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DURING 2011 Doha Airport (Qatar) registered 795,559 metric tonnes of cargo, an increase of 13.7 per cent compared with 2010. December 2011 cargo numbers came in at 70,779 tonnes, up 12.9 per cent.

CARGO and passenger flights across France face widespread disruption this week following a labour strike and poor weather conditions.

AMERICAN Airlines is in talks with union leaders on new cost-saving contract proposals.

CHINA has taken an aggressive stance against the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by commanding its carriers not to pay for carbon output in Europe.

THE UK’s Competition Commission (CC) has ruled that airport operator BAA must sell Stansted Airport, the UK’s number two cargo airport.

HOUSE and Senate negotiators in the US have agreed on a bill, which will provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with operating authority for the next four years.

AZERBAIJAN Airlines (AA) has always relied on belly capacity to ship goods, but this year the carrier will begin operating its first freighters.

EMIRATES has appointed Marc Shedden as its new cargo manager for Western Australia, bringing almost 15 years’ experience in the cargo and freight forwarding industries to the role.

LAN Cargo is riding an upward trend. During the fourth quarter of 2011 the carrier recorded a 15.8 per cent rise in freight revenue on the back of a 9.8 per cent gain in capacity.

KUEHNE + Nagel will purchase Australia’s largest perishables export airfreight forwarder Link Logistics International.

ONLINE voting for your favourite cargo-carrying airline has now started and will end on 31 March 2012.

INTERNATIONAL cargo markets contracted 0.6 per cent during last year, IATA says.

AFRICAWEST Cargo Airlines’ director general has dismissed the company faces any problems connected with Cargoitalia’s bankruptcy.

UK-based Servisair Cargo has signed a multi-year agreement to provide cargo-handling services for Kenya Airways’ cargo at London Heathrow Airport (UK).

FINNAIR has decided to suspend one of its freighter services to China due to poor business.

CONSTRUCTION has begun on DB Schenker Limited’s new 9,900m2 facility adjacent to the main cargo terminal at Heathrow Airport (UK).

GERMAN logistics provider Dachser has become a member of Lufthansa Cargo’s Global Partnership Programme.

DURING 2011 Delta Airlines’ freight business operating revenue jumped 21 per cent, reaching US$1 billion.

EADS has selected Tom Enders to take over the role of chief executive officer (CEO) when Louis Gallois steps down on 31 May.

CHINA has pulled out of the controversial ‘aerotropolis’ at St Louis (US) less than six months after launching scheduled services to the US city.

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