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Lufthansa Cargo to divide regions as part of management cull
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed more details on how it will divide up its regions in order to offload a layer of management in line with its cost cutting programme.The German airfreight giant will now operate with eight regions instead of the previous four to allow it to remove a management ...
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Chapman Freeborn reorganises senior management
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has made senior management level changes in a move that it says will “help deliver further growth across the group”.In one change, the air charter broker has appointed Pierre van der Stichele to a newly created role, that of group cargo operations director.During his 14 years with ...
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Lufthansa pilots' strike set to go into Friday
Lufthansa pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) is extending its current walkout until tomorrow (Friday).The strike, in place since Wednesday of this week, will now extend to cover Friday between 00.01 and 23.59. According to Lufthansa, all its short-haul and medium-haul flights within Germany and Europe will be affected.Lufthansa Cargo is ...
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Brussels Airport lays out its strategy for the next 25 years
Brussels Airport Company chief executive Arnaud Feist has laid out the gateway’s long-term strategy in the form of a programme called Strategic Vision 2040.According to Feist, the airport has an ambitious plan to prepare itself for what it envisages will be significant growth in air traffic over the next 25 ...
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Analysis of the growing threat from cyber attacks
The logistics supply chain has become a favoured target because the industry is underprepared for a serious cyber attack.Global cargo theft and supply chain disruption reportedly cost $56bn last year.One part of that supply chain, the aviation industry, is expanding, evolving, and becoming ever more connected due to the rapid ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Demand on the up as peak season gets underway
It was another strong month for cargo volume growth for some of Europe’s major airline groups in October as the winter peak season gets underway.Statistics from Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair all showed continued improved performance during the month, while Air France KLM continued to see a decrease as it adjusts ...
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Volga-Dnepr and Antonov confirm that their Ruslan An-124 joint venture is ending
Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Antonov Airlines have confirmed that Ruslan International, their An-124-100 freighter joint venture, will end on December 31, 2016 after a ten year partnership.Volga-Dnepr Group’s business collaboration with Antonov will continue for the technical aspects of airworthiness and flight safety support of its An-124-100 fleet.This confirmation of continued ...
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The network is key to GSSA's expansion, says ECS
General sales and service agency (GSSA) ECS is hoping its recent network expansion will help fuel future growth as airlines increasingly require global sales services.The company’s chief executive and chairman, Bertrand Schmoll, said that over the last 15 years ECS had grown to have a presence in 47 countries from ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to allow shipment tracking devices
Swiss WorldCargo will now allow customers to use certain tracking devices in their shipments and has added a new team to help with queries related to any deviations registered by the devices.The cargo division of Swiss said it had decided to allow the use of tracking devices because "timely information ...
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Etihad Cargo expands freighter services in Europe
Etihad Cargo has launched three Boeing 777 freighter services from Europe.The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has started the services from East Midlands and Stansted airports in the UK and from Copenhagen in Denmark.David Kerr, senior vice president of the Middle East airline’s cargo division, said: “We have responded to our customers’ ...
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Bridge of size for the An225 at Leipzig/Halle
An Antonov 225, the world’s largest commercial cargo aircraft, stopped off at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport en route to Chile via Iceland.It was the An225's 21st visit to the central German airport. A Leipzig/Halle spokesperson said: "Apart from its home base at Kiev Gostomel, there is no other European airport that ...
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DHL signs up for four A330 conversions
DHL Express has signed a contract to convert four Airbus A330-300 passenger aircraft into 61-tonne payload, 26-pallet, freighters with EFW – a joint venture between Airbus and engineering company ST Aerospace.EFW will carry out the work at its Dresden site from July, and the aircraft are scheduled to be delivered ...
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Denis Ilin steps down as AirBridgeCargo executive president
Denis Ilin, executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines, has resigned after three years in accordance with mutual agreements.Ilin started his management career in AirBridgeCargo Airlines as director of operations. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as general director of the airline and later rejoined AirBridgeCargo team in 2013 to hold the ...
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Antonov signs deal with China to build giant An-225 freighters
Ukrainian plane maker Antonov has signed a cooperation agreement with Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC) to build a second An-225 giant 'Mriya' freighter — and prepare the way for a series of the 250 tonne cargo capacity aircraft to be built in China.In a short statement on its website, ...
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Liege to be Africa hub for NAS
Liege Airport has signed a new partnership with Network Airline Services (NAS) to make the Belgian gateway its hub for Africa and to increase flights to Angola.London-based NAS has, since setting up its operation in Liege in May 2014, transported over 90,000 tonnes of freight through Liege on its worldwide ...
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GECAS places first B737-800NG with ASL
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed its first Boeing 737-800NG passenger-to-freighter converted aircraft with Dublin-based ASL Aviation Group. The agreement covers the lease of two 737-800NG freighters.In May this year, ASL acquired the airline operations of TNT Express and entered a multi-year service agreement to operate flights for the ...
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AirBridgeCargo beats annual tonnage record
Fast growing AirBridgeCargo beat its annual tonnage record last month, its thirteenth consecutive year of growth, as it continues to expand fleet and network.The all-cargo airline recorded a 30% improvement in demand in October to 57,608 tonnes bringing its total for the first ten months of the year to 498,177 ...
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CEVA sees airfreight improvement but stays in the red
CEVA Logistics recorded double-digit airfreight growth during the third quarter of the year but revenues declined on currency effects and it reported another loss.The world’s twelfth largest airfreight forwarder recorded a 1.2% year-on-year decline in revenues during the period to $1.7bn and its net loss for the period stood at ...
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Frankfurt, Heathrow and Stansted see October cargo increases
Europe’s leading cargo airports recorded a rise in airfreight throughput during October.Frankfurt, the continent’s number one cargo hub in 2015, recorded a 4.8% rise in cargo volumes in October to just over 194,000 tonnes, the second largest October figure in the German airport’s history.Frankfurt’s bounce, while still only a 1.6% ...
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BDA Logistics adds new hub at Birmingham airport
BDA Logistics Innovation, which operates its own freighter flight, has moved into a new, larger base at Birmingham Airport in the UK from its previous base further away from the airport.The time critical logistics firm’s new facility will act as a base for its national through-the-night delivery service and its ...