Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) is considering converting some of its Boeing 767 passenger aircraft into freighters, according to Reuters….
November 2015
New PACTL cool centre to open next year
13 / 11 / 2015
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) will open its new eco-friendly cool centre early next year. PACTL announced plans…
Lufthansa Cargo adds more freighter flights as strike enters day seven
13 / 11 / 2015
Lufthansa Cargo has called in additional freighter flights as it continues to try and offset the effect of a cabin…
LATAM records another cargo revenue decline
13 / 11 / 2015
LATAM recorded another decline in cargo revenues and volumes as weak South American economic performance continued to take its toll…
Turkish logistics faculty’s first conference to be held in partnership with Pegasus Cargo
12 / 11 / 2015
Turkish carrier Pegasus Cargo is holding the International Transport and Logistics Conference on 23-24 March 2016 in partnership with Istanbul University’s…
Harry the rhino flies to a new home to Indonesia
12 / 11 / 2015
Harapan (Harry), the world’s only Sumatran rhinoceros living outside of South Asia, has arrived safely at his new home in…
Finnair denies takeover approach by IAG
12 / 11 / 2015
Finnair has denied speculation that it could be the target of a takeover by British Airways or its parent company…
Cargolux progress in talks with unions
12 / 11 / 2015
European freighter operator Cargolux has reached a "principle agreement" on a new collective work agreement (CWA) with the OGBL and…
Air cargo peak season hits while forwarders report Asian capacity shortage
11 / 11 / 2015
Initial traffic data from European airlines suggests there has been a strong peak-season pick-up in demand in October, while forwarders…
Volga-Dnepr steppes in for rare Russian horses
11 / 11 / 2015
Volga-Dnepr Group has flown six endangered Przewalski horses from France to Russia as part of a project to reintroduce the…
Flower power purchase: Panalpina goes with the Airflo in Kenya
11 / 11 / 2015
Panalpina is boosting its presence in Kenyan flower logistics by acquiring a majority stake in Airflo from the Dutch Flower Group…
Platts’ ambitious plans to develop Heathrow as a European cargo hub
11 / 11 / 2015
Heathrow Airport cargo boss Nick Platts is a man on a mission: to make Heathrow the preferred European air cargo…
Value of UK goods exported from Heathrow up almost 10%
11 / 11 / 2015
The value of UK exports via Heathrow has increased 9.7% over a 12 month period as vaccines for medicine experience…
October tonnage declines for Frankfurt and Heathrow
11 / 11 / 2015
Frankfurt, Europe’s number one air cargo hub by volume last year, and fourth placed London-Heathrow both recorded a decline in…
Official opening for Emirates SkyCentral in Dubai
11 / 11 / 2015
Dubai’s Emirates SkyCargo has officially opened its new airfreight terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC). Emirates SkyCentral, a first phase…
Chapman Freeborn and Airbroker announce new partnership
10 / 11 / 2015
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has launched a new strategic partnership with Oslo-based Airbroker to further enhance both companies’ offerings in the…
ACS helps out on world record attempt
10 / 11 / 2015
Air Charter Service helped a team complete ‘Cape to Cape 2.0’, a world record attempt driving from the southernmost point…
Brussels’ cargo up in October but Ethiopian move will have “negative” effect
10 / 11 / 2015
Brussels Airport handled 43,763 tonnes of cargo in October, a 7.3% rise in freight volumes versus the same month in…
CEVA losses narrow as airfreight volumes decline
10 / 11 / 2015
Logistics firm CEVA recorded a decline in airfreight volumes during the third quarter of the year, but it did manage…
Shippers welcome stricter lithium battery rules
10 / 11 / 2015
Shipper representatives have welcomed new safety recommendations covering lithium battery air cargo shipments agreed by the Dangerous Goods Panel (DGP) of the…