTER eight years away doing other jobs within the airline – including heading the carrier’s maintenance, repair and overhaul business – Tony Charaf returned in 2012 as chief cargo officer for Delta Air Lines.He found a cargo business with a significantly bigger footprint in Asia than when he left in ...
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Cargo Champion - Ram Menen
THE AIR was pregnant with a heady cocktail of thunderous applause, delight and expectation – as Ram Menen rose from his chair on to his feet to accept Emirates SkyCargo’s eighth Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year award.But as the tall, charismatic figure strode to the stage, a ...
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Lug wins Cathay at FRA
GERMAN ground handling company LUG has won the tender to handle cargo for Cathay Pacific Airways at Frankfurt-Main.The GHA now serves five major Asian carriers at this leading international hub.The contract covers daily passenger flights and up to eight full freighter flights a week.The new client considerably strengthens LUG’s portfolio ...
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Cargo Champion – Chris Chapman
‘PARTY animal’ is not a term one would ordinarily use to describe one of the most admired operators in the industry. “A man for all seasons” would be more fitting for a person who has contributed so greatly to the business and touched so many lives in the process.But Chris ...
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Healthcare healthy for Panalpina
HEALTHCARE has suddenly become big business at Panalpina.The company’s temperature-controlled airfreight shipments for healthcare customers have grown exponentially in the past four years.The last nine months alone saw an increase of 90 per cent, with this business now helped by the new Healthcare and Pharma Center of LuxairCargo.The facility there ...
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Hjoerdis Stahl leaves LuxairGroup
HJOERDIS STAHL, executive vice-president of the LuxairGroup, is stepping down from her position to join the Entreprise des Postes and Télécommunication (P&T Luxembourg), where she will head up the postal and logistics activities.Her statement reads: “I have been in charge of LuxairCARGO for the last five years and these have ...
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Air cargo spurs Damco
AIRFREIGHT helped DAMCO, one of the world’s leading freight forwarding and logistics service providers, achieve a six per cent increase in first-quarter (Q1) net revenue, with a total of US$773 million, compared to $728m in the same period of 2012.Business was spurred by rising airfreight volumes, which showed a rapid ...
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Swissport ties up with Moscow handler
THE signing of a new contract has paved the way for ground handler Swissport’s market entry into the Russian Federation.A cooperation with local company Service-VS at Vnukovo Airport, Moscow, covers all ground handling services at the Russian airport.As part of the joint agreement, Swissport will implement its standardised processes for ...
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Yusen helps Samsung Galaxy S4 reach market
THE FLEXIBILITY of carefully managed air cargo supply chains helped smooth the launch of the popular Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone in the UK.With unparalleled volumes of handsets pre-sold, the arrival of substantial launch volumes from the Far East was eagerly awaited by customers.“Yusen Logistics’ airport-centric inbound supply chain operation ensured ...
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New all-cargo airline launched
AEROSPACE ONE, a new, Greece-registered all-cargo airline, has been set up.It will offer wide-bodied freighters for charter or ACMI lease and will operate from a home base at Châteauroux, in central France, connecting high economic growth areas with Europe concentrating at first on India and Brazil.The fleet, already in operation, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's paperless strategy
LUFTHANSA Cargo is speeding up the pace of e-freight adoption.The German cargo carrier has signed a worldwide agreement with IATA on the use of electronic airwaybills (eAWBs).It follows the industry’s adoption of a multilateral eAWB. “Paperless airfreight is set to become more convenient for our customers,” says a company spokesperson.The ...
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Geodis rewards staff innovation
GLOBAL freight management specialist Geodis Wilson has rewarded its employees who have shown creative prowess.The French company has announced the winners of its annual ‘Innovation Masters Award’, which recognises outstanding internal innovative initiatives discovered throughout the logistic service provider’s global network.The competition is designed to stimulate trendsetting ideas which improve ...
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The search for more flexibility
CARGOLUX has had a consistent policy of investing in the best available freighter equipment, and so it was no surprise when it became the launch customer for the B747-8F.It has been the carrier’s misfortune, however, to take delivery of the aircraft – the seventh arrived in March, the eighth is ...
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The flowering of Bogota's air cargo
OUTSTANDING airfreight facilities, like HACTL’s Superterminal at Hong Kong, invite a lot of copy-cat moves, but Maurice Thorin, managing partner at AirLogistix, sees no merit in doing so.“Passenger requirements are generally more or less the same around the world, so you can copy and paste successful passenger terminal designs. But ...
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Leased B747-8F joins Etihad’s freighter fleet
ETIHAD Airways has signed a multi-year aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) agreement with Atlas Air Worldwide to provide the UAE flag carrier with its first B747-8 Freighter.The Etihad Cargo liveried B747-8F will enter service with the carrier in June and will be the largest in Etihad’s growing freighter fleet.It ...
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AF-KL-MP Cargo invest in sniffer dogs at Schipol hub
IN LINE with new European Union security regulations, AF-KL-MP Cargo has opened a new, innovative security screening method at the Dutch Schiphol hub.A Remote Explosive Scent Tracing (REST) process, at truck level, was approved by the Dutch authorities at the end of last year.It screens an entire truck load ...
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ANZ cartel case hearing adjourned
A HIGH COURT hearing about Air New Zealand’s alleged anti-trust air cargo activities has been adjourned until the end of this week.The New Zealand Herald reports that the national carrier has been in talks with the authorities about a possible resolution in the case, in which the regulator filed proceedings ...
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Aussie forwarders attack security proposal
AUSTRALIA’S forwarders are claiming that government plans to construct a new all-embracing air cargo security regime in the country are greatly flawed.They believe the proposed scheme will increase the costs of Australian exports, possibly to the point where the consignee looks to buy elsewhere, or at least make Australia a ...
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Maverick countries should not go it alone over security measures
COUNTRIES with poor communications strategies must not rely solely on industry to interpret, raise awareness of or enforce new air cargo security measures.The Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG) is concerned that a ‘non-uniform approach’ to the implementation of requirements for new security measures could result in added bureaucracy, additional ...
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What Boeing got right
HAS the air cargo industry ‘lost’ 12 years of freighter growth? This was a question I asked in a comment piece last September when comparing the predictions of Boeing’s 2000/2001 World Air Cargo Forecast with the freighter predictions in its 2012 Current Market Outlook.To recap, the 2000 forecast predicted that ...