EMIRATES SkyCargo’s plan to complete the transfer of its freighter base to Al Maktoum Airport (DWC) by May has gathered…
March 2015
Aer Lingus Cargo to use Envirotainer cold chain containers
21 / 03 / 2015
AER LINGUS has received approval from the Irish Aviation Authority to use Envirotainer ULDs with their heating, cooling and dry-ice…
B777s make Cathay one of the quietest at Heathrow
21 / 03 / 2015
CATHAY PACIFIC is now one of the most environment-friendly ‘quiet’ airlines operating out of London Heathrow, it is claimed. The…
Air Canada installs explosives detectors
21 / 03 / 2015
AIR CANADA is using new desktop explosives trace detector devices to screen air cargo shipments in situ. Morpho’s Itemiser DX…
Freighters are here to stay, says ABC
21 / 03 / 2015
THE passenger B777, with its market-changing belly capacity, has had a significant impact on the air cargo industry – but…
Charters grew by 14 per cent for ACS
21 / 03 / 2015
AIRCRAFT charter specialist Air Charter Service [ACS] completed almost 7,500 charter contracts in its financial year 1 February 2013 to…
IAG Cargo boosts capacity to Singapore with A380 super jumbo service
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGO customers in Singapore will benefit from additional capacity on IAG Cargo’s new A380 super jumbo service which is planned…
Saudia Cargo boosts belly capacity this summer
21 / 03 / 2015
SAUDI Airlines Cargo is increasing its belly cargo capacity on new B777 international routes to Manchester in the UK and…
Australian Customs finds ephedrine drug in air cargo
21 / 03 / 2015
CUSTOMS and border protection officers seized six kilos of the drug ephedrine – which was secreted inside 18 bicycle seats…
Qantas Freight awards Heathrow ground handling to dnata
21 / 03 / 2015
GROUND handler dnata and Australian airline Qantas Freight have agreed a partnership that will see dnata’s UK business provide handling…
Emirates’ B777 ships Mini teaching labs
21 / 03 / 2015
EMIRATES SkyCargo has been using its B777s to transport fully functional DNA laboratories packed into the trunks of two Mini…
Chapman Freeborn delivers unmanned surface vehicle
21 / 03 / 2015
AIR charter broker Chapman Freeborn and logistics partners SPI International and Logik Logistics International have successfully transported this first ever…
Carsten Hernig becomes new Jettainer MD
21 / 03 / 2015
CARSTEN HERNIG, 39, is the new managing director of ULD outsource specialist Jettainer. “He is not only a homegrown talent,…
AEI delivers B737-400SF to FarnAir Europe
21 / 03 / 2015
AERONAUTICAL Engineers Inc (AEI) has delivered the first of four B737-400SF freighters to Switzerland-based integrator support airline FarnAir Europe. The…
Volga-Dnepr delivers 103-tonne turbine rotor
21 / 03 / 2015
THIS 103-tonne turbine rotor has arrived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, onboard an An-124-100 Ruslan heavy freighter aircraft operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines….
Bangkok ground handler wins EU security validation
21 / 03 / 2015
BANGKOK Flight Services (BFS), a WFS Group company, has been validated as a Regulated Agent (RA3), enabling it to accept…
Air Zimbabwe board ‘investigated’
21 / 03 / 2015
REPORTS from Harare claim that Air Zimbabwe has had its entire board of directors fired by Zimbabwean Minister of Transport,…
Amsterdam’s air cargo ‘remote scanning’ pilot under way
21 / 03 / 2015
REPRESENTATIVES from forwarder Rhenus Logistics and Dutch Customs authorities have put a ‘remote scanning’ of airfreight shipments pilot scheme into…
Ruslan International moves giant power station rotor
21 / 03 / 2015
RUSLAN International, which manages and markets the combined fleets of its shareholders Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines, has carried…
Lufthansa Cargo says it with roses
21 / 03 / 2015
LUFTHANSA Cargo flew 1,000 tonnes of long-stem roses from cut-flower producing nations Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador to Germany, so millions…