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SkyCargo transports champion show jumpers
Dubai-headquartered Emirates SkyCargo transported almost 100 show jumping horses from Liège in Belgium to compete in the first three legs of the Longines Global Champions Tour in Mexico City, Miami and Shanghai between March 31 and May 2 2017, on board 10 Boeing 777 freighter flights.The horses, which weighed between ...
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VIDEO: Emirates SkyCargo transports UAE designed sports car
Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first car designed and built entirely in the UAE to France where it will be exhibited during the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race.Emirates SkyCargo worked with forwarder Prodex worldwide to transport the car, named Design-1, from Dubai to Lyon.The sports car designed and built ...
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EAS in top gear for emergency auto spares charter
EAS International a member of the X2 Critical forwarder alliance has organised an Airbus A310 freighter full charter flight to transport automotive parts from Romania to Turkey.Marco Muggianu, development director for EAS (the alliance member responsible for France and Romania) said: “The operation was very difficult due to the very ...
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Ready for lift-off thanks to Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered the third stage of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle from Samara in Russia to Europe’s Spaceport in Cayenne in French Guiana.The move is in readiness for the launch of a satellite in early April for SES, one of the world’s leading communications companies.Progress Space Rocket Centre, which ...
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Antonov targets US cargo charters
Specialist freighter operator Antonov Airlines wants to expand transatlantic all-cargo charter services as it leverages a bilateral air services agreement between Ukraine and the US.The Kiev-based operator, with a fleet of Antonov An-124-100Fs and the sole Antonov An-225 mega freighter, will target the oil and gas energy market and the ...
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NewsIAG Cargo traffic up on shipping disruption but revenues slide
IAG Cargo saw revenues decline in the first quarter of the year due to challenging market conditions but it registered an improvement in traffic partly driven by container shipping disruption.The cargo arm of IAG, which owns British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, recorded a 2.3% year-on-year decrease in first-quarter cargo ...
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Atlas looks forward to a strong peak after a "flying start" to 2017
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings got “off to an exciting start in 2017” as it announced 2017 improved income from continuing operations, but it registered a net loss.During the first quarter income from continuing operations, net of taxes, total $8.3m compared with $7.7m in the year-ago quarter, operating revenues increased by ...
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NewsApril freight growth tails off but IATA remains upbeat
Global air freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) rose 8.5% in April 2017 compared to last year, said IATA in its latest figures.While this was down from March’s 13.4% year-on-year growth, it is well above the average annual growth rate of 3.5% over the past five years.Meanwhile, growth in freight capacity, measured ...
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MASkargo launches express freighter links from KL
MASkargo has launched five-times-a-week Airbus A330-200F express freighter services from its home hub at Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, with growing e-commerce and courier demand between East and West Malaysia a key element in the decision."As the Asian cross-border e-commerce is booming, MASkargo is poised to tap into ...
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Amerijet sets 2018 launch date for Miami-Brussels freighter
Amerijet, the Miami-hubbed scheduled freighter operator, is to launch a twice a week direct Boeing 767 freighter service to Brussels in the second quarter of 2018.The new route to the Belgian airport would mark an important step for the US carrier, with Amerijet flying its first scheduled transatlantic route connecting ...
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Bangladesh airfreight costs soar following new EU security rules
The cost of airfreight supply chains from Bangladesh has been pushed up by new stricter security requirements from the European Union (EU), while lead times are also being extended by up to three days.On June 1, the EU imposed enhanced security requirements for cargo originating from Bangladesh that stipulates all ...
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ABC joins Schiphol pharma initiative
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has become the second carrier to join the 14-member Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA) initiative, which aims to improve transparency and quality in the pharmaceuticals air cargo supply chain.ABC is certified under the IATA Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) scheme, a ...
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Emirates SkyCargo to target more products after Cargolux partnership
Emirates SkyCargo’s recent tie-up with Cargolux seemed to come from nowhere, but perhaps it should not have come as such a surprise given the two airlines’ long history of working together.Emirates divisional senior vice president, cargo, Nabil Sultan, tells Air Cargo News that the two companies first started working together ...
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NewsCathay Pacific upgraded to 'buy' as cargo continues to improve
Cathay Pacific has seen its stock rating upgraded to ‘buy’ by one leading investment bank, thanks to the improving performance of its cargo business.Earlier this month Jefferies upgraded the airline’s rating from ‘underperform’ to ‘buy’ based on the improving performance of its cargo business, moves to control passenger capacity and ...
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American expands cargo presence in Mexico with new GSA partner
American Airlines Cargo has selected G Force GSA Mexico as its new General Sales Agent (GSA) in Mexico, following the retirement of American’s current GSA.The deal starts on July 1 and will also provide the airline with local sales expansion into five new locations — Cancun, Guadalajara, Leon, Puerto Vallarta ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: LATAM finally registers a demand improvement
LATAM Cargo has reported a year-on-year improvement in its monthly traffic for the first time in two-and-a-half years, while US carriers continue to see improving monthly figures.The Santiago-headquartered airline saw cargo traffic during May increase by 1.3% year on year to reach 271m revenue tonne km (FTK).Click on the chart ...
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Qatar Airways calls on ICAO to lift "illegal" airspace ban
Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker has called on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to lift what it describes as the illegal airspace ban it faces in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.In a statement issued earlier today, the airline said 90% of its ...
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Australia's High Court rules in favour of competition regulator in air cargo cartel case
Price fixing agreements entered into between Air New Zealand (Air NZ), Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) and other international airlines, breached Australia’s competition law, the High Court of Australia has found.The ruling, on airline agreements in place between 2002 and 2006, is the latest legal twist in an action started seven years ...
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E-AWB usage finally breaches 50% mark
Electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) penetration finally breached the 50% mark in April as more than 730,000 of the digital documents were processed.The latest IATA figures show that April’s e-AWB penetration level on feasible trade lanes edged up by 1.3 percentage points compared with March to reach 50.7%, exceeding the 50% ...
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Asia leads the way for ACS in first quarter
Air Charter Service has reported a "very strong" first three months of its fiscal year, with a 24% increase in revenue compared with the previous year.The broker said its cargo business in the Asia Pacific region had led the improvement during its its first quarter, running to the end of ...