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LATAM Cargo moves 9,000 tons of flowers for Valentine's Day
LATAM Cargo flew more than 9,000 tons of flowers between January 14 and February 8 for Valentine's Day.The airline said that red and pink roses, mixed bouquets, carnations, chrysanthemums, iris, gypsophila and greenery were the most popular flowers.LATAM Cargo transported flowers from Bogota and Medellin in Colombia and from Quito ...
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SF Airlines boosts cargo fleet to 52 freighters
SF Airlines the rapidly-expanding Chinese express operator, has taken delivery of its 52nd freighter, with the arrival of a converted B757-200F earlier this week.It is the second freighter that the division of Chinese parcels giant SF Express has added to its fleet since the beginning of 2019. In late January, ...
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STAR Capital swoops on ASL Aviation
European fund manager STAR Capital Partnership LLP has signed an agreement to acquire aircraft operator ASL Aviation Holdings.Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, ASL Holdings is a global aviation services provider with operations on six continents. In 2016, it expanded its fleet through the acquisition of TNT's fleet of aircraft when the ...
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Lufthansa freighters find that Valentine's Day roses grow on EU
Lufthansa Cargo is to transport 900 tonnes of roses to Europe for Valentine’s Day.To serve the especially high import demand around Valentine’s Day, Lufthansa Cargo transport will transport 900 tonnes of the long-stemmed flowers on the Quito–Frankfurt, Bogotá–Frankfurt and Nairobi–Frankfurt routes this year – equivalent to some 10m individual roses.The ...
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Love is in the air for Emirates flower power freighters
Emirates SkyCargo has operated nine extra Boeing 777 freighter 'flower charters', spanning five continents, to meet additional demand ahead of Valentine’s Day.Said a spokesperson for the Middle East carrier: “With each aircraft being capable of transporting up to 100 tonnes of cargo, this translates into the carrier flying close to ...
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EgyptAir Cargo to expand scheduled flights in Africa, Middle East and Asia
EgyptAir Cargo is expanding its scheduled freighter operations in the Middle East, Africa and Asia following the delivery of its second A330-200P2F.In the Middle East, the airline will add flights to Dammam, Riyadh, Kuwait and Amman. In Africa, flights will be added to OR Tambo, Accra and Kano. Meanwhile, in ...
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AirBridge adds CargoClaims online platform
Russia-based freighter operator AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has introduced CargoHub’s CargoClaims platform where the carrier's customers can submit, update and track the status of their claim in real-time.The online tool, which received the IATA cargo innovation award in 2015, will allow ABC’s customers to manage their claims and pre-claims requests through ...
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MAB Kargo joins Cargo iQ
MAB Kargo, the main cargo division of Malaysia Aviation Group, has become a member of Cargo iQ as the IATA interest group continues to expand across Asia.Cargo iQ has an international network of more than 80 airlines, forwarders, ground handlers, and IT companies.Jagedeswaran Nadrajah, head of cargo operations transformation at ...
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Pemco adds full freighter option to B737-700 conversion programme
Pemco Conversions has announced a full freighter Boeing 737-700 Next Generation (NG) conversion programme, with Bahrain-based Chisholm Enterprises as the launch customer.The development a full freighter option follows Pemco’s B737-700 passenger-to-FlexCombi conversion programme, again with Chisholm as the launch customer, for an aircraft with separate main-deck compartments for passengers and ...
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Cargojet buys ground handler at Mirabel airport
Canadian overnight all-cargo carrier Cargojet has purchased an unnamed ground handling and ground services equipment (GSE) company at Mirabel International Airport in Québec for approximately $3m.The agreement to purchase includes all company assets and assumes all current lease arrangements.Cargojet chief executive Ajay Virmani said: "The acquisition of this ground handling ...
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MASkargo to increase real-time shipment visibility with Unisys system
MASkargo will use cloud-based Unisys logistics solutions’ Digi-IQ and Digi-Portal to provide “complete visibility” in the cargo shipment lifecycle.The cargo division of Malaysia Airlines is the largest cargo ground handling agent in Malaysia and handles more than 30 customer airlines at its Advanced Cargo Centre, processing more than 800,000 air ...
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NCA logs on to Descartes solution for ACAS filing
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) is using the Descartes Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) solution to meet the mandatory advanced security filing requirements for air cargo imports into the US.Keita Sataka, senior vice president at NCA, said: "Descartes has a strong history of providing NCA and the air cargo industry with ...
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Shortlist revealed for the Air Cargo News Awards
Anticipation ahead of the Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year Awards is continuing to build as the shortlist for the judged categories has been revealed.A team of five well-known industry judges painstakingly reviewed a record number of entries for the six categories that required companies to write an ...
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ATSG subsidiary in materials handling acquisition
LGSTX Services, a subsidiary of US freighter lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), has acquired TriFactor Distribution Solutions, a privately held US-based material handling systems integrator based in Florida.ATSG, which leases Boeing 767 converted freighters to Amazon, said that the services of the combined LGSTX/TriFactor businesses will be marketed nationwide ...
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Empire Airlines: Building on a niche
Not many executives are steering a large express carrier and working on unmanned aircraft development while work on a freighter conversion is going on near their office.But then, Tim Komberec’s life in aviation spans a myriad of roles and environments.The president of Empire Airlines, last year’s recipient of the Pacific ...
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Etihad jumps at the chance for a third Longines Masters horse charter
Etihad Cargo will again fly horses from Belgium to Hong Kong for the annual Longines Masters indoor show jumping event.It is the third consecutive year that the Middle East freighter operator, based in Abu Dhabi, has been entrusted with the transport of the elite show jumpers for the event.The dedicated ...
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West Atlantic weighs in with CHAMP load planning solution
European freighter operator West Atlantic Sweden has gone live with CHAMP Cargosystems’ Weight & Balance solution to manage its load planning after adding a Boeing 767-200SF to its fleet.Said a spokesperson for CHAMP: "Since the need was raised for a stand-alone weight & balance system that included load planning, West ...
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Egyptair takes re-delivery of second A330-200P2F
Egyptair Cargo has taken delivery of its second passenger-to-freighter converted Airbus A330P2F.The Middle East carrier ordered three A330-200P2Fs from German-based passenger to freighter conversion specialist EFW.The 13-year-old aircraft was converted by EFW during the second half of 2018. Ground tests and acceptance procedures were completed at the end of January ...
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AF-KLM recertification for CEIV Pharma
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has become the first major airline group to pass the IATA CEIV Pharma re-certification process for its hub operations in Amsterdam and Paris, as well as the Air France and KLM airline processes.Marcel de Nooijer, executive vice president of Air France KLM Martinair (AF-KLMP) Cargo, ...
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Cathay confident on e-commerce and economic trends
Cathay Pacific Cargo expects a quarter of all global retail sales to be from e-commerce "within the next few years" and remains “confident” about the medium and long term world economic trends.Ronald Lam, the Hong Kong-based airline’s director, commercial and cargo, made his comments on e-commerce, economic trends, specialist products ...