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Turkish Cargo joins the Animal Transportation Association
Turkish Cargo has joined the Animal Transportation Association (ATA), which promotes the transport of live animals in secure and ideal conditions.ATA's membership includes airlines, freight forwarders, marine companies, public institutions, universities, research agencies, animal breeders and veterinarians. It supports regulations on the international transportation requirements for live animals.The airline also ...
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Etihad gains first airline CEIV Pharma certification in the Middle East
Etihad Cargo has become the Middle East’s first carrier to be awarded IATA’s Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification for pharmaceutical Logistics.The airline is one of only 16 carriers worldwide to hold CEIV Pharma certification, a regime which demonstrates an airline's ability to manage high-value, temperature-sensitive shipments for ...
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Cargo Airline of the Year 2019 - online voting now live
Online voting has now opened for the Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year 2019 awards.Voting has been split into the following categories:Best Cargo Airline – AfricaBest Cargo Airline – Americas – North and SouthBest Cargo Airline – Asia-PacificBest Cargo Airline – EuropeBest Cargo Airline – Middle EastOverall winner ...
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Cargolux to expand capacity with additional B747Fs
Cargolux has taken delivery of two B747-400Fs and plans to put them into operation later this year as additional capacity.The airline’s chief executive, Richard Forson, told Air Cargo News in May last year that it would receive an extra two B747s over the course of the next 12 months but ...
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Emirates SkyCargo and Avianca team up for a weekly B777 freighter to Bogota
Emirates SkyCargo and Avianca are developing a "deeper partnership" with the launch of a new South American trade lane for the Middle East carrier, a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service to Bogota.The Colombian capital will become Emirates SkyCargo’s sixth cargo destination in South America and its third dedicated cargo destination ...
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Air France KLM sees cargo improve in 2018
The Air France KLM Group recorded an increase in cargo traffic for the second year in row in 2018, while it also improved its load factor.The Franco-Dutch airline group saw air cargo traffic increase by 0.7% year on year in 2018 to 8.7bn revenue tonne kms, following on from a ...
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Forwarder TASCO signs up to use AirAsia booking platform
Freight forwarder TASCO has signed up to use RedCargo, the online freight booking platform of Air Asia.RedCargo said that TASCO was its first freight forwarding customer and that the company would be able to book space anywhere on the AirAsia extensive network, which spans over 320 routes to more than ...
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Management reorganisation at Air Atlanta Icelandic to focus on fleet renewal
Air Atlanta Icelandic has announced organisational changes as the ACMI and charter airline focuses on a fleet growth and renewal strategy.Hannes Hilmarsson, Air Atlanta’s chief executive since 2006, will assume a new role as the executive chairman of Air Atlanta Icelandic and managing director of Air Atlanta’s sister company, Northern ...
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Cargo demand in November a "big disappointment", says IATA
The air cargo industry failed to register an increase in demand in November for the first time since March 2016 in what has been described as a big disappointment.The latest figures from airline association IATA show that cargo traffic was flat in November compared with a year earlier, following 31 ...
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Atlas adds NCA B747-400F trio in CMI agreement
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has expanded its strategic agreement with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) to add three NCA-owned Boeing 747-400 freighters to the existing operation.The deal brings the total number of B747-400Fs operated by Atlas Air on behalf of NCA to five. As with the first two aircraft, the three ...
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AirAsia X extends Unilode ULD management contract
AirAsia X, the long-haul affiliate of AirAsia, has extended its outsourced ULD management agreement with Unilode Aviation Solutions until 2023, for the second time in the companies’ 10-year partnership.Unilode’s partnership with AirAsia’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Cargo Logistics, will “help to reduce cost as well as maximise revenue-generating belly space across ...
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LATAM looks to build on salmon demand in Asia
LATAM Cargo will launch a new freighter service between Santiago de Chile and Chicago in February as it looks to speed up the transport of salmon into Asia.The Chile-based airline said that Chicago’s strategic connectivity to Asia will allow it to expedite perishable shipments to the region, reducing transit times ...
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Whale I never, Cargolux: Shifting to the dock of a bay for a pair of little belugas
Cargolux will sponsor a B747 freighter flight to help relocate two beluga whales, Little Grey and Little White, 6,000 miles from China to Iceland in the spring of 2019.The complex journey will see the whales move from Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai via land, air and sea to a large ...
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Asian Airlines see cargo growth slow in November
The latest figures for the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) shows that cargo demand growth slowed in November as business orders weakened.The latest AAPA figures show that cargo demand was up by 0.1% year on year in November compared with a 4.3% increase over the first 11 months of ...
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KKR partners with Altavair in $1bn aircraft investment
US-based Global investment firm KKR is linking up with Altavair AirFinance with an initial $1bn capital commitment, part of which will go towards the acquisition of six “cargo aircraft” on long-term lease with “a diverse group of airline counterparties”.Dan Pietrzak, a member of KKR, said: “Since our first investment in ...
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Atran adds fourth B737 freighter
Atran Airlines has marked the start of the new year by taking delivery of a Boeing 737-400 BCF, enlarging its fleet to four freighters.The additional aircraft will "support the carrier’s growing volumes, especially e-commerce shipments which now constitute a major part of Atran’s traffic".The B737-400 BCF will be deployed on ...
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Ogiermann confirmed to head up CargoLogicGermany
Leipzig/Halle Airport-based CargoLogicGermany (CLG) has appointed Ulrich Ogiermann as its managing director and Dierk Näther as the airline’s number two.Until recently, 59-year-old Ogiermann worked in a dual role in London as senior vice president for operations at the Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) and deputy general director of its consulting affiliate CargoLogicManagement ...
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FedEx drops Cuba plans
FedEx has dropped plans to start a five-times-a-week freighter service between Miami and Matanzas/Varadero in Cuba.In a letter to the US Department of Transportation the express giant said it is returning its five-weekly frequencies "effective immediately" as it evaluates alternative all-cargo service options to Cuba.The express firm had applied for ...
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Amazon Air to expand fleet to 50 aircraft with new ATSG deal
Amazon Air is expanding its network with the lease of a further 10 Boeing 767-300 freighters from lessor ATSG, with options for even more.The move will bring the e-commerce giant’s fleet of aircraft to 50 – it leases a further 20 from ATSG and 20 from Atlas Air – when ...
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Worlds most protected route opens
AUSTRALIA and the US have signed an open skies agreement that opens up one of the world’s most lucrative long-haul routes.The deal will allow Australian and US airlines to increase routes, destinations and frequency of flights between the two countries and to other nations.Qantas and United Airlines are currently the ...