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Yangtze River adds Atlas B747-400 freighter
Yangtze River Airlines will lease a Boeing 747-400F from Atlas Air Worldwide to use on China-US flights.The aircraft will be leased on an ACMI basis for use on a new service due to start this month flying between China and the US.The airline is part of the HNA Modern Logistics ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo ups New York services
At the end of May, Virgin Atlantic Cargo launched new daily flights from Manchester in northern England to New York – taking its total services to and from the US east coast destination to seven per day, seven times a week.The carrier also flies from London Heathrow to New York ...
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Ethiopian continues humanitarian collaboration with Boeing
Ethiopian Airlines has flown 6.5 tons of humanitarian relief cargo from Seattle to Ethiopia on behalf of Conscience International (CI), Horn of Africa Neonatal Development Services and Seattle Alliance Outreach (SAO).The carrier picked up the shipment, bound for St Paul’s Hospital and Bahir Dar University College of Medicine & Health ...
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Royal Air Maroc and Etihad sign cargo MoU
On 29 May in Casablanca, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Etihad Airways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development of their cargo activities.A RAM statement described the two airlines’ networks as “complementary” and, as such, offering potential for commercial synergies. Through its partnership with Etihad Airways Cargo, ...
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AirBridgeCargo records 17% volume growth in Q1
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) recorded a volume improvement of 17% during the first quarter of the year as the carrier continued to expand its network and benefited from market growth.The carrier saw volumes for the three month period reach 158,000 tonnes, while its load factor touched 70%.ABC has been busy expanding ...
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Etihad extends Dreamliner network
Etihad Airways is to deploy Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft on its routes from its Abu Dhabi hub to Amsterdam and Madrid.The Dreamliners, which offer 11 pallet positions, will be introduced on year-round scheduled services to Amsterdam from 1 September, and to Madrid on 1 October, joining Düsseldorf and Zurich as ...
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We’re staying in Singapore, says Cargolux
Cargolux has denied that it is to move one of its key Asian hubs from Singapore’s Changi airport to Batam Hang Nadim in Indonesia.Reports in the local press had suggested that a move to Batam, which lies just across the Straits of Singapore, was imminent, after the finalising of a ...
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We want to be in pharma top five says Turkish Cargo chief
Chief cargo officer Turhan Özen says he wants Turkish Cargo to become one of the top five pharma carriers by 2023. Speaking at a Pharma Day panel of industry representatives in Frankfurt organized by the carrier’s cargo sales team in late May, he said pharma was an important part of ...
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Hainan’s third Kung Fu Panda Dreamliner takes to the sky
A third Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has received a Kung Fu Panda “makeover” as the carrier continues its collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.The aircraft’s inaugural flight – launching a new daily service from Haikou to Beijing – took place on May 29, in celebration of the carrier’s 24th anniversary. Among ...
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Volga-Dnepr keeps Baffinland iron ore production on track
Russia-based all-cargo carrier Voga-Dnepr Airlines carried out 20 Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VD freighter flights over four weeks beginning at the start of April, moving heavy-duty trucks and trailers from North Bay to Mary River in North Baffin, Nunavut, Canada on behalf of Baffinland Iron Mines.Baffinland had ordered extra trucks and trailers in ...
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NewsAsian Cargo Monthly: Demand flies in April
Asian airlines continued their run of success on the cargo demand front in April, with the region’s major carriers all registering traffic growth on a like-for-like basis.The region’s largest cargo carrier, Cathay Pacific, saw cargo traffic increase by 6.2% in April to 907m cargo and mail tonne km. The increase ...
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IAG to dispatch cargo as priority after IT failure
IAG Cargo has "made good progress" in flying customer bookings affected by an IT outage over the weekend.The cargo division said that it had experienced "significant operational disruption" on May 27 after the airline group faced IT issues causing the cancellation of thousands of flights and affecting around 75,000 passengers.IAG ...
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Virgin links Melbourne and Hong Kong
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to offer 14 tonnes of cargo capacity on new five-times-a-week Airbus A330 services between Melbourne and Hong Kong that its partner, Virgin Australia, will launch on 5 July.“Hong Kong is an important and growing market for companies in Australia, with over 21.5m kilos of air cargo ...
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Qatar Airways expands pharma network
Doha-based Qatar Airways has added Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland) to its pharma network, bringing the total number of destinations covered to 73. Operations to Colombo began on 15 May, while Dublin is due to become active on 12 June with the launch of the carrier’s Boeing ...
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ABC moves eROSITA telescope
Russian all-cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has transported the eROSITA X-ray telescope from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics near Munich to the premises of the Russian aerospace company, Lavochkin Association, in Moscow.The movement of the highly sensitive cargo was carried out in partnership with integrator DHL. Ensuring the ...
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NewsCost cutting continues at Asian airlines despite traffic growth
Airlines based in the Asia Pacific region enjoyed cargo traffic growth of 9% in April as export orders from the region continued to surge, but carriers continue to cut costs to meet rising costs.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) (see table at end of article) ...
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Tracking tracksuits: Rugby kit to be monitored for flight to New Zealand
British & Irish Lions rugby kit and equipment being flown out to New Zealand will be monitored by tracking technology originally developed to protect fine art and pharmaceutical products.Five sensors, provided by insurer QBE, will be sent out with the rugby kit that can record location, pressure changes, light exposure, ...
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Airfreight rates continue to rise in April
Airfreight rates improved again in April led by improvements on services from Asia to North America.The latest Sea and Air Shipper Insight report from Drewry, which uses a weighted average of buy rates across 21 trade lanes, showed that average east-west airfreight prices increased by 7.9% year on year in ...
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TAAG Angola renews freighter lease deal
Angola national airline TAAG Angola Airlines has renewed its long-term freighter lease deal with Network Airline Management.Operating a weekly scheduled service from Liege, Belgium, to Luanda, the capital of Angola, Network Airline Management provides a Boeing 747-400F factory-built freighter with nose door which carries up to 120,000 kilos of oil-related ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Another busy month for European carriers
April proved to be another good month for some of Europe’s major airlines as increases in cargo traffic were recorded at Lufthansa, Air France KLM and IAG.The latest monthly stats from Lufthansa, the largest of the three in cargo terms, show a 6% year-on-year improvement in traffic for April to ...