Cargo airports – Page 71
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Leipzig/Halle supports ever-growing freight volumes
Leipzig/Halle airport handled 828,163 tonnes of cargo during the first nine months of 2017, a 7.7% increase over the same period last year for Germany’s second-largest airfreight hub.It also represented the 13th consecutive year of cargo growth at Europe’s fifth-largest airfreight gateway.The airport, operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen, serves as a ...
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DHL facility at O’Hare opens its doors
DHL has opened a $10m global gateway facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.The integrator selected Chicago’s new northeast cargo campus at O’Hare because the site is “on track to be the largest cargo development built at a US airport in more than a decade when completed in the next few ...
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Heathrow reports strong cargo growth
Cargo traffic through Heathrow airport rose by 10.5% year on year to reach 1.25m tonnes in the first nine months of 2017.Passenger volumes at key UK London gateway also rose, helping to generate a year on year revenue increase of 3.2% to £2.2bn ($2.9bn).Adjusted earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and ...
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London airports "completely full" by mid-2030s says UK government
All five of London’s main airports will be "completely full" by the mid-2030s, and four of them within a decade, according to updated aviation demand forecasts published today by the UK government.Transport minister Chris Grayling said that the forecasts “also show us that the north-west runway scheme at Heathrow is ...
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NewsUK airfreight fails to keep pace with passenger growth
Department for Transport statistics confirm that UK airfreight has not kept pace with the national growth in passenger numbers, in terms of both tonnage and numbers of aircraft movementsIn 2011, (77%) and 2016 (78%) most freight by tonnage was in carried the bellyholds of passenger aircraft, states the latest updated ...
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Tiaca launches drive for air cargo quality standards
Tiaca has developed a new online Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool as part of its drive launched yesterday to help create standards across the supply chain.The tool will allow participants in the CSQ project to fill out an online cargo quality assessment form either every quarter, or every six months.The ...
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European airlines and airports renew dispute
An event organised by Airlines for Europe (A4E) has seen the region's carriers and airports renew their bitter dispute over airport charges.At the event, chief executives of A4E member airlines presented the final results of a York Aviation study on the cost and profitability of European airports as carriers continue ...
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MAG calls for a freight focus in UK's aviation strategy
UK airport group MAG has called on the country's government to make freight a central part of its new aviation strategy.The airport group, which operates Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands, said that the aviation strategy should set out an ambitious plan for improving international connectivity from UK airports.It would like ...
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MAG urges UK-wide aviation strategy
As the UK Government prepares its aviation strategy for the next 30 years, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) is calling for “a strategy that is national in scope which seeks to maximise the economic and social benefits of aviation”This would include a focus on better connectivity with the country’s rail and ...
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Schiphol freighter sector dealt blow as 'local rule' for slots is rejected
Low-cost airlines have rejected proposals for a ‘local rule’ at Schiphol airport that would have given priority to freighter operators as the hub faces a shortage of slots.The airport is nearing its slot limit for the year of 500,000 and as a result is having to limit the number of ...
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Hong Kong sees soaring cargo growth in September
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 430,000 tonnes of cargo in September, "soaring" 9.1% over the same month in 2016.A spokesperson for HKIA, the world's number one cargo hub in 2016, said: "Exports registered a robust 14% year-on-year growth, continuing to lead the growth in cargo volume. Among the key ...
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Singapore switches four freighter flights to Brussels from Amsterdam
Brussels Airport has confirmed that Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) will switch four freighter flights a week to the Belgian hub from its current base at Amsterdam Schiphol after the Netherlands gateway was forced to axe up to 35 freighter aircraft slots per week.The transfer, which takes place at the ...
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The full list of Heathrow's ten cargo commandments for staying Green:
Here are the ten steps outlined by Heathrow Airport to make sure that its cargo operations remain environmentally friendly despite the extra volumes driven by a third runway.1. Launch an online load consolidation tool by 2017Starting later this year, hundreds of trucking companies and cargo freight forwarders based around the ...
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Heathrow outlines ten cargo steps for staying Green
Heathrow Airport management has announced a new ten step Blueprint for Sustainable Freight to reduce the impact of freight vehicles around Europe's fourth largest cargo hub.The UK's largest airport, still awaiting a Parliamentary vote next year to approve building of a third runway, set out its plans to ensure that ...
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Schiphol has high hopes for Chinese e-commerce
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has declared that e-commerce is “helping to strengthen” China’s position as the Dutch gateway’s largest cargo market, with exports from the Netherlands to the Far Eastern nation on the rise.A trade delegation from the Netherlands is due visit to South China later this month and will comprise ...
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A night of the freighter stars in Chicago
Cargolux has won the Best Freighter Operator category in a new set of awards launched in Chicago by Freighters World, a quarterly magazine produced by the UK publishers of Air Cargo News.The Luxembourg-based cargo airline won the Liege Airport-sponsored award in a hotly contested category, with four finalists submitting evidence ...
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New multimodal hub for East Midlands airport
Two property partners have launched what they describe as an inland port, close to East Midlands Airport in the UK.Investment trust Segro and property developer Roxhill say that the Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway, a 700 acre `inland port’ with a new rail freight terminal, pointing out that it ...
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New safety hoop to cut apron accidents
TBD has delivered 700 container dollies featuring a patented safety hoop design to a flag carrier airline the UK-based ground support equipment maker announced at the Inter Airport Europe show in Munich.Following close discussions with the airline, TBD developed the safety hoop system which discourages operators from taking a potentially ...
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European airlines call for air traffic control strikes to be made illegal
The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) is calling on the European Union (EU) and national governments to put an end industrial action by air traffic controllers, which it says is hugely disruptive and costly to the industry.Its call comes after industrial action by air traffic controllers disrupted operations at several ...
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AirBridge to shift some Amsterdam freighters to Liege
Russian all-cargo airline AirBridgeCargo (ABC) is expected to shift some of its freighter flights from flight-slot constrained Amsterdam Schiphol airport to Liege in Belgium, Air Cargo News understands.ABC and Liege airport management were not available for comment but the switching of selected ABC freighter services out of Schiphol appears likely ...