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TransGlobal spearheads push to end the paper air waybill
A switch away from the airline industry’s historic Cargo-IMP messaging to modern XML standards could lead to an upsurge in e-air waybills (AWBs) and even finally see off paper documents, predicts Kevin Jones, airfreight director of UK-based forwarder TransGlobal.TransGlobal has been told by IAG Cargo, the freight arm of British ...
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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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Nordisk parent sold to TransDigm
Aerospace components firm TransDigm Group has reached agreement to buy the Telair Cargo Group of businesses, owners of the Nordisk airfreight container manufacturing company.US-based TransDigm will pay around $725m in cash for Telair, which it describes as “a global leader in on-board cargo loading and handling, restraint systems and unit ...
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Kale breaks into Iraq market
Iraqi ground-handler Azmar Air has gone live with Kale’s Galaxy International air cargo management system.Azmar, based at Sulaymaniyah International Airport in the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq will use the system for e-freight compliance, warehouse management and vehicle management, and it will be able to offer real-time updates to customers’ ...
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NewsDebate - Pilot fatigue row steps up
CAN cargo pilots fly safely having had less sleep than their colleagues who fly passenger planes? “Whether you’re flying boxes or passengers it’s irrelevant to a smoking hole that’s left in the ground because it doesn’t care what the load was,” says US Republican congressman Chip Cravaack.“The same skies and ...