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Changi airfreight edges up 1.4% to 2.1m tonnes in 2018
Singapore Changi Airport saw 2018 full year airfreight throughput increase by 1.4% to reach 2.15m tonnes although December saw cargo volumes dip 3.8% versus prior year to 182,000 tonnes.Said a spokesperson for the Asian hub: "Growth was observed for airfreight throughput across all segments – exports, imports and transshipments. For ...
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Changi airfreight volumes remain stable for September
Airfreight throughput at Singapore Changi Airport remained stable in September at 185,000 tonnes, up just 0. 6% on the same month last year.The throughput brought the total for the nine months to 1.59 million tonnes, a rise of 2.3% year-on-year. The airport says growth was registered for all cargo flows ...
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Changi welcomes express carrier SF Airlines to Singapore
SF Airlines has begun weekly Boeing 767 Freighter flights from Shenzhen to Singapore’s Changi Airport – the first time a Chinese express carrier has operated services between the two countries.A statement from Changi Airport said that China is its largest air cargo market, accounting for more than 270,000 tonnes of ...
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Changi on the up in July
Singapore Changi Airport handled 183,000 tonnes of cargo in July, up by 2.1% on the same month of 2017.The July cargo traffic figure was also up on the 170,000 tonnes recoded in the previous month, and indeed was higher than any other month of this year except March.So far this ...
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NewsACI: Airport volumes up in April but growth starting to subside versus 2017
Airports Council International (ACI) World reported that April's freight volumes increased 4.5%, outpacing a slow March, with the market displaying "some resilience" despite the threat of trade wars, although the high growth of 2017 is "starting to subside".ACI's month-by-month passenger and freight statistics are based on a significant sample of ...
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Changi's moderate May for cargo
Singapore Changi Airport's airfreight throughput in May grew "moderately "at 1.8% to reach 180,490 tonnes, compared to the same period last year.As at 1 June 2018, more than 100 airlines operate at Changi Airport, connecting Singapore to some 400 cities in about 100 countries and territories worldwide. With more than ...
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TIACA launches cargo airport benchmarking tool pilot
TIACA has launched a pilot of its new online Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool, allowing forwarders to rate and review the service quality they receive at participating hubs.Cargo terminals registered to take part in the pilot will be rated by forwarders on several factors including process, technology, facilities, regulators, and ...
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March dip for cargo at Changi Airport
Singapore's Changi Airport saw cargo shipments dip 0.6% to 187,550 tonnes in March, compared to the same period last year.For the first quarter of this year, Changi Airport registered a 3.6% increase in airfreight to 512,080 tonnes. Japan and South Korea were some the fastest growing markets by airfreight volume ...
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Changi sees cargo growth accelerate in January
Changi Airport saw air cargo demand get off to a flyer in January as growth accelerated ahead of levels registered in 2017.The Singapore airport handled 175,590 tonnes of cargo in January, an increase of 10.7% on a year earlier.The January increase follows a record breaking 2017 when cargo demand increased ...
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NCA and Singapore to form strategic cargo partnership
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) and Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a strategic partnership.The proposed strategic partnership will build on existing block space arrangements between the two airlines that have been progressively expanded over the past five years.As a first phase, NCA ...
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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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E-commerce is changing the way DHL Express thinks… and acts
Describing e-commerce as a “revolution”, Ken Allen, chief executive of DHL Express says that the Deutsche Post division is adapting its systems away from business-to-business (B2B), to adapt to this new consumer-driven environment.“With this revolution that is going on at the moment in e-commerce, we’ve had more and more to ...
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Changi cargo growth nears 10% in September
Singapore Changi Airport saw a 9.8% increase in airfreight to 183,560 tonnes in September, while the Asian cargo hub registered an 8.1% year-on-year increase to 1.6m tonnes in the first nine months of 2017.Among Changi’s top ten markets, Germany (+27%) was the fastest growing with strong year-on-year growth across all ...
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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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Air cargo landscape changing but there will always be middlemen
The air cargo landscape is undergoing change with more players seeking to control assets and enter the market, but there will always be a role for the middleman, according to one speaker at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit.Speaking at the two-day conference in Baku, PAS Aviation Logistics managing director Peter ...
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Changi launches new pharma community
Changi Airport has launched a new pharma community that will work towards improving the local supply chain's ability to handle pharmaceutical air cargo.As well as the airport group, the Pharma@Changi initiative includes Bollore Logistics, CEVA logistics Singapore, DHL Global Forwarding, dnata Singapore, Expeditors Singapore, Global Airfreight International, SATS, Schenker Singapore ...
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Changi on course for record cargo year
Singapore Changi Airport saw airfreight throughput grow 11.2% in July to reach 179,550 tonnes, compared with the same month last year.For the current year to date, the key Asian hub has seen a 7.5% increase in cargo volumes to just under 1.2m tonnes for the first seven months of 2017.If ...
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SATS opens e-commerce hub at Changi
Singapore ground handler SATS has unveiled its new eCommerce AirHub at a Changi airport.The S$21m, 6,000 sq m facility, co-funded by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), will increase Changi’s mail sorting capability to support the growing e-commerce market.A spokesperson for the handler said: “By deploying state-of-the-art technology, SATS ...
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ABC flies autonomous vehicle to Singapore
Freight forwarder Geodis has organised the transport of a newly newly-developed Group Rapid Transit (GRT) prototype autonomous vehicle to Singapore utilising AirBridgeCargo flights.The GRT, which measures 6 metres in length, 2.1 metres in width and has a height of 2.8 metres, travelled from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Singapore onboard AirBridgeCargo’s ...
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Singapore awards three year handling deal to WFS
Singapore Airlines has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) with a three-year contract to handle cargo for its new Stockholm services.At the end of May, the airline launched five Airbus A350-900 flights a week connecting Singapore and Stockholm via Moscow.With cargo capacity on the route shared with Moscow, WFS in Stockholm ...
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