All Freighter Operator articles – Page 191
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ABC's Singapore debut
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has started its twice-weekly direct Boeing 747 freighter service to Singapore from Moscow. The Thursday and Sunday flights offer onward connections to Hong Kong and the rest of ABC’s global route network.With the addition of Singapore, ABC’s ninth online station in Asia, the airline now provides over ...
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Airship hovers to next development stage
Aeroscraft, the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) heavylift cargo airship able to carry 66 tons, is now entering the next stage of development said the company behind the project.US-based Aeroscraft Corp (Aeros) said that it is currently developing the main component and test articles for the control-of-static-heaviness (COSH) buoyancy management ...
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New arrival: B777 freighter for Emirates
Emirates has taken delivery of four new aircraft in a single day: a Boeing 777 freighter and three passenger jets: two Boeing 777-300ERs and an Airbus A380.The 777 freighter went into revenue service immediately - it was scheduled to fly directly from the Seattle area, where it was built, to ...
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Steady growth for Air China Cargo
Air China Cargo recorded "steady growth" in the first half of 2015, as revenue freight tonne km increased by 23.5% year-on-year to 3,166m and the load factor rose 0.47 percentage points to 54.41%.The cargo yield (excluding fuel surcharge) was RMB1.11, a year-on-year increase of 0.20%.Parent carrier Air China said that ...
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Flying start for sun-powered car
A Dutch-built solar-powered car is defending its title in the World Solar Challenge 2015 in Australia thanks to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC).The Nuna Solar car, developed by the Nuon team at Delft University of Technology, started its journey on an ABC scheduled Boeing 747 freighter flight from Amsterdam to Hong Kong. ...
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Horse specialist firmly on course for Australia
Equine specialist New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) has gained approval from the Australian government’s veterinary department for its new UK quarantine station in Sussex.Approval allows NZB’s airfreight arm to offer a monthly horse transport service ex UK to Australia from November this year. NZB Airfreight already offers a similar service from ...
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Laser lights...action...charter
Delicate laser technology cargo has flown by freighter from Sweden to Japan after six months of detailed planning and preparation.The high value industrial laser equipment was carried from Orebro in Sweden by Volga-Dnepr Airlines on one of its IL-76TD-90VD aircraft.The cargo required a non-standard engineering solution and a temperature-controlled environment ...
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Saudia Cargo resumes freighter operations to JFK
Saudi Airlines Cargo will start operating weekly freighter flights between Jeddah and New York’s JFK airport from September 4 “in response to the size of the growing demand for shipping operations”.The airline's acting VP Commercial, Rainer Mueller, said: "This step will enhance the activity of air cargo operations to and ...
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Saudia appoints ACP as GSA in South Africa
ACP Worldwide has been appointed South African cargo general sales agent (GSA) for Saudia Cargo.The carrier currently operates three times weekly B747 freighter flights from Johannesburg to Jeddah and Amsterdam, shared with Nairobi, and ACP will also sell belly space on the carrier’s three times weekly B777-200 wide-body flights between ...
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The great ketchup catch-up
Air Charter Service kept a leading fast food restaurant chain in ketchup last week when it moved 90 tonnes of sachets.President of the North American operation, Richard Thompson, explains: “The company’s restaurants across the North East and South East of the US were running extremely low on ketchup and the ...
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UPS relief flight for typhoon victims
The UPS Foundation delivered nearly 100,000 lbs (45 tonnes) of American Red Cross relief supplies to help more than 50,000 residents of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) affected by Typhoon Soudelor and Tropical Storm Goni. According to the American Red Cross, Typhoon Soudelor is the most destructive storm ...
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The heat is on: Ruslan transports steam superheater to Saudi Arabia
A Ruslan International AN124-100 freighter has transported a 60 tonne steam superheater from Linz in Austria to Dammam, Saudi Arabia.The flight, arranged in partnership with Swiss forwarder Panalpina, involved a 450 km journey by road to Linz Airport.The road journey required several special permits, due to its width of 620 ...
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Polar opens Changi link
Scheduled freighter carrier Polar Air Cargo Worldwide has made its inaugural flight at Singapore’s Changi Airport.The Polar B747F will add a new US city, Cincinnati in Ohio, to Changi’s freighter network connections.Polar, majority owned by US-based Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings in partnership with minority stakeholder DHL Network Operations (US), will ...
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Volga-Dnepr's double-quick delivery
Volga-Dnepr Airlines operated two IL-76TD-90VD cargo flights to deliver mobile drilling equipment for an oil and gas customer in Kuwait.The flights from Liege in Belgium carried 16-ton mobile installations that drove into the cargo holds under their own power for the deliveries to Al Kuwait.“As the cargo was required in ...
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Kalitta chooses CHAMP
All-cargo carrier Kalitta Air has become the North American launch customer for CHAMP Cargosystems’ next generation Weight & Balance application to manage load planning across US-based airline’s fleet of 14 Boeing 747 freighters.Conrad Kalitta, chief executive at Kalitta Air, said: “We selected CHAMP’s Weight & Balance as we were confident ...
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Cargojet in second quarter loss despite revenue surge
Canada-based Cargojet, overnight airfreight operator, saw 2015 second-quarter revenues leap 69.6% to C$75.2m, due mainly to its new domestic airlift contract with Canada Post.But the Toronto-listed company recorded a C$6.1m loss for the quarter and a C$14.4m for the half year to June 2015.Ajay Virmani, president and chief executive, said: ...
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Twelfth flight for China Southern
China Southern has taken delivery of its twelfth Boeing 777 freighter, making it the number one China-based operator of the aircraft type and the third globally.The new aircraft made its maiden flight out of Guangzhou to Paris, Vienna and then back to Guangzhou.So far in 2015, China Southern has introduced ...
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Record half year for freighter lessor ATSG
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the medium wide-body freighter aircraft lessor, reported record first-half 2015 results on the back of continued growth plus a “strong appetite” for its Boeing 767 freighters.US-based ATSG’s pre-tax earnings from continuing operations in the second quarter increased 17% to $17.2m, including a 35% increase in ...
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Qatar Airways receives Nepalese forwarders' award
Qatar Airways Cargo has received an award from the Nepal Freight Forwarders Association (NEFFA) for its cargo performance in the country during 2014.The Middle East passenger and cargo airline received the accolade for lifting the highest tonnage of cargo from the Asian country last year.In April this year, the carrier's ...