Cargo airports – Page 104
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DHL opens Leipzig pharma hub
DHL Global Forwarding has marked the official opening of a €3.4 million logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany, for the pharmaceuticals industry.The air and ocean freight specialist of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL said that the facility, located next to Leipzig/Halle airport, serves as a competence centre for the “transport, transport preparation, ...
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Dubai (DXB) cargo uptick
DUBAI International Airport’s cargo volumes rebounded by 4.3 per cent to 192,902 tonnes in August, compared with 184,877 in the same month in 2013, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The upswing came after the hub returned to full operational capacity in August following a runway upgrade project that reduced the airport ...
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WFS: Still room for expansion
All new account wins are welcome, of course, but a series of deals signed by handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Brussels in recent months have been particularly gratifying to its president and chief executive (CEO) Olivier Bijaoui, writes Peter Conway.That’s because a bigger presence at the Belgian hub was ...
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Amerijet closes failed Rickenbacker cargo hub
Amerijet International has shut down its cargo-hub operations at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus, Ohio only months after launching it. The Florida-based cargo carrier started Rickenbacker operations in July from a 20,000-square-foot warehouse leased at the airport.Amerijetís president, Dave Bassett, said the site had been an experiment to trial a hybrid ...
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Formula One arrives in Sochi
Three flights conveying Formula One racing cars and spare parts from Nagoya following the Japanese Grand Prix arrived at Sochi International Airport on October 7, as part of the preparations for the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix.Operated by the Basel Aero subsidiary of Russian industrial group Basic Element, the airport lies ...
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Handlers anxious to raise their profile
For a man who has just established his first foothold on a new continent, Olivier Bijaoui is surprisingly grumpy.The continent: South America. The ill temper: the president and CEO of WFS - the world’s largest cargo handling company, processing four million tonnes per year - believes air cargo handlers are ...
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Pistole: cargo security must not slow the flow
The air freight industry has a collective responsibility to maintain the highest standards of security. But this is “not mutually exclusive” with the free movement of goods, insists John Pistole, administrator for the US Transportation Security Administration.In a keynote speech at the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul, Pistole said passenger ...
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Aurora Air International selects MidAmerica St Louis as headquarters
AURORA Air International President Carlos Smith announced the airline’s intentions to establish its world headquarters at MidAmerica St Louis Airport in the USA on October 9.Aurora Air International ceased operations in 1995, but has recently seen an opportunity to re-enter the air cargo market. It has chosen MidAmerica in Illinois ...
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Why China still depends on Hong Kong
As the civil unrest on the streets of Hong Kong gradually abates, the interesting question emerges of whether China needs the former British colony just as much as Hong Kong needs China.Mark Whitehead, CEO of handler Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), is clear that the relationship is two-way, ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Iraq crisis a temporary setback, believes dnata
Dnata, which holds the sole cargo and ground handling concession at Iraq’s Erbil airport, is confident about the future there despite the current turmoil.Erbil began attracting a lot of freighter calls as investment poured into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, where most of the country’s oil reserves are ...
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Korean Air Cargo and LUG extend Frankfurt partnership
SkyTeam Cargo Alliance member Korean Air Cargo has extended its co-operation arrangements with LUG Aircargo Handling at Frankfurt International Airport for a further five years to 2019. LUG has handled freight for passenger and cargo aircraft as well as road feeder services on behalf of Korean Air Cargo for 17 ...
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LH Cargo fights Dutch flower ban
THE Dutch government is expected to review its controversial ban of Lufthansa flower shipments through Schiphol Airport.The previous government banned Lufthansa in 2012 from flying flowers from Colombia and Ecuador through the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico to Schiphol. It warned of a €40,000 fine per cargo flight.Joop Atsma, the ...
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CEVA to operate Gulfstream parts hub at Heathrow
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp has appointed CEVA Logistics to operate a new European Parts Distribution Centre at London Heathrow Airport.The facility will support Gulfstream’s business aircraft customers in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and the Nordics with urgent high-usage items.It will also provide rapid-response support for technicians from Gulfstream’s service centre ...
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UK runway rivals argue economic case
UK gateways Heathrow and Gatwick have stepped up their war of words over rival runway expansion plans following the release of new analysis by the government’s Airports Commission.The consultation documents – published for further public comment - present the commission’s analysis of the three proposals shortlisted late last year: two ...
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Dubai aviation's big bucks for the local economy
Dubai’s aviation sector contributed $26.7bn to the local economy in 2013, almost 27% of the emirate's GDP.A report by global research firm Oxford Economics found that Emirates airline, Dubai Airports and the aviation sector as a whole supported a total of 416,500 jobs, accounting for 21% of total employment.The objective ...
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Budapest's inflatable hangar
Lufthansa Technik has erected an inflatable hangar at Budapest Airport to protect its aircraft engineers from Hungary’s winter weather.The existing hangar capacity for Lufthansa Technik Budapest – housing up to five mid-size aircraft simultaneously – has proved insufficient because of its winter business bookings.The dimensions of the additional hangar – ...
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First phase of DHL Leipzig hub expansion opens for business
DHL’s major expansion of its Leipzig air hub has seen the first phase of an expanded warehouse facility open today.Announced a year ago, the €150m investment will see the freight processing capacity increase by 50% to more than 15,000 shipments per hour at Germany's second largest airport by cargo volume.Hand ...
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Zhengzhou route pays off for Cargolux
The introduction of a new route from Luxembourg to China’s Zhengzhou airport in June has paid off handsomely for Cargolux as today, just five months on, it dispatches the 10,000th tonne of cargo between the two hubs.European freighter operator Cargolux will build on its early success by introducing a fifth ...
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An-225's flying visit to Robin Hood airport
Antonov Airlines’ An-225 Mryia freighter made a flying visit to Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport, to collect 150 tonnes of engineering equipment for a transatlantic flight.Dayle Hauxwell, cargo manager at the northern UK hub, said: “The arrival of this huge aircraft is further proof of Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s ability ...