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DHL Express expedites Bahrain-Jeddah operation with new flight
DHL Express has added a new flight between Bahrain and Jeddah as it looks to speed up connection times between the two locations.The express operator said the flight will fly seven times a week utilising a B757 freighter, which is capable of carrying around 22 tonnes of cargo.The new flight ...
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K+N announces MoU with Alibaba.com to offer global logistics services
Global freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alibaba.com, the B2B business arm of China's Alibaba Group, to offer global logistics services.Under the MoU, K+N’s global logistics network will combine with Alibaba’s expertise in B2B e-commerce, to offer China-based shippers e-commerce logistics solutions.In January ...
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Carousel expands with larger aircraft and new destinations
Logistics firm Carousel has announced it will expand its line-haul air cargo operation with a new aircraft and a new destination.Carousel first launched its air cargo operation in September last year with a daily flight between Southend Airport in the UK and Baden Baden in Germany, utilising a Metro III ...
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An-124s in compressor flight from UK to Seoul
ANTONOV Airlines has transported three 23 tonne compressors on one of its seven AN-124-100s, from its UK base at London Stansted Airport to Incheon International Airport.The compressors measured 648cm long, 284cm wide, and 358cm high and travelled in modified crates designed to work with the AN-124-100's unique on-board crane system.ANTONOV ...
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ABC expands Asian network with call in fast growing Taipei
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has continued the expansion of its operations in Asia with the addition of Taipei to its list of destinations.ABC will fly to Taipei twice per week utilising a Boeing 747F aircraft. The new service, which was launched on April 8, will operate from Moscow Sheremetyevo every Wednesday ...
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Heathrow cargo surge in March leads UK hub upswing
Heathrow Airport saw its March 2017 cargo volumes surge to 148,000 tonnes, a near 13% increase over the same month last year and the largest monthly growth in more than five years.The UK’s number one airfreight hub and Europe’s fourth largest air cargo gateway saw long-haul emerging markets remain a ...
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New eastbound London-China rail service
The number of rail services between China and Europe that target airfreight customers increased again yesterday when Kerry Logistics and a series of other companies came together to launch an eastbound operation.The first of the new services left DP World's London Gateway terminal yesterday as it set off on a ...
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Turkish Cargo freighter flights to Oslo
Turkish Cargo has confirmed the launched of a two times a week Airbus A330-200 freighter service to Oslo Airport, aimed at the growing Norwegian seafood export market.Said the carrier: "2016 was a record year for Norwegian seafood export, and Turkish Airlines wishes to take part in this development. Turkish Cargo ...
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Another CEIV station for DHL
DHL Global Forwarding's Shanghai station is the latest to achieve IATA's CEIV pharma certification.The certification of Shanghai comes shortly after the forwarder's stations in Dublin and Leipzig achieved the quality award.DHL started to certify its global stations according to the IATA CEIV Pharma Standard in the third quarter of 2016."Following ...
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UK retailer signs up with SEKO Logistics
UK retailer Joules has signed a three-year supply chain contract with SEKO Logistics as it embarks on a global expansion.SEKO will manage Joules’ global supply chain from all its sourcing locations in Asia and the Indian Sub-continent into their distribution centre in Corby in the UK and into the US, ...
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CargoLogicAir adds to management team
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has announced two new appointments to its executive team.The freighter operator has appointed John Nicholas as technical director and David Bowden as its chief financial officer.Nicholas will take charge of all technical matters relating to the airline’s Boeing 747 freighter fleet and air safety programme.He worked for 19-years ...
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Swiss WorldCargo looks to roll out new innovations
Swiss WorldCargo is an airline that likes to innovate, and in a move to “keep pace with the modern challenges of global logistics” it has created a new organisational structure and revealed a further push into digitalisation.Swiss International Air Lines head of cargo Ashwin Bhat tells Air Cargo News that ...
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Lynne Embleton replaces Drew Crawley as IAG Cargo chief
IAG has appointed Lynne Embleton as the new chief executive of its cargo division with immediate effect, as incumbent Drew Crawley leaves the role after just over a year.IAG said it had appointed Embleton - current British Airways managing director at Gatwick - as Crawley will move on to the ...
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Air Incheon signs up for B737-400 conversion
Air Incheon has contracted PEMCO World Air Servicesto convert a single B737-400 aircraft into a freighter configuration.Air Incheon’s B737-400 PEMCO-converted aircraft features a custom cargo loading system, up to 48,000 pounds of payload, and 4,600 cubic feet of total volume under PEMCO’s supplemental type certificate.“We chose PEMCO to expand our ...
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Leisure Cargo appoints GAC as Dutch GSA
Leisure Cargo has appointed ECS subsidiary Globe Air Cargo as its general sales agent in the Netherlands.Leisure Cargo, which offers cargo capacity on a network of 14 leisure airlines, said that through GAC it will offer TUI-flights to Dutch Antilles, Mexico, Florida and various destinations in Europe as well as ...
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Shipper body fears an ongoing boxship capacity crisis
The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) has revealed it will set up a temporary observer group composed of representatives of European exporters to monitor the ongoing ocean capacity shortage on services from Europe to Asia.Massive delays have arisen of late in maritime container shipping, in part because of the bankruptcy of ...
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Qatar Cargo the latest to add Phnom Penh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has today launched its first freighter service to the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh as it looks to capitalise on growing demand from the Southeast Asian origin.The new service will utilise an Airbus A330 freighter operating on the Doha–Phnom Penh–Doha route once a week, offering 60 tonnes ...
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Heathrow welcomes new China trade link
Heathrow Airport has welcomed the extra cargo capacity that a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner China Southern service will bring to the UK-China market.The west London airport said that China Southern's new twice daily service between Heathrow and Guangzhou would increase capacity to the Chinese city to up to 8,760 metric ...
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Intrepid delivers first of two B747-8 freighters to AirBridgeCargo
US lessor Intrepid Aviation has delivered the first of two new B747-8 freighters from Boeing and placed the General Electric GEnx powered aircraft on "very long term lease" with AirBridgeCargo (ABC), a part of the Volga-Dnepr Group.This latest handover comes after aircraft lessor BOC Aviation last week announced that it ...
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Antonov's An-132D multipurpose turboprop completes first flight
Antonov has completed the first flight of its new An-132D aircraft, which will target the cargo industry as well as other sectors.The Ukraine-based aircraft manufacturer said that on March 31 the An-132D flew for one hour and 30 minutes after taking off from the company’s airfield in Kiev.The aircraft, which ...