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Crane Worldwide appoints Nielsen for the Benelux
Crane Worldwide Logistics has appointed Kenneth Nielsen to serve as managing director for the Benelux region.Based in Amsterdam, Nielsen, will be responsible for overseeing the continued growth of Crane Worldwide Logistics in Benelux and report to Marco Nazzari, regional vice president, EMEIA."The hiring of Nielsen demonstrates a commitment to improving ...
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Cargolux boss: No breakdown in CHAMP relationship
Cargolux's top management has denied reports of a rift with CHAMP Cargo Systems, the airfreight IT provider in which it holds a 49% stake.Cargolux president and chief executive Richard Forson said: "There is no breakdown in our relationship with CHAMP, whatsoever."Forson said that Luxembourg-based freighter carrier, as part of a ...
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Davies Turner Air Cargo expands in Glasgow
Davies Turner Air Cargo has doubled the size of its branch in Glasgow to accommodate growing demand.The airfreight subsidiary of Davies Turner, the UK’s largest independent freight forwarder, has had a base on the Hillington Park business estate since 2004 but has now moved into a 10,000 sq ft, fully ...
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European shippers fight to ensure new tax does not stifle green efforts
Lobbying against a sustainability tax is already a moral minefield if you represent logistics providers, as you are by definition a polluter, but it becomes doubly so when you are representing the air cargo industry and therefore sitting on the smallest seat at the negotiating table.Rogier Spoel, air cargo manager ...
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Panalpina donates flight to UNICEF for South Sudan aid effort
Panalpina has again assisted the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) by flying relief aid to Africa to help children in war torn South Sudan.A Panalpina chartered MD-11 cargo aircraft landed last night in neighboring Uganda, carrying nearly 70 tons of supplies including emergency health kits.The supplies will be trucked ...
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Kenya adopts TIACA’S Cargo Service Quality tool
Kenya is set to become the first country to adopt TIACA’s new Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool nationwide.Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is aiming to implement the online tool at all Kenyan cargo hubs by mid-2019, allowing forwarders to rate and review service quality at the airports, providing data to improve ...
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WFS scoops Air Europa handling deal at nine airports
Air Europa, Spain’s second largest airline, has chosen Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its cargo handler at nine airports across Europe.Commencing this month, the three-year contract gives WFS responsibility for handling the airline’s cargo volumes in Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and ...
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Touya to lead Dachser's US management team
Freight forwarder Dachser has named Vincent Touya as managing director of its US-based organisation.Touya, who has been with the family-owned German company for over 30 years, will join Dachser at its US regional office in Atlanta from February next year.He succeeds Frank Guenzerodt, who had been with Dachser for 14 ...
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Azul and Correios' e-commerce joint venture gains antitrust approval in Brazil
Brazil's postal service Correios and local passenger airline Azul have gained antitrust approval for their joint venture to create a logistics platform serving Brazil's e-commerce sector.The December 2017 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the carrier's Azul Cargo Express unit and Correios to create a logistics company has been cleared "without ...
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Investment cycle boosts air cargo demand in October
Airfreight growth improved in October as a pick up in the investment cycle helped boost demand.The latest figures from IATA show that freight tonne kms increased by 3.1% year on year in October, which is an improvement compared with the 29-month low of 2.5% recorded in September.The airline association said ...
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Flower traffic from Ecuador keeps on growing for Emirates SkyCargo
Emirates SkyCargo is celebrating five years of transporting roses from Ecuador to destinations around the world.The airline launched its freighter operations to the Ecuadorian capital of Quito in December 2013 with a once a week service.However, due to growth in demand and trade flows from Ecuador, the airline has increased ...
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Cargo.one raises funds with Lufthansa Cargo one of the investors
Online airfreight booking portal cargo.one has raised $3.2m in funding for the further development of the platform, with Lufthansa Cargo one of the investors.The platform, which allows user to book on the spot market with real-time pricing, launched earlier this year and has expanded rapidly.The funding will be used to ...
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LATAM launches Huntsville freighter to meet Panalpina's perishables needs
LATAM Cargo has launched a new Colombia-US freighter operation to meet the requirements of customer Panalpina.The new weekly route was launched on December 2 and operates between Bogota and Huntsville using a 50 tonne capacity Boeing 767-300 freighter.The airline said it had decided to launch the service in response to ...
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European airlines warn of 'disastrous' no-deal Brexit
European airlines have warned that a ‘no-deal’ Brexit for the UK could have “disastrous consequences for the aviation industry, including the grounding of many flights across EU countries and the UK”.A letter from the European Regions Airlines Association (ERA) has urged the European Commission, the Brussels-based EU legislative arm, to ...
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Index shows "slight upswing" in world trade
World trade experienced a slight upswing in recent months and reached a new high in November, while international merchandise trade has risen by 10.6% so far this year.Emerging markets and North America are the main growth drivers. Despite new tariffs on exported products, China is benefiting from the strong US ...
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Antonov's Swift response for Taylor-made concert tour
Antonov Airlines transported stage and concert equipment for US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, from Brisbane, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand, and then on to Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan.The Ukrainian heavy lift carrier used two Antonov AN-124-100 freighters to ferry the singer’s light-show system and equipment earlier for the final leg ...
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Volga-Dnepr cuts ocean transport time with An-124 operation
Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) and forwarder Kintetsu World Express France (KWE) have transported an 11,000 horsepower Alstom motorized pump from Paris-Vatry to Damman.The 40-ton pump, measuring 651x274x311cm, was transported onboard one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 ramp aircraft seven days after the initial charter request was received.The motorized pump will be used as ...
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UK and Canada conclude open skies agreement
Canada is the latest country to reach an open skies agreement with the UK as it prepares to leave the European Union.The latest agreement is one of a number already agreed by the UK's Department for Transport (DfT) with countries around the world. The United Kingdom is Canada's third largest ...
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LATAM finalises Mas Air Cargo sale
LATAM airlines has finalised the sale of its stake in Aerotransportes Mas de Carga (Mas Air), also known as LATAM Cargo Mexico, for an undisclosed sum.The stake has been purchased by a group led by current shareholders of Mas Air, with the deal completed on December 1.According to Flight Radar, ...
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Bangladesh exports fly out of Kolkata in first bonded cargo land-air transhipment
Bonded cargo from Bangladesh was flown out of the Indian airport of Kolkata after EFL created a tailor-made logistics solution to handle the very first bonded, cross-border, land-air transhipment between the two countries.The EFL offices in Bangladesh and India collaborated in handling the cargo of apparel at the point of ...