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Air Astana extends handling contract with Frankfurt's FCS
Kazakhstan’ Air Astana has extend its handling contract with FCS Frankfurt Cargo Services.Hans-Georg Emmert, managing director of FCS, said: “Air Astana is a growing airline, not only for passenger services but also in the cargo sector. The handled tonnage has more than doubled in the last years.“We very much appreciate ...
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Forwarder Crane reshapes European team
Freight forwarder Crane Worldwide has appointed Chris Lee, formerly global account manager, as UK managing director based at the firm's new warehouse facility in London Heathrow.Lee has been with Crane Worldwide since 2011 and has over 20 years of experience in the industry starting out in an operational role with ...
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Majority stake in Hahn airport sold to HNA of China
Germany's Rheinland-Pfalz state has confirmed that its majority shareholding in Frankfurt-Hahn airport will be sold to HNA Airport Group of China.A press conference and an official signing ceremony will be held later today (March 2) to provide further details.The state's 82.5% stake in Frankfurt-Hahn has been up for sale for ...
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Budapest on the double for integrators
Budapest Airport is set this summer to complete the handover of two new buildings for the Hungarian hub’s integrator customers.The total area of the two under-construction logistics bases exceeds 16,000 sq m and will accommodate a growing express cargo segment for Budapest, with several flights a day.DHL Express currently operates ...
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Ed Force One helps ACS to a record year for contracts
Air Charter Service (ACS) arranged almost 12,500 contracts in 2016, making it a record year for the UK-based aircraft broker.Group chief executive Justin Bowman said: “In total we completed 12,462 contracts in 2016, an average of more than 34 every single day of the year, and an 11% increase on ...
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IAG Cargo to embrace technology with new customer portal and WMS
IAG Cargo will look to further embrace technology to create efficiencies and improve its product offering in the year ahead in order to offset the current market conditions.Speaking shortly after the carrier revealed its 2016 full-year results, IAG Cargo chief executive Drew Crawley and head of commercial David Shepherd revealed ...
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NewsDHL's green award for Lufthansa Cargo
German airline Lufthansa Cargo has been named a ‘preferred carrier’ by DHL Global Forwarding and presented with a GoGreen carrier certificate.Rather like the Michelin Star system for restaurants, Lufthansa Cargo has been awarded with four “green aircraft” by the German-based logistics giant for its environmentally-friendly performance.Lufthansa Cargo was the only ...
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Heathrow cargo growth outpaces passengers
Heathrow Airport saw a 3% rise in cargo volumes for full year 2016 to 1.54m tonnes, attributing the rise to a £674m investment in the airport and new services to Jakarta, San Jose, Santiago and Inverness.The increase contributed to a 1.5% increase in earnings for the airport’s operations as a ...
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NewsIAG Cargo hails resilient results in tough conditions
IAG Cargo saw revenues and cargo tonnages decline in last year in what the carrier described as “challenging market conditions”.The cargo division representing British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia saw full-year revenues decline by 6.6% year on year in 2016 to €1bn, while tonnes of cargo carried were down 2.9% ...
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AeroVision turns to B&H Worldwide at Heathrow
Michigan-based AeroVision International has confirmed that it is to open a new forward stocking location in the UK to serve customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in collaboration with B&H Worldwide, the London-headquartered logistics provider and a specialist in the delivery of aerospace parts.“Our newly initiated warehouse will ...
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Moscow’s Sheremetyevo saw 2016 cargo surge
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport saw a near 30% surge in freight volumes during 2016 to around 231,000 tonnes.Moscow Cargo is the main handler at Sheremetyevo Airport, handling more than 90% of total air cargo throughputs at the Russian hub where Russian Federation national carrier Aeroflot and freighter operator AirBridgeCargo (ABC) are ...
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BIFA creates new directors
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) board has approved the promotion of Robert Windsor and Spencer Stevenson to directors of BIFA.BIFA is the trade association for UK-registered companies engaged in the international movement of freight by all modes of transport: air, road, rail and sea.Windsor, who joined the BIFA secretariat ...
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DHL to inaugurate domestic Norwegian connection
Avinor, the national airport operator in Norway, has confirmed that DHL is to launch a new domestic freighter service linking Oslo Airport with Lakselv Airport Banak, a gateway in the far north of the country.The Airbus 300 freighter link will offer a cargo capacity of approximately 40 tons. Depending on ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Mixed bag for European airlines in January
January was a mixed month for Europe’s combination carriers on the cargo front, with Lufthansa and IAG reporting increases in traffic while demand was down at Air France KLM and Finnair.Lufthansa, the largest of the four carriers in cargo terms, saw January cargo traffic increase by 4.9% year on year ...
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Air Logistics scoops seven country GSA deal from Finnair
Finnair Cargo has appointed Air Logistics Group as its General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) in seven countries across Europe.The exclusive GSSA agreement will take effect from April 1 and Air Logistics will provide full cargo sales, marketing, customer service, administration and operational support across Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the ...
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Alitalia business plan takes a step forward
The board of directors of Italian airline Alitalia have agreed that a final adjusted business plan will be presented by the end of the month (March 2017).The board met yesterday (Thursday) to hear a review from independent advisors Roland Berger on the airline’s proposed business plan.The board was also presented ...
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Air France KLM's cargo business records 2016 operating loss
The Air France KLM Group saw its cargo division record another operating loss last year, although there was a slight improvement as headcount was reduced and freighters were taken out of action.The Franco-Dutch airline recorded a full-year operating loss of €244m, compared with a €245m loss in 2015.Cargo revenues for ...
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Lufthansa and pilots' union agree to mediator's recommendation
The dispute over pay between Lufthansa and its pilots looks to be coming to an end as both groups have agreed to mediator recommendations.The two groups said they agreed to the mediator’s recommendation of an annual pay rise of 2% backdated to January 2016, another rise of 2.3% from January ...
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NewsJon Conway joins the Airport Services Association as director general
Jon Conway, dnata’s former divisional senior vice president airport operations, has been appointed director general of the Airport Services Association (ASA)Conway, who brings four decades of industry experience to Switzerland-based ASA, will take up his new position from the beginning of March, 2017.ASA, originally set up under the name of ...
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FedEx Express opens new Malpensa hub
FedEx Express has opened its new international gateway to southern Europe at Milan-Malpensa airport.The 35,000 sq m express logistics facility features advanced technology that will boost package sorting capacity by 25% compared with the existing setup.The new facility comes as the number of shipments sent via FedEx from Italy to ...