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NewsEmirates SkyCargo adds to pharma shipping capabilities
Dubai-based airfreight carrier Emirates SkyCargo has boosted its worldwide pharmaceutical handling capabilities through a range of improvements to its infrastructure and processes.First, it has begun handling pharma cargo at a new purpose-built facility in Chicago.The facility, dedicated solely for pharmaceutical shipments, covers an area of more than 1,000 sq m, ...
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NewsABC and Unilode roll out digitised maindeck ULDs
Unilode and AirBridgeCargo celebrate the roll-out of the digitised maindeck containers at Air Cargo Europe. From left to right: Marc Groenewegen, managing director EMEA of Unilode; Benoît Dumont, chief executive of Unilode; Diana Schöneich, deputy vice president Europe at AirBridgeCargo Airlines; Ivan Santoro, regional operations & ground handling director Europe ...
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NewsDHL confirms importance of e-commerce to future transport strategies
A recent survey - The Logistics Transport Evolution: The Road Ahead – commissioned by Deutsche Post DHL has revealed that companies are facing a market environment that is changing rapidly, both in terms of geopolitical developments and technological transformation.In terms of ground transportation operations, by far the biggest issue on ...
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NewsAtlas Air steps up DHL flights
Atlas Air Boeing 747-400FAtlas Air Worldwide has stepped up its flying programme for DHL Express after the express carrier awarded operation of the first two of its new Boeing 777-200 Freighters to its Southern Air unit. Further aircraft could be added to the programme when DHL awards the remaining 12 ...
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NewsKalitta selects Stewart as New York mail hub
Kalitta Air has started a daily 747 freighter service between Los Angeles and New York Stewart International Airport, eschewing JFK in favour of the small Hudson Valley gateway, north of Manhattan.The flight is operated on behalf of the US Postal Service, which operates a major facility for region close to ...
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Turkish Cargo adds Sheremetyevo freighter flight
Turkish Cargo will add Sheremetyevo Airport to its cargo network with a weekly A300-200F flight.The carrier pointed out that the airport is located just 30 km away from Moscow and is "considered an important export and import centre in Russia". Flights will begin on June 12.Export products that will be ...
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NewsExpanded credit facility aids ATSG fleet growth
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has rearranged its credit facility to help it meet “the strong domestic and international demand for our aircraft,” according to chief financial officer Quint Turner.“In particular, we will invest the majority of our $475 million capital expenditure budget in 2019 to acquire thirteen Boeing 767-300s. ...
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NewsSpiceXpress plans to treble fleet
SpiceXpress, the air cargo arm of India’s Spicejet airline launched in October last year, has announced plans to treble its fleet by the end of the 2020 financial year.Currently the freighter fleet comprises two Boeing 737NG freighters and four more are expected to be added by March 2021, the company ...
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NewsDHL Express welcomes first B777F to fleet
DHL B777FThe first of the 14 new Boeing 777 freighters which DHL has ordered has made its first commercial flight – from its home base at Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport to Bahrain.Operated by DHL partner Southern Air, the plane will soon start scheduled operations."The delivery of our first ...
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The inclusive approach: AirBridgeCargo celebrates 15 years
On April 23, 2004, a Boeing 747-200 freighter aircraft took off from Beijing on its way to Luxembourg, via Russia.While there is nothing remarkable about the aircraft in use, nor the route it flew, the service is notable for the fact that it was the first ever flight conducted by ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo adds Oslo flight for seafood exports
AirBridgeCargo has added a third weekly cargo departure from Avinor Oslo Airport, Norway to cater for seafood exports to South Korea.Martin Langaas, director cargo at Avinor, says: “AirBridgeCargo is an important part of our aim to facilitate more capacity for the Norwegian seafood industry to our largest trading partners in ...
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Lufthansa Cargo cuts summer services
Lufthansa Cargo is reducing its services “across the entire flight programme” in response to weaker demand in the global air cargo market. The cuts will affect the second and third quarters to “allow the company to ensure profitable load factors and continued deployment of its aircraft at optimum levels going ...
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NewsAtlas-pilot dispute: Fact checking the fact check
Atlas pilots protest at a shareholder meeting of customer Amazon in May 2019The dispute between Atlas Air and unions representing its pilots over a new collective bargaining agreement has been rumbling on for the last few years but this week has seen a series of claims and counterclaims.Earlier this week, ...
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NewsLufthansa Cargo holds naming ceremony for B777F
Lufthansa Cargo B777F at Narita Airport May 2019Lufthansa Cargo has held the naming ceremony for one of its new B777Fs, giving the aircraft the name Konnichiwa Japan.The aircraft arrived in February and is one of two that the airline has taken delivery of this year, the other being delivered in ...
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Turkish Cargo grows in Q1 2019
Turkish Cargo, which was recently crowned as the Cargo Airline of the Year by Air Cargo News, recorded an 11.6% increase in sold cargo tonnage during the first quarter of the year, despite the overall industry declining globally by 3.1%.Quoting statistics from analyst WorldACD, the carrier said that it recorded ...
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NewsDSV: 'a complex operation' for generator move
Global transport and logistics company DSV has moved a generator component on behalf of Siemens from Germany to Australia.The piece, which was 6 m long and had a diameter of 3 m, weighed 40 tonnes, so DSV chartered an IL-76 freighter from Volga-Dnepr Airlines for the job.The component was loaded ...
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NewsLATAM Cargo's flying felines
LATAM Cargo has transported five big cats from Argentina to South Africa in a move coordinated by freight forwarder Newport Cargo.The two lions, one lioness and two tigresses had been living in a decommissioned zoo in Santiago del Estero; their 70-hour journey took them to Ubuntu Wildlife Sanctuary and Drakenstein ...
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ACE Belgium Freighters hits back in name dispute
All-cargo operator ACE Belgium Freighters has hit back against a complaint made to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) over the use of the ACE name.On May 2, the Liege-based airline was given approval by the DOT to start scheduled and charter services between the European Union and the US.However, ...
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NewsLeipzig/Halle hosts humanitarian conference
On May 21, Leipzig/Halle Airport, Volga-Dnepr Group and the Akkon University of Human Sciences ran an international conference on humanitarian logistics, which took place on the fringes of the OECD’s International Transport Forum currently under way in Leipzig.Götz Ahmelmann, chief executive of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG and chairman of the board ...
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NewsUPS adds new connections to Saturday pick-ups
Last week (mid-May), UPS announced that it had expanded the number of countries that are available to its US customers using the company’s Saturday pick-up export shipment service.An additional 122 countries that are to be found across the world have been added to the pre-existing 57-nation coverage.Twenty new markets in ...