DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Paul Schwefer (right), former chief information officer at tyre-company, Continental, as its new chief operating…
August 2009
AF-KLM pulls out of CSA buy out
31 / 08 / 2009
AIR France-KLM has pulled out of talks to take over Czech Airlines (CSA). The ailing state-owned carrier is up for…
Interpol hunts ex-SAS Cargo executive
31 / 08 / 2009
SAS Cargo’s former vice-president global sales, Jan Lillieborg (pictured), is on the run from Interpol for allegedly trying to cover…
Green light for LufthansaAustrian merger
31 / 08 / 2009
LUFTHANSA has got the go ahead to merge with Austrian Airlines. The European Commission’s (EC) gave its approval on the…
Dubai Airports airfreight up
31 / 08 / 2009
DUBAI Airports recorded a 1.9 per cent increase in cargo traffic for July. Dubai Airports Cargo handled 160,289 tonnes of…
Lufthansa rate rise shock
27 / 08 / 2009
LUFTHANSA Cargo is intending to unilaterally increase rates worldwide by 25 per cent, according to a letter (right) allegedly sent…
An-12 crash in the Congo
27 / 08 / 2009
A CARGO aircraft has crashed into a cemetery in the Congo killing the five Ukrainian crew members and one Congolese…
Japan pays to upgrade Jordan airport
20 / 08 / 2009
JORDAN airport is to get a massive investment from the Japanese government to upgrade its security. The Kingdom will be…
Korean Air makes profit in second quarter
20 / 08 / 2009
KOREAN Air, the world’s largest air cargo carrier, has posted a net profit for the second quarter, the first in…
JAL Cargo and NCA merge
20 / 08 / 2009
Japan Airlines’ (JAL) cargo division and Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) have agreed to merge. Both agreed to the start negotiations…
Slight rise in European airline figures for June
18 / 08 / 2009
EUROPEAN airfreight figures for June show a small rise on some networks for June but overall there is still no…
Emirates denies Australian price-fixing charge
18 / 08 / 2009
AUSTRALIA has launched legal action against Emirates for alleged cargo price-fixing. Emirates has responded by vowing to fight the allegations….
HKs AAT sees encouraging uplift
18 / 08 / 2009
HONG Kong’s Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT) has reported that its July tonnage was down 20 per cent compared to the…
Airspace joins EGSAC
18 / 08 / 2009
EGSAC – the independent cargo GSSA network – has appointed Airspace Aviation Solutions as its exclusive UK member. Founded in…
Wallenborn buys Rutges
18 / 08 / 2009
WALLENBORN Transports has acquired Rutges Cargo, an air cargo distribution specialist based in Amsterdam. Rutges Cargo, which provides logistics for…
Ethiopian profits soar but dumps slowing Boeing
17 / 08 / 2009
ETHIOPIAN Airlines has reported that its net profit for the first half of the year has more than doubled, compared…
Frankfurt slows decline
17 / 08 / 2009
AIRFREIGHT throughput at Frankfurt Airport fell only 9.4 per cent in July, year-on-year, to 156,000 metric tons of cargo, the…
BDP acquires Rostrum
17 / 08 / 2009
US-based BDP International (BDP) has acquired the UK’s Rostrum Forwarding. Rostrum will start trading under BDP’s name but still be…
Aeroflot cargo up in July
17 / 08 / 2009
AEROFLOT-Cargo carried 5,888 tons of cargo in July on its freighters, four per cent more than last year. Meanwhile, 7,104…
Düsseldorf increases tonnage
17 / 08 / 2009
CARGO tonnage January to June at Düsseldorf, rose by 4.2 per cent, an encouraging upward trend in the present slow…
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