The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is fining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US$175,000 for shipping electronic devices that…
A new airline for a new country
05 / 09 / 2011
SOUTHERN SUDAN start-up airline Southern Star is getting off the ground thanks to Kenya-based aircraft leasing company ALS. ALS is…
Swift Freight’s fast growth
04 / 09 / 2011
INCREASING airfreight volumes in Chinese and Indian markets have boosted Dubai, UAE-based Swift Freight’s monthly turnover by 42 per cent…
Ethiopian to buy four 777Fs
04 / 09 / 2011
WITHIN the coming weeks Ethiopian Airlines will purchase four 777Fs from Boeing. The carrier is rapidly expanding its fleet following…
St Louis hub – the trickle before the flood
04 / 09 / 2011
PLANS to transform Lambert-St Louis International Airport (US) into a cargo hub connecting China and the US will get underway…
DHL’s five special freighters
01 / 09 / 2011
FIVE DHL-owned 767-200PCFs are being converted to special freighter configuration by US-based Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES). AMES has…
Asiana expands fleet
01 / 09 / 2011
ASIANA Airlines is lifting capacity on its route from Incheon (South Korea) to the US west coast. World Airways, a…
Pigs might fly
01 / 09 / 2011
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC) has transported 1,150 pigs from Winnipeg (Canada) to Domodedovo Airport (Russia). The animals, weighing a total of…
UTi’s airfreight slump
01 / 09 / 2011
FREIGHT forwarder UTi Worldwide’s airfreight volumes fell in the fiscal second quarter against high volumes in the year-ago period. Despite…
500 non-compliant freighter flights
31 / 08 / 2011
THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a US$298,500 civil penalty against Capital Cargo International Airlines (CCIA) for allegedly…
Air cargo’s descending path
31 / 08 / 2011
AIRFREIGHT has faced a slow decay during July – a harbinger of things to come, the International Air Transport Association…
Opening the US gateways
31 / 08 / 2011
THE state of the US economy and soft exports from Asia across the Pacific have undermined even some of the…
Emirates completes the 777F trio
30 / 08 / 2011
EMIRATES SkyCargo is to operate its third new 777F three times a week to São Paulo (Brazil). “Even in an…
Transaero’s cargo celebration
30 / 08 / 2011
RUSSIAN player Transaero Airlines has experienced a 35 per cent year-on-year leap in cargo volumes from January to July 2011….
Asian cargo carriers down in July
29 / 08 / 2011
INTERNATIONAL cargo demand for Asia Pacific carriers, measured in freight ton kilometres (FTK), for July 2011 was four per cent…
US airports weather the storm
29 / 08 / 2011
CARGO operations at airports on the US east coast suffered fewer setbacks than expected over the weekend of 27 August,…
Chinese carriers descend on Dallas
29 / 08 / 2011
AIR China Cargo is boosting transhipment links to the US with a service between Dallas/Fort Worth (US) and Shanghai (China)….
US cargo screening $1 billion saving
25 / 08 / 2011
THE Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) air cargo screening programme will cost US$1 billion less than expected. The administration’s final decision…
NZ price fix ruling to proceed
25 / 08 / 2011
IT has been a three-month wait, and now New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has won the right to proceed with its…
Toll to triple revenue
25 / 08 / 2011
AUSTRALIA-headquartered freight forwarder Toll is looking to triple global revenues in three years thorough acquisitions projects. Toll, with an approximate…
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