Dubai-headquartered Emirates Airline has made three personnel changes to key commercial and cargo management positions in the Middle East, effective…
June 2017
Southwest appoints new director of cargo sales
06 / 06 / 2017
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has appointed Steve Langhart to the post of director of cargo sales. The role covers leading the…
Robert Agnew to chair Atlas Air Worldwide board
06 / 06 / 2017
New York-headquartered freighter operator Atlas Air Worldwide has appointed Robert Agnew (president and chief executive of international aviation consultancy Morten…
Thominet takes over the controls at ECS
06 / 06 / 2017
General sales and service agency ECS Group has nominated current chief operating officer Adrien Thominet as its new chief executive…
Kersten to be new FIATA head
06 / 06 / 2017
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) has appointed Hans Kersten as deputy director and director general designate after…
SF Express and Alibaba end data dispute
06 / 06 / 2017
Delivery giant SF Express has restarted transportation services for online retail giant Alibaba after they ended their dispute over data…
Yangtze River adds Atlas B747-400 freighter
05 / 06 / 2017
Yangtze River Airlines will lease a Boeing 747-400F from Atlas Air Worldwide to use on China-US flights. The aircraft will…
FAA to award US$527.8m in airport grants
05 / 06 / 2017
As part of its Airport Improvement Program (AIP), the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award US$527.8m in airport infrastructure…
Virgin Atlantic Cargo ups New York services
05 / 06 / 2017
At the end of May, Virgin Atlantic Cargo launched new daily flights from Manchester in northern England to New York…
Ethiopian continues humanitarian collaboration with Boeing
05 / 06 / 2017
Ethiopian Airlines has flown 6.5 tons of humanitarian relief cargo from Seattle to Ethiopia on behalf of Conscience International (CI),…
Royal Air Maroc and Etihad sign cargo MoU
05 / 06 / 2017
On 29 May in Casablanca, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Etihad Airways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the…
Alibaba and SF Express in data-sharing standoff
02 / 06 / 2017
SF Express, one of the biggest delivery firms for Alibaba, says it has been dropped by the online retail giant…
Rates continued to track ahead of a year ago in May
02 / 06 / 2017
Airfreight rates on key trade lanes continued to track ahead of last year’s levels in May, according to the latest…
Rhenus adds to Indonesia network
02 / 06 / 2017
Freight forwarder the Rhenus Group says it plans to open an office in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, in early August…
Purolator goes coast to coast in the US
02 / 06 / 2017
Purolator International – Canada’s largest integrated freight, parcel and logistics solutions provider – has launched an expedited forwarding service for…
Business blooms in the desert for UPS
02 / 06 / 2017
UPS is to open a new package processing hub in the town of Goodyear, near Phoenix, Arizona. The first phase…
AirBridgeCargo records 17% volume growth in Q1
02 / 06 / 2017
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) recorded a volume improvement of 17% during the first quarter of the year as the carrier continued…
Etihad extends Dreamliner network
02 / 06 / 2017
Etihad Airways is to deploy Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft on its routes from its Abu Dhabi hub to Amsterdam and…
We’re staying in Singapore, says Cargolux
02 / 06 / 2017
Cargolux has denied that it is to move one of its key Asian hubs from Singapore’s Changi airport to Batam…
Kung Fu Panda-fighting
02 / 06 / 2017
Is a dogfight about to break out over the skies of Asia? No sooner had Air Cargo News broken the…
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