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NewsDachser Air & Sea moves into Sweden market
Germany-based Dachser Air & Sea Logistics division has entered the Swedish market, opening an office for air and sea freight shipping in Gothenburg. It will also handle rail transport, as well as customs clearance and warehousing.The office will work with Dachser’s Swedish road transport operation, which operates from four offices ...
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NewsAir cargo growth slowed in 2018, says ACI
Doha moved from 1th to 11th in the ratingsAir cargo volumes grew just 3.2% in 2018, compared with 7.7% in the previous year, according to preliminary world airport traffic rankings released by Airport Councils International (ACI).“The ongoing trade war between the United States and several of its closest trade partners ...
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Panalpina EGM to take place on April 5
Takeover target Panalpina’s board of directors is to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on April 5, which will also support the motion of the shareholder Ernst Göhner Foundation (EGF) to implement the One Share – One Vote standard "to further enhance the company’s corporate governance".This would lift the 5% ...
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NewsEmerging markets enthusiasm tempered by ‘crisis’ concern
Logistics industry executives worry about trade tensions, geopolitical threats Logistics industry executives see emerging markets growing at 5% in 2019, but a high number are bracing for a crisis amid US-China trade friction, interest rate and currency volatility, and Brexit uncertainty.The annual survey of more than 500 supply chain industry ...
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NewsGIV makes first eDGD declaration using Frankfurt's INFr8
Germany-based dangerous goods specialist GIV has sent its first digital shipment declaration via the eDGD portal INFr8 at Frankfurt Airport.Adem Yurt, managing director and dangerous goods safety advisor at GIV, said that he wanted his company “right from the start” to be involved in the pilot of the INFr8 portal."We ...
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NewsAzul chooses Globe Air Cargo Argentina as its GSSA
Brazilian airline Azul has appointed Globe Air Cargo (GAC) Argentina, an ECS Group subsidiary, as its general sales and services agent (GSSA) in Argentina.GAC Argentina plans to expand the cargo activities of Brazil’s third-largest airline in Argentina, including opening up destinations that are currently passenger-only.Azul has signed a two-year GSSA ...
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NewsVIDEO: From the circus to a national park, Turkish Cargo helps resettle four young lions
The lions have their first taste of freedomTurkish Cargo has flown four young lions from a circus in Ukraine to their natural habitat of South Africa.Three lionesses: Luca, Charlie and Kai, plus the young male Nathan, were transported on a connecting flight from Istanbul.The lions had been used as circus ...
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NewsAsia-Pacific and Middle East airports see cargo declines in December
Source: ACIAsian-Pacific airports saw a 2.5% decline in airfreight volumes during December 2018 while Middle East airports registered a 0.9% fall.Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific, posting its 2018 year end and full year traffic analysis, said that the December decreases were due to a “weakened global economy, reduction in exports ...
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Air France-KLM board to "closely monitor" the Dutch government's increased shareholding
Air France-KLM Group's board will “closely monitor” the surprise move by the Netherlands government to more than double its stake in the Franco-Dutch airline to 12.68%.In a shares swoop valued at an estimated €700m, the Dutch state increased its original 5.8% stake without any consultation with either the airline board ...
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Cathay keeping its eye on growth after a soft start to 2019
Cathay Pacific Cargo saw a softer start to 2019 after a record-breaking 2018 but is seeing market demand "picking up gradually" after the Chinese New Year.Frank Yau, head of cargo sales at the Hong Kong-based carrier, writing in the Cargo Clan magazine, also announced the introduction from March of "a ...
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Edelweiss partnership with Swiss WorldCargo continues to flourish
Swiss airline Edelweiss and sister company Swiss WorldCargo have agreed to continue their partnership.The agreement, effective since the beginning of 2019, will see Swiss WorldCargo continue to market and sell Edelweiss freight capacity.Swiss WorldCargo will maintain responsibility for managing the belly cargo on the entire fleet of Edelweiss and sister ...
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NewsSorted: DHL Express expands Madrid hub with €93m investment
DHL Express has opened a new facility at Madrid’s Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport to strengthen the Spanish hub’s importance for international commerce, especially between Europe and Latin America.The 14,500 sq m building, including offices, will quadruple DHL Express’ capacity in Madrid with “high-quality infrastructure and the newest technologies,” enabling 24,500 ...
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NewsIAG Cargo opens constant climate centre in Madrid
IAG Cargo has opened a pharmaceutical centre in Madrid airport, dedicated to its Constant Climate product for time and temperature-sensitive life sciences products.Work on the new Spanish facility began in June 2018 and is the latest addition to IAG Cargo’s Madrid hub, which handles over 250,000 tonnes of cargo per ...
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Liverpool and Leipzig in automotive alliance for a no-deal Brexit
Liverpool and Leipzig will join air cargo capabilities to maintain automotive supply chains in the case of a no deal Brexit when the UK leaves the European Union at the end of March.Wynne Aviation, based at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, and Germany’s Leipzig Airport, along with Airport Park Leipzig Halle, ...
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Emirates uses technology to increase Kabul cargo capacity
Emirates Flight Operations has developed a navigation technique that allows the Middle East-based airline to carry additional bellyhold cargo into Afghanistan's Kabul International airport.The missed-approach* procedure developed by Emirates has replaced an older technique that required cargo bound for Kabul to be offloaded in Dubai during low-cloud or poor visibility ...
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NewsAtlas Air B767 freighter in crash near Houston, three crew dead
Three crew members died after an Atlas Air 767 freighter operated on behalf of Amazon Air crashed near the city of Anahuac Texas, in the Trinity Bay.Flight 3591 was flying from Miami to Houston when the incident occurred.In a statement, parent company Atlas Air Worldwide said: "Atlas' primary focus is ...
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AirBridgeCargo signs with Jettainer for short term ULD requirement
Russian freighter operator AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has inked a leasing agreement with Jettainer which will see the ULD management company provide airfreight containers on "short term requirement" to carry special cargo.Sergey Lazarev, general director of ABC, said: “Being determined to move forward with strengthening our specialist services for the transportation of ...
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Cargo Champion – Lise-Marie Turpin
ALTHOUGH it is impossible to accurately predict what will happen from one day to the next – and it is rather foolish to attempt to do so – one can still proffer a reasonable forecast supported by trends or patterns.Peering into Lise-Marie Turpin’s past, it is fair to say her ...
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'The best of times and the worst of times'
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, according to Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities.He might well have been talking about global air cargo in the year 2012. At the start of 2013, there are ...
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Major aid relief led by Chapman Freeborn
CHAPMAN Freeborn recently completed the successful movement of over 2,300 tonnes of tents from Iran to China, to aid those left homeless by the earthquake that hit the country in May.On behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Chapman Freeborn’s Dubai and Beijing offices coordinated ...