Cargo airports – Page 62
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Airport group says slot system needs revision
Airports Council International (ACI) Europe has hit out at IATA's take on a study commissioned by the airport group on current slot rules.In a press release published yesterday, IATA said that a study commissioned by ACI Europe showed that "the rules for allocating scarce capacity at Europe’s congested airports are ...
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Schiphol local rule for freighter operators rejected
The Dutch Minister for Infrastructure and Water Management has rejected the 'local rule' proposal for Amsterdam's slot-constrained Schiphol Airport.The proposed rule would have given freighter operators priority on the first 25% of any unused slots (for reasons such as flights cancelled due to bad weather) that are returned for re-allocation, ...
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Hong Kong and Paris airports sign MOU
Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) and Groupe ADP of France have signed two memorandums of understanding (MOU) on strengthening cooperation between Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport in airport management, aviation development and air cargo development.The two MOUs on airport management and aviation development, ...
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Schiphol: Targeting growth in a constrained environment
Satisfying growing cargo demand within a constrained airport is a challenge being increasingly faced by major cargo hubs all over the world.In Europe, the most high-profile case is that of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, which can offer a maximum of 500,000 movements per year, a limit that runs up until at ...
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Madrid: fastest-growing cargo airport
A report from LogIndex, the data company that is part of freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel Group, has ranked the world’s airports according to their airfreight growth rates on a moving 12-month basis (see below for table).LogIndex managing director and K+N Management global head of new business João Monteiro summed ...
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Brussels launches blockchain freight management app
Brussels Airport has launched its first application using blockchain technology, which it describes as the next step in the landside management tool it is developing with stakeholders in the BRUcargo airfreight community.Steven Polmans, head of cargo and logistics at Brussels Airport and chairman of the community organisation Air Cargo Belgium, ...
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Frankfurt: May cargo traffic suffers slight decline
Frankfurt Airport processed 181,117 metric tons of cargo in May, representing a slight fall of 1.6% in its throughput compared to the same month of last year.Airport operator Fraport said that the German gateway’s tonnage for the year to date, however, was marginally better than it was for the first ...
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European airports' freight growth continues in April
ACI Europe, the European airport trade association, has reported a continuing “robust growth trend” during April, with freight traffic across European gateways up 3.9% over the same month of 2017.In terms of aircraft movements, the number of dedicated cargo flights grew by 3.5% in April.EU airports saw their freight throughput ...
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Heathrow cargo traffic up as expansion vote approaches
A total of 144,171 metric tonnes of cargo passed through London’s Heathrow gateway in May, up by 0.5% over the same month of last year and the airport’s 22nd consecutive month of record growth.However, this is down on the airport's year-to-date growth rate: over the course of the first five ...
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North of England airport site set for further expansion
Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) has been given the green light from the local council for further expansion of its 1,600 acre Aero Centre Yorkshire.The expansion will include up to 600,000 sq ft of office, general industry, storage and distribution space developed with the potential to create up to 800 jobs.It ...
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Work starts on £1bn Manchester airport transformation project
Manchester Airport has started work on a new taxiway as part of its £1bn transformation programme announced in July last year.The building of Taxiway Delta Echo marks the start of the reconfiguration of the airfield at the Northern UK airport – the third largest in the country – to help ...
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Cainiao led JV to run new Hong Kong Airport e-commerce hub
Airport Authority Hong Kong has awarded a tender to develop and manage a premium logistics centre to a joint venture led by Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group.Other shareholders include China National Aviation Corporation and YTO Express.The centre, at Kwo Lo Wan in the South Cargo Precinct of ...
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UK Cabinet poised for Heathrow runway decision
The UK Cabinet’s economic sub-committee is expected to approve plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport later today (see update here), paving the way for a decision by the full cabinet followed by a vote by MPs during the next few weeks.It could bring finally ring down the curtain ...
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Cabinet approves Heathrow expansion
The UK government has backed plans for the development of a new runway at Heathrow Airport.The UK Cabinet’s economic sub-committee approved plans for a third runway at the London airport before the proposals were backed by the full cabinet.The UK secretary of state for transport Chris Grayling said: "A successful, ...
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Cainiao reveals plans for five global logistics hubs
Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao has selected five cities to become its global hubs, with Hangzhou, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Liege and Moscow the chosen locations.According to the Alizila news network, which is also controlled by Alibaba, the e-commerce giant revealed to the Global Smart Logistics Summit its strategy to create more ...
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WFS signs contracts in the US with five major airlines
Five global airlines have signed up for more Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) passenger, ramp and cargo handling services in the US.WOW Air has chosen WFS to provide ramp, passenger and cargo services for its three Airbus A330-300 flights each week from Dallas/Fort Worth to Keflavik International Airport, serving Iceland’s capital ...
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Chinese cities Wuhan and Sanya added to Heathrow network
London’s Heathrow airport today welcomed the launch of two new direct routes to the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Sanya by China Southern.Both destinations are a first for direct routes into Heathrow, while the connection to Sanya is a first for Europe. These routes, said an airport spokesperson, will allow ...
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Schiphol tests digital tool to maximise bellyhold cargo
Amsterdam Schiphol airport, faced by a constraint on freighter aircraft slots, is offering airline planners the chance to test a digital tool that will maximise bellyhold cargo capacity on intercontinental routes.It is claimed that there is “significant unused belly capacity” on North American routes and that utilising a percentage of ...
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Regional airports look to capitalise on congestion at major hubs
Europe’s regional airports are hoping to capitalise on congestion at their larger rivals by winning cargo traffic from operators looking to avoid delays.Speaking at the Air Cargo China event in Shanghai today, Budapest Airport cargo managing director Rene Droese said that shippers were taking an increasingly active role in their ...
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Frankfurt Airport reports steady performance in April
Fraport, operator of Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest airfreight gateway, has reported that the gateway handled a total of 189,634 tonnes of cargo (airfreight and air mail) in April.This figure represented an improvement of 2.3% over the same month of 2017.Over the first four months of this year, Frankfurt handled a ...