CARGO traffic slumped by 3.8 per cent through South Korea’s Incheon Airport in September. Total volume through the Seoul airport…
October 2013
Cool-chain handling two-tier warning
25 / 10 / 2013
INCONSISTENT investment in technology and infrastructure among air cargo firms handling pharmaceutical and healthcare products is resulting in a two-tier…
IAG Cargo opens Heathrow pharmaceuticals centre
24 / 10 / 2013
IAG Cargo, the freight arm of British Airways and Iberia, has opened this new pharmaceuticals centre at Heathrow airport. It…
Who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing?
24 / 10 / 2013
IT SEEMS crazy to me but, in the hardbitten commercial world of air cargo, there is one subject that practically…
Saudia Cargo expands global network with European routes
24 / 10 / 2013
SAUDIA CARGO is to increase its belly and freighter capacity on a number of routes across its global network. In…
Why cool-chain handling needs to get its act together
23 / 10 / 2013
THERE’S a desperate need for standardisation in the handling of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products in the air cargo supply chain,…
Alcohol-free World Cup Brazilian beer leaves bitter taste
23 / 10 / 2013
SURELY it’s an air cargo conspiracy against true football (soccer, for our US readers) supporters. That otherwise esteemed charter broker…
AEI redelivers Kahala Aviation B737-400SF 11-pallet p2f
23 / 10 / 2013
FREIGHTER conversions specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has redelivered the first of two Kahala Aviation B737-400SF 11-pallet passenger-to-freighter (p2f) aircraft….
Etihad Airways’ record Q3 growth
22 / 10 / 2013
ETIHAD Airways continued to achieve record growth in the third quarter of 2013, with revenue from passenger services exceeding US$1…
Fire-risk lurking in containers
21 / 10 / 2013
A RAPIDLY accelerating blaze – which started in a ULD containing undeclared lithium-ion batteries – turned the inside of a…
The seafood capacity crunch
20 / 10 / 2013
WHICH COMES first, capacity or market? Is air cargo capacity put in place to serve an existing need, or by…
Qantas Freight expands its global reach
20 / 10 / 2013
BIG CHANGES have been afoot in Qantas Freight. The division has changed its European strategy, bought out its partner in…
LUG wins Cargolux’s award for spotting mis-labeled dangerous goods
16 / 10 / 2013
ALL-CARGO carrier Cargolux has rewarded ground services company LUG aircargo handling with a dangerous goods awareness award in “appreciation of…
IAG Cargo’s Dreamliner service to Texas
16 / 10 / 2013
IAG Cargo will be offering cargo capacity on a brand new, widebodied aircraft service from London Heathrow to Austin, Texas,…
Russian air cargo in retreat
16 / 10 / 2013
THE RANKS of Russian freighter operators swelled in April, as Transaero entered the maindeck market with the start of all-cargo…
An-225 arrives at Bahrain from Cairo International Airport
15 / 10 / 2013
THE Antonov An-225, the biggest, heaviest aircraft in the world, arrives at Bahrain (BIA) from Cairo International Airport, Egypt. Affectionately…
An industry failing to get the message
08 / 10 / 2013
FRUSTRATION and widespread irritation at the slow uptake of digitisation was palpable at an air cargo conference on ground handling…
Successful freighters conference hears about disorder and secrecy
08 / 10 / 2013
AIR CARGO is a business in partial disarray – across all sectors. Widespread disorder is a key factor in the…
Antonov lifts 80-tonnes turbine
08 / 10 / 2013
AN 80-TONNE mobile gas turbine power plant is the latest piece of outsize cargo delivered by Volga-Dnepr Airlines to the…
The bear necessities
08 / 10 / 2013
READING my esteemed colleague Thelma Etim’s informative round-up of the latest animals-by-air innovations in this issue (see pages 10 and…