All Europe Articles – Page 161
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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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WCS: IATA sets out three priorities for air cargo
IATA has called for further progress on paperless airfreight, global standards for handling pharma goods and tough action on the transport of lithium batteries.Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and chief executive, highlighted “three vital aspects of the air cargo business” during his keynote speech at the association’s World Cargo Symposium ...
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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 ...
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IATA: overcapacity on the up, yields declining
IATA has warned that air cargo’s financial performance “remains poor and does not deliver adequate returns for investors”.The airline association’s 2015 first quarter Cargo eChartbook, while seeing continued positive demand for airfreight commodities, states that overcapacity has resulted in lower load factors and placed downward pressure on yields.Lower jet fuel ...
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Brussels' second wave of CEIV Pharma
Belgian hub Brussels Airport has launched a second pharmaceuticals certification programme for its cool chain community.BRUcargo last year became the first airport to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Handling programme (CEIV Pharma).“With the launch of this second group the majority of all pharma shipments ...
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Cargolux welcomes 12th B747-8F
Cargolux has taken delivery of its 12th Boeing 747-8 freighter, out of an order of 14.The Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline named its latest freighter Joe Sutter – Father of the 747, in honour of the man who designed the B747 in the 1960s.The naming honour came as a surprise to 94 ...
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Gunning warns of continued excess cargo capacity
IAG Cargo boss Steve Gunning has warned that excess global air cargo capacity is likely to remain for the “foreseeable future”, with lower oil prices discouraging “capacity discipline” as older freighters continue to fly.Gunning said that excess capacity was a key driver for IAG Cargo’s decision last year to end ...
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'Extraordinary demand’ for B737 freighters, says PEMCO
BOEING 737s make wonderful regional, short-haul freighters. Cheap to acquire and with hundreds of ‘retired’ passenger units adding to the worldwide feedstock, conversions companies are struggling to keep up with current demand for the all-cargo versions.Of particular interest is this ruggedised, all-weather -400 derivative (Air Incheon, pictured right), a successful ...
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Aeroflot takes delivery of new B777-300ER
AEROFLOT has taken delivery of this new B777-300ER, named in honour of Ivan Bunin, the writer, poet and critic, who was the first Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature.It is the sixth aircraft of an order for sixteen B777s from the Russian flag carrier and will fly on routes to ...
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Pegasus appoints ABDA and Aviation Services as GSSAs
TURKEY’S Pegasus Cargo has appointed ABDA Cargo Services as cargo sales agent for its European operations and Aviation Services to cover the Balkans region.The freight division of the Turkish passenger carrier serves 78 destinations in 31 countries.ABDA becomes responsible for Austria, Denmark, France, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, while Aviation Services ...
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Kalitta Air starts B747-400F services to New York
KALITTA AIR, in co-operation with Wallace Air Cargo Group/Inter Aviation Services and HAE Group, is to launch a twice-weekly B747-400F scheduled service to New York (JFK) from March.The new route – New York-Amsterdam-New York – is expected to capitalise on the strong demand for scheduled main-deck B747 freighter services linking ...
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Air New Zealand moves to dnata
AIR New Zealand [ANZ] Cargo has switched its Heathrow ground operations to the new dnata City at the London airport.The flag carrier has moved into the purpose-built cargo logistics centre after 17 years at its previous handling unit.With an average monthly throughput capacity of 1.4 million kilos, dnata is additionally ...
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Overcapacity costs IAG Cargo
IAG CARGO suffered a revenue slump of nearly 12 per cent last year, in a business generally blighted by market shrinkage, over-capacity and unfavourable currency fluctuations.The merged entity of British Airways and Iberia saw cargo-tonne-kilometres [CTKs] drop by seven per cent in the period, as a big imbalance in supply ...
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Volga-Dnepr airlifts space module
VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines’ expertise in the movement of space cargoes has been called upon once again to transport this Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) of the Cygnus re-supply spacecraft from Turin, Italy, to Wallops Island, USA.The PCM was packed into a special container and loaded onboard the airline’s An-124-100 Ruslan freighter along ...
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IAG Cargo launches B787 Austin, Texas route
BUSINESSES in Austin, Texas are benefiting from the launch of a new air-conditioned B787 IAG Cargo belly-hold connection with London Heathrow.The US city’s first ever regular transatlantic service, gives a direct air link between the hi-tech Texan hub and Europe.IAG Cargo has launched the service in part to help support ...
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Qatar Cargo freighters to Hyderabad, London and Zaragoza
QATAR Airways Cargo (QAC) is to launch scheduled dedicated freighter services to Hyderabad (India), London Stansted (UK) and is reinstating services to Zaragoza (Spain).Textiles, agricultural products, footwear, automobile and pharmaceuticals are among the commodities likely to be shipped on the carrier’s scheduled twice-weekly A330 freighter service to Zaragoza, which began ...
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Bright start to year says IATA
JANUARY produced a strong rise in global airfreight growth compared to the dep-ressed state of affairs of a year before, IATA statistics reveal.Global freight-tonne-kilometers (FTKs) increased by an encouraging 4.5 per cent in the month compared to January 2013.“This is a significant acceleration on the 2.2 per cent year-on-year growth ...
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CHEP acquires Airworld
ULD repair specialist CHEP Aerospace Solutions has acquired Airworld Services and Airworld Containers, a unit load device maintenance organisation (MRO), with facilities at London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester and East Midlands airports in the UK.The transaction increases the number of CHEP-owned MRO facilities to 29 stations worldwide.Airworld employs 86 staff ...