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Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for carriers to specific regions and your favourite all-cargo airline. The 2015 categories are:Best Cargo Airline to/from: Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe & Middle East, All-Cargo Airline and the Cargo Airline of ...
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Fraport shoulders China Southern load
Fraport Cargo Services will take over the handling operations for China Southern Cargo at Frankfurt from February 25. The Chinese carrier is currently handled by LUG.The wholly-owned subsidiary of Fraport will be in charge of the five weekly freighters between the carrier’s home hub of Guangzhou and Frankfurt, as well ...
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Cathay chooses CHAMP
Cathay Pacific has selected CHAMP Cargosystems (CCS) to provide the Hong Kong-based carrier's new cargo IT platform after a six-month design phase.John Johnston, chief executive of CCS, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Cathay Pacific to further its ambitions in the air logistics market.”James Fernandez, CCS vice president for ...
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US publishes details of Bagram 747 crash
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released preliminary information from the ongoing investigation into the crash two years ago of a National Airlines Boeing 747 freighter in Afghanistan. The accident at Bagram Air Base on 29 April 2013 killed all seven crew members.Only factual information is included in ...
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China Southern adds ninth freighter, four more to come
China Southern Cargo has taken delivery of its ninth B777-200 freighter, in time for cargo demand created by the 2015 Chinese Spring Festival.By July of this year, China Southern will have added four more B777-200Fs to its cargo fleet, making 12 freighter aircraft in total.China Southern said that the extra ...
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Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for carriers to specific regions and your favourite all-cargo airline. The 2015 categories are:Best Cargo Airline to/from: Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe & Middle East, All-Cargo Airline and the Cargo Airline of ...
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Maximus profits up by a fifth
Abu Dhabi-based all-cargo carrier Maximus Air reported a 20 per cent increase in profits in 2014 compared with the previous year.Chairman Homaid Al Shemmari said the increase was due mainly to growth in European, African and Asian markets and a generally positive outlook for the global airfreight industry.Chief executive Mohammed ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's January sales droop
Lufthansa Cargo reported sales 2.3 per cent lower compared with the previous year in January. Load factor fell by 1.3 per cent, the carrier added.There were strong performances in the Americas (up 3.5 per cent) and Middle East (+4.9 per cent) but these were offset by declines in Europe (down ...
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Take your seats please
This year’s Handball World Championship in Qatar may have been controversial but there were no complaints about the seating, which reached the Gulf state thanks to a coordinated team effort by freight forwarder Logwin.In fact, the seats were quite a noticeable feature of the tournament, because so many of them ...
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TNT goes Blue Bananas with rate discount
TNT is offering a temporary 20 per cent discount off rate card as part of its ‘Blue Banana’ campaign to promote shipments to Europe’s economic hotspots.The deal is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and takes effect from February 9 for three months on export shipments of parcels and freight.It ...
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Price tops charter priorities
PRICE remains the most important factor in the air cargo charter market, an exclusive customer survey for Air Cargo News has revealed.The on-line survey found that nearly 55 per cent of respondents chose price as their top priority, with a need for 24 hour operations in second place, closely followed ...
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Korean orders five B777Fs worth $1.5bn
Korean Air has finalised an order for five B777 freighters, valued at more than $1.5bn.As one of the world’s largest cargo airlines, Korean Air currently operates an all-Boeing freighter fleet of 26 airplanes that includes 17 B747-400Fs, five 747-8Fs and four B777Fs.Korea’s flag carrier currently operates 86 Boeing passenger airplanes ...
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Roses are green?
A study shows that flying roses from far flung warmer countries generates less CO2 than the artificial irrigation and additional heat supply that would be required to cultivate them in Europe’s cold climate.That is the view of Lufthansa Cargo as it prepares for the Valentine’s Day rush on February 14.Lufthansa’s ...
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High five for Lufthansa Cargo’s latest B777F
Lufthansa Cargo has welcomed its fifth Boeing 777 freighter to Frankfurt.The freighter, with registration D-ALFE, arrived from a Boeing facility in Everett near Seattle.As part of its strategic 2020 programme, the German carrier has ordered five B777F production aircraft, with the first entering service in November 2013. Lufthansa Cargo has ...
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Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for carriers to specific regions and your favourite all-cargo airline. The 2015 categories are:Best Cargo Airline to/from: Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe & Middle East, All-Cargo Airline and the Cargo Airline of ...
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Stronger outbound China cargo boosts Cathay/Dragonair
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a combined 147,275 tonnes of cargo and mail in January, an increase of 12.5 per cent compared to the same month in 2014.The cargo and mail load factor rose by 2.9 percentage points to 63.4 per cent. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, rose ...
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TNT chief warns of tough times ahead
TNT Express made a €137m loss in the fourth quarter of 2014 and continues to face challenging trading conditions, said chief executive Tex Gunning.The integrator, the subject of a failed takeover bid by UPS in 2013, blamed restructuring charges (€70m), goodwill impairments (€32m) and the costs of a re-launch (€22m) ...
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PEMCO converted freighter number three for China’s CDI
US-owned PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered a third Boeing 737 to Chinese carrier CDI Cargo Airlines after converting it into a 737-300 freighter.The 737-300F offers nine pallet positions and a payload of up to 43,100lb or 4,600 cu ft.PEMCO has already carried out two similar jobs at Staeco’s Jinan ...
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We will do better, promise TNT management
TNT Express has outlined the steps that will return the parcels and freight operator to profit.A core part of its strategy is to set up focused international Europe and domestic units, strengthening its management and accelerated investment in its transport and IT, along with improved service levels.At a capital markets ...
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Africa: New challengers for the cargo king's crown
The domination of the regional air cargo market by non-African carriers, such as Air France-KLM, Emirates and Lufthansa, and by South African Airways, is still strong, but over the past decade two African carriers have risen to challenge them: Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airlines.South African Airways (SAA) was once the ...