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DHL to expand in Vienna with new airport facility
DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight have started construction of the new DHL Campus Vienna Airport.DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight are each building an advanced freight terminal and an office building with a total of around 12,000m² of warehouse space and around 3,500m² of office space on the property ...
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Chinese carrier Uni-top adds Liege freighter service
Uni-top Airlines has added a new all-cargo route from Liege to Wuhan utilising a Boeing 747-400F.This is the latest European cargo route opened by the airline after the introduction of its route from Luxembourg to Wuhan on January 26, 2018.The new route has three flights per week, every Monday, Wednesday, ...
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Agility raises warehousing game in Mozambique
Forwarding and logistics firm Agility has started work on a 29ha warehouse park at Marracuene, near Maputo in Mozambique, laying the foundation stone in the presence of provincial governor, Raimundo Maico Diomba.The new park, on the city’s ring road, will provide 175,000sq m of space and is part of a ...
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DHL Express hails ten years in Leipzig
DHL Express celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Leipzig airfreight hub on the weekend of 1-2 September, with a family celebration for employees and an exclusive festival concert for invited citizens from all over central Germany.The final event on Sunday was an official ceremony in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, attended by ...
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Kansai Airport set to re-open to domestic flights after devastating typhoon
Osaka Kansai International Airport is expected to reopen to domestic flights on Friday (September 7) despite the severe damage caused by Typhoon Jebi earlier in the week , according to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.At the height of the storm, the most severe to hit the region in a quarter ...
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IATA calls for action in Indian aviation
IATA director general and chief executive Alexandre de Juniac has highlighted several areas that could maximise the potential contribution of India’s aviation industry to the country’s development.Speaking at the International Aviation Summit in Delhi, co-hosted by the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), Airports Authority India (AAI) and IATA, de ...
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Typhoon Jebi brings Osaka to a standstill
Osaka Kansai International Airport remains closed as a result of Typhoon Jebi that made landfall in Japan on September 4, causing significant damage to the gateway’s Terminal 1 as well as other destruction and several deaths across the country.The gateway, which was flooded on Tuesday, said all flights are currently ...
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China Airlines adds Rickenbacker freighter operation
Taiwan’s China Airlines has launched three times a week Boeing 747-400 Freighter services between Taipei and Columbus, Ohio.Rickenbacker Airport is the carrier’s 11th US destination. The airline provides onward connections to Chicago, Seattle and Anchorage.China Airlines noted that Rickenbacker’s airfreight volumes “jumped” by 70% in 2017 compared to 2016, as ...
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Room at the Inn: Liege hosts elite horses ahead of WEG
Hard on the heels of Emirates SkyCargo’s announcement of its involvement in the transportation of horses to the US ahead of the FEI World Equestrian Games, Liege Airport has confirmed its own role in getting the competition under way.Over 500 horses will depart from the Belgian gateway this month (September), ...
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Jeju Air domestic cargo flights take off
Local press reports indicate that South Korean budget carrier Jeju Air will begin domestic airfreight services linking Jeju International Airport and Gimpo International Airport on September 17.According to Pulse, the English news service of the Maeil Business News, the airline expects to carry around 15 tons of freight per day ...
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Dubai’s ISS Global Forwarding: ‘a regional powerhouse’
The Investment Corporation of Dubai has launched ISS Global Forwarding as part a strategic directive by the Government of Dubai to separate Inchcape Shipping Services Holding into two standalone companies focused on marine services and – in the case of ISS Global Forwarding – supply chain logistics.The new venture will ...
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Air China to offload majority stake in cargo arm in face of uncertain market
On 30 August, Air China announced its intention to sell its 51% stake in Air China Cargo to sister unit Capital Holding in light of uncertainties in international trade.Once the RMB2.4bn ($357m) transaction is completed, Air China Cargo will no longer be a subsidiary of the Beijing-headquartered airline. Capital Holding ...
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BARIG calls for joint action on capacity
The Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) has highlighted a need to address capacity issues in the European country as recent months have seen numerous flight cancellations and delays.“Now all players in the industry as well as authorities and politics have to work on joint solutions," said BARIG secretary ...
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Miami welcomes new scheduled Ethiopian freighter service
Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated its first-ever scheduled freighter service to Miami International Airport (MIA) on 29 August.The African carrier is to operate a twice-weekly freighter connection between the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and Miami, creating the first-ever cargo-only route between the African continent and the Florida gateway.The scheduled service operates ...
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Jet Airways commits to further restructuring
Earlier this week, the board of directors of Indian airline Jet Airways met to announce the company's financial results for the first quarter of its 2019 financial year (which coincides with the calendar year).The board also discussed various cost-cutting measures, debt reduction and funding options, and tasked the airline’s management ...
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DSV wins multimodal contract from GEO Specialty Chemicals
The UK business of Denmark-headquartered logistics operator DSV recently inked a two-year contract with GEO Specialty Chemicals to provide domestic and multi-market export fulfilment services for chemicals manufactured at the company’s facility in Hythe, Southampton.The contract, which extends up to April 2020, with the possibility to extend by a further ...
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Kerry reports on successful first half to 2018
Kerry Logistics has announced its interim results for the first half of 2018, the six months up to the end of June.The Hong Kong-based logistics specialist’s turnover rose by 27% year on year to reach HK$17,461m, while core net profit increased by 22% to reach HK$700m.Its International Freight Forwarding (IFF) ...
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Hermes Germany takes over SEKO Logistics GmbH
On 1 September 2018, Hermes Germany will formally take over SEKO Logistics GmbH.SEKO Logistics GmbH has offices in Bremen and Frankfurt and all employees of both these offices in Germany will be incorporated into the new Hermes structure.Hermes provides international logistics services to the retail industry. Headquartered in Hamburg, it ...
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Leading airfreight operator calls for more from African airports
Sanjeev Gadhia, the founder and chief executive of Astral Aviation, an all-cargo carrier based at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, as well as a TIACA director and vice chairman of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Cargo Task Force, has made a plea on behalf of freighter carriers for African airports ...
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B777F boom continues as AeroLogic adds another freighter
AeroLogic, the freighter operator jointly owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Deutsche Post AG through their subsidiaries Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express (each with 50% shares), is to add another Boeing B777 freighter to its fleet in January.This latest addition will take the carrier’s all-cargo inventory to 11 aircraft.Lufthansa Cargo ...