Technology – Page 48

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    Handlers anxious to raise their profile

    2015-03-20T14:54:12Z

    For a man who has just established his first foothold on a new continent, Olivier Bijaoui is surprisingly grumpy.The continent: South America. The ill temper: the president and CEO of WFS - the world’s largest cargo handling company, processing four million tonnes per year - believes air cargo handlers are ...

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    United Cargo: A dutchman in America

    2015-03-20T14:53:03Z

    Jan Krems may have just taken over as president cargo at United Airlines after a 27-year career with KLM (Air France-KLM since 2005), but he is no stranger either to the US or to the weather in his new Chicago base.He was for four years based in the Windy City ...

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    Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight

    2015-03-20T14:52:33Z

    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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    CEVA joins the e-AWB 20% club

    2015-03-20T14:17:15Z

    CEVA Logistics has joined the elite group of industry players to break through 20% penetration for e-air waybills (e-AWB) across its global business, with its September performance showing the fastest e-AWB growth of any logistics company.CEVA has now reached 20.4% penetration and is “well on target to meet the IATA ...

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    FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package

    2015-03-20T14:06:35Z

    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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    Top five sign roadmap to combat cybercrime

    2015-03-20T14:03:23Z

    Five major international aviation organisations have agreed a “common roadmap” to combat attacks from hackers and other cyber criminals.The group is made up of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Airports Council International (ACI), the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International ...

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    Hellmann: How to fight back

    2015-03-20T13:29:05Z

    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

    2015-03-20T13:24:37Z

    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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    DHL refines risk management system

    2015-03-20T11:44:56Z

    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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    CHEP launches track-and-trace app

    2015-03-05T11:19:30Z

    ULD repair specialist CHEP Aerospace Solutions has launched an air cargo track-and-trace mobile app.The software is designed to save airlines, ground handling agents, forwarders and other industry stakeholders time and money by simplifying a number of ULD-related processes that are currently mainly paper-based.CHEP Focus also records and transmits ULD messages, ...

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    Video game technology boosts air cargo monitoring

    2015-03-05T10:51:31Z

    TECHNOLOGIES originally designed for video games and smartphones are now being used in the goods distribution industry.A study conducted by DHL has found that this marks a complete reversal of past practices in which new technologies were initially first applied in business – and then migrated to private users later.According ...

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    Air Cargo News app goes live

    2015-03-05T09:21:10Z

    AIR CARGO NEWS, now owned by the German DVV Media group, has launched its own tablet app, as part of our growing digital product line.We want to give our readers the opportunity to access more of our highly-valued content, whenever they want, on any device.The app, which is initially free ...

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    Climate change threat to air cargo pharma shipments

    2015-03-03T16:37:11Z

    EXPOSURE to extreme temperatures ruined more air cargo pharma shipments than ever before last year, and is driving this traffic to ocean carriers, say experts.Their research shows that the past 12 months witnessed a series of unprecedented global temperature extremes and, as a result, some pharma air cargo distributors experienced ...

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    Perishables modal shift fuelled by technology

    2015-03-03T15:01:55Z

    NEW technology in controlled-atmosphere containers (CAC), such as Maersk Container Industry’s (MCI) Star Cool CA product line, has the potential to further accelerate the modal shift in the transportation of perishables, a report reveals.The technology’s ability to slow down the ripening process potentially opens up ocean transport as a viable ...

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    China Eastern Airlines opts for Unisys

    2015-03-03T09:13:12Z

    CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES has selected Unisys Logistics Management System (LMS) to improve the quality, efficiency and speed of its data flow. Unisys will provide implementation and training services, as well as a customised LMS in line with local rules and requirements for domestic cargo shipments within China, says a statement.Chinese ...

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    IATA aircraft tracking, draft options by year end

    2015-03-02T16:46:14Z

    IATA EXPECTS to present draft options for enhanced global aircraft tracking to the aviation industry before year-end.The association’s Aircraft Tracking Task Force plans to deliver the draft options to the International Civil Aviation Organisation in September, followed by the industry-wide presentation.The disappearance of flight MH370 saw IATA to establish an ...

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    Brussels Airport's new cargo community system

    2015-03-02T15:49:57Z

    BRUSSELS Airport, with help from private companies and the local chamber of commerce, has launched a ground-breaking new cargo community system [CCS].Reckoned to be a global first, the cloud-based communications facility allows all players in the cargo zone – and others – to exchange information faster and more efficiently.It enables ...

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    CHEP to trial energy-saving tracking device

    2015-03-02T15:05:13Z

    ULD management specialist CHEP Aerospace Solutions is to begin trialling a new solar-powered energy saving GPS/GSM tracking device, allowing customers to follow the movement of their shipments.Installed on each ULD, it is connected to a solar panel and a customised power converter that harvests energy from sunlight and charges the ...

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    Rapiscan wins lithium battery detection project

    2015-03-02T10:00:17Z

    Rapiscan Systems has won a UK contract to determine whether the presence of lithium batteries in air cargo shipments can be detected automatically.The contract for the US-based security inspection specialist comes from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and is supported by Department for Transport funding.It calls for Rapiscan to ...

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    Latest eAWB statistics

    2015-03-02T09:55:46Z

    CATHAY and Emirates continue to lead the way in airline eAWB adoption, as paperless documentation has doubled in 12 months, reports IATA.“The total number of eAWBs used grew by more than 50,000 during the last 12 months, with an average increase of one per cent each month since the beginning ...