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Steady growth for Air China Cargo
Air China Cargo recorded "steady growth" in the first half of 2015, as revenue freight tonne km increased by 23.5% year-on-year to 3,166m and the load factor rose 0.47 percentage points to 54.41%.The cargo yield (excluding fuel surcharge) was RMB1.11, a year-on-year increase of 0.20%.Parent carrier Air China said that ...
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Swissport lands Oman Air ground handling role
Swissport International is to take over Oman Air’s cargo handling at London Heathrow, Munich, Frankfurt and Paris Charles de Gaulle. It will take over full cargo handling services for Oman Air at London Heathrow on 3 September followed by a phased transition at the other three stations, with completion by ...
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Flying start for sun-powered car
A Dutch-built solar-powered car is defending its title in the World Solar Challenge 2015 in Australia thanks to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC).The Nuna Solar car, developed by the Nuon team at Delft University of Technology, started its journey on an ABC scheduled Boeing 747 freighter flight from Amsterdam to Hong Kong. ...
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Horse specialist firmly on course for Australia
Equine specialist New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) has gained approval from the Australian government’s veterinary department for its new UK quarantine station in Sussex.Approval allows NZB’s airfreight arm to offer a monthly horse transport service ex UK to Australia from November this year. NZB Airfreight already offers a similar service from ...
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What slump? Boeing still sees $950bn market in China
Boeing expects China to order over 6,300 new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, despite the country’s current economic turmoil.In its annual China Current Market Outlook (CMO) released on 25 August – the day after a major slump in the local stock market – the plane manufacturer estimated the ...
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Laser lights...action...charter
Delicate laser technology cargo has flown by freighter from Sweden to Japan after six months of detailed planning and preparation.The high value industrial laser equipment was carried from Orebro in Sweden by Volga-Dnepr Airlines on one of its IL-76TD-90VD aircraft.The cargo required a non-standard engineering solution and a temperature-controlled environment ...
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Nigeria looks to set up new national carrier
The Nigerian Government has set up a committee to look into re-establishing a national airline.It will be chaired by former Discovery Airlines chairman, Captain Mohammed Abdulsalam, and is tasked with reviewing reports by previous consultants and the collapse of the now defunct Nigeria Airways, along with other failed private carriers.The ...
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Saudia Cargo resumes freighter operations to JFK
Saudi Airlines Cargo will start operating weekly freighter flights between Jeddah and New York’s JFK airport from September 4 “in response to the size of the growing demand for shipping operations”.The airline's acting VP Commercial, Rainer Mueller, said: "This step will enhance the activity of air cargo operations to and ...
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United Cargo signs pharma container rental deal with va-Q-tec
United Cargo has signed a global rental agreement with va-Q-tec, a provider of temperature controlled containers used to transport pharmaceuticals in the air cargo cool chain.The airfreight arm of United Airlines is the first North American carrier to announce the availability of va-Q-tainer rentals directly through the airline and plans ...
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Korean keeps up a 747 tradition
Korean Air has taken delivery of the first of a fleet of ten 747-8 Intercontinental passenger planes. The carrier is the first airline in the world to operate both the passenger and freighter versions of the 747-8.Korean Air currently operates seven 747-8 freighters. Its 28-strong cargo fleet also includes 747-400, ...
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Saudia appoints ACP as GSA in South Africa
ACP Worldwide has been appointed South African cargo general sales agent (GSA) for Saudia Cargo.The carrier currently operates three times weekly B747 freighter flights from Johannesburg to Jeddah and Amsterdam, shared with Nairobi, and ACP will also sell belly space on the carrier’s three times weekly B777-200 wide-body flights between ...
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Close encounters of the drone kind
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said there had been a dramatic increase in encounters between aircraft and unmanned drones in its latest report, released on 21 August.It lists pilot, air traffic and citizen reports of possible encounters with unmanned aircraft between 13 November 2014 to 20 August, 2015.The FAA ...
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Cabot to explore options for Kenyan planes
Air Partner's aircraft remarketing arm, Cabot Aviation, has been appointed by Kenya Airways as its exclusive agent for four B777-200ERs. The aircraft were all delivered new between 2004 and 2007 and have been operated on its scheduled routes.Earlier this year Cabot was appointed by China Airlines as its exclusive broker ...
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The great ketchup catch-up
Air Charter Service kept a leading fast food restaurant chain in ketchup last week when it moved 90 tonnes of sachets.President of the North American operation, Richard Thompson, explains: “The company’s restaurants across the North East and South East of the US were running extremely low on ketchup and the ...
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UPS relief flight for typhoon victims
The UPS Foundation delivered nearly 100,000 lbs (45 tonnes) of American Red Cross relief supplies to help more than 50,000 residents of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) affected by Typhoon Soudelor and Tropical Storm Goni. According to the American Red Cross, Typhoon Soudelor is the most destructive storm ...
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Dubai half year boost for Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic Cargo carried over 30% more cargo from Dubai in the first half of 2015, boosted by additional US routes and frequencies, and traffic generated as a result of the US port disruptions.For the six months ended June 2015, the airline carried 2,400 tonnes ex Dubai, compared with ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: How long will Japanese air cargo growth last?
Last year, major Japanese airports recorded strong air cargo volume increases after years of stagnation.It has been suggested that a weakening in the value of the yen and increasing costs for producing in China resulted in some manufacturing moving back to Japan.Japanese companies also increasingly developing highly complex components, which ...
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Emirates adds flights to second Iranian city
Emirates SkyCargo will increase its airfreight capacity to Iran next month, when the Dubai-based carrier’s passenger arm begins a five times a week non-stop A330-200 flight to Mashhad from September 1.Mashhad, in north east Iran, will become Emirates’ second Iranian destination after the capital city Tehran, which Emirates has been ...
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FedEx reaches tentative agreement with pilots' union
FedEx pilot representatives and company management have reached a tentative agreement on an amended collective bargaining agreement after years of discussions.The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) said this week that the two negotiating parties had reached an agreement, although terms need to be reviewed and approved by the FedEx ...