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American Airlines adds new Middle East air cargo GSA
American Airlines Cargo has chosen Heavyweight Air Express (HAE) as its General Sales Agent (GSA) in the United Arab Emirates.HAE replaces long-standing GSA, Airline Cargo Resources (ACR), which has recently chosen to downsize its commitments in the region.This is the second area of the world in which HAE was chosen ...
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CEVA adds new Dublin temp control facility
CEVA Logistics has added a new 15,000 sq ft temperature control facility at its airport industrial park warehouse.The new building has been constructed as an insulated building-within-a-building on the city's airport industrial park and will allow the forwarder to "better serve customers with medical products requiring to be kept within ...
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Kohnen replaces FJ Miller at time:matters
Alexander Kohnen has been appointed the new managing director strategy & sales at time:matters, effective November 15.The 40-year-old succeeds Franz-Joseph Miller, who left the company of his own accord on July 1.Kohnen has held various management positions at Lufthansa Cargo since October 2000, most recently senior director industry development and ...
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Ronald Lam takes charge of Cathay's cargo business
Cathay Pacific has appointed Ronald Lam to the newly created role of director commercial and cargo.The role was created earlier this year as part of a shake-up of the management organisation.Previously, the cargo department had its own director role, mostly recently occupied by Simon Large, who is now director of ...
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NewsHorse sense: Jettainer offers leasing option for flying stables
Airfreight container firm Jettainer is now offering a leasing option for "flying stables" so that horse transport boxes can be made available at short notice.The specially designed containers can be leased for one day or up to several months, said the Lufthansa-owned outsourced unit load device (ULD) management company.A wide ...
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Budapest Airport plans animal facilities after horse transport
Cargolux and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics arranged the first transportation of live horses from Budapest Airport after Hungary received clearance to begin flying the animals last year.In total, 14 racehorses bred in Hungary were flown to China last week, on board a Cargolux B747-8F.Budapest Airport property director René Droese stated that, ...
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Heathrow appoints Eva Gil-Llacer to the airport's cargo team
London Heathrow Airport has appointed Eva Gil-Llacer to the Heathrow Cargo team in the role of cargo improvement manager.Gil-Llacer will take responsibility for Heathrow’s cargo improvement projects and engage with the air cargo community "to drive improvements in speed, predictability and collaboration," said airport management in a statement.She joins the ...
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UK aerospace cluster warns of UK trade disruption after Brexit
Trade bodies have responded to government plans to ask Brussels to establish a “temporary customs union” after it leaves the EU in March 2019.UK aerospace trade association ADS has warned that UK government plans to leave the European Union (EU) customs union during a Brexit transition period “will raise concerns ...
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Emirates has pharma covered with new DuPont material
Emirates SkyCargo is rolling out a new pharma white cover solution developed in collaboration with DuPont.Featuring DuPont’s Tyvek Xtreme W50 material, the new White Cover Xtreme will offer “enhanced protection for temperature sensitive cargo in hot, cold and wet weather conditions”.From June to August 2017, Emirates SkyCargo has also been ...
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New Moscow cargo terminal prepares for 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, preparing for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with Russia as the host nation, has finished construction work on the new Moscow Cargo terminal, claimed to be the largest airfreight facility in the Russian Federation.Rosaviatsiya, the Federal Agency of Air Transport, has now issued a permit for ...
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Houston, we have a solution. Piped spooling flown to US on B747-400F cargo charter
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering oversaw the time-critical delivery of 60 tons of pipe spooling from Sharjah to Houston for an equipment upgrade at a gas-to-liquids processing plant.The air cargo charter specialist’s Dubai office coordinated the movement, on behalf of a freight forwarder, with the assistance of Magma Aviation, which repositioned a ...
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Lufthansa Cargo sets up 'test factory' with IBS Software
IBS Software has set up a 'Test Factory' for Lufthansa Cargo to ensure that all its application software is fit for purpose and meet the highest quality standards.IBS said that Lufthansa Cargo will benefit from the IT solution provider's air cargo domain knowledge and "vast experience of building, testing and ...
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NewsCathay swings to H1 loss despite improving cargo business
Cathay Pacific recorded a loss in the first half of the year, despite the positive performance of its cargo business (see tables at end of article).The Hong Kong-headquartered airline recorded a loss attributable to shareholders of HK$2bn during the first half, compared with a profit of HK$353m last year. Revenues ...
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Leisure Cargo airfreight services not affected by Air Berlin insolvency
Leisure Cargo has moved to assure customers that its airfreight services have not been affected after its parent, Air Berlin, yesterday filed for insolvency.The company, which is a virtual airline, marketing cargo capacity on 14 low-cost and tourist airlines, said that all flights operated by Air Berlin and Austria-based subsidiary ...
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Maersk freight forwarding arm Damco sees $8m loss in 2017 first half
Damco, the freight forwarding and logistics arm of Danish container shipping giant Maersk, reported a $8m loss on turnover of $1.24bn in the first half of 2017, down from a profit of $12m last year, but broke even in the second quarter as airfreight volumes rose.Parent group AP Moller-Maersk (APMM) ...
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Freight forwarders want more detail on post-Brexit Customs proposal
UK freight forwarders would like to see more detail on the government's post-Brexit trade and customs arrangements.Earlier today, the government issued a position paper suggesting that the UK could ask Brussels to establish a “temporary customs union” after it leaves the EU in March 2019.The British International Freight Association (BIFA) ...
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Swiss WorldCargo consolidates in the US
Swiss WorldCargo will re-organise its set-up in the American market, consolidating its current three regions into two.From October 2017, Swiss WorldCargo’s American organization will be consist of two regions: Western, southern USA & South America and northeast/Midwest USA and Canada.The newly created region Western, Southern USA & South America will ...
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IAG Cargo looks to automotive for new Nashville operation
IAG Cargo will begin offering services to and from Nashville, Tennessee, from May next year as it looks to capitalise on the city's automotive sector.The new passenger service will fly five-times-a-week between the US hub and Heathrow in the UK utilising a Boeing 747-8, which offers a payload of 15 ...
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UK's post-brexit trade and customs plans a step in the right direction, says FTA
The UK's Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the UK government’s position paper on post-Brexit trade and customs arrangements as a “step in the right direction”.However, the association added that the ambitions laid out in the document are far from guaranteed, and will require some careful negotiation in order to ...
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BAE postpones plans for Avro RJ100 freighter conversion
UK-based plane manufacturer BAE Systems has postponed plans for an Avro RJ100 freighter conversion programme.In a statement, BAE Systems’ regional aircraft division said that the decision “has been taken for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the decision by ASL Airlines Ireland to sell the eight ...