All Liege Airport articles – Page 3

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    Jacquet appointed interim CEO at Liege Airport after dismissal of Partoune

    2021-02-12T11:46:31Z

    The Liege Airport board of directors has appointed Frédéric Jacquet as interim chief executive of the hub after the dismissal of Luc Partoune.The Liege Airport board of directors met on February 9 and decided to dismiss chief executive Luc Partoune with immediate effect.Reports allege that audits revealed several irregularities,which led ...

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    Another record year for cargo at Liege

    2021-01-11T16:14:37Z

    Liege Airport has broken its record for cargo traffic in 2020, topping its previous 'record year' in 2019.The Belgiuan hub attributed its cargo growth to increased freighter operations following the grounding of passenger flights in the first half of 2020, as well as growth in e-commerce and increased demand for ...

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    Liege Airport achieves 1m tonne milestone

    2020-12-02T16:29:31Z

    Liege Airport has handled 1m tonnes of cargo and marked the milestone as a "historic and symbolic day".The milestone was reached when an Airbridge Cargo flight, chartered by Chinese company HongYuan, touched down at the airport.Cargo on the flight — including the millionth tonne — was processed by WFS and ...

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    Air China Cargo and Cainiao increase operations at Liege

    2020-08-18T08:52:12Z

    Air China Cargo and Cainiao, the logistics division of Alibaba Group, have created a new e-commerce freighter service to enable faster delivery times between China and Europe.Three flights will be operated each week from Hangzhou to Liege, with Madrid as a final destination, utilising B777F capacity.Cainiao has established an eHub ...

  • Liege Airport building 30 on fire (July 22, 2020)
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    Fire breaks out at Liege Airport building

    2020-07-23T10:06:30Z

    A building at Liege Airport caught fire last night, resulting in some flights being diverted to other facilities.An airport spokesperson said that the airport was closed for a around 20 minutes when a fire broke out at building 30 next to the main terminal at around 10pm last night.While the ...

  • Koen Gouweloose, Head of Swissport Cargo Belgium
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    Swissport announces head of cargo Belgium

    2020-07-06T14:43:46Z

    Swissport has appointed Koen Gouweloose into the role of head of cargo Belgium, effective from July 1.Gouweloose joined Swissport in March 2020 as chief operating officer. In his new role, he will oversee the strategic and operational management of the company's cargo activities, both in Brussels and Liège. In particular, ...

  • Rhenus Logistics at Liege Airport
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    Rhenus opens new office at Liège Airport

    2020-06-10T13:34:40Z

    Rhenus Air & Ocean has moved from Herstal in Belgium to a new location at Liège Airport, as cargo volumes handled by the airport continue to grow.The forwarder said that with 900,000 tonnes of cargo transported each year, Liège Airport (LGG) is Belgium's largest airfreight airport and the fastest growing ...

  • Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège (Liege Airport)
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    WFP's coronavirus air cargo network begins operations

    2020-05-01T14:12:52Z

    Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège (Liege Airport)The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) has launched its network of global logistics hubs that will support the delivery of vital medical and humanitarian supplies to developing countries at a time when commercial air transport is at a virtual standstill.A WFP-contracted Boeing ...

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    UN task force charters freighters and creates Covid-19 hubs

    2020-04-16T11:27:53Z

    Liege AirportThe World Health Organization (WHO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have outlined how they will utilise air cargo to move supplies and equipment around the world, with Liege playing a key role in Europe.The two organisations have teamed up as part of the United Nations Supply Chain Task Force ...

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    A record year for cargo at Liege

    2020-01-08T16:15:34Z

    Liege AirportLiege Airport handled a record amount of air cargo last year as it attracted a host of new freighter services.The Belgian airport handled a total of 902,480 tonnes in 2019, which represents a 3.6% increase on 2018's 870,644 tonnes.The airport pointed out that it had achieved the growth despite ...

  • Nallian-LACHS slot booking at Liege
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    Slot booking helps Liege handler improve truck handling times

    2020-01-07T11:38:40Z

    Liege Airport Cargo Handling Services (LACHS) has reduced its truck handling times through the implementation of a slot booking system from Nallian.LACHS, which handles almost 200,000 tonnes of cargo per year and 150 trucks per day, said that using the system had helped it reduced the average time it takes ...

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    Liege Airport aims to improve efficiency with Alibaba tech

    2019-11-25T11:30:17Z

    Alibaba Cloud and Liege Airport have announced a joint plan to work together to utilise Aviation Brain, a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) program that helps the aviation sector tackle real world operational challenges.Liege Airport said it hopes to leverage Alibaba Cloud’s technologies to improve procedures and efficiency.The two hope to ...

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    Liege Airport signs three new partnerships

    2019-11-14T16:51:03Z

    Night operations at Liege AirportLiege Airport has announced three new partnerships – with Alibaba Cloud, Orange Belgium and Qatar Airways.The announcements were made the airport’s WeCargo event 12-14 November which brought together start-ups, air cargo experts and investors at the Belgian air freight hub.Alibaba Cloud, the technology subsidiary of Chinese ...

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    Qatar Cargo: 24-mile freighter flights for a limited period

    2019-11-11T16:00:48Z

    Qatar Cargo has said that its 24-mile cargo flights between Maastricht and Liege are for a limited period only.Over the weekend the flights, which last for around 10 minutes, hit the headlines in several countries as local politicians and environmental groups expressed their disappointment about the B777F short distance of ...

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    Liege reports its best ever month for cargo

    2019-11-08T11:47:20Z

    Belgian hub Liege has reported its best ever month for cargo in October as volumes reached 84,000 tonnes.The airport said that it had achieved the record despite the current "challenging times".Meanwhile, it exceeded its total volumes for the year (up to today) have reached 730,000 tonnes, up by 3%."Besides being ...

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    Network Airline Management adds freighter flights to Johannesburg

    2019-10-17T08:51:45Z

    Network Airline Management (NAM) has introduced a new twice-weekly scheduled B747F service from its European hub in Liege (LGG) to Johannesburg (JNB).NAM said the new route would "diversify its destination portfolio further but also opens up new opportunities and services into Johannesburg which enables the Group to cover even more ...

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    NAM signs up for three more years of freighter flights at Liege

    2019-10-14T10:08:18Z

    Network Airline Management (NAM) will extend its freighter operation at Liege Airport for another three years.The company, which also offers GSSA services, said that its cargo volumes from the Belgian airport had "strongly increased" since it began flights back in 2014.This is down to the introduction of "various new freighter ...

  • BJ Streefland, CEO at ViaEurope
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    ViaEurope opens e-hub in Liege to help process e-commerce 'tsunami'

    2019-10-10T13:08:20Z

    BJ Streefland, ViaEurope's chief executiveViaEurope, a European cross border e-company, has opened an e-hub in Liège airport (LGG), Belgium.It is the second platform for the e-logistics tech start-up whose headquarters are located in Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) airport.The Liege e-Hub is “100% dedicated to cross border e-commerce,” said ViaEurope in a ...

  • ABC B747-400F at Liege Airport
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    Liege Airport and Volga-Dnepr Group to establish maintenance facility at Belgium hub

    2019-06-20T14:02:56Z

    ABC B747-400F at Liege AirportThe Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG) and Liege Airport have extended their strategic co-operation with a deal to create a maintenance facility at the cargo hub.The agreement serves as an extension of an MoU signed last summer between the airport, VDG and CargoLogicAir, which aimed to create a ...

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    Belgium launches new BE-GATE digital customs platform

    2019-06-07T07:19:20Z

    Brussels AirportBelgian air and sea cargo gateways are to benefit from the introduction of a new customs platform designed to simplify the import and export of goods, one particularly suitable for those businesses involved in e-commerce.The new BE-GATE customs platform was officially launched yesterday (June 6). The portal was developed ...