Eric Kirchner has resigned as chief executive of US-based logistics provider UTi Worldwide. Edward Feitzinger was voted by the UTi board…
March 20, 2015
Heathrow volumes rise in November
20 / 03 / 2015
A surge in cargo to Mexico, Brazil, India and Turkey helped London-Heathrow airport freight volumes rise 2.3 per cent in November…
Top five sign roadmap to combat cybercrime
20 / 03 / 2015
Five major international aviation organisations have agreed a “common roadmap” to combat attacks from hackers and other cyber criminals. The group…
Qantas management reshuffle
20 / 03 / 2015
A top level management reshuffle at Australian carrier Qantas has seen Gareth Evans appointed chief executive of Qantas International and…
Panalpina and Luxair combine for UNICEF Relief Flight
20 / 03 / 2015
Panalpina has joined forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support the ongoing fight against the Ebola crisis,…
PACTL’s record November
20 / 03 / 2015
Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) saw November year-on-year freight volume growth of 13.9 per cent to 147,267 tonnes,…
Costly Cartels
20 / 03 / 2015
Lawyers rarely go hungry and they may be about to feast on a billion dollar lawsuit relating to the airlines’…
LAN Cargo: The shift to belly capacity
20 / 03 / 2015
There was a brief moment in the late 1990s when LAN Chile (as it was then) looked like becoming a…
My Opinion
20 / 03 / 2015
Speaking about the growth in road feeder services by the terminal operator’s trucking subsidiary, HACIS. Mark Whitehead, Hong Kong Air…
Exelsius launches pharma programme
20 / 03 / 2015
Exelsius has launched a pharmaceutical qualification programme (PQP) for companies involved in the handling and transportation of pharmaceutical & life science…
US port chaos boosts ex-Asia Pacific air cargo revenues
20 / 03 / 2015
Inbound US west coast container port congestion provided a November boost for transpacific air cargo revenues out of Asia to…
Cologne cargo up 2% in 2014
20 / 03 / 2015
Cologne Bonn Airport saw record air cargo growth in 2014, handling 753,000 tonnes, a two per cent increase on 2013….
Thumbs up for Emirates’ all-in freight rates
20 / 03 / 2015
Shippers and forwarders have welcomed Emirates SkyCargo’s move to introduce an all-inclusive freight rate that does away with separate pricing components…
Heathrow cargo volumes hit new heights
20 / 03 / 2015
London Heathrow Airport saw a 5.3 per cent growth in cargo volumes in full year 2014 to 1.5m tonnes, ending…
Cargo leads Atlanta’s agenda
20 / 03 / 2015
ATLANTA Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movements, wants to upgrade its cargo…
French forwarders slam fuel surcharges
20 / 03 / 2015
French freight forwarders have called on airlines to end separate fuel surcharges, which they argue are no longer relevant. TLF…
Monster challenge
20 / 03 / 2015
Some 13 teams from carriers and the air cargo industry vied for Hactl’s 2015 International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition,…
Liege cements top slot in Belgium
20 / 03 / 2015
Liege Airport confirmed its position as Belgium’s number one cargo airport with 590,579 tonnes in 2014, up 5.3 per cent…
New US security rules will be a squeeze, says TIACA chief
20 / 03 / 2015
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) is urging its members to pay close attention to the US Transportation Security Administration…
Volga-Dnepr: Still shouldering the burden
20 / 03 / 2015
There are “a lot of assumptions and a lot of speculation about what is happening and what is not happening,…