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IAG Cargo to embrace technology with new customer portal and WMS
IAG Cargo will look to further embrace technology to create efficiencies and improve its product offering in the year ahead in order to offset the current market conditions.Speaking shortly after the carrier revealed its 2016 full-year results, IAG Cargo chief executive Drew Crawley and head of commercial David Shepherd revealed ...
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NewsDHL's green award for Lufthansa Cargo
German airline Lufthansa Cargo has been named a ‘preferred carrier’ by DHL Global Forwarding and presented with a GoGreen carrier certificate.Rather like the Michelin Star system for restaurants, Lufthansa Cargo has been awarded with four “green aircraft” by the German-based logistics giant for its environmentally-friendly performance.Lufthansa Cargo was the only ...
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NewsAsia Cargo Monthly: Slow start to the year for Asian carriers
It was a slow start to the year on the cargo front for airlines based in the Asia region, with only China Airlines and Eva Air recording significant improvements in demand.While only two of the region’s airlines managed to continue to grow at the levels recorded towards the end of ...
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First flight for Tunisia's Express Air Cargo
New Tunisian freighter operator Express Air Cargo has completed its first commercial flight, operating a Boeing 737-300F between Tunis and Paris Charles de Gaulle on February 25.The airline took delivery of the aircraft in mid-January after it went through a series of inspections and said it would be taking delivery ...
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South African airports plan for an upswing
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is taking steps to ease congestion at the country’s major cargo gateways, particularly Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International, it revealed at Air Cargo Africa.Speaking after the show, OR Tambo International general manager Bongiwe Pityi said that the airport wanted to expand warehouse space in the short ...
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Heathrow cargo growth outpaces passengers
Heathrow Airport saw a 3% rise in cargo volumes for full year 2016 to 1.54m tonnes, attributing the rise to a £674m investment in the airport and new services to Jakarta, San Jose, Santiago and Inverness.The increase contributed to a 1.5% increase in earnings for the airport’s operations as a ...
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NewsIAG Cargo hails resilient results in tough conditions
IAG Cargo saw revenues and cargo tonnages decline in last year in what the carrier described as “challenging market conditions”.The cargo division representing British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia saw full-year revenues decline by 6.6% year on year in 2016 to €1bn, while tonnes of cargo carried were down 2.9% ...
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Carriers to focus on cost and service delivery to combat overcapacity
Carriers need to concentrate on being highly competitive and to be “rabidly focused” on service delivery to combat market overcapacity.Speaking at the Air Cargo Africa event, aviation players outlined how they viewed the current market conditions in terms of supply and demand, and all agreed that in general the market ...
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Africa looks to the future and e-commerce despite current challenges
The air cargo industry in Africa has a bright future on the back of its growing population, youthful demographic and rising e-commerce demand, but infrastructure and regulatory challenges remain.Delegates at the Air Cargo Africa event painted a bleak picture of the African market at present, with droughts, the weakness of ...
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Hactl gains CEIV certificate
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has become the first handler in the Territory to gain full IATA CEIV Pharma certification. It is the result of an initiative sponsored by the airport authority, in which all relevant industry players undergo validation for the standard.IATA CEIV Pharma represents a co-ordinated ...
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Dubai Customs calls for greater collaboration on trade and security
Dubai's top customs official has said that greater co-operation is needed between local, regional and international authorities to facilitate trade and sustain high levels of security.“With the UAE’s positioning as a world-class transport and integrated logistics hub, it has become more important than ever to deploy effective screening and detection ...
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AeroVision turns to B&H Worldwide at Heathrow
Michigan-based AeroVision International has confirmed that it is to open a new forward stocking location in the UK to serve customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in collaboration with B&H Worldwide, the London-headquartered logistics provider and a specialist in the delivery of aerospace parts.“Our newly initiated warehouse will ...
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Moscow’s Sheremetyevo saw 2016 cargo surge
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport saw a near 30% surge in freight volumes during 2016 to around 231,000 tonnes.Moscow Cargo is the main handler at Sheremetyevo Airport, handling more than 90% of total air cargo throughputs at the Russian hub where Russian Federation national carrier Aeroflot and freighter operator AirBridgeCargo (ABC) are ...
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BIFA creates new directors
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) board has approved the promotion of Robert Windsor and Spencer Stevenson to directors of BIFA.BIFA is the trade association for UK-registered companies engaged in the international movement of freight by all modes of transport: air, road, rail and sea.Windsor, who joined the BIFA secretariat ...
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DHL to inaugurate domestic Norwegian connection
Avinor, the national airport operator in Norway, has confirmed that DHL is to launch a new domestic freighter service linking Oslo Airport with Lakselv Airport Banak, a gateway in the far north of the country.The Airbus 300 freighter link will offer a cargo capacity of approximately 40 tons. Depending on ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo celebrates Miami freighter launch
Qatar Airways Cargo inaugurated a Boeing 777 freighter connection with Miami International Airport (MIA) from its Doha hub on February 2, the route also taking in South American stops at Sao Paulo in Brazil, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Quito in Ecuador, as well as in Luxembourg.The inaugural was celebrated ...
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Hong Kong welcomes steady cargo growth
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) achieved what it describes as “steady growth” in all air traffic categories in the first month of 2017.Cargo traffic through the gateway increased by 3.1% compared with January 2016 to reach 372,000 tonnes.The increased cargo throughput was attributed in the main by Airport Authority Hong ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Mixed bag for European airlines in January
January was a mixed month for Europe’s combination carriers on the cargo front, with Lufthansa and IAG reporting increases in traffic while demand was down at Air France KLM and Finnair.Lufthansa, the largest of the four carriers in cargo terms, saw January cargo traffic increase by 4.9% year on year ...
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Air Logistics scoops seven country GSA deal from Finnair
Finnair Cargo has appointed Air Logistics Group as its General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) in seven countries across Europe.The exclusive GSSA agreement will take effect from April 1 and Air Logistics will provide full cargo sales, marketing, customer service, administration and operational support across Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the ...
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Alitalia business plan takes a step forward
The board of directors of Italian airline Alitalia have agreed that a final adjusted business plan will be presented by the end of the month (March 2017).The board met yesterday (Thursday) to hear a review from independent advisors Roland Berger on the airline’s proposed business plan.The board was also presented ...