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NewsNew packaging saves weight and plastic for Bolloré
Bolloré Logistics in the US and at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle are now using sustainable packaging for air shipments from Paris to Chicago, saving 12kg of deadweight in the process.
NewsNew platform helps Air NZ customers cut the carbon
Air New Zealand has partnered with Norwegian company CHOOSE to offer two platforms to help its customers measure their carbon emissions from freight and staff air travel.
NewsNew Brisbane post hub to meet e-commerce boom
Australia Post is to build a $50 million parcel facility at Brisbane Airport Industrial Park, the largest project ever at the gateway.
NewsA fifth of all airfreight in fifteen years
The Boeing 777 Freighter has carried up to 20% of global air freight since its debut in 2009, said the US plane-maker, in marking its 15th anniversary.
NewsFrankfurt high-flier wins IATA talent competition
Frankfurt Airport ‘s Erik Goldenstein won the IATA FACE-UP award for 2024, presented at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Hong Kong on 14 March.
NewsCathay cargo tonnage surge outpaces revenue as yields droop
Cathay Pacific Airways carried 1.38 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, up almost 20% on the previous year’s 1.15m tonnes, said the Hong Kong-based carrier when it announced its annual results on 14 March.
NewsForwarders and shippers call for more data ahead of new import regime
International forwarders’ federation FIATA and the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) have called for better data quality and information exchange ahead of the European Union's new Import Control System 2 (ICS2), due to be introduced for sea, road, and rail transport in 2024 and 2025.
NewsPrague plots ‘passenger to cargo’ plan
Prague Airport has signed a memorandum with 12 companies to develop air cargo at the in the Czech Republic gateway.
NewsUK freight group names first sustainable logistics chair
UK freight association BIFA has appointed Woodland group’s Sam Warren as the first chair of its new Sustainable Logistics Policy Group.
NewsFits is a perfect fit for WebCargo
Fits Cargo – a Sri Lanka-based company that combines physical airline operations and interline agreements with over 160 carriers - has joined the Freightos WebCargo online booking and payment platform.
NewsRhenus opens Heathrow produce hub
German-owned global forwarder Rhenus has opened a temperature-controlled perishable handling facility at London-Heathrow, making it one of the few freight forwarders able to store and build ULDs within a chilled environment at the airport.
NewsMunich bucks the trend as cargo grows in 2023
Munich Airport says it was the only German major air hub to increase freight traffic in 2023. The south German gateway registered a year-on-year increase of 6.6%, whereas total airfreight volume in Germany as a whole fell by 7.1, according to German Airports Association figures.
NewsLufthansa launches first Brussels-America freighter
Lufthansa Cargo is to start a twice-weekly B777F freighter service between Brussels and Chicago O'Hare on 3 April – its first ever cargo service from Belgium to the American continent. The departures, on Mondays and Wednesdays, will originate at the German carrier’s main Frankfurt hub, and aim to exploit opportunities ...
NewsAirbus lab to test new concepts in cargo
Airbus is to go into partnership with experts from CHAMP Cargosystems, Fraport, KLM Cargo, Kuehne+Nagel and Swissport in a new tech initiative, the plane-maker announced at IATA World Cargo Symposium in Hong Kong on 13 March.
NewsAsia to Europe – could the train take the strain?
Austrian-owned international forwarder Cargo-partner says that rail could offer an alternative to air and sea freight between Asia and Europe.
NewsPolitics fails to deflect move to globalisation, says DHL report
There is no sign of geopolitics affecting the march of globalisation, says DHL in the latest edition of its Global Connectedness Report.
NewsSwissport to join CHAMP and Cathay in second ONE Record scheme
Following the announcement yesterday (12 March) that Cathay Cargo and handler WFS are to use CHAMP Cargosystems technology to go live with IATA’s ONE Record data standard in a ‘first use’ case, the systems provider said that it had also joined forces with Swissport and the Hong Kong carrier in ...
NewsAwery to speed Etihad charter response
Etihad Cargo has signed a partnership with Awery Aviation Software to help it meet a 35% surge in charter requests.
NewsHeathrow aerospace firm goes all-electric
Aerospace logistics company B&H Worldwide has ordered that all local cargo collections, deliveries and corporate passenger travel at its London Heathrow base should be carried out only by battery electric vehicles, as of February 2024.
NewsUnilode to run Air India ULD fleet
ULD management company Unilode Aviation Solutions has signed a full-service partnership with Air India.