Asked what one piece of advice he would give his successor, Jonas van Stekelenburg “I’m of the generation which successfully stopped the implementation of e-freight…
May 2015
Another step forward for e-freight
19 / 05 / 2015
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo along with Rhenus and Cargonaut have digitised truck processing at the KLM Cargo area at Amsterdam’s Schiphol…
Freighters have a future
19 / 05 / 2015
Lufthansa Cargo has insisted that freighters still have a future despite some in the industry suggesting that there is an…
CEVA appoints Turhan Ozen as head of global healthcare
19 / 05 / 2015
CEVA Logistics has appointed Turhan Ozen as senior vice president responsible for the company’s recently launched global healthcare sector. Ozen…
Decision on UK airport capacity needed quickly
19 / 05 / 2015
The UK’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) has joined calls for the UK government to make a decision on airport capacity…
SIA’s first A350-900 takes shape
19 / 05 / 2015
Airbus has begun final assembly of the first A350-900 for Singapore Airlines at its facilities in Toulouse, France. The aircraft…
Network Aviation Group secures MD-11Fs
19 / 05 / 2015
Network Aviation Group has secured freighter capacity under a new long term contract with Western Global, the freighter ACMI provider…
Turkish Cargo adds new African freighter destination
18 / 05 / 2015
Turkish Airlines’ cargo division has added a tenth African destination to its freighter network. Turkish Cargo announced that it had…
Finnish aviation strike cancelled
18 / 05 / 2015
The Finnish Aviation Union has withdrawn a strike threat that was set to bring disruption to cargo operations in the…
Chicago supply chains hit by congestion
18 / 05 / 2015
Trucks picking up and dropping off cargo at Chicago-O’Hare International airport face waits of up to nine hours as a…
LUG introduces Frankfurt collection slot software
18 / 05 / 2015
Ground handler LUG Aircargo has introduced its new ramp service and time slot management software at its Cargo City South…
NGA to cease operations at the end of May
15 / 05 / 2015
Main-deck cargo airline Nordic Global Airlines will cease operations at the end of the month after overcapacity in the market…
P2F partnership confirms A321 conversions to start this year
15 / 05 / 2015
Aircraft sales, leasing and conversion group PACAVI and partner Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co (Gameco) have confirmed they will begin…
Nepal relief effort continues
15 / 05 / 2015
Continuing earthquakes in Nepal are affecting relief efforts as logistics teams ramp-up their efforts to ensure aid reaches the most…
Agility’s airfreight yields boost Q1 performance
15 / 05 / 2015
Improving airfreight yields have helped push logistics firm Agility to a 5 percent year-on-year improvement in profits during the first…
SIA Cargo operating loss narrows to S$22m
15 / 05 / 2015
SIA Cargo made a S$22m operating loss in the 2014-15 financial year, compared with a S$100m loss in prior year…
DHL Global Forwarding suspends transformation programme
14 / 05 / 2015
German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL has suspended its forwarding division’s transformation programme after admitting its roll-out was affecting business…
Volga-Dnepr delivers 45 tons of humanitarian cargo to Nepal
13 / 05 / 2015
Volga-Dnepr has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian cargo on behalf of the Norwegian Red Cross to help earthquake victims in…
Urgent charter keeps Brazilian oil plant working
13 / 05 / 2015
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and Volga-Dnepr Airlines have delivered a time-critical outsize part for the oil industry in Brazil, flying a…
WFS has a shopping list of acquisitions
13 / 05 / 2015
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s largest cargo handler, has a shopping list of acquisitions after being acquired by a…