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Miami Airport hosts e-AWB workshop as part of digitisation drive
Miami International Airport (MIA) hosted an electronic air waybill (e-AWB) workshop on August 2 for nearly 180 local cargo shippers and airline representatives, to encourage the use of digital processes.At the workshop, representatives from the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, IATA’s Cargo Network Services, American Airlines, the Florida Customs Brokers and Freight ...
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Fraport launches new cargo user forum
Fraport has held the first meeting of the newly launched CargoCity User Committee at Frankfurt Airport.The new forum will meet annually with the goal of promoting exchange and close dialog between all users of Frankfurt Airport’s CargoCity North and South.Dirk Schusdziara, head of freight at Fraport, said: “In order to ...
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Qatar investment arm takes stake in St.Petersburg's Pulkovo airport
Fraport Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide (Fraport) and its consortium partners at Russia’s Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg are to sell part of their shares in Thalita Trading to Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).Thalita is the parent company of Northern Capital Gateway consortium which has the 30-year concession for operating Pulkovo Airport ...
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UK airport gains expansion approval, but it’s not Gatwick or Heathrow
A London airport has finally been given government approval for expansion, but the airport in question is London City and not Gatwick or Heathrow that have been battling to expand.The government today announced the go-ahead for a £344m expansion at London City Airport that includes a new terminal, new aircraft ...
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NewsSluggish May for airfreight says ACI
Global trade growth remained sluggish in May and the air cargo load factor continued to “exhibit weakness” according to the latest Asia-Pacific cargo hub statistics from Airports Council International (ACI).Asia-Pacific members of ACI reported a marginal increase in total airfreight of 1.4% in May 2016 whereas the Middle East reported ...
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Fraport to host air cargo innovation lab
Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport has announced it will play host to a new event in September that will explore future innovation in air cargo.The Air Cargo Innovation Lab, which is being run in co-operation with DVV Media and Air Cargo News, will explore what air cargo logistics operations will look ...
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Denver sees cargo volumes fall away
Denver International Airport handled more passengers in May than it had previously ever done in that month. However, cargo volumes (including mail) handled during the month amounted to 19,417 tonnes, a decline of 2.1% on the same month of 2015.Over the first five months of this year, the airport handled ...
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ACI reports marginal increase in May cargo traffic
According to Airports Council International (ACI) figures, its airport members handled 0.5% more International freight in May than during the same month of 2015.The volume of total airfreight handled by those same airports in May was up by 0.9% year on year. Combining the two figures, ACI airports handled just ...
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Grimshaw gets the nod on Heathrow design
London-headquartered architects Grimshaw has been chosen as the concept designer to bring London Heathrow’s vision for expansion to life, the airport’s operator has confirmed.“It sends the clear signal to the government that Heathrow is a ready-to-go, privately financed infrastructure project,” a statement from the operator remarked.Grimshaw was selected for the ...
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Heathrow investor says it is ready to finance expansion
The group chief executive officer, Bill Galvin, and chief investment officer, Roger Gray, of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), one of London Heathrow’s shareholders, have written to British prime minister Theresa May to encourage her and her Government to commit to the airport’s expansion.The two executives reiterate the commitment of ...
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NewsE-commerce fuels Chinese airport ambitions
All flight paths lead to China, with freighter operators stacking up to make a smooth landing, despite a softening in the Chinese economy.Leading the charge is European all-cargo operator Cargolux, with its planned China joint venture due to launch with three Boeing 747Fs in the second half of 2017. It ...
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NewsEdmonton, investing for growth
Canada’s Edmonton International Airport (EIA) completed its sixth consecutive year of cargo growth in 2015 and saw a “very strong” 2016 first quarter for freighter traffic despite a downturn in the global oil and energy sector.EIA’s volumes in 2015 grew by 5.2%, totalling a 32% increase over a six-year period.The ...
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Strong April lifts Schiphol
Cargo volumes at Amsterdam Schiphol grew 1.6% in the first six months of the year, to reach 796,801 tonnes, while the June figure jumped 2.5% year on year, to 135,528 tonnes.The Netherlands airport said the figures were helped by a particularly strong April, in which 137,666 tonnes of freight transited ...
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Strong June but weak half year for Hong Kong cargo
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) cargo volume declined by 0.8% to 2.1m tonnes in the first half of 2016 compared with the January to June period in 2015. On a rolling 12-month basis, cargo was down 0.6% to 4.4m tonnes during the past 12 months.Cargo volume in June itself was ...
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Munich freight volumes surge
Cargo growth at Munich Airport outstripped passengers in the first half of 2016, according to the airport authority’s latest figures. The total of about 163,000 tonnes of flown airfreight was 4% up on the same period a year earlier.Passenger traffic gained 2.3% to reach nearly 20m in the first six ...
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Kerry round the clock in Schiphol
Asian-owned Kerry Logistics Network can now offer a 24-hour warehouse operation at Amsterdam Schiphol following its move to new premises. Located at Freight Terminal 207, the facility is five minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from the port of RotterdamIt offers 20,000 sq m of warehouse space, 38 loading ...
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Cargo and earnings surge at MAG airports
UK airport group MAG – owner of Manchester, London Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth – reported that its cargo income had grown strongly in the financial year ended 31 March.Continued growth in internet shopping and new routes boosted freight revenue by 7.0% year-on-year to £22.7m, while cargo volume across the ...
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RiverOak consults on Kent air cargo hub
US-owned hedge fund RiverOak is to hold a local public consultation on 18 July on its plans to redevelop the closed Manston Airport in Kent, south-east England, as a cargo hub. It follows publication of a scoping report outlining plans for the site.The scheme, which is subject to a Governmental ...
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Frankfurt freight on the move again
The German Customs computer problem that caused a backlog of import cargo at Frankfurt airport over the weekend has now been cleared, Air Cargo News has learned. However, it will take a few hours to clear the backlog, according to our sister newspaper, DVZ.DVZ reports that handling companies have restarted ...
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Cargo is the rising star in Frankfurt
Cargo at Frankfurt bucked an overall falling trend in June, rising 3.3% to 179,808 tonnes in the month. This was in contrast to a 4.1% drop in passenger numbers, due to weather and strike-related flight cancellations.Cargo in the first half of 2016 also slightly improved, rising 0.7% year on year ...