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Davies Turner Air Cargo expands in Glasgow
Davies Turner Air Cargo has doubled the size of its branch in Glasgow to accommodate growing demand.The airfreight subsidiary of Davies Turner, the UK’s largest independent freight forwarder, has had a base on the Hillington Park business estate since 2004 but has now moved into a 10,000 sq ft, fully ...
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European shippers fight to ensure new tax does not stifle green efforts
Lobbying against a sustainability tax is already a moral minefield if you represent logistics providers, as you are by definition a polluter, but it becomes doubly so when you are representing the air cargo industry and therefore sitting on the smallest seat at the negotiating table.Rogier Spoel, air cargo manager ...
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Panalpina donates flight to UNICEF for South Sudan aid effort
Panalpina has again assisted the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) by flying relief aid to Africa to help children in war torn South Sudan.A Panalpina chartered MD-11 cargo aircraft landed last night in neighboring Uganda, carrying nearly 70 tons of supplies including emergency health kits.The supplies will be trucked ...
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Kenya adopts TIACA’S Cargo Service Quality tool
Kenya is set to become the first country to adopt TIACA’s new Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool nationwide.Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is aiming to implement the online tool at all Kenyan cargo hubs by mid-2019, allowing forwarders to rate and review service quality at the airports, providing data to improve ...
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WFS scoops Air Europa handling deal at nine airports
Air Europa, Spain’s second largest airline, has chosen Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its cargo handler at nine airports across Europe.Commencing this month, the three-year contract gives WFS responsibility for handling the airline’s cargo volumes in Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and ...
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European airlines warn of 'disastrous' no-deal Brexit
European airlines have warned that a ‘no-deal’ Brexit for the UK could have “disastrous consequences for the aviation industry, including the grounding of many flights across EU countries and the UK”.A letter from the European Regions Airlines Association (ERA) has urged the European Commission, the Brussels-based EU legislative arm, to ...
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Antonov's Swift response for Taylor-made concert tour
Antonov Airlines transported stage and concert equipment for US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, from Brisbane, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand, and then on to Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan.The Ukrainian heavy lift carrier used two Antonov AN-124-100 freighters to ferry the singer’s light-show system and equipment earlier for the final leg ...
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Bangladesh exports fly out of Kolkata in first bonded cargo land-air transhipment
Bonded cargo from Bangladesh was flown out of the Indian airport of Kolkata after EFL created a tailor-made logistics solution to handle the very first bonded, cross-border, land-air transhipment between the two countries.The EFL offices in Bangladesh and India collaborated in handling the cargo of apparel at the point of ...
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Turkish Cargo website has updated interface
Turkish Cargo has updated its corporate website, which is designed to be less complicated but more functional, with a new interface.A spokesperson for the carrier said: "All users will be able to not only perform all frequently-used processes such as flight schedule, cargo tracking, terminal charges, flight network, fleet and ...
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Airlines call on EU governments to tackle air traffic management problems
Airlines for Europe (A4E) is urging the EU and national governments to take swift and decisive action to reform Europe’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) system as 2018 is shaping up to be the worst year for ATC delays and flight cancellations in nearly a decade.“Europe’s Transport Ministers are meeting on ...
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Schenker revamps board of directors
Schenker AG says it is looking to the future, with three new top managers who will make the Management Board “younger, more international and even more customer focused”.New Board Member for Air and Ocean Freight is Thorsten Meincke, 49. With a degree in economics, he most recently served as the ...
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FedEx launches 4x week Singapore – Sydney service
FedEx Express (FedEx) has launched a new dedicated four times a week service between Sydney, Australia, and Singapore.The company says new flight is designed to meet customer demand for increased capacity, particularly for heavyweight shipments. Customers in Singapore and Australia will benefit from the increased capacity and reliability to transport ...
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DHL forwarding to assess options for leased freighter network in the New Year
DHL Global Forwarding will assess whether to launch a third round the world freighter service or to cut back on the existing uplift after the Chinese New Year, which falls early in 2019.No decision has been taken either way on the leased Boeing 747 maindeck network, but Tim Scharwath, chief ...
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Hactl wins Technovation award for Smart Cargo Locating project
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (Hactl) has won the Operational Excellence category in this year’s Smart Airport Technovation Awards organised by Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).The award was given to Hactl, Hong Kong’s largest independent cargo handler, in recognition of its Smart Cargo Locating project, which has recently gone ...
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cargo-partner fine-tunes orchestra shipments
Logistics company cargo-partner ensured that all the instruments and equipment were delivered on-time and in prime condition for an Austrian symphonic orchestra’s tour of Japan.This was especially challenging since the return transport had to be prepared before the final concert tour route was fully decided and there was a very ...
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AirBridgeCargo offers specialist care to cattle
Two hundred breeding cattle benefited from AirBridgeCargo’s specialist ‘abc Care’ services when they were flown from Amsterdam to Yuzhno Sakhalinsk in Russia for Intradco Global.The heifers, each weighing some 500kgs, were kept in a carefully maintained temperature environment, with every stage of the transportation monitored and controlled by the airline’s ...
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UK and US agree new open skies arrangements after Brexit
The UK and the US governments have agreed an 'open skies' air services arrangement that will safeguard flights between the two countries after Brexit, when the UK leaves the European Union (EU) in March 2019.It is one of nine such arrangements already agreed by the UK's Department for Transport (DfT) ...
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CEVA to launch China–Europe trucking service to compete with airfreight
CEVA Logistics Greater China is preparing to launch truck services between China and Europe, claiming they are cheaper than airfreight and faster than rail.The first trial of the service, which has become possible since the international customs transit system, TIR, became active for the People’s Republic of China last May, ...
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Asian carriers positive on cargo despite international trade tensions
International air cargo volumes remain “firm, notwithstanding tensions around global trade policies,” according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) in its preliminary traffic figures for October.Asian airlines saw international air cargo demand increase by 5.6% as measured in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) compared to last October, supported by ...
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Hellmann the latest to sign up with cargo.one
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has become the latest company to launch a partnership with online airfreight booking portal cargo.one.The forwarder said that cargo.one would enable it to book airfreight capacity fully digitally in real time, with live spot rates. Initially, Hellman will use the platform for bookings made in Germany, before ...