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NewsHong Kong targets high value cargo and e-commerce opportunities in 'Airport City' strategy
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has identified three strategic areas for future development: capturing cross-boundary e-commerce opportunities, targeting high-end, high-value cargo, and enhancing cargo services for the region.The plans are revealed in the airport authority’s “From City Airport to Airport City” report released today, which outlines “an ongoing transformation that ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo adds Oslo flight for seafood exports
AirBridgeCargo has added a third weekly cargo departure from Avinor Oslo Airport, Norway to cater for seafood exports to South Korea.Martin Langaas, director cargo at Avinor, says: “AirBridgeCargo is an important part of our aim to facilitate more capacity for the Norwegian seafood industry to our largest trading partners in ...
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NewsQatar Airways adds Izmir link
Qatar Airways has introduced thrice-weekly Airbus A320 flights from Doha to Izmir, its seventh destination in Turkey.The airline’s freighter-carrying division also benefits from belly capacity to Adana, Ankara, Sabiha Gökçen and Istanbul. In addition, it operates three weekly Boeing 777 Freighter services to Istanbul.Qatar Airways said: “With the launch of ...
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NewsSea-Tac welcomes season’s first Copper River salmon
Alaska’s Salmon-Thirty-Salmon plane delivers the first Copper River salmonOn 17 May, about 18,000 pounds of fresh Copper River salmon arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) aboard an Alaska Airlines aircraft.That day represented the official start of the salmon season and Alaska Air Cargo will be flying large quantities of Copper ...
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NewsFinnair Cargo appoints Swissport for Helsinki's COOL Nordic Cargo Hub
Finnair Cargo has appointed Swissport as the terminal operator for its €80m COOL Nordic Cargo Hub at Helsinki Airport, taking over operations from June 1.The 31,000 sq m facility opened in 2018, focused on temperature-sensitive and high-value cargo shipments between Europe and Asia.In addition to its operations at the COOL ...
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NewsNew Oslo-Beijing service targets seafood
Oslo Airport hopes its first non-stop service to Beijing will be a welcome boost for the local seafood market following the collapse of a deal for the development of a new perishables centre.Earlier today a Hainan Airlines A330-300 took off from Oslo on its way to Beijing. Airport operator Avinor ...
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NewsWFS and Avinor terminate Oslo seafood centre deal
Oslo Seafood Centre - artist's impressionThe future of a huge new seafood centre at Oslo airport is hanging in the balance after ground handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) and airport operator Avinor agreed to terminate their deal for the construction and operation of the hub.The reasons for the deal ...
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Mama Mia here we flow[er] again for Mother's Day
LATAM Cargo transported more than 7,400 tons of fresh flowers from Latin America for International Mother's Day on May 12 .In the three weeks prior to Mother's Day the demand for flowers increased by close to 90%, marking the peak of the flower export season after Valentine's Day.LATAM Cargo carried ...
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NewsCCA event to explore how air cargo can reduce waste
Stavros Evangelakakis, Chairman of the Cool Chain Association and Global Product Manager Healthcare and Perishables, CargoluxThe Cool Chain Association (CCA) will host its Fifth Global Perishables Event at Europe’s largest fresh and food hub at Venlo, the Netherlands, on May 14-15 with a focus on how the airfreight supply chain ...
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NewsCool Chain Association launches perishables data-pilot to reduce food loss
Eric MaurouxCool Chain Association (CCA) members will pilot a data-sharing initiative to monitor perishable shipments on two major trade lanes in a bid to improve supply chain management and reduce food loss.The pilot, set to start in April, will focus on perishables trade lanes from Latin America to Europe, and ...
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NewsClaws for celebration: Lobsters help Halifax Stanfield pot record cargo volumes in 2018
Nova Scotia seafood represented a “significant portion” of the record 36,938 tonnes of cargo processed at Canada’s Halifax Stanfield airport in 2018.The increase of 8.5% over 2017 marks the fifth consecutive year of cargo volume growth for the airport and comes as the hub begins work on a new logistics ...
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AA keeping it cool with Jettainer
American Airlines has signed up with Jettainer’s Cool Management service to run its entire fleet of reefer containers.The airline now has access to Jettainer's own Cool Center of Excellence in Abu Dhabi, which is specifically responsible for managing temperature-controlled ULDs. The Cool Management service includes the leasing, managing, positioning and ...
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NewsAll the latest news from IATA's World Cargo Symposium 2019
As the global airfreight industry gathers in Singapore for IATA’s World Cargo Symposium 2019 (WCS19), the Air Cargo News editorial team of Damian Brett and Roger Hailey will be there to report from the must-attend event.Our refreshed, more user-friendly website, will have the latest news and analysis over the three ...
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Perishables, pharma and high-tech mitigate January drop in total air cargo volume
January 2019 another volume drop in total chargeable air cargo weight, this time of 2% year on year (YoY), coupled with a dollar yield drop of 2.5%, confirming a trend seen over a number of months said market analyst WorldACD in its latest report.The smaller regions of Africa and Central ...
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NewsCAL nets another Oslo freighter call
CAL Cargo is adding a second weekly rotation to its Oslo freighter service on the back of demand for Norwegian seafood in Israel.The extra Liege-Oslo-Tel Aviv B747F frequency will start on March 1 and follows on from the launch of services to the Nordic hub in 2017. From Liege, CAL ...
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Kerry Logistics to offer 'smart sensor' providing 'total supply chain visibility'
Kerry Logistics will offer customers the option of using a 'smart sensor' within their supply chain, which enables total supply chain visibility and improved security.The logistics firm said the smart sensor monitors cargo across ocean, air, and ground transportation around-the-clock and is accepted in over 190 countries. Both consignees and ...
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NewslATAM Cargo continues US expansion with Chicago freighter
Andrés Bianchi (left) and Gabriel OlivaLATAM Cargo has continued its expansion in North America with the addition of a freighter service between Chicago and Campinas that will slash transport times.The Chile-headquartered airline said the twice-weekly B767-300F service, with each flight offering 50 tonnes of capacity, will cut transport times to ...
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Love is in the air for Turkish Cargo as it shifts 4,000 tons of flowers
Turkish Cargo carried almost 4,000 tons of flowers across the globe as demand ramped up for Valentine's Day.The airline said its flower volumes flourished between January 1 and February 10 as it transported the perishable product to/from various destinations/origins to Stansted, Narita, Maastricht and Riyadh, and from Quito to Amsterdam, ...
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LATAM Cargo moves 9,000 tons of flowers for Valentine's Day
LATAM Cargo flew more than 9,000 tons of flowers between January 14 and February 8 for Valentine's Day.The airline said that red and pink roses, mixed bouquets, carnations, chrysanthemums, iris, gypsophila and greenery were the most popular flowers.LATAM Cargo transported flowers from Bogota and Medellin in Colombia and from Quito ...
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Lufthansa freighters find that Valentine's Day roses grow on EU
Lufthansa Cargo is to transport 900 tonnes of roses to Europe for Valentine’s Day.To serve the especially high import demand around Valentine’s Day, Lufthansa Cargo transport will transport 900 tonnes of the long-stemmed flowers on the Quito–Frankfurt, Bogotá–Frankfurt and Nairobi–Frankfurt routes this year – equivalent to some 10m individual roses.The ...