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VIDEO: Emirates SkyCargo transports UAE designed sports car
Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first car designed and built entirely in the UAE to France where it will be exhibited during the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race.Emirates SkyCargo worked with forwarder Prodex worldwide to transport the car, named Design-1, from Dubai to Lyon.The sports car designed and built ...
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NewsIAG Cargo traffic up on shipping disruption but revenues slide
IAG Cargo saw revenues decline in the first quarter of the year due to challenging market conditions but it registered an improvement in traffic partly driven by container shipping disruption.The cargo arm of IAG, which owns British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, recorded a 2.3% year-on-year decrease in first-quarter cargo ...
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NewsApril freight growth tails off but IATA remains upbeat
Global air freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) rose 8.5% in April 2017 compared to last year, said IATA in its latest figures.While this was down from March’s 13.4% year-on-year growth, it is well above the average annual growth rate of 3.5% over the past five years.Meanwhile, growth in freight capacity, measured ...
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MASkargo launches express freighter links from KL
MASkargo has launched five-times-a-week Airbus A330-200F express freighter services from its home hub at Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, with growing e-commerce and courier demand between East and West Malaysia a key element in the decision."As the Asian cross-border e-commerce is booming, MASkargo is poised to tap into ...
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Bangladesh airfreight costs soar following new EU security rules
The cost of airfreight supply chains from Bangladesh has been pushed up by new stricter security requirements from the European Union (EU), while lead times are also being extended by up to three days.On June 1, the EU imposed enhanced security requirements for cargo originating from Bangladesh that stipulates all ...
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ABC joins Schiphol pharma initiative
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has become the second carrier to join the 14-member Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA) initiative, which aims to improve transparency and quality in the pharmaceuticals air cargo supply chain.ABC is certified under the IATA Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) scheme, a ...
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Emirates SkyCargo to target more products after Cargolux partnership
Emirates SkyCargo’s recent tie-up with Cargolux seemed to come from nowhere, but perhaps it should not have come as such a surprise given the two airlines’ long history of working together.Emirates divisional senior vice president, cargo, Nabil Sultan, tells Air Cargo News that the two companies first started working together ...
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NewsCathay Pacific upgraded to 'buy' as cargo continues to improve
Cathay Pacific has seen its stock rating upgraded to ‘buy’ by one leading investment bank, thanks to the improving performance of its cargo business.Earlier this month Jefferies upgraded the airline’s rating from ‘underperform’ to ‘buy’ based on the improving performance of its cargo business, moves to control passenger capacity and ...
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American expands cargo presence in Mexico with new GSA partner
American Airlines Cargo has selected G Force GSA Mexico as its new General Sales Agent (GSA) in Mexico, following the retirement of American’s current GSA.The deal starts on July 1 and will also provide the airline with local sales expansion into five new locations — Cancun, Guadalajara, Leon, Puerto Vallarta ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: LATAM finally registers a demand improvement
LATAM Cargo has reported a year-on-year improvement in its monthly traffic for the first time in two-and-a-half years, while US carriers continue to see improving monthly figures.The Santiago-headquartered airline saw cargo traffic during May increase by 1.3% year on year to reach 271m revenue tonne km (FTK).Click on the chart ...
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Qatar Airways calls on ICAO to lift "illegal" airspace ban
Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker has called on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to lift what it describes as the illegal airspace ban it faces in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.In a statement issued earlier today, the airline said 90% of its ...
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Australia's High Court rules in favour of competition regulator in air cargo cartel case
Price fixing agreements entered into between Air New Zealand (Air NZ), Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) and other international airlines, breached Australia’s competition law, the High Court of Australia has found.The ruling, on airline agreements in place between 2002 and 2006, is the latest legal twist in an action started seven years ...
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E-AWB usage finally breaches 50% mark
Electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) penetration finally breached the 50% mark in April as more than 730,000 of the digital documents were processed.The latest IATA figures show that April’s e-AWB penetration level on feasible trade lanes edged up by 1.3 percentage points compared with March to reach 50.7%, exceeding the 50% ...
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Delta to add cargo VP role as it appoints new global sales head
Delta Cargo has appointed a new managing director of global cargo sales and also revealed it will introduce a new cargo vice president role.Cargo president Gareth Joyce said that the airline would introduce a new vice president of cargo role after he was given the extra responsibility of senior vice ...
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Delta's new South Korea flight at full cargo capacity
Delta Air Lines' new flight between the US and South Korea is proving popular with its cargo customers as the airline reports that the first run was at "full cargo capacity".The Atlanta-headquartered carrier said the new flight from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Seoul Incheon International Airport, which departed on ...
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Emirates, Etihad flights axed to Doha as diplomatic row breaks out
Etihad Airways and Emirates have suspended flights into Qatar as a diplomatic row has broken out over accusations that the country is destabilising the Middle East region.Along with Etihad and Emirates, FlyDubai and Air Arabia have also cut flights to Doha while Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and ...
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Qatar adds weekly LHR freighter flights
On June 3, the inaugural flight of Qatar Airways’ new weekly Airbus A330 freighter service touched down at Heathrow.The new service, which returns to Doha via Basel, boosts the carrier’s weekly UK cargo capacity to over 1,500 tonnes – it also operates freighters to Stansted as well as transporting airfreight ...
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Ethiopian to host ICAO forum
Ethiopian Airlines will host the second ICAO Global Air Cargo Development Forum at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa conference hall from June 27 to 29, 2017.The theme of the event, ‘Action for the Sustainable Development of Air Cargo in Africa’, is aimed at achieving progress towards the implementation ...
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NewsDelta and Aeromexico launch US-Mexico cargo partnership
Delta Air Lines Cargo and Grupo Aeromexico Cargo are teaming up on the cross-border US-Mexico trade under a flight and trucking partnership.After the two overall airlines announced a US-Mexico partnership deal last month, the carriers will expand the partnership to their cargo divisions to create "a bigger, better cargo operation" ...
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Cathay Pacific axes cargo director role as part of headquarter cull
Cathay Pacific has axed the cargo director role as it embarks on a cull of middle and senior management at its head office.The Hong Kong headquartered airline today announced that a total of 600 “senior, middle management and non-managerial roles” at the group’s headquarters would be cut.Around 190 management and ...