All Asia articles – Page 76
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Singapore narrows cargo losses
Singapore Airlines’ cargo division (SIA Cargo) narrowed its operating loss from $34m to $12m in the first half of the financial year from April to September.Cargo yield declined by 8.5% during the six month period, largely due to lower fuel surcharges, while freight carriage was “flat”, resulting in lower revenue, ...
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Demand picks up pace for Asian airlines in September
Asian airlines saw air cargo volumes begin to pick up in September ahead of the peak season, but continued to report declining airfreight load factors.The latest monthly figures from the region’s leading airlines show that five of the seven carriers that provide monthly figures saw utilisation levels decrease compared with ...
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Back to the 70s for Qantas fund raising
Australians have helped Qantas raise more than $114,000 for the Western Queensland Drought Appeal, funding the coordination and distribution of much needed drought relief across the Longreach region.Qantas operated a one-off charity flight from Sydney to the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach, using its ‘Retro Roo’ aircraft in 70s livery. ...
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Manchester united with Beijing by direct bellyhold link from 2016
China’s Hainan Airlines is to launch a four times a week A330-200 passenger service between Beijing and the UK’s Manchester Airport from June next year.The flights, with more than10 tonnes of bellyhold cargo, will provide a direct connection between Manchester and Beijing for the first time.The new route was unveiled ...
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Slowdown for Asian airlines
Preliminary September traffic figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed a continuing divergence between the cargo and passenger business. The latter remains strong but airfreight remains weak, says AAPA.Air cargo markets remained subdued, with demand in freight tonne kilometre (FTK) terms only matching the same month last ...
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Second Zhengzhou flight for Cargolux Italia
Cargolux Italia has introduced a second weekly flight between Milan Malpensa and its Chinese hub at Zhengzhou. Flight C8 8777 leaves Milan on Sunday mornings at 11:50 and, like the existing service, operates via Novosibirsk, Russia. When Cargolux Italia introduced the first Zhengzhou flight in June, it also marked the ...
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China Southern adds another US route
The inaugural flight of a new China Southern freighter service to the US took off with 96 tons of cargo on its maiden flight on 22 October. The flight, operated by a 777-200F on a Guangzhou-Anchorage-Chicago-Tianjin-Guangzhou itinerary departs the Chinese city on Thursday and Sunday.China Southern now operates five cargo ...
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New Cargo Services System top priority for Cathay freight boss
The launch of Cathay Pacific’s Cargo Services System (CSS) in July 2016 is a top priority, says the carrier’s director of cargo, Simon Large.“It will be the nuts and bolts of the whole operation so it has to work – and work well,” he told a Cathay Pacific company magazine.Large ...
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Holt lands Cargolux flight ops role, Ketellapper to focus on China JV
Cargolux Airlines has appointed Jason Holt as its new nominated person flight operations.Holt succeeds Wieger Ketellapper, who will concentrate on the development of the planned joint venture airline in Zhengzhou, China.The change took effect on October 15, following the approval of Luxembourg’s Civil Aviation Authority.Holt has only recently taken up ...
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Qatar Cargo teams up with UK actress for Nepal aid flight
Qatar Airways Cargo stepped in to transport 5.3 tonnes of aid collected by several charities supported by British actress Joanna Lumley to earthquake victims in Nepal.The aid was collected by several of the Gurkha charities which Joanna Lumley supports in the UK, but they had no means of transporting the ...
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World airfreight loses its bounce as China falters
The normal summer bounce in the world airfreight market failed to materialise this year, due largely to the faltering Chinese economy, said market data specialist WorldACD in its latest report.July was flat with only 0.7% volume growth, the lowest of any month this year, and revenue figures were also the ...
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Asia Pacific cargo demand weakened in July
Asia Pacific carriers saw air cargo demand weaken in July while international passenger numbers showed “further robust growth”.Preliminary traffic figures for July released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) saw airfreight markets soften, “reflecting a slowdown in world trade activity and weakening demand for Asian exports”.Measured in freight ...
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DHL, K+N and DB Schenker the leading airfreight forwarders
DHL Global Forwarding, Kuehne+Nagel and DB Schenker have maintained their position as the world’s leading airfreight forwarders, while the top 25 forwarders recorded a total increase in airfreight demand of less than one percent.The latest top 25 Global Freight Forwarders List from consultant Armstrong & Associates, based on revenues and ...
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AsiaPac air cargo demand remains weak in August
Air cargo markets in the Asia Pacific region remained relatively weak in August, according to the latest data from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).The association stated: “The weakness in air cargo markets extended to the month of August, with demand in freight tonne kilometre (FTK) terms recording a ...
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Airport data points to Asian air cargo slowdown in July
Airport cargo data issued today by Airports Council International Asia-Pacific is the latest set of figures to point to a continued slowdown in Asian demand.The ACI figures show that freight volumes at airports in the Asia-Pacific region were flat in July compared with last year.Performance was also subdued in the ...
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Solar-powered car takes flight with TNT
TNT transported a solar-powered car called Stella Lux from the Netherlands to Australia. The four-seat prototype will compete at the World Solar Challenge (18-25 October), a 3,000km race between Darwin and Adelaide.The Netherlands-based express operator said: “TNT shipped the car from Eindhoven to Liege, Belgium, then flew it to Singapore ...
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Indian pharma shippers and forwarders attend GDP academy
IAG Cargo and Exelsius Consultancy have continued their collaboration to improve standards for handling time- and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments.The partners’ Good Distribution Practice (GDP) Academy held a two-day course in Hyderabad, India, which was attended by 23 people from the shipper, forwarder, airline and ground handling community across India.The course ...
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Rail services a major challenge to air in central Asia
One of the major challenges that the air cargo industry in the CIS and central Asia regions faces is the growth of rail services from the Far East, according to DHL Global Forwarding’s chief executive eastern Europe.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit, DHL’s Kerem Inanc said there were a ...
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Cargolux Italia in NCA codeshare to Japan
Cargolux Italia and Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) have entered into a partnership agreement for codeshare cargo flights from Italy's Milan Malpensa Airport to Kansai International Airport in Japan, and from Malpensa to Tokyo's Narita airport, subject to approvals from the aviation authorities.A statement from the carriers said that the cooperation ...
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Aeroflot's takeover of troubled Transaero falls apart
Aeroflot’s proposed takeover of debt-laden Russian airline Transaero has fallen apart because the airline’s shareholders failed to submit a formal proposal in time.State-controlled Aeroflot’s board of directors said that Transaero shareholders had failed to submit the proposal before the deadline stipulated in a tender offer for a 75% stake in ...