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Brussels freighters buck the trend
Cargo volume at Brussels airport rose significantly in March to 43,785 tonnes, up 8.2 per cent on the same month in 2014, said the airport authority.The European hub also had a strong first quarter, with volumes up 10 per cent to reach 120,117 tonnes.Growth was spread across all segments, although ...
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LUG ramps up Frankfurt slot management
Ground handler LUG Aircargo is implementing a new ramp service and time slot management system at its Cargo City South terminal in Frankfurt airport from mid-May.The software automatically allocates loading bays for the delivery and collection of shipments and for road feeder services.Users can reserve slots at the ramp in ...
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New man to head Dentressangle air and sea
Loïc Gay has joined Norbert Dentressangle to head the forwarding group’s air and sea division.A graduate of EDHEC Business School, Gay has pursued his career in France, Belgium, Australia and the US, holding commercial and operational management positions with a number of leading operators.Norbert Dentressangle chief executive Hervé Montjotin, said ...
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Airfreight helps lift Kuehne + Nagel
An airfreight surge at the start of 2015 helped freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) to a two per cent improvement in group earnings to SFr153m for the first quarter of 2015.Airfreight volumes were up 6.7 per cent to 304,000 tonnes compared with the same period last year, said the ...
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IAG Cargo & Exelsius 2nd GDP Academy to take place 11-12 May 2015
IAG Cargo and Exelsius, the international cold chain management consultancy, have teamed up again to provide the healthcare and life science industry with a certificated training workshop in Good Distribution Practices (GDP).Exelsius and IAG Cargo, the freight arm of British Airways and Iberia, can offer training to pharmaceutical manufacturers, logistic ...
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Freight jump helps ACS to record
Air Charter Service (ACS) arranged just under 2,700 cargo charters in 2014, an increase of almost 29 per cent on the year before, the UK-headquartered broker states.The total amount of cargo flown by ACS in 2014 was nearly 37,000 tonnes. The extra freight charters contributed to the largest ever single ...
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Strike hits Frankfurt as Edmonton forges ahead
Cargo volume at Germany's Frankfurt airport was hit by the ongoing Lufthansa pilots’ dispute, falling 6.1 per cent to 189,546 tonnes in March 2015.Airport owners Fraport Group said that flight cancellations led to reductions in belly capacity in the important intercontinental segment.For the first quarter of the year (January-March), cargo ...
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Van Stekelenburg to succeed Schiphol’s Osinga
Jonas van Stekelenburg is to succeed Amsterdam Airport Schiphol cargo director Enno Osinga who is retiring in September.Van Stekelenburg has worked on sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon reduction for the Netherlands gateway and was also responsible for establishing the Mainport Innovation Fund. He has also worked on The Grounds, a ...
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Finnair Cargo appoints Nopanen
European carrier Finnair Cargo has appointed Pasi Nopanen as vice president, global sales.Nopanen, who has broad experience in logistics and in managing international sales teams, replaces Mikko Turtiainen, who has a new role on the passenger side as area vice president, sales EMEA.Nopanen returned to Finnair in October 2014, responsible ...
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CAL joins pharma programme
CAL Group has joined IATA's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharmaceutical Logistics programme (CEIV Pharma).Once completed, CAL states that it will be the first group to have a certified pharmaceutical logistics programme.Israel-headquartered CAL Group – specialising in temperature-controlled and pharma goods - includes freighter carrier CAL Cargo Airlines, LACHS ...
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ABC first quarter tonnage growth
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) saw tonnages grow by 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2015.The Russian operator carried just under 104,000 tonnes on its network in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific via its Moscow hub.Executive president Denis Ilin described it as “a solid first quarter performance.” He added: ...
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Yangtze River Express freighter debut at Munich
Chinese cargo airline Yangtze River Express has launched a five times a week B747-400 freighter service from Germany to China.The aircraft will arrive in Munich on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Amsterdam, and on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Brussels before departing for Tianjin and then Shanghai.The opening of the new ...
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Swiss fills network holes
Swiss WorldCargo is offering more bellyhold capacity to North America and Asia with extra flights to and from Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal and Beijing in its new summer timetable.Expansion of the European network for the Swiss International Air Lines’ cargo division will include new direct services between Zurich and Dresden, ...
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AirBridge adds Los Angeles
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added twice-weekly Los Angeles flights to its global network.The carrier, which entered the North American market in 2011, already serves Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth and is now moving 55,000 tones a year across the Atlantic.Senior vice president for sales and marketing, Robert van de Weg, said: ...
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FedEx and TNT confident that any regulatory issues can be overcome
Express parcel players FedEx and TNT Express are “confident” that any anti-trust issues around the $4.8bn acquisition of TNT by FedEx can be "addressed adequately in a timely fashion”.In January 2013, US parcels company UPS withdrew its takeover bid for TNT Express after the deal was blocked by European Commission ...
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Turkish freighter goes to Chicago
Turkish Airlines has launched weekly freighter services to Chicago to supplement its passenger flights to the US and Canada.The A330F departs Istanbul Ataturk at 06.50 on Fridays and operates via Shannon in Ireland, arriving at Chicago O’Hare at 12.50 the same day. The return flight departs Chicago at 15.05 on ...
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GSSAs, working hard to keep pace with demand
Win some, lose some is the recurring theme in the general sales and service agency (GSSA) business.As fast as agents gain carriers, they lose others — often through no fault of their own — perhaps because a carrier they represent is taken over by another or a service to the ...
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Stansted: London’s freighter airport
London and freighters do not often appear in the same sentence. Heathrow no longer has any slots to spare for all-cargo flights and the UK economy is not known as a powerhouse of manufacturing exports (though the country in fact gets as much of its GDP from manufacturing as France ...
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FedEx set to buy TNT Express for $4.8bn
US parcels and logistics giant FedEx has made a $4.8bn bid to acquire rival operator TNT Express of the Netherlands, with both sides reaching a conditional agreement on the deal.The agreement recommends an all-cash offer by FedEx for all issued and outstanding ordinary shares, including shares represented by American Depositary ...
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Air Partner joins AirCargoGroup
UK-based charter broker Air Partner has joined the AirCargoGroup (ACG) global association of airfreight wholesalers and consolidators.As a preferred vendor and associate partner, Air Partner will be able to use ACG’s neutral airfreight wholesale and handling services worldwide, as well as its block space agreements with commercial airlines for part ...