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IATA: Speaking out for air cargo’s global image
IT BEGGARS belief that an industry vital to international trade remains so invisible to the rest of the world, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.This may be one of the reasons why the air cargo industry has been allowed to operate in a technological time-warp for so long, while other industry ...
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DHL wins Lufthansa supply chain contract
DHL Global Forwarding has won the transatlantic supply chain contract to distribute spare parts and tools for Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services (LTLS).The annual volume is estimated at 25,000 shipments per year with a total weight of 550 tonnes, including shipments from Germany to the US, as well as from Canada, ...
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Seko invests in UK ecommerce agency amid online sales boom
GLOBAL forwarder SEKO Logistics has acquired an equity stake in UK ecommerce agency, Metakinetic, to capitalise on the growing number of online retail sales, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Metakinetic will operate in tandem with another SEKO-owned company, Red Hot Penny, which specialises in end-to-end services for online retailers.Both agencies boast ...
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Formula One arrives in Sochi
Three flights conveying Formula One racing cars and spare parts from Nagoya following the Japanese Grand Prix arrived at Sochi International Airport on October 7, as part of the preparations for the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix.Operated by the Basel Aero subsidiary of Russian industrial group Basic Element, the airport lies ...
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Damco responds to Zhengzhou growth
Also responding to the commercial shift from China’s coastal areas to well-connected inland hubs, Maersk forwarding and logistics unit Damco has opened a new commercial office in Zhengzhou, focused on electronics exports."Zhengzhou has become a very important multimodal hub for Damco, with its strategic location, well-connected transportation network and advanced ...
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Costly Cartels
Lawyers rarely go hungry and they may be about to feast on a billion dollar lawsuit relating to the airlines’ air cargo cartel, writes Roger Hailey, Air Cargo News Editor.German rail and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn (DB) made a great media fanfare of its minimum $2.2bn claim in the US ...
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Thumbs up for Emirates' all-in freight rates
Shippers and forwarders have welcomed Emirates SkyCargo’s move to introduce an all-inclusive freight rate that does away with separate pricing components based on weight/volume plus fuel and security surcharges.“It is the best start to 2015 that I could imagine,” said Joost van Doesburg, airfreight policy manager with the European Shippers’ ...
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Hellmann: How to fight back
There is a lot of talk these days about mode shift from air to seafreight, so it is good to hear a forwarder talking about double digit increases in airfreight volumes.This is the story for Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Europe, where Jens Tarnowski, chief executive region Europe (air and sea ...
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Full year cargo rise at Athens
Athens airport saw a 3.3 per cent rise in full year 2014 cargo volumes at its four freight terminals to 77,327 tonnes.Alexis Sioris, manager cargo development at Athens International Airport, said: “We are once again showing our customers that Athens is a multi-modal cargo hub, which has been a major ...
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German shippers join cartel claims lawsuit
German carmaker BMW and car supplier Bosch are joining German railway Deutsche Bahn in a $2.4bn claim for damages against airlines involved in a global air cargo cartel between 1999 and 2006.Spokespeople for BMW and Bosch told Reuters that the companies had joined the lawsuits, announced by Deutsche Bahn’s DB ...
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Transport experts back Heathrow – but with caveats
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport – the international professional body for individuals and companies associated with the sector – has come out in favour of Heathrow as the site of south-east England’s additional runway but says that its impact needs to be capped.CILT is responding to the UK ...
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Schiphol: Shippers, not freighters
In any industry, does it not make sense to study the strategies of the most successful players? Yet at a time when Amsterdam Schiphol airport is showing robust growth in cargo volumes, many of its major rivals are taking the opposite approach.They are dispensing with cargo managers and making cargo ...
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IAG Cargo to offer all-in freight rates
IAG Cargo is joining the all-in freight rates club, following the lead set by Emirates SkyCargo and Qatar Airways.A spokesman for the cargo arm of British Airways and Iberia said that it will remove the fuel surcharge and exceptional handling charges “to offer a simpler pricing structure”.He added that the ...
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Panalpina launches 'Brazil Wings' freighters to São Paulo
Panalpina is adding a B747-400 freighter service to São Paulo, Brazil, aimed at manufacturers of heavy machinery and equipment for agriculture and mining.The direct service from US hub Huntsville to São Paulo, called Brazil Wings, has been designed for customers in the mid-west and in parts of the s south ...
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DHL refines risk management system
DHL's Resilience360 risk management tool can now be integrated with customer's transport management systems, allowing them to view shipments affected by disruptive incidents.Customers can then scan the latest position and status of all their shipments worldwide and identify corrective actions.Recent incidents monitored by Resilience 360 included the ash cloud from ...
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Plugging the airfreight information gap
London-based charter specialist chartersphere and software company WebCargoNet aim to plug the gaps in existing airline schedules and rates with a new partnership.Existing information sources do not fully cover the needs of shippers of outsized or urgent goods, or a shipment to a remote destination not covered by scheduled services, ...
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WCS: How to reduce the fire risk from lithium batteries
Fires in consignments of lithium batteries have been implicated in the loss of three aircraft over the last 10 years, writes Martin Roebuck.Peter Hunt, airline ground safety manager at Cathay Pacific, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai about risk mitigation measures the airline is taking to make sure ...
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WCS: Silver lining in cargo's IT cloud
A cloud-based IT solution developed by Massachusetts-based SmartKargo has the potential to reshape the way airlines and their supply chain partners manage the flow of freight, writes Martin Roebuck.No less an authority than Des Vertannes, IATA’s recently retired head of cargo, says so. A passionate believer in technology’s ability to ...
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WCS: Shippers slam poor service
If the air cargo community was under any illusion that its efforts to speed up door-to-door delivery and eliminate paper documents are winning over shippers, it may have to think again, writes Martin Roebuck.Two major shippers tore into the industry for its poor service quality and communication in a no-holds-barred ...
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More cars take the high road
Despite the ongoing economic malaise, automotive sales and related logistics cruised through 2013 in top gear, with sales records broken in growth markets like China and Brazil.“We had some growth last year, mainly from existing accounts,” reveals Lucas Kuehner, global head of airfreight at Panalpina. Both automotive original equipment manufacturers ...