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Benoît Dumont appointed Unilode chief executive
Unilode Aviation Solutions, the outsourced ULD management and repair company formerly known as CHEP Aerospace Solutions, has appointed Benoît Dumont as chief executive.The current president and chief executive, Ludwig Bertsch, will join the board of directors, with both appointments effective as of September 1 this year.Brambles, the Australian-based parent company ...
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Emirates SkyCargo widens container offer for pharma customers
Emirates SkyCargo has entered into agreements for global container rental services with SkyCell and va-Q-tec, in addition to its existing co-operation with Envirotainer.The agreements allow the Middle East carrier to offer a variety of specialised temperature controlled containers for pharmaceutical or life sciences products.Emirates SkyCargo’s customers can have such temperature ...
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Jettainer renews Lufthansa deal
One day after it announced a renewed deal with Eithad (story here) outsourced ULD manager Jettainer, said it would continue to handle the management and maintenance of equipment for its parent company, Lufthansa Cargo. The extended contract runs until the end of 2021.Introduction of new lightweight containers to the German ...
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Four more years for Etihad-Jettainer deal
Etihad Airways is to extend its cooperation with ULD management company Jettainer until 2021. The Lufthansa-owned outsourcing firm will continue to manage and maintain the container fleet of the UAE airline and will also introduce intelligent containers that automatically give their position, temperature or maintenance status.Etihad Cargo will be Jettainer’s ...
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New Peli president looks to grow BioThermal business
New Pelican Products group president Phil Gyori will target growth in the company’s BioThermal temperature controlled packaging division.Gyori was appointed to the role late last year and will report into chief executive Lyndon Faulkner, while leading all Pelican divisions – commercial/government; consumer; and Pelican BioThermal/Peli Bio Thermal.Prior to joining Pelican ...
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WCS17: ULD firm ACL unveils plans to double size of business
ULD firm ACL Airshop has unveiled ambitious plans to double the number of container stations it runs around the world.At a press conference at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, the Greenville-headquartered company revealed that its investors were backing the company to increase the number of stations it operates from 37 ...
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WCS17: Incorrectly loaded ULDs in the frame for damage to aircraft
Mishandled Unit Load Devices (ULDs) are the second highest cause of damage to aircraft, while incorrect loading of cargo on an aircraft is reported on average 16 times per day.Bob Rogers, senior advisor, Nordisk Aviation Products, told the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Abu Dhabi that incidents of cargo shifting ...
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WCS17: Saudia signs ULD management and repair contract with Unilode
ULD management and repair specialist Unilode has signed a deal to handle 21,000 units belonging to Saudia's passenger and cargo divisions.The management and repair contract is the first big win announce by Unilode since it changed its name from CHEP Aerospace after it was bought by Sweden's EQT Infrastructure in ...
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WCS17: Smart new look for Jettainer
Lufthansa’s Jettainer subsidiary unveiled a new logo and strapline at the IATA World Cargo Symposium on 14 March. The company name is now backed up by the phrase: “Smart ULD Pooling People”, emphasizing the outsourced ULD management firm’s intelligent solutions, as well as its employees.ULDs themselves are ...
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Envirotainer flies the flag in Luxembourg
Cold chain specialist Envirotainer is to supply its flagship RAP e2 solution at Luxembourg airport. Head of healthcare sales for the region, Niklas Lönnkvist said it would significantly increase the company’s ability to service customers at the seventh largest airfreight location in Europe.He added: “The new facility is well located ...
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Champ in the corner for ULD Partner
Champ Cargosystems says that Hong Kong based ULD Partner is using its ULD Manager application to support the operations of its launch customer, Air China Cargo. Under the contract, ULD Partner will supply, repair, maintenance and manage the combined Air China Cargo and Air China inventory of over 13,000 ULDs, ...
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Jettainer takes over management of Brussels Airlines’ ULD fleet
Jettainer, the Raunheim, Frankfurt-headquartered provider of outsourced unit load device (ULD) management services, has taken over responsibility for the management and maintenance of Brussels Airlines’ container fleet.A specially designed ULD has been handed over to the airline to mark the start of the collaboration, with Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary Jettainer having ...
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Aircoolbox targets air cargo pharma market
A new company has entered the air cargo container market, taking aim at the pharmaceutical sector.At last week’s Temperature Controlled Logistics event in London, Aircoolbox announced it would begin targeting the air cargo pharmaceutical market with its passive container product.Aircoolbox managing director Keith Packer said the re-usable container can be ...
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CHEP gets a new name and image
ULD firm CHEP Aerospace Solutions will in the future go under the name Unilode Aviation Solutions following the company's acquisition by EQT Infrastructure in November 2016.The name Unilode was created from the first letters of 'unit load device'. Coincidentally, the company said, 'lode' is an old English word meaning rich ...
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Expanding Air Caraïbes Atlantique signs CHEP ULD deal
Air Caraïbes Atlantique has chosen CHEP Aerospace Solutions to supply and manage containers and pallets for its growing aircraft fleet.The new four-year agreement includes the supply of containers and pallets for new aircraft and the transition of the existing container fleet to CHEP's lightweight containers within the first year.The French ...
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EQT Infrastructure completes CHEP acquisition
Swedish equity group EQT has completed its acquisition of CHEP Aerospace Solutions, the unit load device (ULD) management company.Switzerland-headquartered CHEP was sold to EQT by its Australia-based parent company Brambles, which established the enterprise in 2011 from the acquisition and integration of four leading ULD solutions companies.EQT Infrastructure II, an ...
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Air China is launch customer for ULD management service
Air China Cargo has become the launch customer for airfreight container repair specialist ULD Partner’s new fleet management service.It covers the supply, repair and maintenance, tracking and tracing and control of 13,000 unit load devices (ULD) for both Air China and Air China Cargo, covering more than 80 airports around ...
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CHEP scoops SIA Cargo deal
Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA) has awarded a five-year global maintenance and repair agreement to CHEP Aerospace Solutions for its fleet of ULDs.The deal will see CHEP will provide maintenance and repair services in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas, with additional stations ...
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Investment fund buys ULD specialist CHEP
CHEP Aerospace Solutions, the Unit Load Device (ULD) management specialist, is being sold to EQT Infrastructure II of Sweden.Brambles, the Australian-based parent company of CHEP Aerospace Solutions, said that the transaction with the infrastructure fund will complete during November 2016.CHEP Aerospace Solutions offers pooling, management, maintenance and repair of ULDs ...
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Jettainer to take over ULD management for Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines has appointed Jettainer as the new service provider to manage its unit load devices (ULDs) and pallets from the Spring of 2017.Belgium's largest airline currently outsources its ULD management to another provider and is now switching to Jettainer, which has set up a ULD controller at Brussels Airport, ...