AUSTRALIAN airports are riddled with organised crime at every level, according to an Australian government investigation. The federal inquiry has…
February 2010
An-225 flies south
22 / 02 / 2010
AN An-225, the world’s largest fixed-wing aircraft, has transported four giant pieces of oil and gas equipment, almost 150 tons,…
MAS accused of pricefixing
18 / 02 / 2010
MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS), has received a complaint by an American freight-forwarding company accusing of price fixing. The notice was filed…
US in new Bout extradition ploy
18 / 02 / 2010
VIKTOR Bout (right), the so-called Merchant of Death, must be feeling all warm and fuzzy considering the extent that Russia…
Stable business for AF-KLM
18 / 02 / 2010
AIR France-KLM flights to Japan are often abuzz. The reason for this, are bumblebees headed to the land of the…
New routes update – 19 February 2010
18 / 02 / 2010
ETIHAD Airways will add seven weekly flights from Abu Dhabi to Australia from March next year. It already operates 21…
People update – 17 February 2010
16 / 02 / 2010
EMIRATES SkyCargo has appointed Aileen Wallace (near right) as cargo supervisor and Robert Gosling (far right) as senior cargo customer…
BAWC feels tentative upswing
16 / 02 / 2010
BRITISH Airways World Cargo has reported commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) of £402 million for the nine months…
Lufthansa cargo to slash jobs, pilots vote to strike
16 / 02 / 2010
LUFTHANSA Cargo has confirmed that it will cut its workforce by 10 per cent this year as part of its…
Finnair explores possibility of cargo operations
16 / 02 / 2010
FINNAIR Cargo Oy, which belongs to the Finnair Group, is exploring the possibility of starting cargo flights between Asia destinations…
Lufthansa cargo’s traffic rise lets workers hours to follow
15 / 02 / 2010
LUFTHANSA Cargo saw a resurgence in traffic in January, with 18.6 per cent more shipped than the same month last…
China Eastern, Shanghai merger complete
15 / 02 / 2010
CHINA Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines have completed their merger. The new company has total assets of over CNY150 billion…
GSSA Update – 16 February 2010
15 / 02 / 2010
THE EGSAC GSSA network has appointed SNTTA Cargo as its exclusive member for Sharjah in the UAE. SNTTA Cargo represents…
Australia airfreight picking up
15 / 02 / 2010
AUSTRALIA’s airfreight traffic surpassed predictions in December. Exports were 25,000 tonnes, 3,000 tonnes more than the expected 22,000. Imports were…
Cathay Pacific sees strong cargo recovery
14 / 02 / 2010
CATHAY Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for January 2010 show a significant rise in cargo and mail tonnage.In the first…
Airport update – 15 February 2010
14 / 02 / 2010
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) handled 212,623 tonnes of cargo in January, a year-on-year growth of 48.9 per…
Boeing to scrap 787-3
14 / 02 / 2010
BOEING is to scrap production of its 787-3, the short-range version of the new 787 Dreamliner, following two Japanese airlines…
Kenya cargo up nine per cent
14 / 02 / 2010
KENYA Airways Cargo has reported a nine per cent growth in traffic for the last three months of 2009. Cargo…
AIR CARGO NEWS EXCLUSIVE – DHL admits to being the ‘whistleblower’
11 / 02 / 2010
DHL Global Forwarding has admitted that it was the whistleblower that initiated the massive international investigation into illegal anti-competition activities…
Kuwaiti MP condemns corrupt Customs
11 / 02 / 2010
A KUWAITI member of parliament has accused the local Customs department of corruption.Hassan Jowhar said that large amounts of airfreight…
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