All Europe Articles – Page 137
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Frankfurt community website gets a refresh
The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt’s internet presence now has a fresh new look (www.FRA-fr8.com).The new website now provides full details of companies, institutions and organisations and is geared to an international audience, being completely bilingual in German and English. It now has a modern layout and a responsive design, so ...
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Schiphol milk run to save CO2 emissions
Schiphol airport’s logistics community are trialing a ‘Milk Run’ concept to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing forwarders' truck collections from handling agents with a single delivery.The partnership project, organised by the forwarders’ steering committee of Air Cargo Netherlands, aims to optimise the inbound supply chain at Amsterdam hub Schiphol by ...
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Horse specialist firmly on course for Australia
Equine specialist New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) has gained approval from the Australian government’s veterinary department for its new UK quarantine station in Sussex.Approval allows NZB’s airfreight arm to offer a monthly horse transport service ex UK to Australia from November this year. NZB Airfreight already offers a similar service from ...
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Jochen Thewes new chief executive of Schenker AG
Jochen Thewes has been appointed chief executive of Schenker AG and will lead the Germany railway Deutsche Bahn’s DB Schenker Logistics business unit.He will take up his new position on September 1, 2015, replacing Karl-Friedrich Rausch, who held the position on an interim basis. Dr Rausch has now left the ...
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Asia slowdown impacts Schiphol’s cargo first half
Asian and European volume declines saw Amsterdam Airport Schiphol handle 784,567 cargo tonnes in the first six months of 2015, down 2.1% on 2014. The figures were mainly impacted by declines in Asia traffic (down 3.8% at 293,293 tonnes) and Europe (down 16.2% to 64,198 tonnes). Other regions held up ...
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Laser lights...action...charter
Delicate laser technology cargo has flown by freighter from Sweden to Japan after six months of detailed planning and preparation.The high value industrial laser equipment was carried from Orebro in Sweden by Volga-Dnepr Airlines on one of its IL-76TD-90VD aircraft.The cargo required a non-standard engineering solution and a temperature-controlled environment ...
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Leipzig/Halle airport hits record volumes in July
Freight volumes at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany’s second-largest cargo hub, set a new record in July with throughput totaling 84,397 tonnes, an increase of 7.7% over like month 2014.July was the third record-setting month in 2015, said the airport authority, which added that the volume of cargo between January and July ...
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Vienna bids to raise Malta stake
Flughafen Wien (Vienna Airport) is to make a €3 per share offer for Canadian-based SNC Lavalin’s stake in Malta International Airport.Since the Mediterranean island airport was privatised in 2002, 40% of it has been held by Malta Mediterranean Link Consortium, in which Flughafen Wien AG has a 57.1% holding via ...
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Ask before you ship, FedEx chief tells aerospace exporters
Aircraft part manufacturers should get proper advice and provide customs brokers with information well in advance, says FedEx Europe managing director, David Poole.With a growing market, particularly in Asia, UK aerospace companies need more support and assistance he argues. One of the largest stumbling blocks to the transport of aerospace ...
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Saudia appoints ACP as GSA in South Africa
ACP Worldwide has been appointed South African cargo general sales agent (GSA) for Saudia Cargo.The carrier currently operates three times weekly B747 freighter flights from Johannesburg to Jeddah and Amsterdam, shared with Nairobi, and ACP will also sell belly space on the carrier’s three times weekly B777-200 wide-body flights between ...
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Now we’re getting rally cross
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and logistics partner GAC transported 19 Rallycross cars from Canada to Norway on a chartered Kalitta Air B747-200F for the FIA World Rallycross Championship.It is the first time cars for the competition have been transported by air.The occasion was attended by Norwegian rally drivers Petter Solberg and ...
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NetDespatch smooths AMI service
Airfreight and express wholesaler Air Menzies International (AMI) is using NetDespatch’s data management platform to improve its customers’ international deliveries.AMI provides neutral airfreight and express wholesale services exclusively to freight forwarders and couriers, using its buying power to purchase large volumes of capacity and passing the benefits on to its ...
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Dubai half year boost for Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic Cargo carried over 30% more cargo from Dubai in the first half of 2015, boosted by additional US routes and frequencies, and traffic generated as a result of the US port disruptions.For the six months ended June 2015, the airline carried 2,400 tonnes ex Dubai, compared with ...
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Five join Frankfurt cargo club
Air Cargo Community Frankfurt, the association of companies, institutions and organisations promoting the German freight hub, has welcomed five new members.The arrival of Swissport Cargo Services Deutschland, Dachser, Thermotraffic, Sovereign Speed and my Logistics means that the number of members in the association is now 33.“We are delighted about the ...
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Tex Gunning to leave TNT CEO role if FedEx succeeds in takeover bid
TNT Express chief executive Tex Gunning will be replaced by David Binks if FedEx’s $4.8bn takeover, due to be launched on Monday, is successful.The two companies today announced that, on Monday, FedEx will make its recommended public cash offer for all the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of TNT Express.The ...
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The heat is on: Ruslan transports steam superheater to Saudi Arabia
A Ruslan International AN124-100 freighter has transported a 60 tonne steam superheater from Linz in Austria to Dammam, Saudi Arabia.The flight, arranged in partnership with Swiss forwarder Panalpina, involved a 450 km journey by road to Linz Airport.The road journey required several special permits, due to its width of 620 ...
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Chinese cargo airlines suffer from a different kind of problem to their European counterparts
ANALYSIS: The latest monthly airline data has revealed that while European airlines have been struggling to protect cargo load factors because of volume declines, Chinese airlines have faced the same issue but because of capacity additions.During July, of four major Chinese cargo carriers, three recorded demand increases on last year, ...
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Lithium powered ELT likely cause of Ethiopian Airlines 2013 Heathrow fire
A fire onboard a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 in July 2013 at Heathrow was likely to have been caused by a lithium battery powered emergency locator transmitter (ELT), according to accident investigators.The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said ELT battery wires, crossed and trapped under the battery compartment ...
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Acquisition sees Air Partner expand into aviation safety consulting
Air Partner, the UK-based global aviation services group with a cargo charter division, has acquired aviation safety consultancy Baines Simmons for a total net cash consideration of up to £6m.It is the second acquisition this year by Air Partner following the takeover of Cabot Aviation in May.Baines Simmons, specialising in ...