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April surge for Frankfurt cargo volumes
Frankfurt Airport has returned to cargo volume growth for the first time in the current business year with a 5% surge in April to 181,948 tonnes.Europe’s number one hub by cargo throughput said that Far East traffic was the main growth driver last month, with cargo tonnage to/from this region ...
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Liege opens first class lounge for four-legged VIPs
Liege Airport has officially opened a ‘Horse Inn’ for travelling equines, aiming to tap into growing demand for purpose-built resting and loading areas.The €2.6m facility will cater for all horses in transit at the Belgian gateway, whether by air or road.Liege Airport is also sponsoring top Belgian show jumper and ...
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Parma to be Etihad cargo hub
Etihad Airways has signed an exclusive agreement to develop cargo traffic at Parma airport in central Italy.The deal initially includes setting a transit centre at Parma Giuseppe Verdi to receive cargo for forwarding to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward transport.The new hub will feed traffic to and from flights operated ...
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LCI leases freighters to Turkish operator
LCI, the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, has increased its fleet of dedicated maindeck freighter aircraft.Two additional Boeing 747-400F aircraft are now flying for Qatar Airways and Saudia, Saudi Arabian Airlines, and are being operated by ACT Airlines, known as myCARGO Airlines, the Turkish wet-lease operator.The two Pratt ...
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UK forwarders latest to urge action on runway decision
UK forwarder association the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has backed a Transport Committee report urging the government to make a decision over airport expansion.BIFA director general Robert Keen said that the 1,500 companies within BIFA share the Transport Committee’s belief that the delay risks damaging UK economic growth by ...
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German rail to sell a minority stake in Schenker
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) has confirmed plans to push ahead with the sale of a stake in its DB Schenker forwarding and logistics arm.It confirmed today (5 May) that the management board is to develop an implementation plan for a third-party minority holding in DB Schenker, as well as its ...
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Seko finds UK aerospace home
Seko Logistics has opened its first Centre of Excellence for the UK aerospace and aviation sector at Farnborough Airport near London.Seko already has similar centres in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, while its global aerospace and aviation headquarters is in Dallas, the second largest aerospace market in the world.Farnborough ...
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Terror attacks hit Brussels Airlines cargo Q1 results
Brussels Airlines says its cargo traffic in March was sharply down, due to the terrorist attacks on its home airport on March 22.The Lufthansa Group subsidiary said that cargo traffic was largely interrupted after that date and that the total of 2,609 tonnes reflected a decrease of 21% compared with ...
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Mixed first quarter fortunes for Frankfurt
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport said it had mixed financial results in a challenging business environment in its interim report for the first quarter of 2016.With passenger traffic still growing - up 3.3% year-on-year, Fraport achieved higher revenue from airport and infrastructure charges as well as from aircraft handling, but this ...
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Transport committee backs Heathrow expansion and urges UK government to avoid further delays
The UK transport committee has backed the expansion of Heathrow airport and warned that any further delays in making a decision could result in lost growth.A Transport Select Committee today issued a report on its investigation into airport expansion in the UK.The committee backed expansion at Heathrow, following on from ...
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Berlin’s new airport nightmare refuses to go away
In the latest twist in the saga of Berlin’s new airport, prosecutors are investigating reports that an engineer working on Berlin's troubled new Brandenburg airport was poisoned for whistleblowing.According to German media, the man, aged about 50, had been threatening to lift the lid on payments paid to officials involved ...
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CEVA profits stay strong despite soft market
Logistics firm CEVA says it maintained profitability in the first quarter of 2016 despite “market headwinds” that continue to affect all industry players.Excluding currency factors, revenue dropped 5.3% from $1.7bn in first quarter 2015 to $1.6bn during the same period this year as a result of rate decreases.Earnings were up ...
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China green light for FedEx-TNT deal
FedEx Corporation and TNT Express have said that they have obtained the unconditional approval of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) for their merger.With one of the last remaining hurdles to the deal surmounted, the two express companies say that the offer condition with respect to competition clearances has now been ...
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Lufthansa's cargo division records first quarter ebit loss
Lufthansa’s cargo business returned to the red during the first quarter of the year as overcapacity and weak demand took their toll on the business.The Lufthansa Logistics business, which includes the cargo division, ULD specialist Jettainer and its Aerologic investment, saw first-quarter revenues drop by 21.8% year on year to ...
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Dachser revenues benefit from exchange rate gains
Logistics firm Dachser's Air and Sea Logistics business saw revenues climb by 8% last year to €1.6bn.The German company said the increase in revenues was largely thanks to exchange rate gains, with tonnage experiencing “anaemic growth”.“From this you can see that, as in Road Logistics, we will not lower our ...
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Air France KLM achieves IATA pharma certification
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has achieved IATA pharma certification for four areas of its business and claims that customers are increasingly demanding the credential before they will engage with airlines.The Franco-Dutch airline group achieved IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharma (CEIV) certification in February this year.The four ...
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ACS chief hails ‘brilliant’ year for cargo
Air Charter Service’s cargo department had “a brilliant year” in 2015, said chairman Chris Leach. Announcing a 10% increase in turnover, to just over US$480 million, and a 28% increase in gross profit to US$60.2m (year ending 31 January 2016) for the group as a whole, cargo charters were buoyed ...
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ABC achieves Cargo iQ certification
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has gained Cargo iQ, formerly Cargo 2000, certification for meeting the IATA organisation’s quality standards.Following a two-day inspection, ABC’s quality certificate is valid for two year and acknowledges the airline’s conformance to Cargo iQ’s quality requirements.The audit process reviewed ABC’s quality management programme, data analysis, customer service ...
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NewsPanalpina sees air cargo volumes jump despite tough market conditions
UPDATED: Panalpina recorded a market-beating 5% increase in airfreight volumes during the first quarter of the year as it counteracted a tough oil and gas market but pre-tax earnings declined.The Switzerland-based freight forwarder recorded first-quarter air cargo volumes of 216,000 tons compared with 205,000 tons for the same period in ...
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Swiss WorldCargo signs deal to offer new range of temperature controlled containers
Swiss WorldCargo will offer a new range of temperature controlled containers after signing a deal to offer va-Q-tec’s devices directly to its customers.va-Q-tec offers five “passive” hard shell container sizes, taking up to two pallets inside, that can offer temperature ranges from -70°C to +25°C.Swiss head of cargo Ashwin Bhat ...