All Europe articles – Page 145
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AirBridgeCargo satisfies Russia's demand for flowers
ROMANTIC Russians provided a business boost for AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the country’s largest cargo carrier, with a big rise in floral imports ahead of St Valentine’s Day.ABC transported some 1,400 tonnes of cut-flowers from Amsterdam to Moscow, an 18 per cent increase over the same period in 2013.Denis Ilin, executive ...
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IAG Cargo's Valentine's Day flower shipments blossom
AS THE world’s economy shows tentative signs of recovery, data from IAG Cargo has shown that when it comes to Valentine’s Day this translates to a blooming trade in flowers for key Latin American producers.Preliminary figures from the merged freight business of British Airways and Iberia, show that flower volumes ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's Karl Ulrich Garnadt appointed to Fraport’s board
LUFTHANSA CARGO’s chief executive officer (CEO) Karl Ulrich Garnadt, has been appointed as a member of Fraport’s supervisory board.The move follows Stefan Lauer’s resignation from the airport’s board at the end of last year.Garnadt’s appointment is valid until Fraport’s annual general meeting on 30 May this year, when shareholders are ...
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Confident Cargolux commits to another B747-8 freighter
DESPITE widespread over-capacity woes, Cargolux has confidently ordered an additional B747-8 freighter from Boeing as part of its ongoing fleet renewal and expansion programme.The additional aircraft takes its total order to 14 B747-8Fs.According to the all-cargo airline, the latest aircraft will support the airline’s growth – “on the back of ...
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Fedex expands its cool chain service
MORE FedEx healthcare and life-science customers in Europe can now keep cool about their temperature-sensitive shipments.The US delivery company has expanded its SenseAware service into 14 new countries across Europe, so that Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany can now ...
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Cargolux eyes combination carriers' dilemma
CARGOLUX will capitalise on the impact that belly capacity is having on some combination carriers, by reasserting its cargo-only credentials.With a number of combination carriers like EVA Air and IAG Cargo forced to dispense with significant freighter lift in the capacity-soaked marketplace, Richard Forson, interim chief executive at Cargolux, sees ...
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Saudia Cargo says it with Kenyan flowers
SAUDIA Cargo is running four additional B747 freighter flights from Nairobi to Amsterdam this month, to meet the high demand of flower exports during the St Valentine’s peak period.The extra frequencies will be supplementary to the carrier’s already existing six weekly scheduled B747F frequencies on this prime sector, thereby providing ...
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Virgin cargo up in 2013
TRAFFIC from the United States to India, business gains in the US north-east and an increase in perishables traffic, all contributed to tonnage, revenue and market share gains for Virgin Atlantic Cargo last year.The airline’s ability to offer fast connections over London to both Delhi and Mumbai also attracted strong ...
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Cool chain communication breakdown
THE risk of temperature excursions during the transportation of pharmaceutical products can be markedly reduced, if supply chain members share more information, a conference heard.A growing need for greater collaboration, the inability of some carriers to participate in the flow of information from forwarders, as well as some forwarders’ lack ...
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Finnair Cargo positioned for success
IN recent years very few European carriers have been adding freighter services, but one exception has been Finnair Cargo, which has operated an MD-11 freighter since August 2011.Interestingly in an era where the growth of widebody belly capacity is often cited as making freighters uneconomical, it is just that factor ...
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Garnadt leaves Lufthansa Cargo
LUFTHANSA CARGO’S chief executive Karl Ulrich Garnadt is leaving the freight airline to become a member of the German carrier’s executive board and the new head of its passenger business.Peter Gerber, previously responsible for human resources, IT and services and a Lufthansa executive board member since June 2012, will assume ...
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Cathay Pacific: The declining role of freighters in air cargo
If Cathay Pacific had stuck to the plans it had at the end of 2011, it would have had a fleet of 35 freighters by the end of 2016: 10 B747-8Fs, eight B777Fs, six B747-400ERFs, six B747-400Fs and five B747-400BCFs.That was always the most optimistic scenario, and probably Cathay would ...
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Celebi acquires Aviapartner in Germany
ÇELEBI, a Turkish ground-handling, cargo and warehouse operator, has made a major advance into the German air cargo business with the purchase of Aviapartner Cargo GmbH.The €4.6 million acquisition is part of its strategy to expand in the international arena, says the Istanbul-based company.Aviapartner Cargo is currently active at Frankfurt ...
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Work on DB Schenker's new Dubai facility under way
GLOBAL transportation company DB Schenker has started construction work on a new logistics facility in Dubai.It will offer general cargo warehousing, distribution and value-added services, with a warehouse space of 8,500 sq m and a total storage capacity of 8,500 pallet positions with two mezzanine levels dedicated for value added ...
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Air cargo boosts K+N's growth
A MARKET-BEATING airfreight contribution helped Swiss global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel [K+N] back on the road to profitable growth last year.Overall operational profits (EBITDA) increased by 4.6 per cent to US$1,083 million after an ‘excellent’ airfreight performance, states Dr Detlev Trefzger, chief executive.The company met its profit margin target ...
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Panalpina expects airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent
AIR, ocean and logistics company Panalpina made steady progress in 2013 – and expects the airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent this year.In 2013, the Swiss group reported pre-tax earnings of US$54million, more than double the 2012 result. The company outperformed the market in both air and ocean ...
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New cargo sales manager at Chartersphere
GLOBAL aircraft charter provider Chartersphere, has promoted Nacho Carretero as is its new cargo sales manager.Spanish-speaking broker Carretero, who has been with the company since 2012, has developed the UK-based business in key market areas, including Europe and Latin America, says a statement.Paul Bennett, managing director of Chartersphere, comments: “Nacho ...
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Asian e-commerce fuels UK firm’s growth
UK-BASED Europa Worldwide Logistics has seen its Asian air cargo operations soar, fuelled by the continuing boom in e-commerce, especially from China.The company’s Hong Kong office experienced year-on-year growth of 116 per cent last year.Consignments are consolidated locally and then shipped on daily services into the UK. Europa offers what ...
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'Local hero' forwarders can survive globalisation
Not so long ago, the orthodoxy was that medium-sized forwarders based in a single country – so-called ‘local heroes’ – would either get taken over or become niche players.Davies Turner has done neither and is still thriving after 144 years of existence as a family-owned firm, recently rising into the ...
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How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...