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Cargo Champion – Sebastiaan Scholte
REMEMBERING the simple pleasures of life have long been overshadowed by our alarmingly acquisitive global society, where celebrities are elevated to gods, commanding more newspaper column inches than they deserve and footballers are paid more money in a week than many earn in their entire lifetime.Federico Felliini famously advised: “You ...
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Cargo Champion – Lisa Brock
LISA BROCK’s strategic mind, her imperturbability, coupled with a pleasant countenance could have made her a very successful football manager or a very rich poker player. Not even the most artful inquisition will entice her to peel back the layers of reserve to reveal the real person behind the title: ...
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Cargo Airline of the Year 2014 voting opens
VOTES for the 2014 Cargo Airline of the Year competition have started to come in – and tables are already being snapped up two months before the illustrious London awards night.With only a few tables left for the popular, celebrity-hosted gala dinner – at which airlines, ground handlers, airports, forwarders ...
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AirBridgeCargo up five per cent
RUSSIAN carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) achieved a five per cent hike in tonnage (340,000 tonnes) in 2013 – the highest ever volume across its network linking Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline reports that the uplift improvement on all of its major routes was matched ...
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AF-KLM opts for DWC
AT THE request of customers, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo is to start operating 14 weekly freighter flights to and from Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) – its new freighter hub in the region – from next month.Once completed, the new UAE airport will have the capacity and state-of-the-art facilities to handle ...
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DWC welcomes Cathay’s first freighter
CATHAY Pacific has begun operating freighter flights from Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC).The Asian carrier’s inauguration flight with a B747-8F arrived at DWC from Hong Kong (China) on 1 February.Cathay has moved its weekly freighter service from Dubai International (DXB) to DWC – its new freighter hub ...
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Southern Air extends DHL B777F contract
ACMI airline Southern Air has extended its around-the-world B777F partnership with integrator DHL Express.A new long-term flight services agreement will continue the operation of the four B777 freighters that Southern currently flies in support of DHL’s international air express network.DHL notes that the aircraft are the most environmentally-advanced, fuel-efficient, wide-body ...
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Cincinnati cargo boosted by DHL
CINCINNATI/Northern Kentucky International Airport’s (CVG) cargo tonnage climbed by nine per cent year-over-year mainly because of DHL’s growing presence at the Tri-State facility.Since 2009, the integrator has spent more than US$100m upgrading its hub at the airport, currently ranked as the 10th largest in the USA, based on throughput.Candace McGraw, ...
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines adds fifth B747-8F
AIRBRIDGECARGO AIRLINES (ABC), Russia’s largest international scheduled freight airline, has taken delivery of its fifth brand new B747-8F.The new ‘plane, part of the carrier’s fleet modernisation stratagem, will be used on its existing route network linking Europe, Asia and the United States via its hub in Moscow.AirBridgeCargo's fleet consists of ...
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Kuehne + Nagel’s contract with Toyota supports Ukrainian auto market
KUEHNE + NAGEL has been awarded a three-year contract to support the supply of spare parts and accessories to Toyota retailers and service stations across the Ukraine.Toyota Ukraine has selected a dedicated space at the Kuehne + Nagel shared warehouse facility (encompassing more than 37,000 sq m) in Chayka, near ...
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Jan De Rijk delivers to Dutch homes
AIR CARGO road-feeder supplier Jan De Rijk Logistics has entered the medical supplies home deliveries market by securing a deal with a Netherlands healthcare company.The move will see Jan De Rijk transport vital medication for treating various chronic and acute medical conditions, such as haemophilia, kidney disease and disorders.Sebastiaan Scholte, ...
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Denis Ilin becomes AirBridgeCargo Airlines' new executive president
DENIS ILIN has been appointed executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline.Ilin has worked for several years as head of aviation at Basic Element, a Russian financial and industrial conglomerate, where his main responsibilities included aviation business development.He previously held several leadership roles in ABC ...
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Jan De Rijk Logistics signs air cargo trucking deal with Cargo Air Lines
AIR CARGO road-feeder supplier Jan De Rijk Logistics has signed a two-year airfreight trucking agreement with Israel’s CAL Cargo Air Lines.CAL, described as as a ‘boutique and dynamic freighter company operating between the USA, Europe and Israel,’ will utilise the Dutch-based trucking company’s services to provide road links to Liége ...
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Cargo Champion – Essa Al-Saleh
IN THE corridors of power, humility is often in short supply. This is primarily because of the misconceptions many people harbour about how to succeed in life, and what it takes to maintain this favourable outcome.Unfortunately, history shows humbleness is routinely sacrificed in favour of aggression, dehumanisation and superciliousness.Essa Al-Saleh’s ...
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Cargo Champion – Danita Waterfall-Brizzi
IT MAY be one of the oldest, most overused proverbs: If you don’t succeed, try, try again. But it does actually work. Success leaves clues and one of them is that perseverance is essential fuel for lofty ambitions.If you are still in doubt, ask Danita Waterfall-Brizzi, director of cargo sales ...
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AIA launches track-and-trace app
GENERAL sales agency Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) has launched an air cargo track-and-trace mobile app.The software allows customers to check the status of their shipments 24/7, a statement from the UK-based company says.“We know our clients need to track a shipment late at night or in the early hours [of ...
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Cathay Pacific to relocate freighter operations to DWC
CATHAY PACIFIC is to relocate its freighter operations from Dubai International to new airport Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC) from February.Dubai is Cathay’s transit hub for its European destinations of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Paris and Milan.The Hong Kong airline currently operates seven weekly freighter services and ...
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Cargo Champion – Magnus Ohlin
PASSION, like enthusiasm and charisma, is unmistakable. Either one possesses it, or not. A person may be able to ‘fake it’ but, inevitably, the façade will slip, revealing his or her true feelings.Equally one knows when one is in the midst of its intoxication. How many times have you found ...
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AIA supports Parkinson's sufferers
GSA Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) has launched a fund-raising initiative for Parkinson’s sufferers.The UK-based company wants to raise awareness of the disease.Parkinson’s is the result of an insufficiency of a chemical called Dopamine, which happens when some nerve cells in the brain have died.People can find their movements become slower ...
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Etihad Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo to exchange capacity
ETIHAD CARGO and Singapore Airlines Cargo are to exchange confirmed cargo capacity on their services from Abu Dhabi (AUH) to London Heathrow (LHR) and Frankfurt (FRA).Under the agreement, Etihad Cargo will supply capacity on one of its weekly freighter services from Abu Dhabi to Frankfurt as well as access to ...