All Europe Articles – Page 89
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Freight forwarder Panalpina expects continuing airfreight margin pressure
Freight forwarder Panalpina will concentrate on controlling costs after its airfreight business faced continued margin pressure on higher airfreight demand.The Switzerland-headquartered logistics giant saw second-quarter airfreight revenues increase by 10% year on year to Sfr700m on the back of a 6.6% improvement in tons carried to 240,000 and rising freight ...
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time:matters expands flight network to Birmingham and Dublin
Time-critical logistics provider time:matters has expanded its flight network for spare parts logistics from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in southern Germany to Birmingham and Dublin on weekdays.The new routes extend the current network to the UK and Ireland, which have been served by flights from Frankfurt and Maastricht since 2011.The Lufthansa subsidiary confirmed ...
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Swissport Netherlands awarded CEIV Pharma
Swissport International's Netherlands subsidiary has gained IATA's CEIV certificate for pharmaceutical logistics at (CEIV Pharma) Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.CEIV Pharma certification for the ground and air cargo services provider in the Netherlands will increase its contribution to the Pharma Gateway Amsterdam – a programme established in 2016 to position Schiphol as ...
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Join the exclusive cargo club at Farnborough International Airshow 2018
The organisers of the world famous Farnborough International Airshow 2018 have announced record monthly bookings for next year's event, which takes place on July 16-22.Air Cargo News will be in attendance and we are exclusively selling exhibition packages for the dedicated Cargo Village, which will feature some of the biggest ...
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VIDEO: Shannon's new runway, ta Mac for a great job
The rehabilitation of Ireland’s longest runway, at Shannon Airport, is proving a triumph of logistics as the equivalent of one football pitch is re-laid between dusk and dawn each night, the airport has revealed.Shortly before midnight, following the last arrival/departure at Shannon, a team of 90 vehicles and 70 people ...
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Freight forwarder K+N sets the pace as air volumes soar
Freight forwarder Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) saw airfreight volumes grow at almost double the market rate during the first half of the year, with performance improving during the second quarter.The Switzerland-headquartered freight forwarder saw first-half airfreight demand increase by 18% year on year to 731,000 tons, while the overall market increased by ...
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K+N expands perishables network with US and Kenyan acquisitions
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has expanded its global perishables network with the acquisition of sector specialist forwarders Commodity Forwarders Inc. (CFI) in the US and Trillvane in Kenya.Switzerland-based K+N said that the two acquisitions would add more than 150,000 tons of annual perishables traffic to its network and “further strengthens ...
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European airports call for urgent action to stop Brexit harming aviation
The Airport Services Association (ASA) has called for urgent action to ensure that the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU) or ‘Brexit’ does not harm the aviation sector “in the UK, EU and beyond”.Jon Conway, director general of the Switzerland-based European industry body, wants the end result of negotiations ...
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ASM software upgrade is ready for Brexit
Agency Sector Management (ASM) has launched a major upgrade of its Sequoia software, providing a complete freight management system.The software provider to the UK forwarding industry said that the release gives users a single application where data is shared across all functions such as job costing and producing documentation, as ...
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Istanbul New Airport signs cargo contracts worth €250m
The operator of Istanbul New Airport, Turkey's showcase hub set to open in 2018, has signed 25-year contracts worth €250m with six companies for its Cargo City and Ground Services Campus sites.IGA Airport Operation, which has the contract to build and operate the mega hub, said that it has signed ...
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New KLM Cargo facility has e-commerce and pharma sorted at Schiphol
KLM Cargo has opened officially a new sorting system at its Amsterdam Schiphol airport hub that can handle post, express and pharmaceutical consignments.The new express product sorter will allow KLM to launch a Europe-wide sameday delivery product, called 12Send, in September this year after completing trials this summer in London, ...
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FTA has grave doubts over new Customs system's ability to handle Brexit
The UK's Freight Transport Association (FTA) has expressed concerns that the country's future Customs Declaration Service (CDS) programme will not be able to process the amount of transactions anticipated post-brexit.Responding to the publication of the National Audit Office (NAO)’s report on the progress of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) programme, ...
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Network Airline Mangement renews MD11F deal
Network Airline Management (NAM) has renewed its long-standing freighter deal with Western Global Airlines (WGA) covering Africa-Europe operations.Under the terms of the agreement, WGA will continue to operate up to three MD11Fs on behalf of NAM, with operations based in Liege, Belgium.The aircraft support NAM’s operations with Allied Air of ...
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Frankfurt cargo volumes rise in June
Frankfurt Airport saw its June cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) increase by 4.7% to 188,256 tonnes, "supported by ongoing economic growth, particularly in the eurozone's industrial sector".Frankfurt's cargo volume grew by 4.8%in the first half of 2017, reaching almost 1.1m tonnes - the highest first-half volume achieved in the past ...
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Heathrow cargo volumes up 13.4% in June
London's Heathrow airport saw monthly airfreight volumes in June increase by 13.4% on last year to 142,349 tonnes, with cargo going to and from Latin America up by more than 38% compared with like period 2016.North America retains its position as the largest cargo market for Heathrow, with June’s volume ...
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Logistics sector can prove Barnier wrong, says FTA
The UK's logistics industry has issued a "wake-up call" as Britain's chief Brexit negotiator David Davis met today (July 7) with the nation's business leaders to discuss the trading implications of Britain leaving the European Union (EU).The Freight Transport Association (FTA), which represents more than 16,000 companies nationwide, urged all ...
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UK freight forwarders welcome Customs fallback system
UK freight forwarders have welcomed the setting up of a new Customs declaration fallback system to prevent an airfreight meltdown if the primary network collapses.The back-up facility would prevent the catastrophic impact of a systems failure by the HM Revenue & Customs' CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight) ...
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NewsBelly enhancer as Norwegian opts for Telair cargo loading system
Low cost carrier Norwegian has taken delivery of the first Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft equipped with the Telair Sliding Carpet Edge loading system for bellyhold freight.Anders Helmner, chief executive of Sweden's Telair International, said: “The most advanced model of the world’s most popular aircraft arrived with the most advanced ...
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Ein Prosit: Record half year cargo tonnages for Munich airport
Over the first six months of 2017, Munich Airport's airfreight segment posted a new all-time high, with a nine percent year-on-year increase in cargo turnover to approximately 180,000 tons.Michael Kerkloh, the German airport's president and chief executive, commenting also on 2017's increased passenger and aircraft movement numbers for the half ...
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Senior appointments at Virgin Atlantic Cargo
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has announced two senior appointments to its sales team as it sees “soaring volumes”, most notably from its UK home market.Ryan Ellis takes up the position of head of global accounts while Ray Wood joins the airline as regional sales manager for the UK.Ellis joined Virgin Atlantic ...