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Fraport shoulders China Southern load
Fraport Cargo Services will take over the handling operations for China Southern Cargo at Frankfurt from February 25. The Chinese carrier is currently handled by LUG.The wholly-owned subsidiary of Fraport will be in charge of the five weekly freighters between the carrier’s home hub of Guangzhou and Frankfurt, as well ...
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Cathay chooses CHAMP
Cathay Pacific has selected CHAMP Cargosystems (CCS) to provide the Hong Kong-based carrier's new cargo IT platform after a six-month design phase.John Johnston, chief executive of CCS, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Cathay Pacific to further its ambitions in the air logistics market.”James Fernandez, CCS vice president for ...
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US publishes details of Bagram 747 crash
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released preliminary information from the ongoing investigation into the crash two years ago of a National Airlines Boeing 747 freighter in Afghanistan. The accident at Bagram Air Base on 29 April 2013 killed all seven crew members.Only factual information is included in ...
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China Southern adds ninth freighter, four more to come
China Southern Cargo has taken delivery of its ninth B777-200 freighter, in time for cargo demand created by the 2015 Chinese Spring Festival.By July of this year, China Southern will have added four more B777-200Fs to its cargo fleet, making 12 freighter aircraft in total.China Southern said that the extra ...
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Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for carriers to specific regions and your favourite all-cargo airline. The 2015 categories are:Best Cargo Airline to/from: Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe & Middle East, All-Cargo Airline and the Cargo Airline of ...
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CAM completes B767F lease to Cargojet
Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) has completed a new six-year lease of a B767-300 freighter to Cargojet of Canada.CAM, an Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) subsidiary, said that the freighter is in addition to four other B767Fs leased to Cargojet, including two aircraft added in 2014.Together with agreements with DHL for ...
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Maximus profits up by a fifth
Abu Dhabi-based all-cargo carrier Maximus Air reported a 20 per cent increase in profits in 2014 compared with the previous year.Chairman Homaid Al Shemmari said the increase was due mainly to growth in European, African and Asian markets and a generally positive outlook for the global airfreight industry.Chief executive Mohammed ...
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Recovery is ready for take-off, say economists
Airfreight tonnage has recovered to its pre-crisis level in the US and European Union – and it could be sign of a wider global economic recovery, says the Paris-based International Transport Forum (ITF).Part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ITF says that, according to its seasonally-adjusted preliminary ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's January sales droop
Lufthansa Cargo reported sales 2.3 per cent lower compared with the previous year in January. Load factor fell by 1.3 per cent, the carrier added.There were strong performances in the Americas (up 3.5 per cent) and Middle East (+4.9 per cent) but these were offset by declines in Europe (down ...
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Take your seats please
This year’s Handball World Championship in Qatar may have been controversial but there were no complaints about the seating, which reached the Gulf state thanks to a coordinated team effort by freight forwarder Logwin.In fact, the seats were quite a noticeable feature of the tournament, because so many of them ...
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TNT goes Blue Bananas with rate discount
TNT is offering a temporary 20 per cent discount off rate card as part of its ‘Blue Banana’ campaign to promote shipments to Europe’s economic hotspots.The deal is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and takes effect from February 9 for three months on export shipments of parcels and freight.It ...
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Apple Appeal
Apple announced mouth-watering net quarterly profits of $18bn for the final three months of 2014.That staggering 38 per cent rise in profit was due mainly to the 74.5m iPhones sold to eager consumers.While the financial pages focused on the figures, little mention was made of the supply chain logistics that ...
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Price tops charter priorities
PRICE remains the most important factor in the air cargo charter market, an exclusive customer survey for Air Cargo News has revealed.The on-line survey found that nearly 55 per cent of respondents chose price as their top priority, with a need for 24 hour operations in second place, closely followed ...
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Do not wait for an MD-90 freighter
A combination of low demand and tight feedstock have doomed plans for a freighter conversion programme of the MD-90, writes Ian Putzger.Bob Convey, vice president of sales and marketing at aircraft conversion specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has confirmed that the MD-90 conversion programme is no longer a going concern.“We ...
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Korean orders five B777Fs worth $1.5bn
Korean Air has finalised an order for five B777 freighters, valued at more than $1.5bn.As one of the world’s largest cargo airlines, Korean Air currently operates an all-Boeing freighter fleet of 26 airplanes that includes 17 B747-400Fs, five 747-8Fs and four B777Fs.Korea’s flag carrier currently operates 86 Boeing passenger airplanes ...
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Pacific Air adds B747F flight as US port crisis grows
US West Coast port chaos has seen Pacific Air Cargo (PAC) plan to operate an additional B747 freighter service on its Los Angeles–Honolulu route this Sunday.Each flight will provide around 120 tonnes of additional freight capacity between the West Coast and Hawaii.PAC chief executive Beti Ward said: “Pacific Air Cargo ...
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By Antonov to the North Pole
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and logistics partners GAC Norway and POLOG have delivered a pre-fabricated Arctic research station to northern Greenland.The airlift involved transporting 210 tons of cargo to Station Nord on 17 Antonov An-12 charter flights out of Longyearbyen, Norway.Just 924 km (574 miles) from the North Pole, the scientific ...
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Roses are green?
A study shows that flying roses from far flung warmer countries generates less CO2 than the artificial irrigation and additional heat supply that would be required to cultivate them in Europe’s cold climate.That is the view of Lufthansa Cargo as it prepares for the Valentine’s Day rush on February 14.Lufthansa’s ...
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High five for Lufthansa Cargo’s latest B777F
Lufthansa Cargo has welcomed its fifth Boeing 777 freighter to Frankfurt.The freighter, with registration D-ALFE, arrived from a Boeing facility in Everett near Seattle.As part of its strategic 2020 programme, the German carrier has ordered five B777F production aircraft, with the first entering service in November 2013. Lufthansa Cargo has ...
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Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for carriers to specific regions and your favourite all-cargo airline. The 2015 categories are:Best Cargo Airline to/from: Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe & Middle East, All-Cargo Airline and the Cargo Airline of ...