Cargo airports – Page 102
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Changi sees volumes slide in March
Singapore’s Changi Airport recorded a dip in cargo volumes during March, but there was a more positive result for the first quarter as a whole.During March, the airport recorded a 4.2 per cent year on year dip in throughput to 162,700 tonnes but for the first quarter, the facility actually ...
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Delhi and Schiphol sign MoU to promote cargo trade lane
Delhi Airport and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on and promote cargo business between the two hubs.The agreement’s scope includes business promotion, product development, knowledge sharing, training, performance benchmarking and regulatory agency cooperation.Schiphol handled a record 1.6m tonnes of cargo in 2014, up 6.7 ...
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Schiphol tonnages impacted by slowing Chinese output
A decline in airfreight between Asia and Europe saw Schiphol airport’s cargo volumes fall 1.8 per cent in the first three months of 2015 over like quarter 2014 to nearly 386,800 tonnes.It was the Amsterdam hub’s first quarterly fall in cargo volumes for almost two years.The Dutch airport’s senior VP ...
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Brussels freighters buck the trend
Cargo volume at Brussels airport rose significantly in March to 43,785 tonnes, up 8.2 per cent on the same month in 2014, said the airport authority.The European hub also had a strong first quarter, with volumes up 10 per cent to reach 120,117 tonnes.Growth was spread across all segments, although ...
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Singapore handler sets up ‘cool school’ for pharma
Singapore handling company SATS has launched an initiative to deepen its cold chain talent pool and “transform cargo acceptance” at Changi airport.A SATS Coolport Academy will serve as an independent training institute, offering IATA certified and other related courses to raise the standards of cold-chain handling in the surrounding region.SATS ...
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Strike hits Frankfurt as Edmonton forges ahead
Cargo volume at Germany's Frankfurt airport was hit by the ongoing Lufthansa pilots’ dispute, falling 6.1 per cent to 189,546 tonnes in March 2015.Airport owners Fraport Group said that flight cancellations led to reductions in belly capacity in the important intercontinental segment.For the first quarter of the year (January-March), cargo ...
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Van Stekelenburg to succeed Schiphol’s Osinga
Jonas van Stekelenburg is to succeed Amsterdam Airport Schiphol cargo director Enno Osinga who is retiring in September.Van Stekelenburg has worked on sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon reduction for the Netherlands gateway and was also responsible for establishing the Mainport Innovation Fund. He has also worked on The Grounds, a ...
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Heathrow cargo volume marches on
Heathrow Airport cargo volumes in March were 137,000 tonnes, a 2.9 per cent rise over the same month in 2014.First quarter 2015 volumes at the London hub were up 4.5 per cent at 371,000 tonnes.The March growth in freight traffic at the UK airport were helped by substantial increases in ...
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Hong Kong top of the league for air cargo
Hong Kong (HKG) continues to be the world’s largest air cargo hub, handling 4.4m tonnes in 2014, a six per cent increase in volumes over prior year.The preliminary annual statistics from Airports Council International (ACI) puts Memphis (MEM) in second place with 4.2m tonnes, an increase of 2.9 percent, followed ...
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Hong Kong retains crown as top cargo hub
Hong Kong remained the world's top cargo hub, as preliminary data from Airports Council International showed that global airfreight volumes rebounded 4.7 per cent in 2014 after three years of stagnating growth.World airfreight volumes ended the year with an increase of 5.6 per cent in December. On an annualised basis, ...
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Schiphol salutes Kales’ cargo contribution
This year’s Schiphol Aviation Award for Cargo has been presented to Kales Airline Services, in recognition of the GSSA's fundamental role in the development of cargo at the Netherlands airport.Kales, established in 1994, represents 95 airlines at the Amsterdam hub.The Schiphol Aviation Awards are presented every year to business partners ...
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Munich airport's record tonnages
Southern Germany’s Munich airport saw total 2014 cargo volumes increase eight per cent over prior year to a record 291,000 tons.When airmail is included, the cargo volume handled at the Bavarian hub exceeded 309,000 tons, with 85 per cent being bellyhold cargo on intercontinental flights.Michael Kerkloh, chief executive of airport ...
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Indian Airports has plans for domestic cargo network
Airports Authority of India (AAI) plans to enter the domestic cargo market by using redundant passenger terminals at regional airports.It says that, with the opening-up of the Indian economy, there has been “tremendous growth” in air cargo at airports throughout the country and that there is scope for considerable further ...
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Growth is in the air for Thermotraffic
Temperature-controlled logistics specialist Thermotraffic is to open a branch office at Frankfurt Airport’s Perishable Center in April.The on-airport location, says Thermotraffic, will guarantee rapid handling of all temperature-controlled cargo with cross docking between flights and ground transportation. An on-site IATA agent will support the operation.Thermotraffic says that more and more ...
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Port strike is Rickenbacker’s gain
The US West Coast container port strike led to a surge in February air cargo traffic, said Rickenbacker Airport Authority. The US Midwest gateway, near Columbus, Ohio, moved 7,772 tonnes in February, a 66 per cent jump over the same month a year ago.Car manufacturers chartered planes to keep assembly ...
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Hyderabad airport set to handle 100,000 tonnes
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) expects to cross the 100,000 tonnes milestone in the current financial year.The cargo facility at RGIA can handle 150,000 tonnes per annum and has a pharma zone for temperature-controlled cargo.While airfreight volumes in India have grown at a compound annual rate of seven per ...
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Heathrow rediscovers the regions
Heathrow has announced a package of measures to boost links between the UK regions and to reverse “a lost decade” in which regional connections to long-haul markets have been squeezed out of the UK’s hub airport.The owners of London’s main gateway admit that, at the moment, Amsterdam Schiphol airport has ...
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Magdeburg Cochstedt appoints Hahn cargo boss
EAST German air logistics hub Magdeburg Cochstedt International Airport has appointed Stefan Maxeiner as its new director of business development.The former director of cargo operations at Frankfurt Hahn Airport played a major role in establishing it as one of Europe’s leading air cargo airports, says a statement.“We are delighted to ...
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Düsseldorf Airport's cargo boom
LAST year saw the best cargo results for a dozen years at Germany’s Düsseldorf Airport.A total of more than 110,000 tonnes saw the Rhine-Rhur gateway’s airfreight business grow by an impressive 9.1 per cent over the previous year.Extra belly capacity on airlines collectively operating some 180 international routes served by ...
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Hamilton Airport to build US$11m air cargo facility
JOHN C MUNRO Hamilton International Airport has released details of this US$11million new Air Cargo Logistics Facility, which is due to open in 2015.It will have direct airside access on a redeveloped parcel of land at the Canadian airport.The project is being funded through a joint partnership between the federal ...