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NewsIATA World Cargo Symposium moves to London
Source: IATAIATA has taken the decision to move its annual World Cargo Symposium (WCS) event from Hong Kong to London.The three-day conference and exhibition will now take place between September 27-29 at the ExCel exhibition centre.The move comes as Hong Kong continues to implement strict travel restrictions in response to ...
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IATA's new head of cargo outlines the challenges ahead
IATA's new head of cargo, Brendan Sullivan, praises the sector's response to Covid and outlines the challenges ahead, writes Roger Hailey.Airline passenger divisions may ‘put bums on seats’ but air cargo’s stakeholders went one better during the pandemic, they placed life-saving PPE on seats and launched the preighter.The airfreight industry ...
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IATA adds 'quote and book' service to rate portal
Airline association IATA has added a ‘quote and book’ function to its rate portal, with IAG Cargo the first cargo group to offer the new functionality.The addition of live rates and the option to book shipments onto IATA's Net Rates platform will accelerate "the distribution of rates to market while ...
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NewsAir cargo continues to improve in November but Covid vaccine to add pressure
Air cargo demand continued to improve in November, while load factors remain high due to the loss of bellyhold capacity, according to the latest statistics from IATA.The airline association's data shows that during the peak season month, air cargo tonne kms declined by 6.6% compared with a year earlier. Over ...
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NewsMumbai CSC achieves India CEIV pharma first
Mumbai CSC Pharma Excellence Centre has become the first air cargo handler in India to be awarded IATA CEIV Pharma Certification.The handler said that it had also been certified as meeting European Good Distribution Practice standards.Tushar Jani, chairman of CSC group, said: “These are the most timely accreditation received by ...
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IATA addresses vaccine transportation challenges with new guidance
IATA has published guidance for the air cargo industry to follow when transporting Covid-19 vaccines to ensure that they are moved safely and securely in what it says is the "largest and most complex global logistics operation ever undertaken".The Guidance for Vaccine and Pharmaceutical Logistics and Distribution addresses how key ...
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IATA's Hughes to take director general role at TIACA
IATA's current head of cargo Glyn Hughes will take up the newly created role of director general at TIACA, from February next year.In his new role, he will manage the team, work with the board of directors, the members and industry partners to establish and implement TIACA's vision and strategic ...
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IATA: Air cargo recovery speeds up in September as US recovers
The latest statistics from IATA show that the speed of recovery in air cargo increased slightly in September — and this improvement is expected to continue throughout peak season.Meanwhile, US-based carriers reported their first increase in demand for 10 months.According to the airline association, airfreight volumes measured in cargo tonne ...
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SAS Cargo achieves IATA CEIV Pharma re-certification
SAS Cargo has achieved IATA CEIV Pharma re-certification despite Covid-19 restrictions.SAS Cargo said that due to Covid-19 restrictions, the audit process for re-certification was carried out remotely.Nick Careen, IATA’s senior vice president of airport, passenger, cargo and security (APCS), commented: "In the middle of a global pandemic, those challenges are ...
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NewsIATA outlook: "Cargo is following a fairly typical recession recovery cycle"
Cargo continues to be the bright spot for the aviation sector, IATA revealed in a conference today in which the association's chief economist, Brian Pearce, gave a market update and outlined the role of air cargo during global economic expansion.Pearce explained: "Cargo volumes were hit much less than the passenger ...
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NewsIATA: Worst year for air cargo since 2009 financial crisis
Recent airfreight trends have been maintained, IATA's latest market analysis detailing full-year results for 2019, has reported. Meanwhile, the impact of the coronavirus on the aviation sector continues to cause uncertainty for the future.Industry-wide freight tonne kms (FTK) for the year declined by 3.3% year on year, while available freight ...
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IATA: Air cargo set to return to growth in 2020
Airline association IATA has predicted that the cargo sector will return to growth next year, while airlines are also expected to improve their profitability.In its annual outlook, IATA said that freight volumes are expected to increase by 2% year on year in 2020 to reach 62.4m tonnes following on from ...
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NewsIATA: Volume decline continues, but expected to level off
International freight tonne km growthMarket demand remains weak, IATA reports in its September 2019 figures.Industry-wide, volumes declined by 4.5% in September year on year. This recent slide, which follows a 3.9% decrease in volumes in August, marks the eleventh consecutive month of decline in airfreight volumes. Africa is the only ...
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Céline Hourcade looks to the horizon
When Céline Hourcade announced in June that she was leaving IATA Cargo after 11 years at the forefront of airfreight innovation, there were two unanswered questions: why and what next?Hourcade, who originally joined IATA on the passenger side and was part of the successful e-ticketing team, acknowledges that it was ...
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NewsPoster campaign for consumers: how air cargo delivers the goods
IATA has launched its ‘Air cargo makes it happen’ campaign that aims to raise awareness of air cargo’s important role for e-commerce, economies and the global community as a whole.The campaign provides eye-catching posters that can be shared easily and printed to “show the world all that cargo does,” said ...
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NewsCaspian Air Cargo Summit: Industry must prepare for future growth
IATA head of cargo Glyn Hughes has called on the air cargo industry to "apply equal vigour" to all the "challenges and opportunities" currently faced by the industry.Speaking at the Caspain Air Cargo Summit in a global market outlook session, Hughes gave an overview of the tough market conditions that ...
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NewsAir cargo in longest slump since global financial crisis
Air cargo is now in its longest slump in demand since the global financial crisis in 2008.The latest figures from IATA show that demand in freight tonne km (FTK) terms declined by 3.9% year on year in August.IATA director general and chief executive said the figures were "deeply concerning".“The impact ...
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NewsIATA and ATA team up on animal transportation programme
IATA has teamed up with the Animal Transport Association (ATA) to promote adoption of CEIV Live Animals certification to help raise the standard of animal transportation.As part of the tie up, the two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This will see ATA encourage adoption of CEIV Live ...
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Forwarders sign up for IATA's new rate platform
DB Schenker, Agility Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics have signed up to IATA's new air cargo rates platform, IATA Net Rates.IATA Net Rates aims to digitise the process of airlines and GSAs distributing rate sheets to forwarders using Excel spreadsheets and email, which the airline group said is "labor-intensive and ...