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Hong Kong will be a three-runway airport by 2023
Hong Kong's government has approved a third runway for the city’s international airport.Expected to open by 2023, it will help the island maintain its status as the world’s busiest air cargo hub and help Hong Kong maintain its position against other Asian rivals in China and Singapore.The HK$141.5bn (US$18.2bn) scheme ...
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India's Jet Airways to wet-lease Etihad freighter
India’s Jet Airways is to launch dedicated freighter operations using an A330-200F aircraft wet-leased from its strategic-partner, Etihad Airways.Subject to regulatory approvals, the aircraft will fly from an operating base in New Delhi from April 2015 to a number of international and domestic destinations, including Bangalore, Hong Kong, Hanoi and ...
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Cargojet network expansion
Canada’s Cargojet is expanding its domestic air cargo network from the beginning of April.Cargojet, operating overnight services across North America plus global charters, has a total freighter fleet of 24 aircraft, including the recent introduction of five B767-300ERFs, three B767-200ERFs and one B757-200ERF.The carrier did not outline in detail the ...
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FedEx sees peak season bounce
US parcels giant FedEx saw third quarter revenues up four per cent to $11.7bn.“We had a very successful peak season as volumes grew across all transportation segments, and our profit improvement programs are moving ahead as scheduled,” said Fred Smith, FedEx Corp chairman, president and chief executive officer.Operating results for ...
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Unions call for halt to Cargolux outsourcing plan
The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (LCGB) has called for a written assurance that Cargolux will not press ahead with a controversial outsourcing plan as the Luxembourg freighter operator seeks to return to profit.The demand came as the LCGB and the OGBL union continued their negotiations on a new ...
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IAG out in front with e-AWBs
IAG Cargo claims that it has the highest e-air waybill (e-AWB) penetration in Europe.As of January, its e-AWB penetration was 34 per cent, well above the industry average of 25 per cent, said the freight arm of British Airways and Iberia.IAG Cargo has made e-AWBs available in more than 160 ...
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Southern Air gets a stablemate
Worldwide Air Logistics Group – owner of Kentucky-based all-cargo carrier Southern Air – is to buy a second freighter operator, Florida West International Airways.It said that acquiring the Miami-based carrier heralded a push into the ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) sector of the US air cargo market.Florida West is ...
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Big jump for Cathay and Dragonair in February
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair’s airfreight volumes jumped 28.8 per cent in February compared with the same month in 2014.Between them, the two airlines carried 130,467 tonnes of cargo and mail in February.Cathay Pacific’s general manager cargo sales and marketing, Mark Sutch, said: “The high-year-on-year tonnage growth reflects the overall improvement ...
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Aid agencies prepare airlift to Vanuatu
Aid agencies and the military have scrambled to fly supplies into Vanuatu, after the Pacific island nation was hit by Cyclone Pam last week.The Category Five tropical storm hit Vanuatu with winds of up to 170mph, causing widespread damage and knocking out power, water and other services.The storm is likely ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's 2014 operating profits up 26.6%
Lufthansa Cargo increased its 2014 operating profit by 26.6 per cent to €100m, despite group-wide pilot strikes and a fall in airfreight revenues and tonnages.Full year revenues at the German flag carrier’s freight arm edged down 0.3 per cent versus 2013 to €2.4bn. Total volumes fell 2.7 per cent to ...
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WCS: How to reduce the fire risk from lithium batteries
Fires in consignments of lithium batteries have been implicated in the loss of three aircraft over the last 10 years, writes Martin Roebuck.Peter Hunt, airline ground safety manager at Cathay Pacific, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai about risk mitigation measures the airline is taking to make sure ...
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Two more B737F converts for China's SF Airlines
PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered two B737-300Fs to China’s SF Airlines (SFA), the air cargo division of Shenzhen-based logistics specialist SF Express, a leading courier in China.US-based Pemco has now completed nine B737-300/400 freighter conversion projects for SFA.The latest Pemco freighters to join SFA’s growing freighter fleet were converted ...
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WCS: Air cargo industry needs to modernise
Airlines may be transporting goods worth $6.4trn each year, but the air cargo industry is in “desperate need” of modernisation if it is to capitalise on the international e-commerce opportunity, according to Liu Shaoyong, president of China Eastern.In a welcome address representing the host airline for the IATA World Cargo ...
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TNT launches Tel Aviv freighter links
TNT has launched a Monday to Friday B737-400F service between Israeli capital Tel Aviv and the express operator's European hub in Liege, Belgium.The new service "answers increasing demand" and allows TNT to shorten transit times for express shipments to and from Tel Aviv by one day.The flight arrives in Tel ...
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DP DHL airfreight up 2.4% to 4m tonnes in 2014
Deutsche Post DHL’s global forwarding arm overcame a weak 2014 first half to record a full year 2.4 per cent increase in airfreight volumes to just over 4m tonnes, versus 2013.Announcing full year 2014 results, the Germany-based global post, express, freight and logistics giant said of its air cargo segment: ...
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WCS: Self service freight boosts Qantas
Qantas Freight is seeing major efficiency benefits after adopting a “self service” system for import collections, writes Martin Roebuck.Bob Labrun, head of operations, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) that truck drivers are able to input import collection notifications online at the carrier’s cargo terminals in under a minute, removing ...
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Cargolux links up with Oman Air
Oman Air has signed a Letter of Intent with Cargolux that enables the European all-cargo carrier to use the Middle East airline's facilities in Muscat, Salalah and Sohar.The agreement includes the launch, on April 15, of Cargolux full freighter services from Luxembourg to India via Oman. The formal signing of ...
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WCS: Jettainer’s lightweight pallet
Jettainer is developing a lightweight pallet that weighs 70 kg, around 32 kg lighter than a traditional PMC aluminium unit.The Germany-based ULD management company says that the pallet is made of a composite material that is being applied for the first time in the aviation sector. It offers an alternative ...
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Virgin Atlantic's "year of resilience"
Virgin Atlantic Cargo reported revenues of £221m for 2014, down 1.8 per cent on prior year, with total network freight volumes virtually unchanged from 2013.The carrier said that the revenues reflected “another year of resilience in a fluctuating global air cargo market that saw yields decline for the third year ...
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Turkish Airlines orders four more A330-200Fs
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order to buy four more A330-200 freighters.The carrier’s Turkish Cargo freight arm already operates five A330-200Fs, and the new order will enable it to “quickly meet the growing cargo market demand”.Temel Kotil, Turkish Airlines’ chief executive, said: “The A330-200F freighter aircraft have demonstrated outstanding ...