All articles by Damian Brett – Page 159
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NewsCargolux expands in China with Shenzhen frequency
Cargolux has added Shenzhen to its network as it looks to strengthen its presence in China.The freighter operator said the weekly frequency is routed Luxembourg-Bangkok-Shenzhen before returning westbound to Luxembourg via Bangkok with an additional stopover in Budapest.Shenzhen is Cargolux’s sixth destination in mainland China."Shenzhen is China’s fourth busiest and ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo celebrates 10 years at Zhengzhou
AirBridgeCargo (ABC), part of the Volga-Dnepr Group, is celebrating its 10th anniversary of flights to/from Zhengzhou.On the September 17, 2010 ABC’s Boeing 747-400 took off from Zhengzhou International Airport on its flight to Moscow with further onwards connections to European gateways of the carrier.The carrier was the first foreign all-cargo ...
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Eastern Airlines appoints Duggan as it reveals freighter ambitions
US carrier Eastern Airlines has appointed Mike Duggan as director of international cargo business development as it prepares to expand into freighter operations.The Pennsylvania-based airline and lessor currently operates a mix of eight B767-200/300 passenger aircraft but - although no time line was revealed - it also plans to add ...
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The Covid vaccine distribution challenge facing supply chains
In recent weeks and months, both positive and negative reports have appeared in the international press about the rat race for an effective Covid-19 vaccine. Almost all newspapers and magazines make a new ranking every month of which company will be the first to market an approved vaccine.To give the ...
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GA Telesis signs up for a second B737 conversion with AEI
GA Telesis is exercising an option for a second B737-800SF freighter conversion with Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI).The second aircraft (MSN 28826) will commence modification at the end of January 2021 and is scheduled for redelivery in early May 2021. All modification touch labor will be performed by the authorised AEI ...
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E-commerce demand fuels FedEx revenues as it prepares for Covid vaccine
FedEx saw its revenues and profits improve in its fiscal first quarter as a surge in e-commerce demand propelled performance.The express giant saw revenues for the three months ended August 31 increase by 13.5% year on year to $19.3bn, while net income was up 67.8% to $1.2bn and operating income ...
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NewsSwissport Cargo Services to expand at Frankfurt
Swissport Cargo Services Deutschland is set to open a new cargo handling warehouse at Frankfurt Airport developed by operator Fraport.The new building – located in CargoCity South at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) – has 17,000 sq m of floor space, including temperature-controlled zones for handling sensitive pharmaceutical products.There are also 2,400 ...
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IATA confirms the departure of Glyn Hughes as head of cargo
IATA has confirmed that head of cargo Glyn Hughes will leave the organisation as part of a wider restructuring.Hughes will leave the position, which he has occupied for the last six years, through voluntary redundancy at the start of 2021.In a statement IATA said: "Due to the devastating economic effects ...
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NewsSAL takes over operation of more airport customs security areas
Saudi customs vice-governor Suleiman bin Abdullah Al-Tuwaijri and SAL deputy chief business development and corporate relations officer Abdulrahman Ma’en Al-Mubarak signed the agreementSaudi Arabian Logistics (SAL) has started operating customs security areas across most of Saudi Arabia's airports.It is hoped the new setup will reduce the time of import operations, ...
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2020 in numbers: The year of freighters and preighters
The airfreight sector had just come out of its worst year for traffic in a decade, driven by weak global trade, with a 3.3% fall in freight tonne-kilometres (FTKs) during 2019, when the Covid-19 pandemic struck.Demand began to plummet in March, with a fall of almost 28% in April, before ...
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NewsDB Schenker adds charter flights while high-tech firms turn to airfreight
DB Schenker has expanded its air charter operation as it responds to a tightening of capacity.The German freight forwarder said that its new "global flight operations programme" will connect Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Hong Kong to Chicago and Frankfurt ten times a week with exclusive full charter flights."While scheduled air ...
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NewsCarousel Logistics co-founder and CEO hands over the reins
Carousel Logistics co-founder and chief executive Graham Martin has announced that he will be handing over the reins of the company and moving to a non-executive director position on the firm's strategic board.Former Cardtronics International and WLT Europe chief executive Jonathan Simpson-Dent joins Carousel in September and will take over ...
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NewsWFS expands at OR Tambo as new cargo contracts get underway
Ground handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has expanded its cargo handling operations at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport to accommodate new contracts with Lufthansa and Swiss WorldCargo.WFS has acquired the lease on a further 3,600 m² of warehouse capacity in Johannesburg, purchased additional cargo handling equipment and increased its workforce.The ...
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NewsChapman Freeborn helps transport mobile Covid hospital to Conakry
Chapman Freeborn recently played a role in an operation to transport Covid-19 medical equipment from Johannesburg, South Africa to Conakry, Guinea.The operation saw a mobile hospital designed for the Covid-19 pandemic transported on a B747F aircraft from O.R. Tambo International Airport. The hospital included generators, tents, air filters and medical ...
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Forwarder a. hartrodt to roll out CargoWise platform
Freight forwarder a. hartrodt will roll out the CargoWise platform across its network of more than 100 locations and more than 2,000 logistics team members.The CargoWise system will be implemented to support freight forwarding, customs, warehousing and order management operations. The global rollout in Asia, South and North America, Oceania ...
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UK forwarders concerned about the end of EU transition period
UK forwarders have significant reservations over whether they will have the capacity to handle major changes to the UK’s trading relationship with the European Union (EU) at the start of 2021, according to a survey by UK forwarder association BIFA.In a general question on their understanding of the government’s plans ...
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CCS-UK trials IATA One Record technology
London Heathrow Airport’s air cargo community has ompleted its first trial of IATA’s ONE Record technologies, which aim to replace the legacy Cargo-Imp and XML standards.US application development and data management specialist Nexshore built a ONE Record server based in the UK, to control the storage and transmission of the ...
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NewsST Engineering ramps up A321P2F conversions
Source: ST EngineeringST Engineering’s aerospace unit will more than double the number of Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter (A321P2F) conversions annually, amid a surge in demand in the freight market during the coronavirus outbreak.The company confirmed that it is planning to increase conversion capability from nine a year to 25 a year ...
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NewsKorean Air starts cargo operations with B777-300ER preighter
Korean Air has began cargo operations with a freight-optimised Boeing 777-300ER, after it received regulatory approval to modify the popular widebody.The aircraft, registered HL8208, operated its first cargo flight on 8 September, from Seoul Incheon to Columbus, Ohio in the US.The carrier said that Columbus is “an emerging cargo base” ...
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CEVA expands in Latin America with new offices
Freight forwarder CEVA Logistics has opened its own offices in Ecuador and Uruguay as part of a "strategic expansion".The company said that is has been established for many years in both countries through network partnerships and decided to open its own offices in each location to offer customers a "full ...