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Alha wins long term Cathay contract in Milan
Alha Group has won a long-term contract to provide ramps services for Cathay Pacific all-cargo aircraft at Milan Malpensa airport.The handler said it had rapidly assembled a ground support equipment fleet to meet the strict operational requirements of the carrier, which operates with very tight turnarounds and a very high ...
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Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport sees September surge
Moscow Sheremetyevo airport handled more than 200,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2017, an increase of almost 40% over the same period in 2016.The airport – Russia’s largest for both cargo and passengers – said that the airfreight surge was due to a significant increase in cargo on ...
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Bloodhound scents a record, with help from CargoLogicAir
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has congratulated the Bloodhound SSC team following the first public run of its 1,000mph car, for which the carrier is the official cargo airline partner.Representatives of the British all-cargo carrier joined 3,500 spectators at Cornwall Airport Newquay to witness Bloodhound successfully complete its first test run. It completed ...
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Emirates goes daily to Algiers
Emirates is to add an extra flight to its Dubai-Algiers schedule making it a seven days a week service from December 13. The new service will operate every Wednesday with a Boeing 777-300.Emirates senior vice-president commercial operations for Africa, Orhan Abbas, said that the Algiers flight offered connections to and ...
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Oman switches over to SmartKargo
Oman Air Cargo has introduced a new 100% Cloud-based cargo ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution from SmartKargo: an advanced cargo management platform suitable for airlines, ground handlers, sales agents and regulators.Oman Air stated that it chose SmartKargo to “maximise the potential of its cargo business – leveraging the solution’s advanced, ...
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David Kerr named as chief executive of CargoLogicAir
Etihad Airways cargo boss David Kerr has been named as the new chief executive of CargoLogicAir (CLA), the UK-registered freighter airline, with effect from 1 January 2018.Sir John Holmes, advisory board chairman of CLA, said: “David is a highly respected, experienced and well-known air cargo industry executive who will bring ...
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JAL goes for Starlight Express in Nepal market
Nepalese freight forwarder Starlight Express is to act as the general sales agent (GSA) for Japan Airlines Cargo in the Nepalese market.Starlight Express will sell the cargo capacity of the Tokyo-headquartered carrier’s flights between Japan and Nepal.Starlight, as an agent of the Hong Kong-based freight forwarder and logistics solutions provider ...
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Lufthansa opts for va-Q-tec passive temp-control containers
Lufthansa Cargo has partnered with va-Q-tec to offer the temperature-controlled specialist's va-Q-tainer thermal containers at stations across the German flag-carrier’s global network.The va-Q-tainer is a temperature-controlled container solution for six temperature ranges from -70°C to +25°C. Negating the need for external energy sources, it is available in five sizes, and ...
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Leipzig/Halle supports ever-growing freight volumes
Leipzig/Halle airport handled 828,163 tonnes of cargo during the first nine months of 2017, a 7.7% increase over the same period last year for Germany’s second-largest airfreight hub.It also represented the 13th consecutive year of cargo growth at Europe’s fifth-largest airfreight gateway.The airport, operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen, serves as a ...
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IAG Cargo enjoys ‘strong growth’ in third quarter
IAG Cargo’s 2017 third quarter results saw airfreight's commercial revenue reach €259m, a 10.2% increase over the same July-September period in 2016 when measured at constant exchange rates.The carrier - which includes British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling - saw its cargo yield for the quarter up by 2.4% ...
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Rhenus consolidates airfreight operations through Frankfurt
Supply chain operator Rhenus is consolidating its European airfreight volumes at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest air cargo hub.The decision to create the new hub was taken in response to “the positive global development in business and the increasing volumes of freight in its air and ccean business”.The airfreight hub at ...
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Heathrow reports strong cargo growth
Cargo traffic through Heathrow airport rose by 10.5% year on year to reach 1.25m tonnes in the first nine months of 2017.Passenger volumes at key UK London gateway also rose, helping to generate a year on year revenue increase of 3.2% to £2.2bn ($2.9bn).Adjusted earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and ...
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London airports "completely full" by mid-2030s says UK government
All five of London’s main airports will be "completely full" by the mid-2030s, and four of them within a decade, according to updated aviation demand forecasts published today by the UK government.Transport minister Chris Grayling said that the forecasts “also show us that the north-west runway scheme at Heathrow is ...
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NewsUK airfreight fails to keep pace with passenger growth
Department for Transport statistics confirm that UK airfreight has not kept pace with the national growth in passenger numbers, in terms of both tonnage and numbers of aircraft movementsIn 2011, (77%) and 2016 (78%) most freight by tonnage was in carried the bellyholds of passenger aircraft, states the latest updated ...
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Cathay Pacific gains CEIV Pharma
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification.Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s director commercial and cargo, said: “Cathay Pacific Cargo adheres to the highest operating standards and this certification highlights our capabilities in handling these precious, time-sensitive and often life-saving shipments.”CEIV Pharma ...
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WFS wins Qatar Airways handling contract for Pittsburgh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide cargo handling for its new twice-weekly Being 777 freighter services to Pittsburgh.The flight makes Qatar Airways the first international airline to begin a scheduled freighter service to the Pennsylvanian hub, and it becomes the Middle East airline’s fifth freighter ...
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Forwarders look to secure airfreight capacity for busy peak
Freight forwarders are bracing for a busy peak period by securing air cargo capacity under block space (BSA) and ACMI agreements.Speaking shortly after announcing third-quarter results, Panalpina said it expected capacity to be an issue while slot constraints at airports, a veiled reference to the issues at Schiphol, would also ...
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Cargo demand up in Asia Pacific but carriers still face pressure
Asia Pacific carriers reported another month of cargo growth in September, but continued to come under pressure due to fierce competition in the region.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show that cargo demand increased by a “solid” 11.4% year on year in September to 6bn ...
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IAI gains STC approval for its 737-700 freighter conversion
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has received a supplemental type certificate (STC) for its Boeing737-700BDSF passenger aircraft to freighter conversion programme.IAI recently completed its first ever conversion of a prototype aircraft from passenger to full-freighter configuration, including the installation of a wide cargo door.The aircraft was delivered to Alaska Airline as ...
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Trinity and Etihad launch B777F to Hanoi from Ohio
Trinity Logistics USA and Etihad Airways have again joined forces to launch a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service between Hanoi in Vietnam and Ohio’s Rickenbacker airport (Columbus) in the US.The US logistics operator and the Middle East carrier already operate a joint twice a week B777F to Asia, from Colombo ...