Interest in using airfreight instead of ocean freight improved as last year progressed, according to price enquiry data from booking…
January 2017
Voting now open for the Cargo Airline of the Year Awards
10 / 01 / 2017
Air Cargo News is delighted to announce that voting has now opened for the 2017 Cargo Airline of the Year…
WAITING FOR EXTRA INFO Gefco teams-up with UK pharma organisation
10 / 01 / 2017
Gefco Forwarding UK has become a patron of Medilink East Midlands (EM), an organisation that helps new start-ups in the…
DHL promotion for Goh in Asia Pacific
10 / 01 / 2017
DHL has appointed Alfred Goh as Regional Head of Customer Solutions and Innovation (CSI) Asia Pacific, providing the company’s largest…
Kerry Logistics snaps up German film and media specialist
10 / 01 / 2017
Kerry Logistics Network, the Asia-based service provider, has further expanded its European operations by acquiring Germany’s Multi Logistics, a specialist…
China Airlines and Japan Airlines to strengthen cargo and passenger cooperation
10 / 01 / 2017
Taiwan’s China Airlines and Japan Airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their strategic cooperation on cargo…
Year of steady growth for dnata
10 / 01 / 2017
Dubai-based passenger and cargo handler dnata has called 2016 a “year of steady growth” despite challenges in the aviation industry…
Brussels airport’s 2016 cargo volumes boosted by freighter and pharma
09 / 01 / 2017
Brussels Airport saw a 1.1% rise in cargo volumes during 2016 to 494,637 tons, helped by strong performances in the…
Vienna announces expansion of air cargo facilities
06 / 01 / 2017
Vienna Airport has announced plans to expand its air cargo facilities by one third as demand continues to improve. The…
India plans new community system to improve air cargo efficiency
06 / 01 / 2017
The Indian government will develop an air cargo community system through a public private partnership to try and reduce the…
Asia Pacific carriers record another cargo improvement in November
05 / 01 / 2017
Asian carriers continued to benefit from improving air cargo market conditions in November but global trade remains soft. The latest…
Air cargo has the best peak season in years
05 / 01 / 2017
The latest figures from analyst WorldACD show that the air cargo industry had the "best peak season in years" in…
IAG Cargo in charitable transport of blankets and sleeping bags
04 / 01 / 2017
IAG Cargo has transported a charitable collection of blankets and sleeping bags from across the IAG family for special causes…
Halifax pots a red with Chinese lobster freighters
04 / 01 / 2017
Canada’s Halifax Stanfield airport has secured five Boeing 747-400 freighter charters by Yangtze River Express in January to meet demand…
AAT scoops T’way cargo contract for Hong Kong service
04 / 01 / 2017
Low-cost South Korean airline T’way has appointed Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT) as its cargo handler for a new service from…
VIDEO: IAG Cargo’s Crawley looks forward to 2017
04 / 01 / 2017
In IAG Cargo’s latest talking heads You Tube video, chief executive Drew Crawley has identified his highlights of 2016 and…
ATSG subsidiary swoops on MRO and conversion firm Pemco
03 / 01 / 2017
Aircraft conversion firm Pemco has been bought by Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group…
New Ethiopian Airlines cargo hub to open in April
03 / 01 / 2017
Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed that its new cargo terminal at Addis Ababa is 82% complete and expected to be operational…
Antonov Airlines appoints UK sales team
03 / 01 / 2017
Antonov Airlines – operator of the Antonov AN-124, AN-225 and AN-22 aircraft – has appointed Dreamlifts Limited as its general…
Jim Butler: A look back on 2016 and a focus on the year ahead
03 / 01 / 2017
In the following Q&A article, American Airlines Cargo president Jim Butler took some time out of his busy schedule to…