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Germany retains top spot in Global Performance Index by World Bank
Germany has retained its pole position in the 2018 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) published by the World Bank.The biennial survey ranks countries through six criteria, including Customs and border management clearance, and the quality of trade and transport related infrastructure.While Germany came top in 2018 for the third time in ...
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Asia airlines see cargo growth slow in June
Airlines in the Asia Pacific region saw cargo demand growth weaken in June in line with a slowdown in the manufacturing sector.According to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), carriers saw cargo traffic increase by 3.4% year on year in June, a slowdown on the 4.9% increase registered over ...
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Panalpina swoops on another perishables forwarder while profits rise in Q2
Panalpina has again expanded its perishables network with the acquisition of a majority stake in South African firm Skyservices, while it has also announced its results for the second quarter.The Switzerland-headquartered forwarder said the acquisition of Skyservices gives it a presence in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Details of the deal ...
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Swiss WorldCargo achieves CEIV Pharma for its airline business
Swiss WorldCargo has received IATA’s Center for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certification encompassing the airline.The certification was awarded following an extensive review from IATA recognised independent auditors.The certification means that IATA now recognises the airline's "globally consistent pharmaceutical handling and processes" to maintain standards.Swiss WorldCargo’s Zurich hub received CEIV certification ...
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Turkish Cargo approves CSafe RAP
Turkish Cargo has approved CSafe RAP, launched for use in high volumes shipments by CSafe Global, a supplier of active and passive temperature controlled solutions for pharmaceutical products.The CSafe RAP is the latest in a full line of temperature control solutions, offering operational capabilities with the industry’s largest RAP payload ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds Ho Chi Minh City to its network
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has launched a freighter service to Ho Chi Minh City, one of the busiest cities in Vietnam and a major manufacturing hotspot in Asia.It becomes becomes ABC’s 12th online destination in Asia, and the Boeing 747 freighter flight will link customers from Singapore and Ho Chi Minh ...
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ECS Group adds to Americas network with BCS Air acquisition in Brazil
ECS Group has acquired BCS Air, the Brazil-based general sales and services agent (GSSA), a partnership that will provide airlines in Latin America and the US with the full range of cargo outsourcing solutions.BCS Air is an established GSSA with more than 20 years of experience in the air cargo ...
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Technology can unlock Heathrow's latent airfreight capacity
Heathrow has Parliamentary approval for a future third runway but the airport’s head of cargo, Nick Platts, believes that better use now of new technology in the cargo centre can “unlock latent capacity” to handle increased airfreight volumes.Platts, speaking at the Farnborough International Airshow, said: “The new runway will double ...
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Leisure Cargo joins cargo.one portal
Virtual airline Leisure Cargo is the latest airfreight provider to begin offering its services through online portal cargo.one.The tie-up means that forwarders will now be able to make digital booking of Leisure Cargo's global freight capacity based on live spot rates and receive immediate confirmation."With the help of cargo.one, Leisure ...
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Air cargo as a UK engine of growth in a post-Brexit world
As Britain heads for the exit door to leave the European Union (Brexit), the head of UK flag carrier CargoLogicAir (CLA) outlined the need for negotiators in London and Brussels to recognise the importance of airfreight in future cross border trade.David Kerr, chief executive of CLA, said that the B747F ...
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Silk Way West Airlines pursues strategic co-operation with JAL Cargo
Japan’s JAL Cargo will access freighter capacity operated by Silk Way West Airlines under a co-operation agreement signed by the two carriers.JAL Cargo, which no longer operates its own freighters, will use the Azerbaijani cargo carrier's capacities on scheduled routes out of Europe, via its Baku hub, into Japan and ...
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NCA hit with business improvement order, while operations continue to restart
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has been hit with a business improvement order from Japan’s ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLITT), while a second aircraft has now restarted services.NYK Group – NCA’s parent - said in a stock exchange announcement that the airline received the order to improve operations ...
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LOT Cargo logs on for CHAMP's Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics
Poland's LOT Cargo has signed for two new CHAMP products, Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics.LOT Cargo has purchased eleven Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, and has four more on order, to service its new transatlantic routes. Both products will assist sales and revenue teams in support of this rapid expansion in cargo ...
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Descartes acquires Velocity Mail
Descartes Systems Group has acquired certain assets of Velocity Mail, a network that provides global air carriers with mail and parcel shipment scanning and tracking.Velocity Mail has been connecting commercial airlines and their logistics partners with government postal authorities around the world for more than 15 years.Velocity Mail is headquartered ...
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B777F conversion programme moves ever closer
The launch of a Boeing 777 Freighter conversion programme is moving ever closer as the aircraft becomes the freighter of choice for airlines.The start of this year has seen several orders for production B777-200F aircraft. At this week’s Farnborough Airshow DHL announced a deal for 14 of the plane and ...
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Councils set for court challenge on Heathrow's third runway
A group of local authority councils around Heathrow Airport is to seek a judicial review of the UK government's support for a third runway at the London hub.The group has today (July 19) formally notified the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, that it will launch a legal challenge ...
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Prince of whales: BelugaXL in maiden flight
Airbus has celebrated the maiden flight of its first BelugaXL freighter, which took off this morning from Blagnac in Toulouse, France, for a test flight over south-western France.A fleet of five BelugaXLs will be used to transport completed sections of Airbus aircraft among the company’s European production sites and to ...
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Kenya Airways helps rehome mistreated 'pet' lion cub
Kenya Airways has partnered with an international wildlife charity, Born Free, to airlift a one-year-old lion cub to the Big Cat Rescue Centre at Shamwari Private Game Reserve in South Africa.The cub, called King, was rescued from an apartment in Paris last summer where he was being kept illegally as ...
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Progress made in dispute over pay and conditions at Southern Air
Southern Air, Inc. and Local 1224 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reached an agreement for interim enhancements to the collective bargaining agreement covering pilots.The interim agreement increases pay rates for Southern Air pilots to the same wage scales as provided to pilots of sister company Atlas Air, Inc. ...
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K+N sees airfreight volumes grow ahead of the market in Q2
Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) recorded an above market increase in airfreight volumes in the second quarter of the year, while overall group profits were also on the rise.The Switzerland-based freight forwarder saw its airfreight volumes increase by 15.7% year on year during the April-June period to 441,000 tonnes compared with overall market ...