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Cathay moves into Lufthansa's Frankfurt cargo terminal
Cathay Pacific Cargo is relocating its local cargo handling activities in Frankfurt to the Lufthansa Cargo terminal as part of the co-operation agreement between two airlines that both have sizeable passenger and pure freighter fleets.The Frankfurt move follows a reciprocal arrangement which saw Lufthansa Cargo move its Hong Kong freight ...
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NewsHappy days for Cunningham at FedEx Express
David Cunningham's promotion as head of FedEx Express has been fast tracked from the original 2018 start date.Cunningham will succeed David Bronczek as president and chief executive of FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest cargo airline.Bronczek has been promoted to the new role as president ...
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Lufthansa Cargo increases offering from Sharjah Airport to Hong-Kong
Lufthansa Cargo and Sharjah Aviation Services have launched a twice weekly MD-11 freighter linking the Middle East hub with Hong-Kong.The German carrier's main-deck connections will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays from Sharjah during the 2016/17 winter schedule.Handling agent Sharjah Aviation Services is one of the largest air service providers in ...
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Luxembourg adds weight to European airports' 2016 cargo figures
Luxembourg Airport has added its weight to the top European airfreight hubs recording an increase in cargo volumes last year.The European gateway and home to all-freighter operator Cargolux handled 821,000* tonnes of airfreight in full year 2016, up by 8.2% over the 759,000 tonnes handled in prior year and “almost ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Air cargo demand on the up in 2016
European airlines ended 2016 on a high with annual cargo demand up at Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair.The latest monthly airline statistics show that European carriers enjoyed their best year in terms of demand growth since 2013.The Lufthansa group of airlines saw revenue cargo tonne kms (RCTK) increase by 1.4% during ...
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End of year blip for Finnair Cargo as new CMS system beds in
Finnair Cargo had a weaker than expected December after the implementation of a new cargo management system (CMS) initially caused problems for the airline.The Helsinki hubbed airline has seen cargo demand in revenue tonne km (RTK) terms grow by double-digit levels for most of the year.However, in December there was ...
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Basel in balance despite trucking decline due to ocean freight modal shift
Basel’s EuroAirport saw a 12.2% rise in airfreight volumes during 2016 to around 55,000 tonnes although a modal shift to ocean freight saw the Swiss hub’s trucked cargo fall by 11% to 46,000 tonnes.The airport authority said that the factors responsible for the decline in road feeder volumes were ”the ...
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ACT Airlines issues further statement following Kyrgyzstan freighter tragedy
Following the tragic crash, ACT Airlines, which operates as myCargo, has issued a statement naming the crew members that lost their lives and giving more details of about the incident that saw a freighter crash into a village close to Manas Airport, resulting in 37 people losing their lives.The ACT ...
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Lufthansa and Etihad hold merger talks, according to reports
Market reports suggest that airline giants Lufthansa and Etihad could be holding merger talks.Unconfirmed reports in Italy’s Il Messaggero newspaper suggest that managers from the two companies have spent the last few weeks examining the possibility of Etihad taking a 30%-40% stake in the airline through the sale of new ...
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Cargolux passes GDP renewal audit
Cargolux Airlines has passed its Good Distribution Practice (GDP) renewal audit for handling pharma products to European Union regulatory requirements and of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.In addition, the GDP certification recognises the European all-cargo carrier’s fleet of Boeing 747 freighters with four independently-controlled temperature zones.The audit also extends to ...
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NewsCarousel's new head of national operations
Logistics firm Carousel has appointed Andrew Lowery as its new head of national operations.Lowery joins the company from TNT Express where he held the position of city logistics and public affairs manager.Here, he was responsible for TNT’s UK urban strategy, European and UK projects as well as internal and external ...
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Stansted to study impact of proposed changes to noise restrictions
Stansted Airport has said it will study the impact of proposed changes to night time noise restrictions that will restrict the number of quieter aircraft – such as turboprop freighters − that can fly to the airport.The UK government yesterday announced the launch of a consultation on changes to night ...
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ABC becomes Schiphol's largest all-cargo airline
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has become the largest all-cargo airline operating out of Schiphol airport, while it remains the second largest cargo carrier at Europe's busiest airport, Frankfurt.The Volga-Dnepr-owned carrier completed more than 1,000 Boeing 747 freighter flights from the two airports for the first time in 2016, and is second only ...
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ACS looks forward to 2017 after record November
Air Charter Service (ACS) had a record month for revenues in November with increases across all of its divisions.The charter firm recorded revenues of £40m during November - the company's busiest ever month - with its cargo, private jet and commercial divisions all recording "marked increases".Group chief executive Justin Bowman ...
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Oil and gas continues to pump up the volumes says Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr Airlines is continuing to see an upturn in the movement of oil and gas cargoes, including its latest delivery of pump and vaporizer skids to Seoul, South Korea.Operated on behalf of Air Charter Service France for its customer, Heppner Transport & Logistics, one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters transported the ...
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Heathrow cargo volumes up 3% in 2016
London Heathrow airport handled 1.54m tonnes of cargo in 2016, a 3% increase on prior year.Heathrow, the fourth largest European cargo hub by volumes in 2015, finished strongly with a 5.1% increase in December with 133,641 tonnes.The final month rise was driven, in particular, by growth to emerging market destinations: ...
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Liege logs a 2016 cargo rise
Belgian hub Liege Airport saw a 1.7% rise in cargo volumes in 2016 to 660,665 tonnes, up from 649,829 tonnes in 2015.“There has been sustained business growth for all our companies with significant increases for CAL, El Al and Qatar Airways,” said Luc Partoune, the managing director of Liege Airport.Commenting ...
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Budapest volumes surge 22.7% in 2016
Budapest Airport recorded a 22.7% surge in cargo throughputs in 2016 to around 112,000 tonnes.René Droese, director property and cargo at the Hungarian hub, said that the increase in cargo volumes was a “clear indicator that the Hungarian economy is doing well, and that the demand for export by air ...
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Kerry Logistics snaps up German film and media specialist
Kerry Logistics Network, the Asia-based service provider, has further expanded its European operations by acquiring Germany’s Multi Logistics, a specialist film and media logistics provider with 30 years’ experience in the sector.The expansion will add four offices and bring in additional logistics expertise to Kerry Logistics’ existing resources and network ...
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Brussels airport's 2016 cargo volumes boosted by freighter and pharma
Brussels Airport saw a 1.1% rise in cargo volumes during 2016 to 494,637 tons, helped by strong performances in the pharmaceuticals sector and also by a double digit percentage rise in loads carried by freighter aircraft.A spokesperson for the European cargo hub said: “Strong figures were noted, particularly in the ...