All Asia articles – Page 75
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Shanghai's PACTL on course for record 2015
China’s slowing airfreight volumes have failed to dampen the 2015 expectations at Shanghai’s Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL), which remains on course for year-end record tonnages.The Sino-German joint venture logged a 6.8% rise in volumes to just over 1.46m tonnes in the first eleven months of 2015.The January to ...
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Donations pour in as Volga-Dnepr pays last respects to air crew
On November 30, a civil funeral service was held in Ulyanovsk to remember the six Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ employees who were among 19 people killed during the terrorist attack at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali in western Africa, on November 20.“The ceremony was attended by thousands ...
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Freighters World: Asian capacity shifts
From the latest edition of Freighters World, out now...In a short-lived venture nearly twenty years ago United Airlines was running a transpacific freighter operation centred on Tokyo, writes Ian Putzger.On the tarmac at Narita airport, the US carrier’s DC-10-30Fs stood out like strange minnows surrounded by behemoths. Practically all the ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Eva Air, EasyJet and IAG place orders in November
Welcome to the first of a new monthly feature analysing the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.EasyJet orders an additional 36 A320 Family aircraftEasyJet has signed a firm order for a further 36 A320 Family aircraft taking its cumulative order for the type to 451.The agreement for six A320ceo ...
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Lufthansa-ANA cargo joint venture to serve Fukuoka and Sapporo
Lufthansa Cargo and All Nippon Airways Cargo (ANA) are expanding their year-long network joint venture between Europe and Japan by adding destinations in Japan.Fukuoka on the main island Kyushu in south Japan will be the first destination to be added, later to be followed by Sapporo on the north island.Starting ...
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UTi opens Asian multimodal hubs to beat air cargo capacity shortages
US forwarder UTi Worldwide has opened multimodal hubs in Malaysia and Vietnam to overcome reduced air cargo capacity by using short haul flights and road feeder services.UTi Worldwide, now the world’s eighth largest air forwarder after its takeover by Denmark’s DSV, has opened hubs in Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi ...
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Russia bans charter flights to Turkey
Russia has banned charter flights to Turkey as part of a range of sanctions in response to last week’s downing of a Russian jet.In a range of decrees announced over the weekend, the Russian government announced it would take measures to introduce a ban on charter flights between Russia and ...
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Australia passes known consignor rules
Australia’s Parliament has passed amendments to existing regulations in order to meet US air cargo security requirements for US-bound exports at piece-level by July 2017.Changes to Australia’s Aviation Transport Security Act (2004) will create a 'known consignor' scheme for exporters, which will permit them to secure their products to US ...
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Asia Pacific airlines report demand weakness
Airlines based in the Asia Pacific region saw demand decline in October as weaker activity in major economies continued to take its toll.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines showed that October’s air cargo shipments slipped by 0.7% in freight tonne km terms compared with the same ...
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Aussie rules OK for FedEx takeover of TNT
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will not oppose FedEx’s proposed $4.8bn acquisition of TNT Express.ACCC chairman Rod Sims said that the commmission had sought information and views from a range of interested parties including online retailers and suppliers of express services, adding: “Customers did not raise significant competition ...
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Swissport owner HNA takes stake in Azul of Brazil
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, which owns ground handler Swissport, is to take a 23.7% strategic stake worth $450m in Azul Brazilian Airlines.HNA Group now becomes the single largest shareholder of Brazil’s third largest airline and will appoint new members to the board of directors.HNA, owner of China’s fourth-largest airline, Hainan ...
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Asian carriers record peak season cargo boost in October
Asian carriers began to see air cargo traffic pick up in October as the industry enters the peak season, but fast growing Air China recorded its first year-on-year demand decline since 2013.The latest monthly statistics from Asian airlines shows all but one of the carriers saw demand pick up in ...
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Ningbo finds a cargo BUDdy
Hungary’s Budapest Airport (BUD)and the Ningbo International Airport & Logistics Development Co have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai.Ningbo International is located in one of China’s most highly developed economic regions, some 200 km from Shanghai.The two airports, which established direct contact in 2014, have now formalised their increasingly ...
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Brussels green light for HNA takeover of Swissport
Brussels regulators have approved the Sfr2.73bn acquisition of airport ground handler Swissport by Chinese conglomerate HNA Group.Swissport is a major provider of airport ground handling, cargo handling, and related ground handling services, to airlines in Europe and abroad. HNA Group, owner of China’s fourth-largest airline, Hainan Airlines, manages several airlines ...
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Precision redelivers four converted B757Fs in a week
US-based Precision Aircraft Solutions, a specialist Boeing 757-200 passenger to freighter conversion company, has completed a busy week.It has redelivered four 757 aircraft from four locations around the world to three clients.“We are tremendously proud of these four converted freighters being redelivered in one week,” said Precision president Gary Warner.“The ...
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Hong Kong airport sees cargo growth in October
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) saw cargo growth for the second consecutive month in October, increasing by 2% over like period 2014 to 392,000 tonnes.Hong Kong, the world’s number one cargo airport by volumes in 2014 at 4.4m tonnes, had recorded a decrease in freight throughputs in six of the ...
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ANA has B767 conversion options for freighter fleet expansion
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) is considering converting some of its Boeing 767 passenger aircraft into freighters, according to Reuters.ANA chief executive Osamu Shinobe was reported as saying that eight out of the carrier’s 11 Boeing 767-300 freighters were once passenger jets.Speaking on the sidelines of an aviation industry event ...
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New PACTL cool centre to open next year
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) will open its new eco-friendly cool centre early next year.PACTL announced plans to open the centre, which has a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year, following the start of trial operations after the authorities had approved all the necessary licences.The cool centre covers ...
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Harry the rhino flies to a new home to Indonesia
Harapan (Harry), the world’s only Sumatran rhinoceros living outside of South Asia, has arrived safely at his new home in Indonesia from Columbus’ Rickenbacker International Airport via Cathay Pacific Cargo.There are fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos left in the world, and Harry needed to be relocated from his home at ...
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Air cargo peak season hits while forwarders report Asian capacity shortage
Initial traffic data from European airlines suggests there has been a strong peak-season pick-up in demand in October, while forwarders are reporting a shortage of capacity from Asia and bans on ad-hoc charter flights.The latest data from Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, IAG Cargo and Finnair shows that three of the airlines ...