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Volga-Dnepr and Boeing sign back-to-back deal as 747-8F order is confirmed
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group confirmed an order for 20 Boeing 747-8 freighters at the UK’s Farnborough Air Show today.At the same time, the plane maker has signed a reciprocal deal with the Russian firm’s subsidiaries, AirBridgeCargo Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines, to provide long-term logistics support for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and its ...
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New recruits help Emirates ride Columbus freighter boom
Emirates Skycargo is planning to recruit sales and operations managers and a supervisor to support its growing US freighter operation at Columbus Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport.The recruitment drive is to cope with burgeoning freight volumes, said Emirates Skycargo's central US regional manager, Arthur Brown.It follows an increase in frequencies between ...
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Boeing sees uptick in freighter demand but prices slump
US plane-maker Boeing has marginally increased its forecast for world freighter demand in the latest edition of its Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2016-35.It predicted that replacement of ageing airplanes, and growth, would create a demand for 2,370 freighter deliveries over the next 20 years to 2025. Of these, 1,440 ...
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Jumbo freighter set for Indian summer in Russia?
The Boeing 747 may be in retreat as a passenger plane but the freighter version could receive a boost if Boeing signs a deal with Russian carrier Volga Dnepr at the UK's Farnborough Airshow tomorrow.News agency reports suggest that the US plane maker is expected to firm up at least ...
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More and bigger planes, predicts Airbus
European aircraft-maker Airbus predicted that the global market would grow at an average 4.5% a year to 33,000 new planes by 2035.In its report published at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, the Toulouse-based pan-European company added that the estimated $5trn order book would include 645 freighters with capacity of ...
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Qatar becomes cargo carrier number three
Qatar Airways Cargo became the third-largest cargo operator in the world in October 2015, said the Middle East carrier in its 2015/16 annual report.In what it described as a record year, Qatar increased its dedicated freighter destinations to 54, adding Dallas, Budapest, Prague, Ho Chi Minh City, and New York ...
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Charter broker ACS wins supplier role for UK government
Air Charter Service (ACS) has been selected as a supplier for the UK Government’s humanitarian division, the Department for International Development (DFID), for the next two years.The awarding of the contract comes one year after DFID invited the air cargo community to seek solutions for "timely, efficient and coordinated" air ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds Phnom Penh to southeast Asian network
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is expanding its Southeast Asia coverage with the introduction of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to its network, increasing its number of destinations in the region to 11.The new Boeing 747 freighter service to Cambodia’s capital will operate on a weekly basis en route from Moscow (SVO)-Singapore-Phnom Penh and ...
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Volga-Dnepr invests in wing lift system to speed container loading
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has invested in a new ‘wing lift’ system that reduces the loading time for large cargo containers to less than 30 minutes.To help with the transport of two power generators, the airline used a wing lift system that works by attaching wheels to each corner of containers fitted ...
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Cargolux adds new Ashgabat freighter call
Cargolux Airlines has added a new weekly freighter call in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on the back of demand growth.The Luxembourg airline said the new service complements existing flights to Turkmenbashi that were started exactly one year ago.Since then, Cargolux has expanded its Turkmenistan services to eight per week. In July, Cargolux ...
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Urgent heavylift shipment, three days and job done
Volga-Dnepr Airlines took just three days, from receiving the flight inquiry to completing the delivery, to transport a 30-tonne shipment from Maastricht in the Netherlands to Varna, Bulgaria.The urgent shipment, including a 25-tonne cable spool, was necessary to replace failed equipment on the Noble Globetrotter II drilling vessel developing an ...
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NewsReich to step down as Cargolux chief executive
Cargolux has confirmed that chief executive Dirk Reich is set to step down from his role following reports the airline returned to the red in the first half of this year.A company spokesperson confirmed that Dirk Reich has asked for termination of his contract and announced that he will step ...
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Lean and green Cargolux
Cargolux has become the first airline to receive the Lean & Green award, recognising its commitment to improve its carbon efficiency by 10% within five years.Lean & Green was started in 2008 as an initiative of the Dutch government to reduce the carbon footprints of companies.Dirk Reich, president and chief ...
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African oil and gas cargo market under pressure but agriculture thrives
Air cargo traffic in Africa continues to be affected by the downturn in the oil and gas market, but there are hopes for an improvement and the overall market continues to grow.Speaking at the Africa Air Cargo Summit in Addis Ababa, Saudia Cargo’s director of charters and strategic partners Michael ...
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Network Cargo Management scoops TAAG GSA deal
Network Cargo Management (NCM) has been appointed as the exclusive general sales agent for TAAG Angola Airlines in the US, Canada and Mexico.NCM will market the national airline of Angola, which operates a weekly Boeing 747-400F factory built freighter with nose door from Liege, Belgium to Luanda the capital of ...
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May is a merry month for ABC
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) reported a 31% year-on-year increase in tonnage for both the month of May and for the first five months of 2016. The Russian-owned airline carried 50,482 tonnes and 238,154 tonnes respectively, an increase of 21% for the month and 24% for the first five months of 2016.ABC ...
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CAL to add more Americas flights
Israeli-owned, Liege-based CAL Cargo Airlines could launch flights to new destinations in the Americas, the owner of the carrier, Offer Gilboa, told Air Cargo News.He confirmed that with an earlier plan to launch twice-weekly flights to Shanghai now “in the deep freeze” owing to the weak market in China.As a ...
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Egyptair opts for FlyUs as Benelux GSSA
Egyptian national carrier Egyptair has chosen FlyUs as it cargo GSSA across Benelux.Effective June 2016, the Dutch-headquartered company will be responsible for freight on the North African carrier’s daily services from Amsterdam and four-times a week service from Brussels.In addition the 6 weekly freighters flying out of Ostend and Cologne ...
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Volga-Dnepr freighter flies 85-tonne cargo to Magadan
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has flown a six metre wide turbine runner and other cargo weighing a total of 115 tonnes from St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport into Sokol airport in the Magadan region of far eastern Russia.The outsize cargo, destined for the Ust-Srednekanskaya hydroelectric power station, was flown on one of Volga-Dnepr ...
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Volga-Dnepr flies telescopic bridge into Rio
Moscow-headquartered Volga-Dnepr Airlines has flown a 35 metre long telescopic crane bridge from Nanjing in China to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.The outsize cargo, which weighed approximately 40 tonnes, was flown on one of the cargo charter specialist’s AN-124-100 freighters.A special ramp loading system designed and manufactured by engineers at ...