The 29th Air Cargo News prestigious awards ceremony Cargo Airline of the Year at the Lancaster London Hotel on Saturday….
April 2013
Asian carriers hit by NZ fines
29 / 04 / 2013
THREE major international airlines have been penalised a total of US$8million for systematically operating a cartel on air cargo shipments…
European airlines are ‘struggling’ with restructuring, says analyst
29 / 04 / 2013
EUROPEAN airlines are struggling with their restructuring programmes, according to an industry analyst. The strike involving ground staff at Lufthansa Cargo comes as no…
Rise in obsolete cargo terminals
27 / 04 / 2013
LARGE, expensive, on-airport warehouses are lying empty around the air cargo world – because their size and layouts are no…
Lufthansa Cargo’s strike message to customers
24 / 04 / 2013
Dear Customer, The trade union Verdi has called upon Lufthansa’s ground staff to enter into a widespread fullday token strike…
Easy does it…
24 / 04 / 2013
EASY does it . . as this German Armed Forces’ NH90 multi-purpose helicopter is skillfully loaded aboard an Antonov 124…
Award winners to be announced on Saturday
22 / 04 / 2013
WINNERS of this year’s annual Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year competition are to be revealed at a…
Ukraine ‘theft’
22 / 04 / 2013
A PLAN by Swissport to establish a cargo handling business in the Ukraine has ground to a halt after the…
DHL increases Penang capacity
22 / 04 / 2013
DHL Express has increased its cargo capacity to and from Malaysia by 30 per cent – with the introduction of…
Heavy metal from Russia
21 / 04 / 2013
FORTY-SIX tonnes? . . that’s easy, comrade. Russian project logistics company JSC Transafe Logistics set up a record by moving this…
New head of CNS
19 / 04 / 2013
WARREN JONES is the new head of Cargo Network Service (CNS), the US subsidiary of IATA. Jones, a US national,…
Emirates takes paperless lead
18 / 04 / 2013
EMIRATES SKYCARGO is the first airline to implement electronic airwaybill (e-AWB) shipments under the industry’s newly-ratified multilateral paperless standard. The…
Cargolux to Ouagadougou
17 / 04 / 2013
ALL-CARGO airline Cargolux has added Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to its network of African destinations. Often called the…
B737 freighter conversion for Kenya
16 / 04 / 2013
KENYA AIRWAYS CARGO has received its first fully-owned freighter to tap into growing trade volumes in Africa and strengthen its…
Emirates’ Scandinavian cargo boost
16 / 04 / 2013
CAPITALISING on the success of its thrice-weekly service to Gothenburg (Sweden), Emirates SkyCargo will be offering an extra 19 tonnes…
Why mega-forwarders have not always realised their potential
13 / 04 / 2013
DURING the late 1990s there was a lot of talk about how the big global forwarders were going to take over…
United boosts flights from San Francisco
12 / 04 / 2013
UNITED Cargo has augmented its service from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) with a new Paris route. The daily non-stop…
Why our reputation is everything
10 / 04 / 2013
IT WAS Warren Buffet who famously said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin…
Kuehne + Nagel fortify presence in Oman
10 / 04 / 2013
KUEHNE + NAGEL (K+N) has consolidated its business in Oman by acquiring more than 70 per cent of the shares…
Lufthansa Cargo increases utilisation
10 / 04 / 2013
LUFTHANSA Cargo (LC) scaled back capacity by 7.4 per cent and raised aircraft utilisation during the first quarter of 2013….