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Handled with care, LUG awarded CEIV Pharma at Frankfurt
Cargo ground handler LUG has received IATA's CEIV Pharma certification for its recently upgraded Health Care Center (HCC) in Frankfurt airport's CargoCity South.LUG, part of Germany's Dettmer Group, modernised its HCC in 2017 and expanded the temperature-controlled area to 625 sq m in a first step. Due to rising demand, ...
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UK production company to make airfreight TV show
A UK production company is making an eight part TV show about air cargo for channel UKTV.Production company Back2Back Productions, which made the MegaShippers programme about cargo shipping, said the TV show, provisionally called MegaAir, will "showcase the incredible logistics involved in air cargo".The company is looking to talk to ...
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NewsTop 25 airfreight forwarders 2017: DHL still at the top but Kuhne+Nagel closes the gap
DHL Global Forwarding remained the world’s largest airfreight forwarder in 2017, (see chart below) but second placed Kuhne+Nagel continued to close the gap and the rest of the major players enjoyed a bumper year.As expected, the latest annual figures from analyst Armstrong & Associates show that the world’s top airfreight ...
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Marken gains Brazilian approval for UPS airline pharma shipments
Marken, the UPS pharma supply chain arm, has gained approval from Brazil's health regulator ANVISA to ship biological samples from Sao Paulo's Viracopos airport to the US, using the parent group's airline.The pilot programme approved by the Brazilian authorities will permit biologic samples to depart from a second Sao Paulo ...
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Vekshin takes on charter operations role at Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Konstantin Vekshin as executive president, charter cargo operations (CCO) for Volga-Dnepr Airlines, effective August 15.Vekshin will focus on achieving the airline’s strategic objectives, managing its international operating bases and regional sales offices - including the UK, Russia, Germany, the US, UAE, China and Ireland - and ...
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Cargolux in Jakarta race horse charter flight
Cargolux has flown race horses from Luxembourg to Jakarta, Indonesia, where they participated in the Asian games.The part-charter was operated in conjunction with horse transport specialist forwarder JIT-EX.This ad hoc shipment was routed directly from Luxembourg to Jakarta, which required additional preparation from the Cargolux Charter team because Jakarta is ...
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Panalpina warns of peak season bottlenecks on the ground
Panalpina has moved to secure airfreight capacity for the peak season, but has warned that supply chains could be equally affected by constraints on the ground.The Switzerland-based freight forwarder said that it had taken similar steps to last year to secure airfreight capacity for customers as it expects another busy ...
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SIA and Cainiao linking up for cargo services
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba Group, will work closely to "enhance international air cargo services".The link-up, part of a wider passenger-led "comprehensive strategic collaboration" will see SIA joining Cainiao Network’s broader efforts in building "a global smart logistics network that delivers ...
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LATAM cargo revenues rise 16.8% in the second quarter
LATAM Airlines saw 2018 second quarter cargo revenues increase 16.8%, driven by a recovery in both imports and exports in the region.The Chilean-based carrier saw cargo revenues for the three months ended June reach $299.7m, helped by a 6.7% increase in cargo yields, mainly due to a better demand environment ...
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ABC transports 500th aircraft engine in 2018
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has transported its 500th aircraft engine in 2018, a 50% increase year on year.ABC said that fact it has already transported 500 engines in 2018 is a testament to its abcXL product.ABC global director, heavy & outsized cargo Vasily Zhukov said: “We have strengthened our position in the ...
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UK businesses passing on Brexit supply chain costs
UK businesses are already passing on to consumers increased supply chain costs due to challenges posed by the country’s exit from the European Union (EU), known as Brexit.New research, The Brexit Storm, from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) indicates that nearly a third (32%) of UK businesses ...
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DHL confirms purchase of Etihad A330Fs for replacements and upgrades
DHL has confirmed it has purchased Etihad Cargo's five unwanted A330-200 freighters, which the Middle East-based airline took out of action at the start of the year.In a short statement in response to Air Cargo News questions, the express company said: "The purchase of these aircraft are part of our ...
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Bloomberg: Cerberus considers Swissport deal following WFS takeover
Reports from news wire Bloomberg suggest that investment fund Cerberus is considering a move for ground handler Swissport following on from its takeover of WFS in June.The report, which can be found here, said that the current owner, Chinese conglomerate HNA, is considering selling a majority stake in the handler, ...
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Aloha freighters: Hawaiian launches all-cargo turboprop operation
Hawaiian Airlines has launched its freighter operation with flights between Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Līhu‘e Airport (LIH) and Hilo International Airport utilising two ATR-72 aircraft.The operation, which it was hoped would have been underway by March, started on August 13 with a flight carrying humanitarian shipments to ...
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Delta Air Lines Cargo appoints Aeromexico's Figueroa to customer role
Delta Air Lines Cargo has appointed Rafael Figueroa as managing director – cargo operations and customer experience.Figueroa joins Delta from Aeromexico Cargo and replaces Julian Soell. The appointment is part of an international talent exchange programme between Delta and Aeromexico.He will lead a team of over 1,600 employees, managing Delta’s ...
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Plans for a cargo airport at Manston receive a boost
Developers hoping to re-open Manston airport in the south east of the UK received a boost this week when the government planning inspectorate accepted an application for a development consent order (DCO).By accepting the application, the government inspectorate has agreed that the project meets the standards required to proceed with ...
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Emirates SkyCargo continues product expansion with pet service
Emirates SkyCargo has again expanded its product portfolio with the launch of Emirates Pets - a two-level transport service for domestic pets.With Emirates Pets, the entry level solution, the airline will offer airport-to-airport transportation for pets across the carrier’s network of over 160 destinations.The owner of the pet will be ...
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WiseTech Global acquires US trucking IT provider Trinium
Big-spending logistics solutions group WiseTech Global has made another acquisition, this time the purchase of Trinium Technologies, a provider of intermodal trucking management systems (TMS) in the US and Canada.Headquartered in Los Angeles, Trinium offers TMS for the movement of seafreight containers between port terminals, inland rail terminals, container yards ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Growth continues to stagnate in July
Air cargo volumes at European airlines in July continued to grow at a lower rate than earlier in the year.The region’s largest combination airline group in terms of cargo, Lufthansa, saw freight traffic for the period decline by 2.9% year on year to 904m revenue cargo tonne kms.This is the ...
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Cargo helps propel revenues at ACS
Charter firm Air Charter Service has recorded a 23% increase in revenues during its first half fiscal year on the back of growth in its cargo business.The company said that during the six months ended July 31, revenues reached £240.5m.ACS chief executive Justin Bowman said: “We have had a stunning ...