All Asia articles – Page 39
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NewsAsia-Pacific and Middle East airports see cargo declines in December
Source: ACIAsian-Pacific airports saw a 2.5% decline in airfreight volumes during December 2018 while Middle East airports registered a 0.9% fall.Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific, posting its 2018 year end and full year traffic analysis, said that the December decreases were due to a “weakened global economy, reduction in exports ...
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Singapore airfreight down in January
Singapore's Changi Airport saw airfreight throughput decline for the second month in a row, with January's volumes falling 2.4% to 171,000 tonnes.January's decline follows a fall of 3.8% in December 2018 to 182,000 tonnes, versus the same month in 2017.In full year 2018, Changi saw airfreight throughput increase by 1.4% ...
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Cathay keeping its eye on growth after a soft start to 2019
Cathay Pacific Cargo saw a softer start to 2019 after a record-breaking 2018 but is seeing market demand "picking up gradually" after the Chinese New Year.Frank Yau, head of cargo sales at the Hong Kong-based carrier, writing in the Cargo Clan magazine, also announced the introduction from March of "a ...
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Asia Pacific carriers report weak January for international cargo
International air cargo markets weakened further in January 2019, with Asia Pacific airlines seeing demand fall 3.8% year on year in freight tonne kilometres (FTK).Releasing its preliminary traffic figures for the month, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said that the decline in airfreight was due to “global new ...
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AirBridgeCargo expands in Asia with Dhaka flight
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) is expanding its footprint in Asia with the introduction of a Dhaka B747F flight to cater for growth in garment and apparel exports from Bangladesh.The Russian freighter operator will offer two flights per week to the capital of Bangladesh, which becomes the 14th destination in ABC’s Asian network. ...
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SIA Cargo reports disappointing January figures
Reporting on its January freight statistics, Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) has revealed that its cargo load factor fell by 3.8 percentage points compared to the same month of 2018 – down from 61.9% to 58.1%.That was because cargo traffic (as measured in freight tonne-kilometres) fell by 6.2% year on ...
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DPDHL and SF Holding complete €700m supply chain tie-up in China
Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) has concluded a deal to transfer its supply chain operations in China to SF Holding in a ten-year strategic partnership to grow the business in China.As part of this deal, which was first announced at the end of October last year, DP DHL will receive an ...
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Suparna looks to expand on the transpacific
Suparna Airlines is hoping to further expand its international operations with new flights across the transpacific and to Japan.According to a filing with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), Suparna, formerly Yangtze River Airlines and known in China as Jinpeng, would like to add a flight calling Shanghai Pudong-Zhengzhou-Anchorage-Chicago-Halifax-Anchorage-Xi'an.The ...
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SF Airlines boosts cargo fleet to 52 freighters
SF Airlines the rapidly-expanding Chinese express operator, has taken delivery of its 52nd freighter, with the arrival of a converted B757-200F earlier this week.It is the second freighter that the division of Chinese parcels giant SF Express has added to its fleet since the beginning of 2019. In late January, ...
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Tigers grrrrows its international sales team
Logistics firm Tigers has created a new dedicated international sales team to its global network as it continues to expand globally to meet an increase in customer demand.The new team covers Asia-Pacific (APAC), South Africa, Europe, and North America, with the aim of growing the Tigers global footprint and serving ...
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MAB Kargo joins Cargo iQ
MAB Kargo, the main cargo division of Malaysia Aviation Group, has become a member of Cargo iQ as the IATA interest group continues to expand across Asia.Cargo iQ has an international network of more than 80 airlines, forwarders, ground handlers, and IT companies.Jagedeswaran Nadrajah, head of cargo operations transformation at ...
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NokScoot awards ULD management contract to Unilode
Thailand's NokScoot budget airline has awarded a Unit Load Device (ULD) management contract to Unilode Aviation SolutionsYodchai Sudhidhanakul, chief executive of the medium-haul carrier, said: "By commissioning Unilode for the management of NokScoot's containers and pallets for our current fleet of five Boeing 777-200s we will receive cost-effective and professional ...
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Menzies Aviation renews Air China Cargo contract at Los Angeles
Menzies Aviation has signed a three-year contract renewal with Air China at Los Angeles airport (LAX), which sees extends its partnership with China’s national carrier in the Americas region.The contract means that UK-based global aviation services specialist will handle over 60,000 tonnes of cargo per year at LAX, where it ...
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MASkargo to increase real-time shipment visibility with Unisys system
MASkargo will use cloud-based Unisys logistics solutions’ Digi-IQ and Digi-Portal to provide “complete visibility” in the cargo shipment lifecycle.The cargo division of Malaysia Airlines is the largest cargo ground handling agent in Malaysia and handles more than 30 customer airlines at its Advanced Cargo Centre, processing more than 800,000 air ...
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NCA logs on to Descartes solution for ACAS filing
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) is using the Descartes Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) solution to meet the mandatory advanced security filing requirements for air cargo imports into the US.Keita Sataka, senior vice president at NCA, said: "Descartes has a strong history of providing NCA and the air cargo industry with ...
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Etihad jumps at the chance for a third Longines Masters horse charter
Etihad Cargo will again fly horses from Belgium to Hong Kong for the annual Longines Masters indoor show jumping event.It is the third consecutive year that the Middle East freighter operator, based in Abu Dhabi, has been entrusted with the transport of the elite show jumpers for the event.The dedicated ...
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Asia-Pacific and Middle East airports see volume declines in November
Airports in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East regions experienced a decline in November 2018 volumes of 2.1% and 0.7% respectively.Airports Council International (ACI) blamed "a weakened global economy and reduction in manufacturing activities" for the regional declines.Among the major cargo hubs, Qatar's Doha hub +5.6% had the highest increase ...
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Perishables and e-commerce boost Anchorage cargo volumes in 2018
A boom in e-commerce and perishables traffic helped Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport record a 2.5% rise in 2018 airfreight volumes to 2.8m tonnes.Management at the world’s fifth busiest air cargo hub said that Anchorage is "strategically located between the world’s two largest economies which happen to be the two ...
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Swissport extends HNA loan as first half 2018 cargo revenues rise 7.3%
Swissport has again extended the collection date on the €286m balance of a loan to parent company HNA Group, while the Chinese conglomerate “concludes its assessment of strategic options” for its ground handler. subsidiary.News of the extension came as Swissport reported a 4.1% rise in group revenues to €1.43bn for ...
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Cathay confident on e-commerce and economic trends
Cathay Pacific Cargo expects a quarter of all global retail sales to be from e-commerce "within the next few years" and remains “confident” about the medium and long term world economic trends.Ronald Lam, the Hong Kong-based airline’s director, commercial and cargo, made his comments on e-commerce, economic trends, specialist products ...