All Europe Articles – Page 112
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NewsAirfreight volumes on the up for K+N
Logistics services giant Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has reported its half-year results for the six-month period ending 30 June.The Switzerland-headquartered company said that while net turnover fell year on year from CHF8,225m ($8,366m) to CHF8,147m ($8,287m), gross profit rose by 8% compared to the first half of 2015, improving from CHF3,018m ($3,070m)to ...
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NewsAnalysis: ASL swoops on TNT Express freighter fleet
Dublin-based aircraft lessor ASL Aviation Group has boosted its freighter fleet with the purchase of the airline operations of TNT Express for an undisclosed amount.The deal, which was part of FedEx’s €4.4bn acquisition of TNT completed in late May, will see ASL take over the fleets of TNT Airways in ...
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Strong April lifts Schiphol
Cargo volumes at Amsterdam Schiphol grew 1.6% in the first six months of the year, to reach 796,801 tonnes, while the June figure jumped 2.5% year on year, to 135,528 tonnes.The Netherlands airport said the figures were helped by a particularly strong April, in which 137,666 tonnes of freight transited ...
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NewsAn-225, the world's most tweeted freighter
It was a plane-spotters dream: taking a selfie with an Antonov-225 ‘Mriya’.Hundreds of unglamorous freighter aircraft ply their daily trade with little or no attention. They are invisible to the general public who do not know or care that their must-have iPhones, the exotic fish in expensive restaurants and designer ...
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BCW Engineering appoints B&H Worldwide
BCW Engineering has appointed logistics provider B&H Worldwide to manage the inbound delivery of its rotative components for use in specialist engines in equipment around the world.B&H Worldwide has designed a solution for BCW Engineering which enables them to import the rotative components from Chennai in India in a far ...
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Qatar to take stake in Italy’s Meridiana
Qatar Airways has signed an agreement with Alisarda to buy 49% of its subsidiary Meridiana, Italy’s second largest airline. The deal is subject to conditions and is expected to close in early October.Meridiana operates an extensive domestic and European network, which connects the main Italian airports with Sardinia and provides ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo names Steve Buckerfield as vice president sales
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Steve Buckerfield as vice president sales, to be based at Virgin’s headquarters near London Gatwick Airport.He will lead the airline’s global sales team and be responsible for sales across its international network.Prior to joining Virgin Atlantic, Buckerfield spent three years as managing director, UK & ...
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CargoLogicAir gets the keys to its first 747-8F
New UK-based carrier CargoLogicAir has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-8 freighter at the Farnborough International Airshow.Chief executive Dmitry Grishin, received the 'keys' to the aircraft from Boeing’s vice president sales for Middle East, Russia and Central Asia, Marty Bentrott, at a ceremony on board the aircraft at the ...
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Volga-Dnepr and Boeing sign back-to-back deal as 747-8F order is confirmed
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group confirmed an order for 20 Boeing 747-8 freighters at the UK’s Farnborough Air Show today.At the same time, the plane maker has signed a reciprocal deal with the Russian firm’s subsidiaries, AirBridgeCargo Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines, to provide long-term logistics support for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and its ...
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Munich freight volumes surge
Cargo growth at Munich Airport outstripped passengers in the first half of 2016, according to the airport authority’s latest figures. The total of about 163,000 tonnes of flown airfreight was 4% up on the same period a year earlier.Passenger traffic gained 2.3% to reach nearly 20m in the first six ...
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Chapman Freeborn sells load data arm to dnata
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has sold Air Dispatch, its specialist centralised load control subsidiary, to ground handler and service provider, dnata.Founded in 2007, Air Dispatch calculates the weight and balance conditions for aircraft prior to flight. It produces over 800,000 load-sheets a year and in 2013 became the first dedicated centralised ...
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Kerry round the clock in Schiphol
Asian-owned Kerry Logistics Network can now offer a 24-hour warehouse operation at Amsterdam Schiphol following its move to new premises. Located at Freight Terminal 207, the facility is five minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from the port of RotterdamIt offers 20,000 sq m of warehouse space, 38 loading ...
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Cargo and earnings surge at MAG airports
UK airport group MAG – owner of Manchester, London Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth – reported that its cargo income had grown strongly in the financial year ended 31 March.Continued growth in internet shopping and new routes boosted freight revenue by 7.0% year-on-year to £22.7m, while cargo volume across the ...
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More and bigger planes, predicts Airbus
European aircraft-maker Airbus predicted that the global market would grow at an average 4.5% a year to 33,000 new planes by 2035.In its report published at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, the Toulouse-based pan-European company added that the estimated $5trn order book would include 645 freighters with capacity of ...
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Luxembourg pilots join call for Mid East carrier curbs
The Luxembourg pilots’ association has joined a group calling for fair competition in European aviation, which they argue is "competing with the state-funded airlines of the Gulf region".The Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) said that it, together with other pilot associations and the European Cockpit Association, had become ...
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Rhenus signs JV in Japan
German forwarder the Rhenus Group has set up a joint venture with Sankyo Corporation, part of Japan’s Fujiki Group.Rhenus Sankyo Logistics will mainly handle imports and exports to and from Japan, along with domestic distribution and warehousing. Rhenus Asia already works with Sankyo’s US subsidiary, Clearfreight.Rhenus board member Tobias Bartz ...
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Virgin signals end of the Jumbo with A350-1000 order
Virgin Atlantic announced a firm order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, worth $4.4bn, at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow. The aircraft, the largest in the A350 family and with a cargo capacity of up to 14 pallets, will replace the carrier’s remaining Boeing 747-400s and Airbus A340-600s when deliveries start in ...
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Heathrow chief repeats expansion call as cargo jumps in June
Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye called for a quick decision on the airport’s third runway as the London gateway revealed a jump in cargo in June.Tonnage grew 2.1% year on year to 125,536 tonnes with China up 11%, India 3.3% and Turkey 3%. The moving annual total to June 2016, ...
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Charter broker ACS wins supplier role for UK government
Air Charter Service (ACS) has been selected as a supplier for the UK Government’s humanitarian division, the Department for International Development (DFID), for the next two years.The awarding of the contract comes one year after DFID invited the air cargo community to seek solutions for "timely, efficient and coordinated" air ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds Phnom Penh to southeast Asian network
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is expanding its Southeast Asia coverage with the introduction of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to its network, increasing its number of destinations in the region to 11.The new Boeing 747 freighter service to Cambodia’s capital will operate on a weekly basis en route from Moscow (SVO)-Singapore-Phnom Penh and ...