DAMCO has appointed Lee Cartwright (right) its new UK head of airfreight sales. Based at the company’s offices at London…
August 2010
SIA Cargo sees improving yields
08 / 08 / 2010
SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Cargo’s freight traffic (in load tonne-kilometres) for the first quarter was up 12.1 per cent year-on-year, against…
Etihad accepts first A330-200 freighter
08 / 08 / 2010
ETIHAD Crystal Cargo has received the first widebody A330-200 freighter. The aircraft will enter service in September this year. “The…
Cathay Pacific orders aircraft on back of record results
08 / 08 / 2010
CATHAY Pacific has ordered 30 Airbus A350-900 aircraft and announced its intention to exercise existing purchase rights of six Boeing…
India approves import of 375 aircraft
08 / 08 / 2010
INDIA’s civil aviation ministry has given its approval to import 375 aircraft into the country. “The government has granted permission…
Boeing loses 787 orders
08 / 08 / 2010
DESPITE Boeing forecasting that the worldwide air cargo market will grow about 14 per cent this year, the manufacturer had…
Lufthansa takes big risk with new rate rise policy
05 / 08 / 2010
LUFTHANSA Cargo has sent out a letter to thousands of customers informing them of a 20 per cent rate rise…
Cartel crazy
05 / 08 / 2010
SOUTH Africa is the latest country to target eight international airlines for their part in a global airfreight cartel that…
UK airfreight slump hits Japanese giants hard
05 / 08 / 2010
NO group of forwarders suffered as much in the UK market in 2009 as the large Japanese logistic companies. Hit…
EADS raises forecast despite slow start
03 / 08 / 2010
AIRBUS’ parent company, EADS, has revealed that its first year net profit halved from the year before, but that it…
Panalpina negotiates settlement as profits rise
03 / 08 / 2010
PANALPINA has agreed to pay US$375,000 to settle a bribery lawsuit in the US. The investigation alleged a former employee…
TSA meets screening deadline
03 / 08 / 2010
DESPITE the complaining and predictions of it being missed en masse, the aviation industry successfully met the US passenger cargo-screening…
FedEx Trade Networks adds European offices
03 / 08 / 2010
FEDEX Trade Networks, the freight-forwarding subsidiary of FedEx, has opened additional offices in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Hamburg and Frankfurt…
Second Alaskan cargo crash in a week kills three
02 / 08 / 2010
THREE people were killed when a small freighter crashed in Alaska last week. The twin-engine Fairchild C-123 was registered to…
Boeing predicts solid air cargo growth
02 / 08 / 2010
A FORECAST released by Boeing suggests that the worldwide air cargo market will grow about 14 per cent this year,…
AirBridge accepts tenth 747F
02 / 08 / 2010
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo airline of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group, has taken delivery of its third Boeing 747-400 freighter…
Robo-pallets to load robo-freighters
02 / 08 / 2010
HOT on the heels of news that a robo-freighter is in development comes the announcement that plans are afoot for…
Atlas Air starts Dreamlifter services
01 / 08 / 2010
ATLAS Air has launched its Dreamlifter service for Boeing. This follows the previously announced nine-year agreement that abruptly took the…
Pilot Freight reports big 2Q turnaround
01 / 08 / 2010
PILOT Freight Services reports its second-quarter revenues jumped 27.5 per cent, to US$94.9 million, compared with the same quarter last…
Upward trend at Lufthansa Cargo continues
01 / 08 / 2010
LUFTHANSA Cargo made an operating profit of €144 million in the first half of the year, the best in its…
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