All Europe Articles – Page 105
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Cargolux launches strategic review
Cargolux’s new president and chief executive has commissioned a strategic review of the European all-cargo airline, to establish whether the current business model is sustainable and also to position the carrier for the twist and turns of a volatile industry.Richard Forson, who took on the role in August this year ...
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Cargolux adds Oslo call
Cargolux has added a weekly Boeing 747-8 freighter service from Oslo to Luxembourg on its flight C85022 from New York.The first flight will carry a load of salmon that is distributed to various destinations from the airline’s hub in Luxembourg.The Oslo service caters to the airfreight needs of Norwegian shippers ...
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West Atlantic lands Royal Mail contract
Sweden's West Atlantic cargo airline has won a contract from Royal Mail Group to add additional aircraft to the UK postal operator's domestic air network in 2017.The contract, subject to a public procurement process, commences in January 2017 and will run for five years, consisting of nine Boeing 737s and ...
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Heathrow adds second freighter operation as ABC launches Moscow service
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added a new freighter service connecting Heathrow Airport with Moscow's Sheremetyevo using one of its Boeing 747 freighters.The service will fly every Thursday and Saturday and will offer a capacity of more than 100 tonnes of cargo per flight. It will utilise slots not popular with ...
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Airlines group BARIG wants Frankfurt charges to be cut
Frankfurt-based airlines are calling for a reduction in airport charges for all airlines after low cost carrier Ryanair announced that it would start flying into Germany’s largest hub next summer.The Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) wants “the fully equal treatment for all airlines at Frankfurt – newcomers and ...
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So far so good for IAG’s new Critical service
IAG Cargo’s new Critical product is doing everything expected of it in service performance terms since its launch in early October, says the carrier’s global products manager, Daniel Johnson.The service had handled around 110 individual shipments by the start of November, ranging from oil rig and ship parts to Formula ...
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UPS steps on the pedal for European coverage
Parcels giant UPS has redesigned its European ground network in order to offer faster deliveries from six countries in the European Union (EU) to Switzerland.Customers in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland and Sweden will benefit from a faster UPS Standard delivery service, with improvements of up to two days when ...
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GEFCO lands €8bn logistics contract with car maker PSA
Car maker PSA of France has signed a new €8bn "exclusivity" agreement with fourth party logistics (4PL) provider GEFCO to manage and optimise the automaker’s entire global manufacturing supply chain.The five year agreement, which includes airfreight in a multimodal supply chain solution, will take effect from January 2017.GEFCO will design ...
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IAG Cargo to strengthen network across North America
IAG Cargo will launch two new routes from London-Gatwick to North America in the first quarter of 2017, adding Boeing 777-200 bellyhold capacity to Fort Lauderdale and Oakland.The addition of these routes will bring the total number of IAG Cargo-operated US gateways to 25 from the summer of 2017.The Fort ...
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NewsLufthansa's cargo business is in the red again
Lufthansa’s cargo and logistics division has slipped to its sixth quarterly operating loss in a row as market overcapacity and weak demand continued to blight financial performance.The German airline group’s logistics division, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, time:matters and other cargo related businesses, recorded a third quarter earnings before interest and ...
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Swissport swoops on Skylink to boost Schiphol presence
Swissport Cargo Services' Dutch business has announced it will purchase Skylink Handling Services as it looks to expand its reach at Schiphol Airport.Through the acquisition of Skylink, a cargo handling company specialised in air cargo handling based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Swissport will expand its air cargo business at the ...
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DSV continues to see double-digit airfreight growth after UTi purchase
DSV Continued to see growth in its airfreight volumes, revenues and gross profits following the acquisition of UTi at the start of this year.The Denmark-based forwarder saw overall airfreight volumes for the third quarter increase by 84.5% year on year to 147,744 tonnes on the back of the UTi purchase, ...
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Hainan to launch Brussels-Shanghai service
China’s Hainan Airlines said it would launch direct flights between Brussels and Shanghai Pudong during 2017.It made the announcement during an official visit led by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in which the carrier and airport signed a letter of intent.Hainan Airlines previously operated on the route from May 2010 ...
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Partners pledge to push ahead with third runway
Heathrow Airport has joined forces with business and trade union leaders to see the third runway, approved last week by the UK government, through to completion.Worker and industry representatives committed to work with the airport authority and government in a ceremony at Heathrow’s Terminal 2.Signatories included director general of ...
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Jettainer to take over ULD management for Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines has appointed Jettainer as the new service provider to manage its unit load devices (ULDs) and pallets from the Spring of 2017.Belgium's largest airline currently outsources its ULD management to another provider and is now switching to Jettainer, which has set up a ULD controller at Brussels Airport, ...
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IAG Cargo Q3 volumes up but revenues and yields down
IAG Cargo saw third quarter 2016 commercial revenues fall by 7% to €240m compared with the like period 2015.Adjusting the prior year's figures to reflect a directly comparable operation, commercial revenue decreased 6.5% versus last year at constant exchange.The airfreight arm of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus saw ...
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TAC airfreight rate index expands into Europe
TAC Index, the provider of air cargo price trend indices on major routes, is to start publishing airfreight data from Germany.After launching earlier this year in Hong Kong, the TAC Index is now expanding, with its first indices in Europe.The index providers will start publishing data from Monday October 31, ...
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Air Cargo Forum: Shippers and airlines pledge to raise air cargo’s game
The Global Shippers Forum (GSF) signed a memorandum of understanding with IATA interest group Cargo iQ to improve quality in the industry at TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum in Paris.The two partners pledged to implement the Cargo iQ quality management system and promote sustainability in airfreight.The MoU outlines six areas where ...
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Regions see opportunities and threats from Heathrow runway
There was a mixed reaction from the UK regions to the news that Heathrow Airport is to be allowed to build a new third runway.Birmingham Chambers of Commerce chief executive Paul Faulkner said that while the new London runway might fix the problems of capacity in south-east England, Birmingham airport ...
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Heathrow: The work starts now
Heathrow Airport welcomed the UK government’s decision to support its plans for a new runway and said that it would begin work to deliver it.Expanding the London gateway would do more than any other infrastructure project to share economic growth around the country and deliver more competition and choice, pointing ...