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US still has holes in cargo screening security
DESPITE meeting the deadline for 100 per cent cargo screening, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) still has gaping holes in its security, claim inspectors.The inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigated the current screening process and reports that terrorists can still easily smuggle explosives into the ...
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Is FAA lithium battery warning a taste of things to come
FOLLOWING the UPS freighter crash in Dubai, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an alert to the transport of lithium batteries.In a statement, the FAA said: “[We are] concerned about the risk that lithium batteries pose to aviation safety in the event of an onboard fire. As a ...
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Late start to Asian peak
The peak season in Asia has started less strongly than expected, according to Jean-Charles Foucault, senior vice-president sales and distribution for Air France-KLM. “We are all very dependent on Asia, and there we see the peak not booming yet, especially in the two key markets of China and Hong Kong,” ...
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Allport sale is 'very close'
ONE of the UK’s largest and most profitable independent freight forwarders is about to be sold to Hong Kong-based Cargo Services, said sources close to the deal at the 7th Sino-International Freight Forwarders Conference in Hong Kong. Allport was created in 1963 by John Clayton and Will Toye and has ...
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AF-KLM to make electronic awbs mandatory
Air France-KLM is planning to make the use of electronic airwaybills mandatory out of Amsterdam from early next year, in an attempt to build critical mass for IATA’s e-freight project to remove paper documents from air cargo.Mattijs ten Brink, senior vice-president worldwide operations, who will take over as senior vice-president ...
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B747-8F hit by further delays
AS exclusively revealed by Air Cargo News back in August, Boeing has now confirmed further delays for the 747-8 Freighter with first delivery now expected mid-year 2011. The current plan had called for the first deliveries in late 2010 and customers will again be queuing for compensation for yet another ...
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Softening Chinese recovery threatens peak season high
A SOFTER than expected China market, just when it ought to grow hotter, has airlines worried that the 2010 peak season may falter and undermine this year’s recovery in yield.“We are seeing a slower situation in China all of a sudden, which was not expected. Shanghai is slower than expected, ...
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AF-KLM wounded by two-pronged attack
A GROUP of companies has launched Europe’s largest ever lawsuit against an airline for engaging in air cargo cartel behaviour.The group of claimants, led by Ericsson of Sweden and Philips of the Netherlands and involving “hundreds” of smaller companies, have brought the case against the Air France-KLM Group: Air France, ...
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ACG’s brand new 747F breaks down in Hong Kong
AIR Cargo Germany’s latest 747 freighter broke down on a runway at Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok International Airport on 21 September. The freighter blocked the runway for several hours bringing chaos to the airport, with 82 flights being affected.Pilot eyewitnesses described how part of the undercarriage collapsed when ...
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Air India to sell freighters
AIR India has announced plans to sell its six freighters. The airline said the move was due to its plans to split its cargo division off into a separate subsidiary have now become remote.“We are looking at selling out our six Boeing 737-200 freighters as the plans to have a ...
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Martinair to become all-cargo airline
MARTINAIR is to become an all-cargo airline, axing its passenger business. Long suspected, the move was announced by Air France-KLM – parent company to Martinair – to staff on Thursday.“Martinair Holland NV plans to concentrate fully on its airfreight activities as per the end of 2011, and to discontinue its ...
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New function heads at Panalpina
PANALPINA has appointed new heads of airfreight and logistics. The appointments follow its restructure, first announced in March.Henrik Lund (right) is the new global head of airfreight. Most recently he was at DHL Global Forwarding as vice-president, global head consumer sector. Based in Germany and Hong Kong. He has also ...
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AirBridgeCargo to serve Zhengzhou
AIRBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines is extending its all-cargo services from China with a new twice-weekly 747-400 freighter flight from Zhengzhou to Europe.Flights from the capital of Henan province will depart from Zhengzhou International Airport every Wednesday and Saturday to ABC’s hub in Moscow and then continue onto Frankfurt (Germany) connecting central ...
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Concern remains over peak-season screening
AIR cargo shippers and forwarders say the industry still has a long way to go in screening shipments after meeting the US government requirement of screening 100 per cent of all cargo on passenger aircraft by 1 August.Despite ominous predictions of doom that the deadline would not be reached, the ...
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2010 recovery as good as it gets
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) is now projecting a profit of US$8.9 billion (up from the $2.5 billion forecast in June). However, it also predicts this will drop to $5.3 billion in 2011.While all regions except Africa showed improved prospects compared to the previous forecast, sharp differences remain, with ...
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Panalpina launches new freighter service
The deal will allow Panalpina to start own-controlled regular airfreight services connecting Luxembourg with destinations such as South Africa, Dubai and Hong Kong. It will also cover the transpacific route to Huntsville, Alabama in the US, to operate alongside Panalpina’s existing transatlantic airfreight service, Dixie Jet, now entering its 20th ...
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Fiery crash could bring battery ban
US Federal officials are poised to rush in much tighter regulations on the transportation of lithium batteries on all US aircraft, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.The move has taken on extra urgency in the aftermath of the UPS B747-400F crash in Dubai that killed both crewmembers.The ...
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Miller new head of East Midlands Airport
EAST Midlands Airport (UK) has made Brad Miller (right), its current projects and procurement director, the new managing director.Effective 4 October, Miller replaces Penny Coates who has been promoted to chief operating officer for the Manchester Airports Group, which owns the airport.Miller said: “I’m obviously very proud to have been ...
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200 Chinese pilots lied about qualifications
CHINA discovered over 200 pilots who lied about their employment history. Half of those 200 work for Henan Airlines, a subsidiary company of Shenzhen Airlines, which suffered a crash in August that killed 42 passengers.The worrying discovery was the result of a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) investigation last ...
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Fraudsters target Cargolux
FRAUDSTERS are targeting customers of Cargolux, claiming to be representatives of the all-cargo airline.Robert van de Weg, Cargolux’s senior vice-president of sales and marketing confirmed the threat and exclusively told Air Cargo News: “Cargolux and other transportation companies are indeed confronted with the unauthorised use of their names and logos ...