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DHL adds China to Thermonet network
DHL Global Forwarding is expanding its services for the life sciences and healthcare industry in China.It has added Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the company's worldwide DHL Thermonet network of certified life sciences stations.The 2,000 sq m facilities in Shanghai and Beijing are owned by DHL Global ...
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BidAir acquires Imperial Air Cargo
Johannesburg based BidAir Cargo has acquired the business of Imperial Air Cargo (IAC) in a deal approved by the South African Competition Commission.IAC’s network links Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban with overnight services using a trio of contracted Boeing 737-200 freighters.The cargo flights are integrated with land based ...
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DHL opens Leipzig pharma hub
DHL Global Forwarding has marked the official opening of a €3.4 million logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany, for the pharmaceuticals industry.The air and ocean freight specialist of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL said that the facility, located next to Leipzig/Halle airport, serves as a competence centre for the “transport, transport preparation, ...
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Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight
Modal shift is occurring in part because of the air cargo industry’s snail-paced adoption of e-freight and reluctance to share data. Airlines and forwarders are looking after their own interests when they should be “protecting air freight as a mode,” according to James Fernandez, VP global commercial operations at technology ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Eastward push for global trade
A substantial shift to emerging economies is pushing eastward the world’s economic centre of gravity, says global logistics giant DHL in its latest study.The third edition of DHL’s Global Connectedness Index (GCI) indicates that emerging countries are now involved in the majority of "international interactions".This is in contrast to pre-2010, ...
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DHL expands Asia air network
DHL is expanding its Asia air network by adding a five times per week B737-400SF flight connecting the economies of Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.The new service, operated for the parcels and logistics giant by Thailand’s K-Mile Air, connects Bangkok, Hanoi and Hong Kong, using a newly converted freighter with ...
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DP DHL: air freight in Q3 surge
New business helped logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL record a 2.3 per cent growth in air freight volumes to 2.97m tonnes in the first nine months of 2014 versus prior year, outpacing sector revenues that edged ahead 0.6 per cent to E3.7bn.However, third-quarter air cargo volumes climbed “significantly” by 4.8 ...
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Pharma: The human factor
There has been a lot of interest in pharmaceutical shipments in the air freight industry in recent years as airlines and forwarders search for traffic that can give them those elusive higher yields. As a result some thirty airlines now offer pharmaceutical products and many are investing in expanding their ...
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First phase of DHL Leipzig hub expansion opens for business
DHL’s major expansion of its Leipzig air hub has seen the first phase of an expanded warehouse facility open today.Announced a year ago, the €150m investment will see the freight processing capacity increase by 50% to more than 15,000 shipments per hour at Germany's second largest airport by cargo volume.Hand ...
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EuroAirport aims for larger share of cargo traffic
EuroAirport has inaugurated a Euro40m cargo terminal at the French hub which is situated close to Swiss city Basel, a major European pharma industry cluster.EuroAirport Cargo Terminal, located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Region that shares borders with Switzerland and Germany, will enter operation in January 2015.The new facility – ...
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DHL Supply Chain boosts Chinese logistics investment
DHL Supply Chain (DSC) has more than doubled its commitment to infrastructure investment in China, with a further Euro113m added to the Euro105m committed by the German-owned logistics operator last year.The total Euro218m investment will support the development of DHL’s Chinese network and, in particular, six new logistics facilities scheduled ...
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SDV Belgium gains pharma handling certification
SDV Belgium is now fully certificated to handle and transport all pharmaceutical products that require an unbroken cold chain.The logistics operator completed the pharma certification programme organised by Brussels Airport and IATA that means it can handle all pharmaceutical air freight shipments in accordance with the European Union’s Good Distribution ...
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Cologne-Bonn provides air cargo support to fight Ebola virus
Cologne-Bonn Airport has allocated a staging area free of charge to facilitate the consolidation of air shipments in support of humanitarian organisations fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.The Logistics Cluster, a group of humanitarian organisations led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), will ...
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FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package
THERE’S a whole lot of shaking going on at Federal Express, plus a whole lot of heating, chilling and dropping.But it is all in the name of supply chain science, to design the best packaging for fragile and sensitive goods.FedEx TechConnect has opened a 30,000 sq ft package laboratory in ...
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LAN Cargo: The shift to belly capacity
There was a brief moment in the late 1990s when LAN Chile (as it was then) looked like becoming a combination carrier with more revenue from cargo than passengers. Serving Latin America’s rugged geography, it built up a stable of twelve 767-300Fs - the largest non-integrator 767F fleet - and ...
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Exelsius launches pharma programme
Exelsius has launched a pharmaceutical qualification programme (PQP) for companies involved in the handling and transportation of pharmaceutical & life science products.The UK-based international cold chain management consultancy says that its programme allows airports, freight forwarders and logistics service providers to become certified to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards.The PQP ...
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US port chaos boosts ex-Asia Pacific air cargo revenues
Inbound US west coast container port congestion provided a November boost for transpacific air cargo revenues out of Asia to North America, although ex-US revenues fell.WorldACD’s latest monthly market data found that the transpacific was the best of the large markets in November.The Netherlands-based research house posed the question: “Did ...
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Cargo leads Atlanta’s agenda
ATLANTA Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movements, wants to upgrade its cargo side. At the top of the agenda: more warehouse space and upgraded perishables facilities, writes John McCurry.Miguel Southwell, aviation general manager for the airport, says Hartsfield-Jackson has had two successive ...
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Liege cements top slot in Belgium
Liege Airport confirmed its position as Belgium’s number one cargo airport with 590,579 tonnes in 2014, up 5.3 per cent on 2013.The increase at the European hub was due to increased throughput by major carriers TNT Airways, Ethiopian Cargo and CAL, along with Ana Airline Management’s decision to base its ...