PANALPINA is claiming to be the first air cargo company in the world to achieve completely paperless flights for general…
January 2014
Positive cargo Q3 hike puts a skip in Schiphol
18 / 01 / 2014
THE GROWTH in air cargo throughput at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol continued throughout the third quarter of 2013, which improved on last…
IAG Cargo’s new deal with forwarder network WACO
18 / 01 / 2014
IAG CARGO has entered into a global strategic partnership with forwarder network WACO. It means that WACO members are recognised…
‘Secure’ airfreight shipments win Customs advantages
18 / 01 / 2014
AUTHORISED secure air cargo shipments are four to six times less likely to undergo a delaying Customs examination, a major…
Cathay orders 21 B777-9Xs worth over US$7bn
16 / 01 / 2014
CATHAY PACIFIC has become Asia’s first B777X customer, ordering 21 B777-9Xs worth more than US$7bn at current list prices. The…
Emirates Airline orders 50 more A380s
16 / 01 / 2014
EMIRATES Airline has signed a contract for 50 additional A380s. The move brings the UAE carrier’s total order for the aircraft,…
Qatar Airways Cargo’s four new freighter routes
14 / 01 / 2014
QATAR Airways Cargo is spreading its freighter wings to four new scheduled destinations. Beirut (Lebanon), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France) and…
Denis Ilin becomes AirBridgeCargo Airlines’ new executive president
13 / 01 / 2014
DENIS ILIN has been appointed executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline. Ilin has worked…
Jan De Rijk Logistics signs air cargo trucking deal with Cargo Air Lines
12 / 01 / 2014
AIR CARGO road-feeder supplier Jan De Rijk Logistics has signed a two-year airfreight trucking agreement with Israel’s CAL Cargo Air…
How to survive the air cargo Christmas party
10 / 01 / 2014
HERE’S a warning about the seasonal dangers, which can leave air cargo managers with a nasty financial hangover –long after…
Can Tiaca make Seoul music?
10 / 01 / 2014
THE 27th Air Cargo Forum and Exhibition is planned for October (7-9) this year, hosted by Seoul’s Incheon Airport. Good…
Lufthansa Cargo offers customers global real-time tracking
10 / 01 / 2014
CUSTOMERS of Lufthansa Cargo can now pay for global real-time tracking of their shipments. With the use of GSM transponders,…
Cargo Champion – Essa Al-Saleh
10 / 01 / 2014
IN THE corridors of power, humility is often in short supply. This is primarily because of the misconceptions many people…
Cargo Champion – Danita Waterfall-Brizzi
10 / 01 / 2014
IT MAY be one of the oldest, most overused proverbs: If you don’t succeed, try, try again. But it does…
30 years of air cargo insights
10 / 01 / 2014
NIGEL TOMKINS learned a useful lesson at Heathrow Airport in the 1970s. As a young newspaper reporter, his job was to…
Regulators consider advanced air cargo data law
09 / 01 / 2014
REGULATORY agencies are proposing new draft laws to step up the submission of customs information for all air cargo shipments…
Air cargo will remain stagnant in 2014, says IATA
09 / 01 / 2014
AIR CARGO revenues are expected to be US$60bn this year and in 2014 – unchanged from 2007 levels, reveals IATA’s…
The rise and rise of air cargo apps
08 / 01 / 2014
SMARTPHONE and tablet apps are becoming must-have business tools for the air cargo industry. Their use for tracking shipment progress…
Online purchases drive China’s express market hike
08 / 01 / 2014
THE warnings from those pessimists who spotted a structural downturn in China’s slowdown apparently failed to reach the country’s consumers…
AIA launches track-and-trace app
08 / 01 / 2014
GENERAL sales agency Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) has launched an air cargo track-and-trace mobile app. The software allows customers to…