Cargo airports – Page 93
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Düsseldorf Airport gains CEIV Pharma certification
Düsseldorf Airport Cargo GmbH (FDCG) has been granted Center of Excellence of Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma validation by IATA. The airport operator becomes the first company in Germany to gain the trade association’s approval for its safe and stringent handling of these highly sensitive products.Gerton Hulsman, CEO of the airport’s ...
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ACI reports on moderate gains in January for cargo gateways
Airports Council International (ACI), the industry body that represents airports around the world, has revealed that its gateways saw comparatively little in the way of year on year freight growth in January. Across all its member airports worldwide, cargo traffic rose 1.5% over the first month of 2015 compared to ...
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PACTL becomes first Chinese air cargo terminal to gain CEIV
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (Pactl) has successfully completed the validation process to obtain IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) in Pharmaceutical Logistics.As a result, Pactl now operates the first Chinese air cargo terminal that has obtained the CEIV certification.“Having satisfied the IATA CEIV Pharma regulations, our ...
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Brussels handles major horse shipment
On the morning of 16 March, a Boeing 747-400F took off from Brussels airport destined for the Middle East carrying 86 horses in what was the largest shipment of horses in one aircraft for many years.Steven Polmans, head of cargo at Brussels Airport Company, remarked: “A horse transport of this ...
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Heathrow offers another weapon in fight against cargo-related emissions
London Heathrow has revealed plans to create an online portal aimed at consolidating freight loads and thereby lessen the number of trucks and volume of unwanted emissions on the roads around the airport. Encouraging freight company partners to operate sustainably is one of the ten priorities that Heathrow has set ...
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Fraport’s freight volumes fall, but its financials are healthy
Airport operator Fraport has reported that the group’s 2015 annual revenue climbed by 8.4% year-on-year to reach €2.58 billion, while operating profit (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, or ebitda) increased by 7.4% to €848.8 million.The positive business performance was mainly due to increased passenger numbers passing through Frankfurt ...
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Iron Maiden: the show must go on
Following the much-publicised incident on the ground at Santiago Airport on 12 March that saw rock band Iron Maiden’s customised Boeing 747 – known as Ed Force One – damaged in a collision during ground towing, the group released a statement on its website the same day to say that ...
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Dubai International still on the up
Dubai International airport (DXB) handled 201,483 tonnes of cargo in January 2016, an increase of 8.2% compared to the 186,230 tonnes that passed moved through the gateway in the same month of 2015.The healthy performance of the first month of this year continues a positive trend. Dubai International Airport (DXB) ...
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Frankfurt happy with progress on digital switch-over
A little more than a year ago, the FrankfurtAIR@Link (FAIR@Link) cargo community system (CCS) went into operation at Germany’s busiest air freight hub. According to Frankfurt airport operator Fraport, since the system was introduced at the gateway in January 2015, the number of users and also the volume of cargo ...
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HKIA reveals disappointing February for cargo
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world’s busiest air freight gateway in 2015, saw a year-on-year fall in its cargo traffic in February of 14.9%. Handling a total of 258,000 tonnes of cargo, operator Airport Authority Hong Kong attributed the decline in large part to poor export performance – in ...
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Ethiopian Airlines relaunches cargo flights at Brussels Airport
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo is returning to Brussels Airport with 12 direct daytime freighter flights a week out of the Belgian airfreight hub, bound for Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.In late 2015, the African combination carrier was forced to switch services to Maastricht-Aachen after it was not able to obtain ...
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Changi airport launches CEIV pharma community for air cargo firms
Changi Airport Group (CAG) has revealed plans to launch an IATA Center of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharmaceutical Handling (CEIV Pharma) community that will work together to achieve the certification.Under the community programme, companies will have to undergo training, as well as an assessment of their facilities and processes by ...
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Singapore's Changi offers S$14m support package for cargo partners
Singapore's Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced a S$14m package of “support measures” for its cargo partners, which will provide the sector with “cost relief against the backdrop of a challenging outlook for the global airfreight industry”.The measures, which include a one-time Special Assistance Package (SAP) for cargo agents and ...
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NewsAirport insight: 2015 cargo results
Global: Hong Kong still top of the hubsHong Kong looks set to remain the top air cargo airport for 2015 despite a near static performance with only a 0.1% rise in freight volumes to 4.4m tonnes. US integrator hub Memphis, number two in 2014, has still to report its full-year ...
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UK issues new cargo handling measures on flights from Dhaka International Airport
Recent security assessments of Dhaka International Airport found that "some international security requirements were not being met", said the UK Department for Transport on its website.It added: "As part of a set of interim measures, cargo will not be allowed on direct flights from Dhaka to the UK until further ...
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Could Brussels Airport win back Ethiopian Cargo?
Brussels Airport has revealed that it is hoping to lure back Ethiopian Cargo’s freighter services after the airline was was forced to move to Dutch hub Maastricht-Aachen in November because of traffic rights.In its monthly traffic update, the Belgian airport revealed that thanks to the amendment of a bilateral agreement ...
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Sao Paulo-Guarulhos airport offers incentive programme for all-cargo operators
Sao Paulo-Guarulhos (GRU) airport is offering new all-cargo operators a 100% landing fee exemption for a year as long as they meet certain criteria.The Brazilian airport said that as part of its GRU Incentives Program, cargo-only operators would be exempt from landing fees from March 27 of this year to ...
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India develops new aviation policy as it gears-up for 'Make in India' campaign
India’s air cargo throughput is expected to more than double over the next 15 years as the government implements several supply chain improvements as part of its ‘Make in India’ campaign.Speaking at the Air Cargo India event in Mumbai, Renu Singh Parmar, senior adviser at the Ministry of Civil Aviation ...
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Visitors experience Frankfurt's pharma focus
Air Cargo Community Frankfurt has held a pharma-focused event at Europe's top airfreight hub for BVL International, the German Logistics Association in the Rhein-Main region.There were 80 participants at the ‘visit FRA pharma’ event who received an update on current trends and developments in logistics, including the transport of pharmaceutical ...
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Call for air cargo industry to drive supply chain improvements in India
The air cargo industry should take more responsibility and drive improvements in India’s supply chain operations rather than wait for major changes in infrastructure and bureaucracy.During the Air Cargo India event, a panel of speakers outlined what quick-win changes could be made to improve air cargo supply chains in India.Saudia ...