Sustainability – Page 21
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LAN Cargo gains environmental certification
LAN Cargo has become the first cargo airline operating at Miami International Airport to obtain ISO 14001:2004 certification for its Environmental Management System.The system consists of a series of processes and practices that allow the airline to identify, control, manage and reduce the environmental impact of all its ground operations, ...
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Could leftover branches and sawdust be turned into jet fuel?
A new study is looking in whether leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste can be turn into sustainable aviation biofuel. Planemaker Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Canada's aviation industry are among those collaborating to launch a project to produce sustainable jet aviation biofuel.Canada, which has extensive ...
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European airports pledge to go carbon neutral
The European airport industry has pledged that 50 airports will be carbon neutral by 2030 at the United Nation’s COP21 environmental conference in Paris.During a UN and International Carbon Reduction and Offset panel session at COP21, Airports Council International (ACI) Europe vowed to increase the number of carbon neutral airports ...
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Air cargo industry holds its breath over climate change funding
The air cargo industry and its customers will be holding their breath over the next few weeks as they wait anxiously for the results of the Climate Change Conference (COP 21) taking place as this article appears.The big question is: will international aviation and maritime transport be included in the ...
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Aviation: don't tax us to fund non-aviation related environmental programmes
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) governing council has urged regulators not to use taxes raised from the aviation industry for non-aviation related environmental schemes.At a recent meeting, the 36-state governing council adopted a formal declaration calling on the overall ICAO group and member states to express a serious concern, ...
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Virgin Atlantic nets an environmental goal
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to use lightweight air cargo nets to contribute towards the airline’s target of a 30% reduction in aircraft CO2 emissions by 2020.The UK-based airline has initially ordered 600 of the nine kilo nets, made with strong but lightweight Dyneema fibres, each representing a four kilos saving ...
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Green is the new brown
US parcels and logistics global giant UPS, or ‘Big Brown’ as it is affectionately known, is turning green.The great challenge for any global parcel carrier, with sizeable and international freighter fleets, is how to be a responsible, environmentally aware corporate citizen.Mike Mangeot, spokesman for UPS Airlines, says: "The definition of ...
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Shippers prepared to pay more for greener airfreight
Shippers and forwarders are prepared to pay higher freight rates for environmentally-friendly air cargo.That is the message from Lufthansa Cargo, which says that a number of shipper and freight forwarders have asked for a green rate quote for their airfreight shipments.As consumers demand that the goods they buy have been ...
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DHL goes greener in Asia Pacific
DHL Express has improved its carbon efficiency by 12% year on year in the Asia Pacific region despite a growth in volume of about 10%.In 2014, the global parcel and freight giant saw its CO2 efficiency over 2013 improve across the region, with savings of 21% in Malaysia, 15% in ...
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Schiphol milk run to save CO2 emissions
Schiphol airport’s logistics community are trialing a ‘Milk Run’ concept to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing forwarders' truck collections from handling agents with a single delivery.The partnership project, organised by the forwarders’ steering committee of Air Cargo Netherlands, aims to optimise the inbound supply chain at Amsterdam hub Schiphol by ...
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Cochin is India’s first all-solar powered airport
Cochin International Airport in India says it has become the first in the country to operate completely on solar power.Chief minister Oommen Chandy has inaugurated a 12 MWp solar power plant, comprising 46,150 solar panels laid across 45 acres near the cargo complex. The plant is now producing 50,000 to ...
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LuxairCargo ready to go green
Luxair Group’s airfreight handling division LuxairCargo says it is one of the first four companies to apply for a ‘Lean & Green’ label from the Luxembourg Government.The scheme was launched in June 2014 by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructures in collaboration with Cluster for Logistics, which promotes and ...
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Munich gains approval for new runway
Munich Airport has won approval for the construction of a third runway ten years after the project was first launched.Yesterday, the Leipzig Federal Administrative Court rejected appeals by five individuals and environmental group Bund Naturschutz against the construction of the new runway in Munich, a key location for Lufthansa.In February, ...
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Airports clean up their act with carbon accreditation
The number of airports that have achieved Airport Carbon Accredited status has increased by 22% during the last year.Figures released by Airports Council International show that a total of 125 airports in 40 countries have now achieved accreditation through the organisation's programme, with 26 locations becoming Carbon Accredited since June ...
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Airfreight's importance "often overlooked" say shippers
Airfreight’s importance in global supply chains and the aviation industry’s efforts to reduce emissions are key points in a new report from the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF).The briefing document, The value of air cargo to the global economy, has been published by the GSF, which is holding its Annual Meeting ...
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How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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WCS: Jettainer’s lightweight pallet
Jettainer is developing a lightweight pallet that weighs 70 kg, around 32 kg lighter than a traditional PMC aluminium unit.The Germany-based ULD management company says that the pallet is made of a composite material that is being applied for the first time in the aviation sector. It offers an alternative ...
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Alitalia opts for lightweight ULDs
UNIT load device (ULD) outsource specialist Jettainer is to replace Alitalia’s entire fleet of ULDs with state-of-the-art, lightweight containers.The Italian airline’s 650 AKE containers, used for carrying belly hold freight and luggage on passenger aircraft, will be renewed by the end of this year, as part of its extended contract ...
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Lufthansa launches flyweight LD3s
NEW LIGHTWEIGHT LD3 containers will see Lufthansa Cargo cut its fuel consumption by 2,000 tonnes per year and reduce CO2 emissions.The containers, made from lighter composite materials, have a 14 kg weight saving over conventional LD3s.The German carrier, which has some 500,000 container movements per year, says that using the ...