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Airline-shipper relations need rethink, says Unisys expert
Airlines and their customers will have to forge new style alliances, predicts a Unisys industry expert.Venkatesh Pazhyanur, senior industry director of freight solutions at the global IT firm, predicts that there will be strategic alliances between airlines and big-volume shippers such as postal authorities, online retailers, global distributors and supply ...
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Air cargo group Tiaca looks to add fourth pillar
Air cargo association Tiaca is planning to add consultancy services as its fourth pillar, while it will also continue to push for greater membership from across the globe and improve revenues.Speaking to Air Cargo News ahead of the Caspian Air Cargo Summit taking place in Baku over the coming days, ...
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New chief for Estonia’s Airest
Estonian cargo airline Airest has appointed Aleksei Lupitski as its new chief executive, taking over from Jaanus Ojamets, who has stepped down for personal reasons.Lupitski has held senior management positions at various airlines for the last 20 years and, for the past eight was the president and chief executive of ...
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Atlas Air donates Puerto Rico aid flight
Atlas Air has donated a Boeing 747 freighter flight to get 110 tons of urgently needed supplies to San Juan in Puerto Rico, following an unprecedented response to an appeal from New York airline JetBlue.The carrier said that the response to its 100x35JetBlue commitment to launch 35 initiatives over 100 ...
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Zodiac unveils its maindeck container
Zodiac AirCargo Equipment will launch its first Herculight S main deck containers at the Inter Airport Europe Expo in Munich, following the earlier introduction of a lower deck version.French-based Zodiac lists the advantages of the new container as lighter weight, more durability and lower total cost of ownership, along with ...
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Freighter 13 for Qatar all-cargo fleet
Qatar Airways Cargo has expanded its freighter fleet to 22 aircraft following the delivery of a 13th Boeing 777F at its home base, Doha’s Hamad International Airport (HIA).The world’s third largest international cargo fleet now comprises eight Airbus A330Fs, 13 Boeing 777Fs and one Boeing 747-8F. A second B747-8F is ...
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NewsVolga-Dnepr freighters fly hijacked B737 aircraft home
Volga-Dnepr Airlines carried out the return of the B737-200 aircraft to Germany that was hijacked by terrorists in 1977.An-124-100 and IL-76TD90-VD freighters flew the aircraft named Landshut from northeastern Brazil's Fortaleza Airport to Friederichshafen.The fuselage and wings of the Boeing 737 were transported in a special frame for its An-124-100 ...
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Air Partner in aid flights for hurricane relief effort
Air Partner has carried out a number of urgent freight charters across the Caribbean in recent weeks to support the relief effort in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.The flights were operated on behalf of governments, NGOs, charities and commercial entities to a number of islands in the region, ...
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ATSG appoints Raymond Johns to board of directors
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has announced the election of Raymond Johns to its board of directors.Johns, 62, led the US Air Force Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois until his retirement with the rank of General in January 2013, capping a 36-year military career.He is ...
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Oman Air selects Jettainer for ULD management
Oman Air Cargo has signed a five year unit load device (ULD) outsourcing contract with Jettainer, the German airfreight container management company.The Middle East airline will use lightweight ULDs — constructed of carbon fibre and partly recycled composite materials — that will result in lower CO2 emissions, improved payload, and ...
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IATA hopeful on cargo yields as demand continues to soar
IATA is hopeful that cargo yields could be set to improve as demand growth outstrips capacity supply.In its latest market wrap up, the airline association said that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 12.1% in August, well ahead of the five-year average growth rate of 4.4% ...
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Unions hit back at Atlas lawsuit over alleged work slowdown
The APA Teamsters Local 1224 union has hit back at Atlas Air Worldwide (AAWW) after the lessor filed a lawsuit accusing members of an "illegal work slowdown".The union accused Atlas of using the lawsuit to "pass blame" and "distract customers' attention from operational failings".The teamsters went on to reiterate concerns ...
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Emirates SkyCargo reports boom in flying fish from Sri Lanka
Emirates SkyCargo has reported a boom in fish volumes from Sri Lanka to Europe after a ban on their export was lifted by Brussels last year.The airline said it is currently transporting about 100 tons of edible fish a week from Colombo to markets in Europe and the US.In the ...
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ABC adds third Munich freighter call
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added a third weekly freighter call into Munich, a key logistics hub in southern Germany.Operated by a Boeing 747 freighter, the service offers a 48 hour delivery time, including cargo handling, to 12 destinations in six Asian countries via the ABC hub in Moscow.Andrey Andreev, vice-president ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo adds Helsinki to pharma network
Qatar Airways Cargo has added Finnish capital Helsinki to its expanding pharma network, the Middle East carrier’s 74th pharma destination.Qatar Airways’ chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann, said: “The expansion of our pharma network helps us meet the growing air freight requirements in the pharmaceutical industry where time and temperature management ...
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Airfreight rates flat in August
Airfreight rates on major east-west traders were largely flat in August, but are expected to have picked up again in September.The latest figures from consultant Drewry’s Sea and Air Shipper Insight show that the average all-in buy rate across 28 major east-west lanes stood at $2.63 per kg in September.This ...
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OPINION: How freight forwarders add value to the logistics chain
Bradley Waller, logistics development manager at Alliance Shipping, argues that airlines cannot duplicate the full range of services provided by freight forwarders to shippers.There have been reports of air cargo carriers plotting to establish direct relationships with importers and exporters so they can by-pass third-party freight forwarding services for the ...
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Cargolux in Asian Games horse flight
Cargolux has completed the transportation of a shipment of high-value horses between Luxembourg and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, as part of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.The 17 horses were flown out to Ashgabat in mid-September, with the all-cargo carrier working in co-operation with Peden Bloodstock, a charterer specialised in ...
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AN−124−100 Ruslan on a round−the−world trip
An Antonov Airlines’ An124−100 Ruslan aircraft flew around the globe one and a half times, performing a series of commercial flightsOne of Antonov Airlines’ freighters flew from Mary International Airport, Turkmenistan to Helsinki, Finland, where it took on board commercial cargo consisting of industrial heat exchangers, weighing a total 54 ...
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Delta and Virgin launch pharma zone at Heathrow
Joint venture partners Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are introducing a new Pharma Zone at their London Heathrow joint facility.The new Pharma Zone will support the growing volumes of temperature-controlled healthcare and life science products being carried by both airlines.Opening today [October 2], the Pharma Zone at their Cargo ...