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    Gati freezes out Air India

    31 March 2009

    INDIAN logistics firm Gati has cancelled its wet-leasing of five Boeing 737-200 freighters from the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), which owns Air India.“Consequently, the freighters leased by Air India have also been withdrawn with immediate effect. However, the strategic alliance with Air India is being continued as ...

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    ACMG predicts hopeful future

    31 March 2009

    SEATTLE-based the Air Cargo Management Group (ACMG) has just released the 2009 edition of its annual Twenty-Year Freighter Aircraft Forecast. This year’s report contains two different forecasts in recognition of the ongoing global recession and its dramatic impact on demand for airfreight services.According to ACMG’s managing director, Robert Dahl: “[Our] ...

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    AF-KL and Martinair Cargo joins forces

    30 March 2009

    AIR France Cargo-KLM Cargo and Martinair Cargo have taken their first steps in cooperation. This follows Air France-KLM Group’s purchase of Martinair on 31 December 2008.The balancing of all three’s fleets, routes and capacity will result in some network changes starting with the summer schedule. These changes will mainly involve ...

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    First paperless shipment despatched from Stansted

    26 March 2009

    BRITISH Airways World Cargo, together with global partner DHL Global Forwarding, today announced that it has become the first carrier to dispatch a paperless airfreight shipment from London Stansted.The general freight shipment left London Stansted at 0900 on 13 February and arrived at Hong Kong International at 0515 on 14 ...

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    Fall in freight demand stabilises says IATA

    26 March 2009

    THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released February’s international traffic statistics, which suggest that freight’s decline has finally hit bottom.Freight volumes were 22.1 per cent below 2008 levels, the third consecutive month at more than 20 per cent below previous year levels (-23.2 in January and -22.6 per cent ...

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    BAA ordered to sell three airports

    26 March 2009

    AFTER a two-year investigation, the UK’s antitrust regulator has confirmed that will force BAA to sell three of its seven UK airports. Two of those must be London Stansted and Gatwick, and either Edinburgh or Glasgow airport in Scotland – all three must be sold within two years.Ferrovial, which went ...

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    FedEx US labour trouble

    24 March 2009

    FEDEX is to cut 1,000 employee jobs before the end of May. According to FedEx spokesperson Maury Lane, the cuts will be spread across all of the company’s subsidiaries.“Our financial performance was sharply lower during the quarter due to the global recession,” said Frederick Smith, FedEx’s chairman, president and chief ...

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    Total US cargo screening by 2010 unlikely

    24 March 2009

    US cargo-screening targets are becoming increasingly strained. The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to have 100 per cent of all cargo carried in bellyholds of passengers planes to be screened by 2010.However, Ed Kelly, TSA manager of air cargo, told a Congressional committee that the TSA would be unlikely ...

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    FedEx plane explodes in Japan

    23 March 2009

    A FEDEX cargo plane has crashed at Tokyo’s Narita Airport killing both of the crew. The MD-11 flying out of Guangzhou, China was attempting to land when it ‘bounced’ after the initial touchdown, flipped over and then exploded.Emergency crew rushed to the scene but the American pilot and co-pilot, Kevin ...

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    SBS Avion strengthen US-European freight trade

    23 March 2009

    INTERNATIONAL freight forwarder, SBS Worldwide, has signed a formal agency agreement with Milan-based freight forwarder Avion International to offer shippers in the US and Italy a wider range of logistics services between the two markets.The creation of the agreement gives Avion access to SBS’s US network of offices in the ...

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    Future optimistic for Kent International Airport

    18 March 2009

    THE future remains bright for Kent International Airport, according to its owner Infratil Airports.Kent International lost out to Stansted in a recent tender process which, if successful, would have seen British Airways world Cargo move its base operations away from London Stansted Airport.But Nico Le Roux, group manager freight development ...

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    Lufthansa Cargo sees opportunity in adversity

    18 March 2009

    LUFTHANSA Cargo presented its 2008 annual report yesterday, revealing that it had been the company’s second-best year to date. Operating profits rose 20.9 per cent to €164 million from €136 million in 2007. Revenues rose 6.3 per cent to €2.9 billion.Speaking to journalists in Frankfurt, chief executive officer Carsten Spohr ...

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    American awards two-year contract to WFS

    16 March 2009

    WORLDWIDE Flight Services (WFS) has won a two-year contract to provide cargo handling and customer service for American Airlines at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada.Effective since the end of February, the agreement sees WFS take over the airline’s 22,000 sq ft cargo facility at the airport, located next to the ...

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    New routes and services

    15 March 2009

    AirBaltic will fly twice-weekly between Riga, Latvia and Dushanbe, Tajikistan from 1 June using Boeing B737s.Air Europa – Spain’s second largest carrier – is starting a daily non-stop A330 service between New York and Madrid from 1 June.Emirates has increased the number of cargo flights between Dubai, Zaragoza and Milan ...

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    Record number of planes grounded in desert

    15 March 2009

    NEW figures reveal that a record total of almost 2,300 jet airliners are now parked. 1,167 of these aircraft were grounded last year, making 2008 the worst year for cutbacks since 2001.According to data from Ascend, a global aerospace consultancy, more than 11 per cent of the global aircraft fleet ...

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    Deutsche Post raided

    12 March 2009

    GERMAN authorities have raided the offices of Deutsche Post (DP) in an investigation about phone-tapping at Deutsche Telekom (DT).Prosecutor Friedrich Apostel stressed that DP was not implicated in the scandal itself, rather investigators were looking for evidence surrounding former chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel (right). Zumwinkel resigned from DT’s supervisory board ...

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    Swiss has good 2008 but fears 2009

    12 March 2009

    SWISS International Air Lines (Group) achieved earnings before interest and taxes of CHF 507 million (US$426 million) for 2008, a 6.5 per cent decline on the prior-year result.Total income from operating activities was increased 7.6 per cent to CHF 5,267 million ($4,429 million) over the same period. Swiss was unable ...

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    SATS and NACIL ground handle India

    10 March 2009

    SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services Limited (SATS) has approval from the government of India to establish a 50:50 ground-handling joint venture with the National Aviation Company of India (NACIL).SATS was selected by NACIL following a request for proposal exercise called by NACIL. SATS and NACIL are already collaborating in two airports ...

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    Hactl freight down in Feb

    10 March 2009

    HONG Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (Hactl) released its tonnage figures for February 2009. A total of 133,624 tonnes were handled in February, down 22 per cent year-on-year. Cumulative tonnage for the first two months of the year was 276,378 tonnes, down 26.9 per cent year-on-year.Import volume for February was ...

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    Vietnam Airlines makes Globe Air Cargo UK GSA

    9 March 2009

    VIETNAM Airlines has appointed Globe Air Cargo, part of the European Cargo Services (ECS) group, as its exclusive GSA partner in the UK.The new contract is part of the airline’s preparation for the launch of flights to London, hopefully in 2009. In the meantime, Globe Air Cargo in the UK ...