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    WCS17: IATA Cargo Handling Manual launched

    2017-03-15T06:58:10Z

    IATA has launched a Cargo Handling Manual (ICHM) to help airlines and cargo handlers work together more effectively while improving safety and efficiency in air cargo operations.The ICHM is the first complete set of standards covering the operational activities of all stakeholders in the cargo handling supply chain. It was ...

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    WCS17: Airfreight demand on the up but profitability faces headwinds

    2017-03-15T05:12:07Z

    Air cargo demand is expected to grow again this year but airline profitability remains under threat from overcapacity and rising fuel prices.Providing an economic outlook for air cargo at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, the organisation’s senior economist George Anjaparidze said air cargo demand was expected to see comparable growth ...

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    WCS17: UAE in the spotlight

    2017-03-14T17:01:55Z

    As a global trade gateway, with two freighter-owning passenger airlines based in the UAE, it was appropriate to have a panel discussion at WCS17 in Abu Dhabi on the air cargo opportunities and challenges facing a key airfreight transit hub.Farook al Zeer, managing director of Schenker in the region, said ...

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    Freight industry to flock to Florida

    2017-03-14T14:59:59Z

    Miami, Florida will be the venue for the TIACA 2020 Air Cargo Forum (ACF), along with Multimodal Americas and Supply Chain Americas.The biennial event brings together supply chain decision makers from across the globe for three days to network and learn from industry experts. TIACA secretary general Vladimir Zubko described ...

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    WCS17: Smart new look for Jettainer

    2017-03-14T14:35:56Z

    Lufthansa’s Jettainer subsidiary unveiled a new logo and strapline at the IATA World Cargo Symposium on 14 March. The company name is now backed up by the phrase: “Smart ULD Pooling People”, emphasizing the outsourced ULD management firm’s intelligent solutions, as well as its employees.ULDs themselves are ...

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    WCS17: Mercator promises revolution in airfreight systems

    2017-03-14T14:15:54Z

    Transport software specialist Mercator is offering an Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem, which it describes as the industry’s first open API platform for air cargo management and ground handling.APIs (application programming interfaces) are used to provide the ‘building blocks’ which simplify the task of writing computer programs.Mercator says its open architecture platform ...

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    WCS17: Schiphol gets grant for pharma temperature alert system

    2017-03-14T13:50:26Z

    Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is to develop an early warning system for pharma shippers with the help of a €1m research grant, it was revealed at the IATA World Cargo Symposium on 14 March.The money, from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and TKI Dinalog, the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, ...

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    WCS17: China-Europe rail a threat to air cargo but box shipping troubles an opportunity

    2017-03-14T13:31:22Z

    Air cargo should start taking the threat presented by China-Europe rail services seriously, but the difficulties faced by the container shipping sector could provide opportunities.Speaking at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, Seabury Group senior vice president Marco Bloemen said that rail freight services were “no longer carrying volumes that can ...

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    WCS17: IATA chief makes modernisation call

    2017-03-14T11:51:27Z

    The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the air cargo industry to speed up modernization and deliver high quality service at the World Cargo Symposium in Abu Dhabi on 14 March.The airline organisation’s director general and chief executive Alexandre de Juniac told delegates: "Complicated and convoluted ...

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    WCS17: Etihad takes freighter number ten

    2017-03-14T10:42:08Z

    Etihad has taken delivery of its tenth all cargo aircraft, an Airbus A330F. The new addition takes the Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s Airbus freighter fleet to five, joining five Boeing 777 freighters.Etihad has launched ten new freighter routes in the past 12 months and carried 602,026 tonnes of cargo in 2016, ...

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    New index to keep tabs on Asian freight

    2017-03-14T10:30:39Z

    A freight industry consultant and a journalist have created a new Asian forwarding index. Cathy Roberson, an industry veteran who has been consulting on logistics markets for two decades and freight journalist and consultant Mike King, say that their new APAC Forwarding Index will measure current demand and forward sentiment.It ...

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    DHL seeks CEIV status across the Americas

    2017-03-14T10:09:13Z

    DHL’s Global Forwarding, arm is to certify a further seven of its 11 Americas stations to IATA’s CEIV Pharma Standard. It has already achieved CEIV status at Bogota, Colombia and the seven remaining stations – Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia and San Juan - are expected to follow ...

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    WCS17: Cutting edge technology

    2017-03-14T03:41:07Z

    Hair today, gone tomorrow. Svilen Rangelov of Dronamics is promising to shave off a flowing beard when his company’s first cargo drone ‘car’ is ready to fly, by the end of 2017.The Bulgarian entrepreneur and his equally bearded brother vowed to forsake the facial razor 2.5 years ago when they ...

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    UPS scores top marks in healthcare survey

    2017-03-13T14:24:55Z

    UPS and its specialist pharmaceutical supply chain arm, Marken have been recognised as top providers of temperature data collection and management services for clinical trial materials by an industry survey.New York-based Nice Insight’s 2017 Clinical Supply Chain Logistics Survey quizzed 320 healthcare decision-makers at large and midsize organizations in North ...

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    Airfreight's positive momentum continues in January

    2017-03-10T10:41:56Z

    Air cargo demand growth continued its “positive momentum” in January in line with a steady rise in new export orders.The latest monthly statistics from IATA show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 6.9% year on year in January.While this lags behind the 9.8% improvement registered ...

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    WCS17: World Cargo Symposium conference programme

    2017-03-10T10:05:26Z

    As well as presenting opportunities to network with other air cargo professionals, the World Cargo Symposium is also host to one of the industry's most important conferences and an exhibition featuring more than 30 companies.In 2017, the plenary session will be kicked off by Etihad's James Hogan before a series ...

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    WCS17: We can’t get no innovation

    2017-03-10T09:23:12Z

    The key theme for this year’s IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) is innovation. This is an appropriate subject, not least because many in the air cargo sector, including a number of high profile large air cargo volume shippers, believe it is in short supply. IATA will no doubt provide an ...

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    WCS17: A thousand delegates at WCS 2017

    2017-03-10T09:22:56Z

    Join over 1,000 air cargo leaders and more than 40 exhibitors in Abu Dhabi for the action-packed World Cargo Symposium (WCS) 2017.The event will feature plenary sessions, specialised tracks, workshops and executive summits, tackling aspects related to technology & innovation, security & customs, cargo operations, and sustainability.The 2017 event venue ...

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    WCS17: Frank conversation and Arabian hospitality

    2017-03-10T09:22:39Z

    David Kerr, senior vice president Etihad Cargo, the host airline for the event, said: “The IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) is such a vital forum for our industry and we are proud to host it in Abu Dhabi for the first time.“I can think of no place that better embodies ...

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    CEVA sees airfreight demand improve but records another loss

    2017-03-09T09:41:36Z

    CEVA Logistics saw airfreight volumes grow ahead of the market last year but revenues decreased and it recorded another loss.The forwarder recorded a 5.5% year-on-year decline in revenues for 2016 to $6.6bn, while losses came to $159m last year compared with $195m in 2015.Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and ...