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Straightline eyes $480m deal for up to 12 hybrid airships
Straightline Aviation (SLA) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships with a potential value of $480m. UK-headquartered SLA, set up by ex-Virgin Group senior managers to act as an owner-operator of craft that do not need mooring towers or runways, is ...
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NewsCargo 2000 reveals Cargo iQ rebranding and expanded data project
Cargo 2000 is to get a new identity and will launch a new data project and certification scheme as part of a revamp of the organisation.At the World Cargo Symposium, the IATA organisation revealed that it would now go by the name of Cargo iQ as part of a strategic ...
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NewsCargolux sees 2015 profits soar but revenues slide
All-cargo airline Cargolux saw profits and airfreight volumes surge in 2015 but revenues and load factors declined.The Luxembourg-based airline saw profits increase to $49m in 2015 compared with $3m in 2014, while demand jumped by 8.7% year on year to an estimated 6.9bn freight tonne km.It is the third year ...
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Air Cargo Community Frankfurt adds new members
The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt has added three new members to its ranks.The airport community announced today that cargo handler Frankfurt Cargo Services, LATAM Airlines and Frankfurt Road Cargo had all joined the community, bringing its total number of members to 38.Air Cargo Community Frankfurt executive director Joachim von Winning ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to focus on developing services after a flat start to the year
Swiss WorldCargo hopes to further enhance its services for the pharmaceutical and e-commerce industries as it faces up to another year of flat growth for the air cargo industry in 2016.Head of cargo at Swiss Ashwin Bhat said 2015 was not a good year for the airline’s cargo division in ...
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IAG hopes perishable growth will fill South Africa winter service
IAG Cargo hopes a new UK-South Africa Boeing 777-200 winter service will be boosted by the African country's growing perishables market.The service between Gatwick and Cape Town will operate three times each week and supplements an Airbus 330-300 Madrid-Johannesburg service, due to start August 1, and the existing London Heathrow-Cape ...
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Brussels Airport update on cargo and passenger services
Brussels Airport, which suffered a terrorist attack yesterday in which 12 people died, has issued the following statement: "There will be no passenger flights tomorrow. Brussels Airport and airlines are in narrow contact to find suitable solutions for all passengers."Brussels Airport is looking at the possibilities to start cargo flights ...
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Schiphol launches pharma gateway
European cargo hub Schiphol has launched Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA), a community-based cool chain logistics programme for the niche high value airfreight product.All participants in PGA will be IATA CEIV Pharma-certified and the programme is the initiative of Schiphol’s Pharma Task Force, launched in July 2015 by Air Cargo Netherlands, ...
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The value of safety at IATA's World Cargo Symposium
While the value of air cargo was the leitmotif of IATA’s World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Berlin, safety was also to the fore, focused on the lithium-ion battery debate and on how to prevent damage to ULD containers.At the end of the four day event, Glyn Hughes, IATA’s global head ...
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Lufthansa Cargo confirms future strategy
Following closely on the heels of the publication of Lufthansa’s 2015 annual results earlier this week, the German carrier has now gone public with some details on its strategies for future expansion of its airfreight operation.According to a statement from Lufthansa Cargo, product innovations and an ambitious savings programme will ...
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Cargo Composites launches new Flyweight AKH container
Charleston, South Carolina-headquartered ULD and pallet manufacturer Cargo Composites announced during this week’s IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Berlin (held between 15-17 March) that it is beginning series production on an entirely new lightweight container for narrowbody aircraft.The company says that the Flyweight AKH container weighs just 53kg, yet ...
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Lufthansa Cargo names new area managers
Lufthansa Cargo has appointed new area managers for its Europe & Africa and the Americas regions, as well as a new head of global handling management.On June 1 this year, Achim Martinka will take charge of sales and handling in the Europe & Africa region, succeeding Carsten Wirths.Since October 2010, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings fall 40% in 2015
Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings contribution to the parent group airline declined 40% to €74m in full year 2015 as seasonal “sizeable overcapacities” in the airfreight market hit load factors and yields.In addition to the excess capacity from the beginning of the summer onwards, cargo earnings were also depressed by the strike ...
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Jettainer develops new ULD software to assist in fleet management
ULD management firm Jettainer and the University of Cologne are in the process of developing a new tool that will offer live decision making assistance to improve the management of ULD fleets based on analysis of large amounts of data.Jettainer sales director Thorsten Riekert told Air Cargo News that it ...
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Aircargo Club Deutschland plans new innovation forum
Germany’s air cargo industry is hoping to push forward innovation in the sector through the creation of a new forum.The Aircargo Club Deutschland (ACD) has announced plans to create a new forum named The Future of Air Cargo Supply Chains in an attempt to restore international competitiveness in a “sustainable ...
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SAS opts for lightweight ULDs
Scandinavian airline SAS is extending its contract with ULD service provider CHEP Aerospace Solutions.In future, SAS will use CHEP's 65kg containers which are over 20% lighter than its existing units and as a result will save over 13,000 tonnes of CO2 during the five-year term of the new agreement.SAS head ...
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Ethiopian Airlines relaunches cargo flights at Brussels Airport
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo is returning to Brussels Airport with 12 direct daytime freighter flights a week out of the Belgian airfreight hub, bound for Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.In late 2015, the African combination carrier was forced to switch services to Maastricht-Aachen after it was not able to obtain ...
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Cargolux to take a flexible approach to airfreight capacity deployment
Cargolux will look to the charter market and try to be as flexible as possible with its fleet as it looks to mitigate current market conditions.Cargolux executive vice president sales & marketing Niek van der Weide told Air Cargo News that he expected market overcapacity and yield pressure to remain ...
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Lufthansa Cargo reveals summer freighter schedule with six destinations added to line-up
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed its summer airfreight schedule with Moscow, Ashgabat, Baku, Doha, Seattle and Los Angeles added to its service offering.The German carrier said that since the start of March, an MD-11 freighter had been operating on a rotation of Frankfurt, Domodedovo, an existing destination, Moscow, Ashgabat and Baku.It ...
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Bangladesh garment producers urge lifting of UK's airfreight ban from Dhaka
Bangladesh garment producers have called on the government to work with the UK to lift the ban on airfreight shipments from Dhaka saying it hurts exports from the country.Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president Siddiqur Rahman urged the government to ensure that ...