All Charter Company Articles – Page 14
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Air France KLM Martinair Cargo expands airfreight services
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) is expanding its cargo services by adding new destinations, frequencies and improved charter solutions.This week AFKLMP increased its flight frequency to Johannesburg, Bangkok, Beijing and Shanghai.In the coming weeks, the carrier will restore operations to Houston and increasing flight frequency to Bamako, Ouagadougou, Chicago, ...
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NewsChapman Freeborn and Avion team up on A320 and A321 freight flights
Avion Express and Chapman Freeborn team up on cargo flightsCharter broker Chapman Freeborn has been utilising the A320 and A321 aircraft of sister company Avion Express to meet demand for the transport of medical supplies.The two companies have worked together and received all the required approvals to operate cargo-only flights ...
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NewsAgility and Chapman Freeborn team up to deliver medical machinery and supplies in Maldives
Logistics firm Agility and air charter business Chapman Freeborn recently collaborated to deliver 287 items of medical cargo, including CT scan and MRI machines, to Malé in the Maldives for distribution at four hospitals.Agility said it overcame the logistical challenges presented by Covid-19 and brought the cargo to Dubai from ...
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UPS charters 25 flights to support US Covid-19 Project Airbridge
UPS has announced that it is managing and brokering 25 charter flights as part of Project Airbridge, a partnership between UPS, US healthcare distributors and the US federal government, which is led by the the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the White House Coronavirus Taskforce.As part of Project Airbridge, ...
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NewsWorldwide Flight Services, Bolloré Logistics and Airbus team up to ship medical masks
Medical masks onboard an A400M, bound for SpainWorldwide Flight Services (WFS) has collaborated with Bolloré Logistics and Airbus to transport 2m medical face masks from China to France and Spain, to help protect health workers and the general public during the coronavirus outbreak.Airbus sent one of its A330-800 passenger aircraft ...
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Geodis moves medical masks to France to protect Covid-19 workers
Global logistics firm Geodis has been selected by the French government to organize the emergency supply of up to 1bn masks from China to France to help protect health workers during the coronavirus outbreak.In response to requests from national authorities, Geodis has arranged 16 flights over the coming weeks, utilising ...
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Chapman Freeborn continues to report charter surge
Over the past 48 hours, charter broker Chapman Freeborn said it has "experienced a surge in cargo charter requests for humanitarian cargo and medical supplies (typically N95 respirators)" from China into Europe and Africa.This comes after an extremely busy week of EU-US rotations to counter the demand created by passenger ...
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Chapman Freeborn and Magma team up on the transatlantic
Charter broker Chapman Freeborn has teamed up with sister company Magma Aviation to offer a series of transatlantic freighter flights.Magma Aviation will operate its B747Fs on nine weekly rotations from Europe to the US. The move comes following US president Donald Trump’s travel ban on 26 European countries, which resulted ...
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CEVA Logistics operates charters to maintain Asia-US supply chain
CEVA Logistics has contracted 86 freighter flights to help maintain the global supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak continues.The company is using the aircraft on a charter basis to deliver parts and supplies to its customers in the automotive, aerospace, computer and hi-tech electronics sectors.The majority of flights served routes ...
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Delta Cargo launches charter services in response to COVID-19
Delta Cargo, the airfreight division of Delta Air Lines, has launched a charter operation to provide "safe and reliable transportation of customers' goods" during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.The company's cargo arm will facilitate the chartering of any Delta mainline aircraft to and from participating US airports.Shawn Cole, vice president, Delta ...
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Air Partner expects charter market surge
Charter broker Air Partner has urged companies to book cargo transport early to keep supply chains moving in light of the coronavirus.The company said that it has reported a spike in demand while capacity is in short supply as passenger airlines have axed services.Air Partner chief executive Mark Briffa said: ...
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NewsChallenge Air Cargo offers scheduled China-Europe freighter
GSSA and charter broker Challenge Air Cargo (CAC) is offering capacity on CAL Cargo Airline's recently relaunched freighter service between Tel Aviv, Liege and Zhengzhou.The service operates three-time-per week and the airline said that it hopes to "rapidly grow in frequencies".CAC, which along with the airline are both part of ...
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NewsKintetsu and Chapman partner on Sudan relief flights
Freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express, in partnership with charter broker Chapman Freeborn, recently completed a series of seven Airbus A300F charter flights from Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, uplifting over 230,000kg of aid and relief materials.The project was completed in "less than three ...
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NewsAir Charter Service opens new Chicago office
Air Charter Service Chicago teamBroker Air Charter Service (ACS) has opened a new office in Chicago as it continues its US expansion.The office, which is the broker's tenth in the US, will be headed up by Caitlin Uhlmann, who has worked at ACS for nine years at the company's offices ...
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Air Cargo Global clarifies service suspension reports
Freighter operator Air Cargo Global (ACG) has dismissed reports that it has ceased operations.In a statement, the Bratislava-headquartered charter airline said that for various reasons the decision has been made to restructure the organisation, including the closure of its office in Frankfurt.However, it added that it has no intention of ...
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NewsJoe Hete to retire as ATSG chief executive
Joe HeteJoe Hete will retire as chief executive officer of US-based freighter lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) in May this year.Company president Rich Corrado will become chief executive and a director of ATSG, whose clients include Amazon Air and UPS.Hete, who pioneered the leasing of midsize converted freighters for ...
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NewsCargolux, Lufthansa and DSV Panalpina increase China freighter services
Cargolux B747-8FCargolux, Lufthansa and DSV Panalpina will increase freighter capacity to China over the coming weeks as production lines resume operations.The move comes as freighter operators brace for a spike in demand from China as a result of passenger airlines cutting services due to low demand and factories slowly starting ...
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Atlas Air parks up B747Fs as market conditions take their toll
Atlas Air has parked four of its B747-400 converted freighters and plans to reduce the use of more widebody aircraft as it reports a loss for 2019.The aircraft lessor’s full-year results show a net loss of $293.1m, while revenues rose slightly to $2.7bn from $2.6bn a year earlier.The company said ...
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Antonov Airlines HQ to take over GSSA role
Following the end of the general sales and service agent (GSSA) agreement with UK-based Dreamlifts, Antonov Airlines has confirmed that these tasks will be handled in-house at its headquarters in Ukraine, according to Air Cargo News sister title Heavy Lift and Project Forwarding.As reported last week, Dreamlifts will no longer ...
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Air Partner in last minute coronavirus medical shipment
Charter broker Air Partner helped arrange the last minute transportation of 407 boxes of medical supplies to Wuhan to support medical efforts related to the coronavirus.The medical supplies were carried on a Boeing 747 that was being utilised to repatriate British and EU nationals from the Chinese city, which is ...