Bellyhold airlines – Page 39
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Lufthansa Cargo: Finding the right balance
Strikes are never easy to navigate. So, for Peter Gerber, Lufthansa Cargo’s new chief executive officer, having to deal with nine in 2014 should have been quite the challenge. Fortunately, he says, while the strikes disrupted passenger flights, freighters saw only minor changes to their scheduling. Nonetheless, there is still ...
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LAN Cargo: The shift to belly capacity
There was a brief moment in the late 1990s when LAN Chile (as it was then) looked like becoming a combination carrier with more revenue from cargo than passengers. Serving Latin America’s rugged geography, it built up a stable of twelve 767-300Fs - the largest non-integrator 767F fleet - and ...
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Thumbs up for Emirates' all-in freight rates
Shippers and forwarders have welcomed Emirates SkyCargo’s move to introduce an all-inclusive freight rate that does away with separate pricing components based on weight/volume plus fuel and security surcharges.“It is the best start to 2015 that I could imagine,” said Joost van Doesburg, airfreight policy manager with the European Shippers’ ...
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Wholesaler AMI adds Schiphol to its network
Air Menzies International (AMI) – the trade-only airfreight and express freight wholesaler – is now fully operational at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.AMI Amsterdam has achieved IATA CASS status, so it can now buy space on departures direct from Schiphol, in addition to routeing cargo via its main London Heathrow operation.The company ...
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Hellmann: How to fight back
There is a lot of talk these days about mode shift from air to seafreight, so it is good to hear a forwarder talking about double digit increases in airfreight volumes.This is the story for Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Europe, where Jens Tarnowski, chief executive region Europe (air and sea ...
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Schiphol: Shippers, not freighters
In any industry, does it not make sense to study the strategies of the most successful players? Yet at a time when Amsterdam Schiphol airport is showing robust growth in cargo volumes, many of its major rivals are taking the opposite approach.They are dispensing with cargo managers and making cargo ...
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IAG Cargo to offer all-in freight rates
IAG Cargo is joining the all-in freight rates club, following the lead set by Emirates SkyCargo and Qatar Airways.A spokesman for the cargo arm of British Airways and Iberia said that it will remove the fuel surcharge and exceptional handling charges “to offer a simpler pricing structure”.He added that the ...
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Africa: The rising stars of airfreight look to expansion
While Ethiopian Airlines is likely to dominate Africa’s future cargo industry for a while, that does not rule out smaller operators staking their own claim.In northern Africa, Air Algerie is planning to replace its Lockheed freighter with two 737-700 combis, and possibly spinning off its cargo division into a wholly-owned ...
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Etihad: Expanding on all fronts
To talk to Etihad is to be taken back to the golden age of air cargo - a time of double digit growth, expanding freighter fleets and new belly cargo routes. Once, all air cargo was like this.Full year figures were not yet published at time of writing, but based ...
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IAG out in front with e-AWBs
IAG Cargo claims that it has the highest e-air waybill (e-AWB) penetration in Europe.As of January, its e-AWB penetration was 34 per cent, well above the industry average of 25 per cent, said the freight arm of British Airways and Iberia.IAG Cargo has made e-AWBs available in more than 160 ...
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Big jump for Cathay and Dragonair in February
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair’s airfreight volumes jumped 28.8 per cent in February compared with the same month in 2014.Between them, the two airlines carried 130,467 tonnes of cargo and mail in February.Cathay Pacific’s general manager cargo sales and marketing, Mark Sutch, said: “The high-year-on-year tonnage growth reflects the overall improvement ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's 2014 operating profits up 26.6%
Lufthansa Cargo increased its 2014 operating profit by 26.6 per cent to €100m, despite group-wide pilot strikes and a fall in airfreight revenues and tonnages.Full year revenues at the German flag carrier’s freight arm edged down 0.3 per cent versus 2013 to €2.4bn. Total volumes fell 2.7 per cent to ...
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WCS: How to reduce the fire risk from lithium batteries
Fires in consignments of lithium batteries have been implicated in the loss of three aircraft over the last 10 years, writes Martin Roebuck.Peter Hunt, airline ground safety manager at Cathay Pacific, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai about risk mitigation measures the airline is taking to make sure ...
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WCS: Air cargo industry needs to modernise
Airlines may be transporting goods worth $6.4trn each year, but the air cargo industry is in “desperate need” of modernisation if it is to capitalise on the international e-commerce opportunity, according to Liu Shaoyong, president of China Eastern.In a welcome address representing the host airline for the IATA World Cargo ...
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DP DHL airfreight up 2.4% to 4m tonnes in 2014
Deutsche Post DHL’s global forwarding arm overcame a weak 2014 first half to record a full year 2.4 per cent increase in airfreight volumes to just over 4m tonnes, versus 2013.Announcing full year 2014 results, the Germany-based global post, express, freight and logistics giant said of its air cargo segment: ...
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WCS: Self service freight boosts Qantas
Qantas Freight is seeing major efficiency benefits after adopting a “self service” system for import collections, writes Martin Roebuck.Bob Labrun, head of operations, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) that truck drivers are able to input import collection notifications online at the carrier’s cargo terminals in under a minute, removing ...
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Cargolux links up with Oman Air
Oman Air has signed a Letter of Intent with Cargolux that enables the European all-cargo carrier to use the Middle East airline's facilities in Muscat, Salalah and Sohar.The agreement includes the launch, on April 15, of Cargolux full freighter services from Luxembourg to India via Oman. The formal signing of ...
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WCS: Jettainer’s lightweight pallet
Jettainer is developing a lightweight pallet that weighs 70 kg, around 32 kg lighter than a traditional PMC aluminium unit.The Germany-based ULD management company says that the pallet is made of a composite material that is being applied for the first time in the aviation sector. It offers an alternative ...
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Virgin Atlantic's "year of resilience"
Virgin Atlantic Cargo reported revenues of £221m for 2014, down 1.8 per cent on prior year, with total network freight volumes virtually unchanged from 2013.The carrier said that the revenues reflected “another year of resilience in a fluctuating global air cargo market that saw yields decline for the third year ...
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Turkish Airlines orders four more A330-200Fs
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order to buy four more A330-200 freighters.The carrier’s Turkish Cargo freight arm already operates five A330-200Fs, and the new order will enable it to “quickly meet the growing cargo market demand”.Temel Kotil, Turkish Airlines’ chief executive, said: “The A330-200F freighter aircraft have demonstrated outstanding ...