CARGO operator Starlight Airlines continues its expansion with a new base in Mumbai (India). The company, which mainly operates in…
May 30, 2012
Sinotrans adds to portfolio
30 / 05 / 2012
ASIDE from a 110 per cent 2010 profit forecast, Chinese freight forwarder Sinotrans Air Transportation Development (SATD) has its eyes…
Grandstar Cargo’s boost
30 / 05 / 2012
GRANDSTAR Cargo is set to receive an investment of US$30m. Majority shareholder Sinotrans has also offered to give up the…
Air France-KLM’s April cargo dive
30 / 05 / 2012
POOR cargo traffic in Africa and the Middle East drove down Air France-KLM’s overall profits in April. The Franco-Dutch carrier…
Cargo carrier founder on trial
30 / 05 / 2012
THE trial of the 60-year-old founder of Pan America Airways (US) gets under way. Robert Hedrick, who was arrested last…
Damco’s air freight tonnage soars
30 / 05 / 2012
LOGISTICS provider Damco says its air freight volumes more than doubled in the first quarter of this year to 40,000 metric tonnes compared…
Debt-ridden Air France downsizes cargo fleet
30 / 05 / 2012
AIR France Cargo is to reduce its freighter fleet of three 747-400Fs and two 777Fs to four aircraft in a…
Turkish Airlines awards contract to WFS
30 / 05 / 2012
TURKISH Airlines has awarded a contract for cargo handling at Birmingham Airport in the UK to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS)….
Arab world discusses open skies
30 / 05 / 2012
AT the recent Arab Socio Economic Council meeting in Cairo ministers and senior economy officials discussed the proposed Arab Customs…