Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership with six new daily passenger services. The two…
March 2015
Hefty jump in Asian air cargo demand
26 / 03 / 2015
Latest monthly data from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) shows that international freight tonne km (FTK) surged 20.5…
TNT opens healthcare hub in Europe
26 / 03 / 2015
TNT has opened a healthcare hub in the Netherlands that allows next day deliveries of medical devices to 96 per…
Port strike is Rickenbacker’s gain
25 / 03 / 2015
The US West Coast container port strike led to a surge in February air cargo traffic, said Rickenbacker Airport Authority. The…
WCS: Differing messages in ULD debate
25 / 03 / 2015
The two leading players in outsourced ULD management brought differing messages to the World Cargo Symposium in China this week….
Finnair starts work on new cargo terminal
25 / 03 / 2015
The Finnair board has approved a new €80m cargo terminal for Helsinki Airport. Construction work will start this month on…
East-west rates end two-month decline
25 / 03 / 2015
Drewry Sea & Air Shipper Insight’s East-West Air Freight Price Index ended a two-month decline in February, gaining 2.2 points…
Cargolux and DB Schenker, a decade of US pharma
25 / 03 / 2015
Cargolux has celebrated a decade of healthcare shipment flights to Indianapolis in cooperation with German logistics operator DB Schenker. Cargolux…
AF-KLM: Neither pushed nor disgruntled
25 / 03 / 2015
Was he pushed? Is he protesting at the direction that the company is taking? Erik Varwijk, who resigned as executive…
One Question: ULD track and trace
25 / 03 / 2015
Dr Ludwig Bertsch, President of CHEP Aerospace Solutions says: “If a ULD could talk, we would want to ask it:…
Airbridge International expanding its network
25 / 03 / 2015
GSSAs can increase their business in two ways: They can add more airline clients – or they can increase the…
Hyderabad airport set to handle 100,000 tonnes
24 / 03 / 2015
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) expects to cross the 100,000 tonnes milestone in the current financial year. The cargo…
DHL’s Ly makes a Singapore comeback
24 / 03 / 2015
DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Stephen Ly as managing director for Singapore. The former managing director for DHL Global Forwarding…
JAL’s cool delivery to Paris
24 / 03 / 2015
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Japan Post are to extend their Cool EMS Service to France from April. The two partners…
Heathrow rediscovers the regions
24 / 03 / 2015
Heathrow has announced a package of measures to boost links between the UK regions and to reverse “a lost decade”…
WCS: Airfreight volumes, a Chinese puzzle
24 / 03 / 2015
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if China sneezes, the rest of the world will catch a cold, writes Martin…
Hacis to extend mainland road feeder links
24 / 03 / 2015
Hong Kong Air Cargo industry Services (Hacis) plans to open additional bases on the Chinese mainland to extend its logistical…
Shippers go global
24 / 03 / 2015
Three shipper organisations have formed a new trans-national body, the Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA). The European Shippers’ Council (ESC), the…
Freighters to go as Thai takes a hard look at its fleet
24 / 03 / 2015
Thai Airways is due to end full freighter operations later this month as part of a fleet reduction that will also…
An-124 takes Siemens rotor for a spin
24 / 03 / 2015
One of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters moved a 50-ton rotor from Germany to Mumbai, India, for engineering and technology firm Siemens….