All Freighter Operator articles – Page 189
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African airlines urged to look to opportunities at home
African airlines should co-operate more to take advantage of the growing intra-Africa market, according to Astral Aviation chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia.Speaking at Air Cargo News’ Freighters and Belly Cargo Conference, Gadhia said that African airlines tended to partner with foreign carriers rather than African carriers. However, the latter could open ...
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New Cargo Services System top priority for Cathay freight boss
The launch of Cathay Pacific’s Cargo Services System (CSS) in July 2016 is a top priority, says the carrier’s director of cargo, Simon Large.“It will be the nuts and bolts of the whole operation so it has to work – and work well,” he told a Cathay Pacific company magazine.Large ...
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Qatar heads to northern dynamo
QATAR Airways Cargo plans to launch a freighter service to Stavanger, Norway, effective 3 November. Stavanger is the European oil and gas capital, with many of the major oil and gas companies and supplier companies having their Norwegian headquarters located there.Another significant export around the world is fish, while imports ...
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Africa: Home-grown talent boosts all-cargo sector
To date, there have been few African freighter operators on the continent, and almost no all-cargo carriers. That has started to change with the arrival of Astral Aviation in Kenya and Khuphuka Kings Airways in South Africa.Khuphuka, operating out of Durban King Shaka airport, started cargo services in early 2014 ...
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Holt lands Cargolux flight ops role, Ketellapper to focus on China JV
Cargolux Airlines has appointed Jason Holt as its new nominated person flight operations.Holt succeeds Wieger Ketellapper, who will concentrate on the development of the planned joint venture airline in Zhengzhou, China.The change took effect on October 15, following the approval of Luxembourg’s Civil Aviation Authority.Holt has only recently taken up ...
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Qatar Cargo teams up with UK actress for Nepal aid flight
Qatar Airways Cargo stepped in to transport 5.3 tonnes of aid collected by several charities supported by British actress Joanna Lumley to earthquake victims in Nepal.The aid was collected by several of the Gurkha charities which Joanna Lumley supports in the UK, but they had no means of transporting the ...
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Panalpina looks to develop charter network
Panalpina is hoping to expand the door-to-door capabilities of its charter network as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of the product’s launch.At an event to celebrate the launch of its charter network in 1990, the forwarder’s global head of airfreight Lucas Kuehner told Air Cargo News that by having greater ...
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AF-KLM goes optimal with new software
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo is implementing the Accenture Air Cargo Reservations software to optimise freight capacity over the carrier’s entire freight network.The new reservations tool, part of the Accenture Freight & Logistics Software (AFLS) suite, offers customers “complete solutions and booking efficiency,” said the Franco-Dutch carrier. Accenture is a ...
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Rail services a major challenge to air in central Asia
One of the major challenges that the air cargo industry in the CIS and central Asia regions faces is the growth of rail services from the Far East, according to DHL Global Forwarding’s chief executive eastern Europe.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit, DHL’s Kerem Inanc said there were a ...
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AirBridgeCargo hopes to capitalise on domestic Russian market
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) hopes to capitalise on growth in the domestic Russian market as import demand to the country and the wider CIS region comes under pressure.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit, ABC regional sales director Russia & CIS Oleg Makushkin told delegates that despite the difficult market conditions there ...
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CAL's double first for CEIV Pharma
CAL has become the first group to implement IATA's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) certification for both its freighter airline and cargo ground handling operations.The Liege-hubbed group’s road feeder services and other ground handlers are also validated by the CEIV, which means it provides “end-to-end pharma ...
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Freighter operators can minimise price war impact through a balanced business
Freighter operators should look to niche markets and block space agreements in order to minimise the impact of rate wars on their business.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Silk Way West Airlines senior vice president Pierre Wesner said that all-cargo airlines existed in an overcapacity market but ...
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Cargolux Italia in NCA codeshare to Japan
Cargolux Italia and Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) have entered into a partnership agreement for codeshare cargo flights from Italy's Milan Malpensa Airport to Kansai International Airport in Japan, and from Malpensa to Tokyo's Narita airport, subject to approvals from the aviation authorities.A statement from the carriers said that the cooperation ...
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UPS Foundation is more than a helping hand
A potential volunteer army of 400,000 logistics professionals allows US parcel and logistics giant UPS to provide logistical support in supplying humanitarian relief aid when global disasters strike.The UPS Foundation recently delivered nearly 45 tonnes of American Red Cross relief supplies to help more than 50,000 residents of the Commonwealth ...
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Thiele joins Cargolux in Germany
Cargolux Airlines has appointed Christian Thiele as its new country manager Germany, taking over from Tony McNichol in October.The European all-cargo carrier said: "Christian Thiele is a proven cargo specialist and executive in the cargo industry. In over 30 years, he gained a comprehensive understanding of the business by building ...
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Freighters expected to win marketshare from bellyhold
Freighters are expected to maintain and even grow their marketshare compared with bellyhold despite the increased cargo carrying capacity of passenger planes that are joining the market.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and chief commercial officer Michael Steen said that since ...
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Step forward the super-freighter
DRONES have been grabbing all the headlines as last mile delivery options for the express and freight industry, but an equally futuristic bigger brother is waiting in the wings.The airship technology variant, as espoused by US-based Aeros with its 66-tonne payload Aeroscraft aircraft, is well known, but there are also ...
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Air Partner delivers 90 tonnes of food to the Central African Republic
The cargo charter arm of UK-based Air Partner has arranged an urgent B747 freighter flight for nearly 90 tonnes of food items to the Central African Republic on behalf of Ecolog International, a Dubai-based integrated service solutions company.The aid was delivered in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization ...
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Airbus A320/321 conversion prospects
A SMART career move for suitable members of the A320 and A321 passenger aircraft family is to become a converted freighter, as heir apparent to the integrator’s Boeing 757 workhorse.There are two companies positioning themselves in the A320/321 narrowbody passenger to freighter (P2F) conversion market, estimated at 2,200 suitable airframes ...
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An-70 calls at Leipzig Halle airport
An Antonov AN-70 military cargo aircraft has visited Leipzig/Halle Airport for the first time.The Ukrainian transport aircraft made a stopover at the central German airport, arriving from Istres in France, before it continued its journey to its home base at Kiev Gostomel Airport.This was the third time in all that ...