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NewsAirfreight demand picks up but prospects look bleak
Air cargo demand picked up in April but IATA is downbeat in its expectations for the months ahead.The latest figures from the airline organisation show a 3.2% year-on-year improvement in air cargo demand in April led by growth in the Middle East and Latin America, with increases of 7.7% and ...
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NewsAir cargo rates improve but tough summer predicted
Air freight rates continued their recovery in April as cargo load factors remained steady, but tough market conditions are expected to prevail over the summer.The latest statistics from analyst Drewry show that air freight rates climbed by three cents on the March level to $2.61 per kg. It is the ...
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Groth is West Atlantic's new chief executive
Fredrik Groth has been appointed West Atlantic's new chief executive after holding the interim post at the Gothenburg-headquartered dedicated cargo airline specialising in integrated mail and express freight solutions.Groth assumed his new role from May 25. He joined West Atlantic in January 2016 with over 25 years' accumulated experience in ...
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Air Malta appoints NAS as cargo agent
Air Malta has appointed Network Airline Services (NAS) to be its general sales and services agent (GSSA) as it looks to expand its cargo volumes.NAS will start its GSSA duties from June 1 and will provide guaranteed income as part of a total cargo management agreement that will see the ...
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Analyst sees ray of hope in air cargo gloom
Analyst World ACD sees glimmers of hope in world air cargo figures for March 2016.Although year-on-year volumes overall dropped by 0.9% worldwide, flows from Asia Pacific to Europe and the Middle East & South Asia (MESA) showed growth of 19% and 12% respectively, holding out some hope of a change ...
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Volga-Dnepr moves 59 tonne compressor unit
Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ Engineering & Logistics Centre (ELC) created a transportation frame to move a 59 tonne compressor from Zurich to Singapore for inclusion into a bespoke oil rig.The frame served two purposes, spreading the weight of the compressor throughout the cargo cabin of the Antanov 124-100 freighter and also protecting ...
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NewsWeak April for air cargo in Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific air cargo markets remained weak in April, failing to keep pace with rising passenger demand, according to the latest monthly statistics from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).April saw the region's airlines carry 24.2m international passengers, a 4.8% increase compared to the same month last year, on ...
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NewsASL confirms purchase of TNT Express airline operations
ASL Aviation Group of Ireland has acquired the airline operations of TNT Express, comprising TNT Airways in Belgium and Pan Air Líneas Aéreas in Spain.The two airlines are to be renamed ASL Airlines Belgium and ASL Airlines Spain respectively, bringing the number of airlines in ASL's portfolio to nine.ASL’s offer ...
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IAG cargo says hello to Santiago
IAG Cargo will launch a new passenger route to Chile from winter 2016, becoming the only carrier to fly directly from London Heathrow to Santiago International Airport.With the four times a week bellyhold freight service, IAG Cargo – the freight arm of British Airways (BA), Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus ...
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HNA looks to tap into Portuguese airline
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, which owns ground handler Swissport, is preparing to take a stake of up to 20% in Portuguese national airline TAP, according to French news agency AFP.It is reported that HNA will buy an initial 7% stake in Atlantic Gateway, the private consortium that owns 61% of ...
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Chapman Freeborn utilises AN-225 for transport from Germany to Abu Dhabi
Chapman Freeborn and Fiege Logistics Switzerland have successfully completed a project to transport outsize oil and gas equipment totalling 232 tons from Germany to Abu Dhabi.Chapman Freeborn utilised an Antonov AN-225 freighter and an additional Boeing B747-400F aircraft to deliver the time-critical cargo from and Frankfurt–Hahn Airport to Abu Dhabi ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds new weekly freighter service from US to Middle East
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) will today introduce a new weekly US-Europe-Middle East-Russia service aimed to cater for the oil and gas industries.The service will set off from Houston on Monday evenings before heading to Chicago, Luxembourg and then onto Abu Dhabi before returning via Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.ABC vice president North and ...
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Is there a future for unmanned air cargo operations?
It will not be long until Google cars are driving us to work and we won’t have to get out of our armchairs to answer the door to blustering delivery drivers as drones land on our lawns to drop off the latest order from Amazon, or so the vision goes. ...
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Air India settlement brings US antitrust litigation to a close
The final defendant in the long-running air cargo shipping antitrust litigation, Air India, has reached a settlement agreement with plaintiffs.Law firm Robins Kaplan LLP announced yesterday evening that Air India has agreed to pay $12.5m to bring the decade long litigation over an alleged air cargo cartel to a close.The ...
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Cargo partnership trend continues as ANA-United finally reveal start date for transpac tie-up
The ongoing ANA Cargo and United Cargo transpacific partnership will finally launch in July, 18 months after news of the tie-up first broke.ANA said the two airlines had finally signed the partnership contract on March 30 and they planned to launch the tie-up on July 5.Joint sales and aligned operations ...
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PEMCO makes latest conversion delivery to SF Airlines
PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) has redelivered a Boeing 737-300 freighter aircraft to fast expanding Chinese express carrier SF Airlines.The conversion was carried out by PEMCO partner STAECO in Jinan Shandong, China, and its redelivery marks the fifteenth B737-300/400 converted by the company for SF Airlines since 2013.Four more PEMCO ...
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Shippers can track key airfreight rates with new index
A new air cargo freight rate index is set to provide transparency on general cargo pricing on key city pairs.Aimed at shippers, freight forwarders and financial analysts, the TAC Index is a weekly snapshot compiled on actual physical transactions for selected air cargo routes."Air Cargo is taking a step closer ...
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Silk Way freighter crashes on take-off in Afghanistan
A Silk Way-owned freighter has reportedly crashed in Afghanistan, killing seven of its nine crew members.The exact details of what happened to the aircraft have yet to emerge, but new agency Reuters and Azerbaijani publications are quoting the State Aviation Administration (ASAA) as saying an Antanov-12 aircraft crashed when taking ...
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LATAM Cargo to launch new product portfolio as it reveals future strategy
The LATAM Group has launched a new strategy for its cargo operations following the merger of its various businesses under a single brand.LATAM Cargo, which is made up of LAN Cargo, TAM Cargo, LAN Cargo Colombia and Mas Air, has already introduced a new pharma product, cargo rewards scheme and ...
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Video: World's largest aircraft makes latest stop in Dubai
The world’s largest aircraft, Antonov’s An-225 (Mriya) freighter, has made its latest landing, this time touching down at Dubai World Central.The aircraft’s journey from the Czech Republic to Australia and back has been heavily publicised, with airports across the world announcing its arrival.The aircraft is transporting a 117 ton generator ...