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NewsLufthansa Cargo confirms management job losses by year end
Lufthansa Cargo has confirmed reports that it is to cut a large swathe of management level positions by the start of 2017.The falling of the axe forms part of Germany carrier’s Cargo Evolution strategy and C40 cost-cutting programme, announced in June this year, to make the bellyhold and freighter operator ...
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Lufthansa Cargo becomes sixth airline to achieve CEIV
Lufthansa Cargo has become the sixth airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification.The German airline said that over the past few months independent specialists had reviewed the airline’s processes when transporting pharmaceutical products. The airline’s Frankfurt Cool Centre was also certified.“Pharmaceutical shipments are extremely ...
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Mixed August for European cargo hubs
European cargo hubs saw a mixed August, with two of the top three airports seeing monthly declines but year to date increases in airfreight volumes.Cargo throughput (airfreight+airmail) at Frankfurt, Europe’s number cargo hub in 2015, remained “almost stable” at 171,871 tonnes in August, down 0.1% on the same month last ...
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RAF Avia adds freighter to Hahn operation
Latvian cargo airline RAF Avia has added a second aircraft to its operations based at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.The airline has been flying from the German airport since August but has now added a second aircraft to its set up.Frankfurt-Hahn head of sales Roger Scheifele said the airline had decided to start ...
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Matternet and Mercedes-Benz in van and drone partnership
Drone-maker Matternet has signed a strategic partnership that will see Germany’s Mercedes-Benz Vans make a multi-million dollar investment in an end-to-end platform for last-mile delivery.Mercedes-Benz Vans has unveiled its Vision Van concept, featuring a fully automated cargo management system and Matternet delivery drones. See video hereMatternet developed the technology that ...
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Polmans joins TIACA board and urges greater industry collaboration
Brussels Airport head of cargo Steven Polmans has been appointed to TIACA’s board of directors.Polmans pledged to continue encouraging greater collaboration across the supply chain to cope with a rapidly changing industry.“I strongly believe that more cooperation between all stakeholders is to the benefit of our industry,” said Polmans.“We are ...
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NewsLufthansa Cargo, IAG Cargo and Finnair all managed to record increases in freight demand during July
Lufthansa Cargo, IAG Cargo and Finnair all managed to record increases in freight demand during July, while Air France KLM saw traffic decline.Lufthansa saw cargo demand increase by 1.6% year on year during July to reach 854m revenue cargo tonne km. The largest increase was recorded on demand out of ...
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AMI installs dual view X-ray scanners in the UK
AMI, the trade-only airfreight and express wholesaler, has installed a latest generation cargo X-ray scanner at its flagship London Heathrow facility.The Astrophysics XIS-1818DV is a dual view machine, as required by security regulations from January this year, with a 180 x 180cm tunnel aperture.Its 320kv generator enables it to penetrate ...
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Virgin promotes Phillips to regional sales manager role for Europe
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Claire Phillips as Regional Sales Manager – Continental Europe.Phillips, who takes up her new post from September 5, has worked for the airline for five years, initially as Route Development Manager and Capacity Controller.Prior to this promotion, Phillips played an integral role in the training ...
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Digital vision: DHL staff don smart glasses to be perfect pickers
DHL Supply Chain is rolling out the next phase of its Vision Picking Programme that equips order pickers with smart glasses to display where packages need to be placed in the next stage of the supply chain.Successful trials of the “augmented reality technology” in the Netherlands with partners Google, Vuzix ...
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Brokers warned of escalating cyber attacks
BACA ─ the worldwide association of air charter professionals – has issued a cyber attack alert after reports that an increasing number of European brokers and operators have fallen victim to system hacks.The association said: “It appears that a very sophisticated criminal community is targeting the business aviation sector and ...
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Turkish Cargo gains pharma certification
Turkish Cargo has become the latest airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certificate for its pharmaceutical operations.The airline was awarded the CEIV certificate after meeting IATA’s CEIV standards.Turkish Cargo has a storage area totalling 3,000sq m and covering four different temperature ranges (from -20 ...
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Finnair selects terminal operator for its new Helsinki freight hub
Finnair Cargo has selected HUB Logistics as the terminal operator for its new 37,000sq m Cool Nordic hub due to open at Helsinki airport in May 2017.The two companies will work closely over the next eight months to maximise use of the new terminal from the start of operations.The transition ...
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Jettainer launches JettCare for ULD expertise training
Jettainer, the outsourced unit load device (ULD) management specialist, is launching JettCare, a programme to create awareness for the value and importance of airfreight containers and pallets.The programme will involve training several thousand ground services staff, making them “ULD-X-Perts” said the Lufthansa Cargo sister company.Jettainer stated: "Expenditure on repairs is ...
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Crane Worldwide opens new Heathrow office and reveals new customer portal
Freight forwarder Crane Worldwide Logistics is set to reveal a new customer IT portal following on from the opening of its latest office and warehouse at London Heathrow.The US-headquartered company, which began its UK and Ireland operations in 2009, yesterday held an opening ceremony to celebrate the opening of its ...
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Schiphol's half year cargo on the rise but passenger capacity at the limit
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport saw 2016 half year cargo volumes increase 1.6% over prior year to 796,801 tonnes, but the hub's passenger capacity is "reaching the limits".The Netherlands airport, Europe's third largest cargo hub by volume in 2015 at 1.6m tonnes, outperformed the number one European freight hub, Frankfurt in ...
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WFS appoints ex-Menzies Aviation boss as chief executive
Ground handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has appointed former Menzies Aviation boss Craig Smyth as its new chief executive.Smyth will start the job on August 29 and takes over from Olivier Bijaoui, who announced he was stepping down from the role in July.He joins WFS following more than 20 years ...
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CargoLogicAir awards maintenance contract to Volga-Dnepr Gulf
CargoLogicAir has awarded Volga-Dnepr Gulf the contract to perform C-check maintenance on its Boeing 747-400 freighter.The scope of works agreed with Volga-Dnepr Gulf includes airworthiness directive/service bulletin (AD/SB) accomplishment, modifications and Out-of-Phase (OOP) tasks.London Stansted based CargoLogicAir, which is a partner of Volga-Dnepr, started operations in February with its B747-400, ...
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Airlander airship damaged while landing
The prototype Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 Airship has been damaged while landing at Cardington Airfield in the UK. There are no reports of injuries.It made its maiden flight earlier this month on August 18 (see video below).According to the BBC the £25m vehicle, described as the world's largest aircraft, ...
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VIDEO: World's longest aircraft makes maiden flight
The world’s longest aircraft – the Airlander 10 airship – has completed its maiden flight, taking off from Cardington Airfield in the UK last night (see end of article for video).The £25m aircraft had been due to make its maiden flight last Sunday, but take-off was delayed because of a ...