All Asia articles – Page 99
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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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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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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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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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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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Stronger outbound China cargo boosts Cathay/Dragonair
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a combined 147,275 tonnes of cargo and mail in January, an increase of 12.5 per cent compared to the same month in 2014.The cargo and mail load factor rose by 2.9 percentage points to 63.4 per cent. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, rose ...
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PEMCO converted freighter number three for China’s CDI
US-owned PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered a third Boeing 737 to Chinese carrier CDI Cargo Airlines after converting it into a 737-300 freighter.The 737-300F offers nine pallet positions and a payload of up to 43,100lb or 4,600 cu ft.PEMCO has already carried out two similar jobs at Staeco’s Jinan ...