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Munich Airport opens Information Security Hub to fight cybercrime
Munich Airport has launched an Information Security Hub (ISH) where airport IT specialists will work with experts from the European aviation industry to defend against cyberattacks and cybercrime.With the spread of digitalisation, there has been "a massive increase in the number of attacks on the IT systems of companies and ...
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Bangkok and Liege airports to share cargo knowhow
Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi and Liege airports have signed a sistership agreement to exchange expertise and knowhow, with a focus on cargo development between the Thai and Belgian hubs.The signing ceremony between Airports of Thailand, owner of Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, and Liege took place at the Asia Air Cargo Summit, being held in Bangkok.A joint ...
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Dutch shippers call for urgency in local rule implementation after government meeting
Dutch shippers and forwarders have urged the country’s transport minister to expedite the implementation of a ‘local rule’ designed to mitigate a freighter slot shortage at Schiphol following a meeting in parliament last week.Industry groups evofenedex, TLN and Air Cargo Netherlands (ACN) said that during the recent meeting with the ...
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New York's ARK owner files multi-million dollar claim against JFK airport authority
The owner of the $65m ARK animal centre at New York’s JFK airport has launched a potential $426m damages claim against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY&NJ).The compensation claim by Ark Development, which opened the animal transhipment facility at JFK in January 2017, alleges a breach ...
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FirstAir plans Ottawa cargo expansion
Canadian airline FirstAir has applied for government funding to expand its cargo facilities at Ottawa Airport as it anticipates demand growth over the coming years.The wholly Inuit-owned airline said that it expects cargo demand to grow by 28% over the next five years and therefore needs to ensure that it ...
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Schiphol stakeholders lobby politicians ahead of debate on slot crisis
Schiphol’s air cargo community has called on Dutch politicians to implement a ‘local rule’ proposal to end the aircraft slot crisis at Europe’s number three cargo hub.The Netherlands Parliament will this afternoon discuss the draft local rule designed to ease Schiphol’s slot restrictions that have seen some freighter aircraft operators ...
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GROUP7 starts work on new Frankfurt logistics centre
GROUP7 has started work on a new 25,500 sq m multi-user logistics centre close to Frankfurt Airport.The new €27m centre will offer state-of-the-art technology, including driverless transport systems, 3D printers and scanning technology.The site is in the immediate vicinity of the Frankfurter Kreuz – Europe’s largest traffic interection – and ...
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Pharma.Aero adds Hong Kong airport, AirBridge and Alha as members
Pharma.Aero has added Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) and Alha Group as members of the pharma supply chain association.Nathan De Valck, chairman of Pharma.Aero, said: “In the past year we have expanded our global network, created awareness and facilitated the collaboration within the industry.“The open internal dialogue, ...
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Schiphol confirms cargo tonnages increase of 5.4% in 2017
Schiphol Cargo reported an increase of 5.4% on yearly tonnage in 2017 with strong demand in the Far East for European goods boosting total figures to 1.75m tonnes.Europe’s third largest air cargo hub experienced an uptick in cargo throughput of 7.4% year-on-year between January and October 2017, with total figures ...
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Schiphol slot crisis set for Dutch MPs debate on Thursday
Dutch MPs are set to discuss the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport slot crisis later this week, raising air cargo industry hopes of a swift solution.The Netherlands Parliament will on Thursday discuss the revised 'local rule' proposal from Dutch carrier KLM which attempts to resolve the slot allocation problem that has seen ...
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Changi breaks through the 2m cargo tonnes barrier in 2017
Singapore Changi Airport’s airfreight volumes in 2017 crossed the 2m tonnes full year threshold for the first time, as throughput grew by 7.9% to reach 2.1m tonnes.December was again the busiest month of 2017, with 188,740 tonnes of airfreight throughput, a 6.4% rise on the same period 2016.An airport spokesperson ...
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Severe weather hits air cargo operations
Severe weather over the last few days has caused disruption to cargo and express operations in the US and Europe.Yesterday (January 18) Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was forced to close when a powerful storm hit the Netherlands, while airports in the southeast of the US also continue to be affected.Schiphol Airport ...
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Bumper cargo year for Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
Sheremetyevo International Airport registered a double-digit percentage increase in airfreight demand in 2017 thanks to improving consumer confidence and growth in e-commerce demand.The Moscow hub saw total airfreight volumes increase by 27.3% year on year to 290,000 tonnes, meaning it handled more than 60% of total air cargo demand processes ...
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Lufthansa Technik looks to digitise warehouses
Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services (LTLS) has launched a pilot project that it hopes will increase the use of digital processes and automation at warehouses to drive efficiencies.LTLS, which is a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik, said that the pilot location for the digital warehouse project is Munich Airport, which is particularly ...
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Cincinnati airport joins the ton millionaire cargo club
Cincinnati airport (CVG), Amazon's designated key US airfreight hub, broke the 1m cargo tons barrier in 2017, a 27% increase over full year 2016 and nearly four times the North American average of 7% growth.CVG, which has freighter operator DHL as a major customer, also set a new record for ...
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Hong Kong's cargo and mail volumes breach 5m tonne mark
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled more than 5m tonnes of cargo and airmail in 2017, the first time an airport has reached this level of throughput.In total, HKIA saw air cargo throughput increase by 9.2% year on year to reach 4.9m tonnes, while mail volumes hit 112,000 tonnes.Airport Authority ...
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Miami takes aim at e-commerce cargo traffic
Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) has organised a strategy meeting of more than 30 air cargo industry stakeholders to discuss how the region can capitlaise on e-commerce growth.The workshop, which was hosted by Miami International Airport, saw e-commerce experts give presentations on market trends, regulations, challenges and potential collaborative opportunities.At the ...
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Munich airfreight up 7% in 2017
Munich Airport's dynamic cargo growth continued in 2017 with a record total turnover of 379,000 tons – a 7% gain over the previous year.Passenger traffic at the southern Germany hub increased by 2.3m to a new all-time high of 44.6m, a 5.5% gain over the 2016 figure."These are outstanding traffic ...
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Handler strikes hit Frankfurt's December cargo volumes
Strike action by ground handlers at Frankfurt airport contributed to a 4.5% decline in December's cargo volumes to 180,186 tonnes.Despite this setback, Germany’s number one freight hub saw total 2017 volumes increase by 3.6% year-on-year to just over 2.2m tonnes, according to the latest figures from airport company Fraport.The full-year ...
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Amazon adds more land to Cincinnati air cargo hub
Online retail giant Amazon has added extra land to the $1.5bn air hub it is building at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG).Dave Clark, Amazon senior vice president of worldwide operations, tweeted that the company had "just added 210 acres of land as part of the future CVG air hub"."Excited for Amazon, ...