Cargo airports – Page 57
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Avianca Cargo adds Brussels freighter flights
Avianca Cargo has become the latest airline to add freighter flights to Brussels Airport as the hub continues to gain cargo volumes.The new Avianca service will fly to the Belgian hub twice a week - on Fridays and Sundays - utilising an Airbus A330-200F aircraft. The service will operate on ...
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Budapest Airport celebrates record October for cargo
Budapest Airport (BUD) processed a record volume of cargo in October as it targets further increases.The Hungarian hub handled a total of 13,313 tonnes of airfreight last month (trucked and flown), a 22.9% year on year increase and its largest figure ever for the month of October.The airport has welcomed ...
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Ho Ho Bergamo airport expects Christmas cargo boost
Italy’s Milan Bergamo airport expects a "healthy increase" in freighter operations heading up to the Christmas period.The commitment to the northern Italian airport from cargo operators follows on from a 2.5% increase in regular cargo movements versus 2017.Last year, Milan Bergamo handled 125,948 tonnes of cargo, accounting for 10% of ...
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Consultants sign up for Bahrain's new cargo hub
Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) has appointed French engineering company Egis as a consultant to provide design and supervision services for the Middle East hub's new BD22m ($58.5m) cargo area.The facility, which is being built north of the airport runway, is comprised of warehouses, aircraft parking and associated infrastructure.The county's Minister ...
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Transhipments drive a 2.8% rise in Hong Kong airfreight volumes during October
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 451,000 tonnes in October, a 2.8% rise over the same month in 2017.HKIA reported a 7% year-on-year rise in transhipments, which continued to be the main driver for cargo growth. Among key trading regions, traffic to and from North America and Southeast Asia posted ...
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Zhengzhou logistics firm to establish North American base at Edmonton International
Chinese logistics firm EHL has selected Canada’s Edmonton International (EIA) as its North American hub.The company will utilise the airport and nearby logistics facilities to transport and consolidate goods including e-commerce, moving between China and North America.EHL will transport cargo between Zhengzhou and Edmonton, and continue to the US mainlandAn ...
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Maastricht Airport targets more pharma traffic after CEIV achievement
Maastricht Airport has achieved IATA CEIV Pharma Certification as it looks to gain more healthcare traffic.The Netherlands airport said that employees have been intensively trained and assessed over the past few months, followed by an audit conducted by IATA.Maastricht Aachen Airport managing director Jos Roeven said: “Pharma forms an important ...
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Leipzig/Halle cargo volumes reach 1m tonnes by October for the first time
Leipzig/Halle Airport saw cargo volumes increase by 9.1% year on year to 1,012,448 tonnes between January and October - the first time the airport has reached the 1m tonne milestone this early in the year.The increase is higher than the overall German trend, which registered growth of 2.2% (according to ...
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Halifax Stanfield re-opens after SkyLease 747 freighter overruns the runway
Halifax Stanfield Airfield has re-opened after a Boeing 747-400 freighter operated by SkyLease came off the runway early this morning.The airport said the incident occurred at 5.05am local time when the aircraft (Flight KKE 4854/Reg 908AR) came in to land from Chicago, going off the end of runway 14/32.The aircraft ...
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Heathrow's cargo community is cutting truck delays
Heathrow's cargo community is winning the battle against peak-time truck delays as the AIS (Advance Information System) gains traction among forwarders, cargo terminal operators and airlines at the UK airport.And with reports of "significant reductions" in dwell time for trucks and £200 savings in driver costs, there is a now ...
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Hermes in cargo systems contract win at Hyderabad airport
Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) is to implement cargo management systems at India's Hyderabad International Airport (HYD).HLT has signed a five-year contract with GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), including a systems upgrade schedule for Hyderabad Airport’s cargo terminal.“GMR team’s requested timeline from contract signature to production was an extremely ambitious ...
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E-commerce drives plans for new logistics centre at Doncaster airport
A planning application has been submitted to develop a logistics and advanced manufacturing centre on land adjacent to Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA).The Peel Land and Property development, which will be on land that is part of the airport’s wider Aero Centre Yorkshire site, proposes up to 325,160 sq m of ...
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Hong Kong launches off-airport cargo screening scheme
Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) has launched its Regulated Air Cargo Screening Facilities (RACSF) scheme for off-airport locations.The goal of the initiative is to facilitate the establishment and operation of screening at off-airport sites, in order to help the industry meet ICAO’s policy of implementing security checks for all ...
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UK airport group RCA calls for post-Brexit regional 'free ports'
UK airport operator Regional & City Airports (RCA) is calling on the aviation industry and the British Government to support its vision of turning the country’s regional gateways into free ports after Brexit.Speaking at the annual Airport Operators Association (AOA) conference, RCA chief executive Andrew Bell said: “What is clear ...
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Istanbul’s new airport ready to open
Turkey’s Istanbul New Airport will have a “soft opening” on October 29, with a “big bang” launch at the end of December when Turkish Airlines and other carriers begin passenger services with bellyhold capacity.The new hub, which will be renamed at the grand ceremony on Monday, Turkey’s Day of the ...
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Schiphol freighter slots may be increased
Freighter services at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport could be increased after the Dutch government reversed its previous rejection of the ‘local rule’ proposal.The rule would give freighter operators priority for the first 25% of any unused slots that are returned for re-allocation and was devised as a way to help overcome ...
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More encouraging results for Ontario
Cargo traffic at Ontario International Airport in the US continued its positive development in September, with commercial freight and mail volumes rising 12.4% year on year to 61,463 tons.Over the course of the first nine months of 2018, cargo tonnage grew to 544,700 tons from almost 463,000 tons a year ...
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Dallas and Paris airports sign cargo growth agreement
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and French airport operator Aéroports de Paris (ADP) have signed an agreement to develop air cargo strategies that could increase traffic between Texas and Europe.With a focus on opportunities for growth in industries such as pharmaceuticals, perishables and luxury goods, as well as other time-sensitive ...
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Frankfurt cargo volumes decline despite surge in airmail
Although airmail tonnage grew strongly at Frankfurt for the first nine months of 2018, cargo fell 0.8% compared to the same period last year.This is marginally more than reported for the first half when cargo volume fell 0.4% and was attributed to "temporary capacity bottlenecks" in cargo handling, a decline ...
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Record tonnage for Heathrow
Five new services to China helped London Heathrow Airport achieve a record high of 1.3m tonnes, up 1.5%, in the nine months to September 30.Overall, revenues climbed 2.3% to £2.2bn “on the back of higher demand to fly and strong retail spend”, according to the airport.It says progress continues on ...