Deutsche Post DHL Group (DP DHL) will reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by the year 2050, including that…
March 2017
Supply chain firm Tigers launches e-commerce offering for customers
07 / 03 / 2017
Supply chain company Tigers has launched an online shopping portal that allows companies to sell their products in China and…
Strauss to replace retiring Turpin at Air Canada
07 / 03 / 2017
Tim Strauss is about to swap his Hawaiian shirts for warm winter gear. The genial American will relinquish his role…
Emirates SkyCargo appoints Ross Barnett as UK Cargo Manager
07 / 03 / 2017
Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Ross Barnett as UK cargo manager. With over 30 years’ experience in the industry, he joined…
ICAO agrees new aircraft CO2 emissions standard
07 / 03 / 2017
The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has adopted a new aircraft CO2 emissions standard which will reduce the…
ATSG full-year profits down due to Amazon start-up costs
07 / 03 / 2017
Aircraft lessor ATSG reported a double-digit percentage improvement in revenues last year but profits took a hit as it was…
Oz funding to develop advanced data analytics
07 / 03 / 2017
Information technology company Unisys and Data61, Australia’s largest data innovation group, are to develop an advanced data analytics solution for…
Kewill and LeanLogistics become BluJay Solutions
06 / 03 / 2017
Kewill and LeanLogistics have rebranded as BluJay Solutions following the completion of an integration process put in place after Kewill…
Air Astana extends handling contract with Frankfurt’s FCS
06 / 03 / 2017
Kazakhstan’ Air Astana has extend its handling contract with FCS Frankfurt Cargo Services. Hans-Georg Emmert, managing director of FCS, said:…
Cargo iQ: Air cargo should focus on reliability not speed
06 / 03 / 2017
Cargo iQ has called on the air cargo industry to stop focusing on speeding up transport times and to instead concentrate…
Vallair orders three B737 freighter conversions from AEI
06 / 03 / 2017
US-based Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) has signed a contract with Luxembourg based Vallair to provide three B737-400SF passenger to freighter conversions….
Forwarder Crane reshapes European team
06 / 03 / 2017
Freight forwarder Crane Worldwide has appointed Chris Lee, formerly global account manager, as UK managing director based at the firm’s…
American breaks another Heathrow cargo record
03 / 03 / 2017
American Airlines Cargo has broken its fourth daily volume record since August 2016 at London Heathrow airport (LHR). The team…
Bolloré chooses CHAMP for Canadian advanced filing
03 / 03 / 2017
Bolloré Logistics has selected CHAMP Cargosystems in order to comply with the latest Canadian Customs requirements for e-manifest Advance Commercial…
IATA memo to Trump: cut aviation taxes and return to the principles of deregulation
03 / 03 / 2017
In a Washington policy speech aimed primarily at the new US administration of President Trump, IATA’s top boss has urged…
West Atlantic revenue fall in 2016 but gains Royal Mail contract
02 / 03 / 2017
Sweden’s West Atlantic cargo airline saw 2016 full year revenues down by 6.3% to SKr1.3bn ($145.6m), due partly to the loss of…
Double-digit airfreight growth for Panalpina but profits take a hit
02 / 03 / 2017
Panalpina recorded a double-digit improvement in air cargo volumes last year but rate hikes in the second half of the…
Cargolux looks to add new African destinations
02 / 03 / 2017
Cargolux is looking to add new destinations to its network in Africa and is hoping that demand to and from…
Majority stake in Hahn airport sold to HNA of China
02 / 03 / 2017
Germany’s Rheinland-Pfalz state has confirmed that its majority shareholding in Frankfurt-Hahn airport will be sold to HNA Airport Group of China….
Volumes up in January despite Chinese New Year effects
02 / 03 / 2017
Chinese New Year affected airfreight demand in January, but nonetheless volumes improved during the month compared with a year earlier….