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Lufthansa Cargo expands Africa presence with start of Brussels Airlines deal
Lufthansa Cargo has started selling Brussels Airlines’ belly capacity, expanding its presence in Africa.The first Brussels aircraft carrying cargo sold by Lufthansa will takeoff on September 1, but can be pre-booked 30 days in advance.The deal means Lufthansa Cargo's route network will be supplemented by a further 15 destinations - ...
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Turkish Cargo completes rhino transport
Turkish Cargo has transported five endangered white rhinos from Johannesburg to Shanghai.The rhinos, which each weighed one ton at the time, were transported on July 25 on board one of the carrier's Airbus A330F aircraft."Turkish Cargo carried these five white rhinos to Shanghai as accompanied by specialist teams and keepers," ...
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Emirates transports 25 tonnes of vaccines to Brazil
Emirates SkyCargo has transported over 25 tonnes of vaccines — some 1.8m doses — from Milan to Bello Horizonte airport in Brazil, the largest vaccine shipment by the Middle East carrier on a single flight.Given the extreme sensitivity of the vaccines to temperature fluctuations, the entire shipment on board the ...
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Air Partner appoints Burt to lead US cargo division
Air Partner has appointed Jack Burt to lead its US Cargo division.In his new role, Burt will be responsible for the implementation of air cargo strategy throughout North and South America, as well as the overall establishment of the US cargo division itself.Before joining Air Partner, Burt served as the ...
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Peli BioThermal continues expansion of ULD stations
Peli BioThermal has opened its latest network station, in Frankfurt, serving the global pharmaceuticals sector.The new Frankfurt facility, the latest in a worldwide expansion, will serve as an additional depot for the company’s Crēdo on Demand rental program.Situated in close proximity to Frankfurt Main Airport, a major logistics hub for ...
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Lechocki joins Hermes as head of products and services
Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has appointed Jacek Lechocki as head of products and services, as it continues rolling out Hermes 5 (H5), the latest version of its cargo management system.Lechocki, heading the cargo and quality control teams, will be responsible for Hermes’ Cargo PM, Product PM and Help Desk services, ...
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WFS wins the contract to operate Oslo Airport seafood centre
Cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won the contract to operate the new seafood centre at Oslo Airport being built to cater for rising demand for perishable exports from the region.The Seafood Center will handle up to 250,000 tons of seafood annually in a facility designed to meet "industry ...
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CEVA Logistics joins blockchain-based technology solution from IBM and Maersk
CEVA Logistics has joined the TradeLens blockchain initiative created by IBM and Danish shipping giant AP Moller–Maersk which includes more than 20 port and terminal operators, customs authorities and 3PLs worldwide.TradeLens, based on secure blockchain technology, enables multiple trading partners to collaborate by establishing a single shared-view of a transaction ...
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Shipa Freight embraces the digital age
While the rest of the world moves increasingly into the digital age, freight forwarding appears to be getting left behind.A recent study looking at the top 20 forwarders, carried out by rate portal Freightos, was particularly eye opening.Although Freightos found that freight forwarders’ online offerings were gradually improving, it added ...
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IAG Cargo records spike in pharma to Venezuela
IAG Cargo has noted a spike in volumes of diphtheria vaccines after an outbreak of the disease in Venezuela.The cargo arm of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus transported 5.3 tonnes of the vaccine from India to Caracas in Venezuela last week in partnership with Indian biopharmaceutical company Biological E.Jez ...
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Shippers call on air cargo to take action over truck driver shortage
Shippers have called on the air cargo industry to take action to mitigate the truck driver shortage or face increasingly unreliable supply chains.Writing in a column for Tiaca’s weekly e-newsletter, European Shippers’ Council (ESC) chairman and Tiaca board member Denis Choumert said that the air cargo industry would not be ...
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ATC expands GSSA coverage with South American partner
ATC Aviation Services (ATC), the German general sales and service agent (GSSA), has taken a majority stake in a South American counterpart, Pacific Feeder Services (PFS), in a deal that took three years to negotiate.The link-up, described as "the perfect symbiosis for the South American market" was signed last week ...
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Hong Kong cargo static in July but transhipments soar
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) saw July's cargo and airmail throughputs static versus the same month last year at 433,000 tonnes, although volumes are up 3.1% for the first seven months of 2018 at 2.9m tonnes.The airport operator at the world's number one airfreight hub said that transshipment cargo recorded ...
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Fewer freighters fuel Frankfurt's 6.4% cargo decrease in July
A decrease in freighter flights contributed to Frankfurt airport's 6.4% decline in cargo traffic (airfreight + airmail) last month to 75,960 tonnes, the only business to falter during a busy July at the hub.Airport operator Fraport said that the monthly air cargo decline was "attributable, among other things, to a ...
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Ethiopian sees cargo volumes take off
Ethiopian Airlines saw cargo volumes rapidly improve during the fiscal year 2017/18 in line with its fleet expansion.Cargo volumes increased by 18% year on year during the last fiscal year to 400,339 tons. This improvement comes as the airline has added to its passenger fleet, enabling it to expand its ...
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Crane Worldwide celebrates 10 years since taking flight
Crane Worldwide Logistics has celebrated 10 years since its launch. The logistics firm was originally launched by Jim Crane in Houston in 2008, during the financial crisis, following a lost a takeover battle with investment firm Apollo for control of the firm he founded in 1984, Eagle Global Logistics.Since 2008, ...
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Leisure Cargo appoints new MD as Sieger and Schäfer leave
Ralf-Rainer Ausländer has taken over the management of Leisure Cargo, with current managing directors Klaus Sieger and Thilo Schäfer leaving the company at the end of September.Leisure Cargo said that Sieger and Schäfer were leaving to "devote themselves to new tasks".The virtual airline, which sells capacity on 14 leisure and ...
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Southern Air pilots agree to interim agreement but demand further improvements
Southern Air pilots have ratified an agreement for interim enhancements to the collective bargaining agreement covering pilots, but union representatives are demanding further improvements.The interim agreement increases pay rates for Southern Air pilots to the same wage scales as provided to pilots of sister airline Atlas Air.It also provides for ...
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Air Canada Cargo becomes the first to achieve CEIV Live Animals
Air Canada Cargo has become the first airline to receive IATA’s new CEIV Live Animals certification.The Montreal-based airline received the certificate today after successfully completing the pilot programme, which was launched in April.“This certification reinforces that Air Canada Cargo is operating to the highest standards in the transport of live ...
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FedEx Express expands at SBD International Airport
The San Bernardino International Airport Authority and FedEx Express have agreed to begin regular scheduled air cargo flights into the hub.In conjunction with the new daily flights, which will begin in October, FedEx will occupy a 57,000 sq ft facility under a 10-year agreement."The activity at SBD International Airport will ...