Cargo airports – Page 95
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Hong Kong's static cargo volumes in 2015
Asia’s dampening airfreight demand saw Hong Kong, the world’s number one air cargo hub in 2014, with near static volumes in 2015, registering only a 0.1% increase in throughputs to 4.38m tonnes, amid predictions of “mild growth” for 2016's airfreight demand.Hong Kong International Airport’s cargo results contrast starkly with its ...
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Liege and Munich celebrate 2015 cargo surges
European cargo hubs Liege and Munich both reported sizeable increases in airfreight volumes for 2015 versus prior year.Belgium’s Liege handled nearly 650,000 tonnes in 2015, a 10% surge over 2014. The airport’s general manager, Luc Partoune, said: "The new airlines – Qatar Airways and ANA Aviation – have boosted our ...
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Heathrow to 'Go Electric'
Heathrow hosts more than 80 airlines, 300 service providers and 76,500 employees each day. It is one of the country’s biggest ports, handling a quarter of the UK’s exports by value, and sees 1.5m tonnes of freight travel through it each year.A large operation like this requires big environmental ambitions, ...
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K+N relocates to Heathrow site
Freight forwarder Kuehne+Nagel has relocated its main air cargo operations in the UK to its new Heathrow South Cargo Centre.The new dedicated airfreight hub is adjacent to the Heathrow cargo area and has security certifications including those from the Transported Asset Protection Association and IATA’s Regulated Agent programme.The warehouse, which ...
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Weak November for cargo at Asian and Middle Eastern hubs
Airfreight volumes remained weak in November in the Middle East and Asia, reflecting the “slowdown of the Chinese economy and uncertainty in the commodity exporting countries”, according to latest data from the Asia-Pacific arm of Airports Council International (ACI).Freight volumes in the Asia-Pacific region declined by 1.5% and the Middle ...
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Frankfurt freight figures fall in 2015
Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Europe’s number one cargo hub by volumes, saw its 2015 full year airfreight and airmail throughput fall by 2.3% to around 2.1m tonnes.FRA said that the decline was “attributable mainly to weakening global trade and economic difficulties in some emerging markets”.By contrast, the German airport’s passenger traffic ...
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Shanghai's PACTL sets new freight volume record
Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) has achieved record annual cargo throughput 2015 on the back of the growth of imports of consumer goods.The Sino-German joint venture saw annual cargo volumes jump by 6.5% year on year in 2015 to 1.6m tonnes.PACTL’s overall import cargo volumes increased by 9% ...
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Vigorous Brussels sees 7.8% cargo surge in 2015
Brussels Airport saw “vigorous” 2015 full year freight volumes grow 7.8% to just over 489,000 tonnes, helped by the arrival of four new cargo carriers in the full freighter segment and the development of express services at the Belgian hub.Arnaud Feist, chief executive of Brussels Airport Company, said: “The growth ...
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Heathrow records 2015 demand decline
The UK’s busiest cargo airport, Heathrow, ended last year with a slight decline in cargo volumes compared with 2014 levels.The west London airport, which is hoping to add an extra runway, recorded total cargo volumes of 1.5m tonnes in 2015, a 0.2% decline compared with a year earlier.However, it was ...
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CAS sees Miami perishable volumes soar after investment
Consolidated Aviation Services (CAS) has seen perishable volumes quadruple since it expanded its centre at Miami Airport.The cargo handler more than doubled the size of its perishables facility at the airport in 2014 with the addition of a new $2.5m 18,000sq ft cooler alongside its existing 12,000sq ft perishables building, ...
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Kohlsaat joins Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport has appointed John Kohlsaat as senior vice president sales, responsible for the development of the passenger and cargo airline business.Kohlsaat’s recruitment is part of a restructuring of the German airport’s sales department which will see Frankfurt-Hahn Airport put “a stronger focus on the different requirements in the passenger ...
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Schiphol Cargo eBook provides guidance for pharma logistics managers
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has produced a pharma e-book which features interviews with seven experts in the pharma and pharma logistics sectors.Vision Pharma Logistics 2020: Insights and practical advice is published by Schiphol Cargo – the European airport’s dedicated cargo department.One of the main conclusions in the book is that pharma ...
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Brussels Airport launches airside pharma transporter to avoid temperature fluctuations
Brussels Airport has developed an airside pharma transporter in order to get around the problem of temperature fluctuations during the transfer of air cargo to and from the aircraft.The Belgian airport said its airside pharma transporter, which will swoop into action this month, is a trailer on which an insulated ...
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Emerging markets buck flat Heathrow trend
Cargo to and from emerging markets at London Heathrow increased 1.8% over the past 12 months, said the airport authority. Traffic with Mexico was up 31%, Turkey 27% and China 3%.The airport said this underlied the export growth potential of an expanded Heathrow which would be able to offer up ...
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Strike hits Frankfurt freight
Frankfurt Airport said its November traffic was badly hit by a Lufthansa flight attendant strike which led to the cancellation of 3,400 scheduled flights. Cargo for the month was down 3.9%; for the year-to-date it fell by 2.7% to just over 1.9 million tonnes.The Fraport Group’s Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide ...
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Gloomy November for Hong Kong cargo
Cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) dropped by 3.1% to 407,000 tonnes in November compared to the same month last year. The fall was mainly due to a 6% drop in transshipment and 4% in imports, compared to the same month last year, with traffic to and from ...
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Cathay Pacific runs airfreight test flight to Wellcamp Airport
Cathay Pacific has run an air cargo test flight to the Australian town of Toowoomba to gauge commercial interest in the region and to test operations.The Hong Kong-headquartered carrier deployed a Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Wellcamp Airport, which is located in one of Queensland’s richest agricultural areas.The airline said the ...
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Business slams 'dithering' UK government over runway decision delay
Airlines, shippers and business leaders have condemned the British government’s postponement of a decision on UK south east runway capacity expansion for at least six months.The aviation industry had expected a mid-December decision on whether to push ahead with a third runway at London Heathrow, as recommended by the Airports ...
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Chennai recovers from floods
Freight operations are beginning to return to normal at Chennai airport in India following several days of severe flooding. Freight forwarder BDP International reports that commercial flights resumed into the south-eastern gateway on Sunday, 6 December after being suspended since 2 December but it would take 2-3 more days for ...
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Dubai cargo doing well
Cargo at Dubai International airport was up 7.6% in October at 215,714 tonnes compared with 200,435 tonnes in the same month last year. Year-to-date traffic totalled 2.07 million tonnes, up 3.1% from 2.01m tonnes in the first ten months of last year.Passengers were up 4.4% in October, and aircraft 6.5% ...