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John Good Air achieves IATA agency accreditation
Recently launched airfreight agent John Good Air has achieved its IATA cargo accreditation, allowing it deal with registered airlines and agents.The accreditation provides John Good Air with industry recognition of its financial and professional competence.The company said one of the benefits of becoming an accredited agent is that members are ...
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CEVA looks to ease complex Brazilian Customs processes
CEVA Logistics has updated its Customs clearance operation in Brazil as it attempts to streamline country’s complex and changing processes.The forwarder said the complex nature of Brazilian Customs processes can lead to delays for those companies not working with a partner who is fully conversant in all aspects of their ...
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Brussels' cargo traffic continues to recover after March attacks
Cargo traffic at Brussels airport continued to recover in April after the terrorist attacks in March.The airport said that in April cargo volumes were down 4.8% year on year to 39,129 tons as passenger operations were closed until April 3 and took a while longer to fully recover after that ...
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Silk Way freighter crashes on take-off in Afghanistan
A Silk Way-owned freighter has reportedly crashed in Afghanistan, killing seven of its nine crew members.The exact details of what happened to the aircraft have yet to emerge, but new agency Reuters and Azerbaijani publications are quoting the State Aviation Administration (ASAA) as saying an Antanov-12 aircraft crashed when taking ...
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Egyptair flight missing
An Egyptair Airbus A320 (flight MS804) with 66 people on board has gone missing on a flight from Paris to Cairo, with news agency reports that it has crashed in the Mediterranean Sea around 30 miles north of the Egyptian coast.On board are 7 crew, 3 security guards and 56 ...
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Wizard of Oz: An-225 makes its debut in Australia
Antonov’s An-225 (Mriya) freighter has landed for the first time in Australia when it touched down in Perth with a 117 ton generator on board.The charter of the world’s largest capacity freighter aircraft was organised by DB Schenker, and the special event saw thousands of onlookers gathered near the western ...
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Qatar ups stake in IAG to 15.01%
Qatar Airways has raised further its stake in British Airways-owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) to 15.01% and may consider acquiring more of the company over time, the airline told Reuters.Less than a month ago Qatar Airways raised its stake in IAG to just under 12% from 9.99%.Speaking at a ...
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FedEx offer for TNT gains unconditional acceptance
FedEx's offer for TNT shares has been unconditionally accepted with the deal now set to be completed on May 25.This morning the two companies declared that 88.4% of all TNT shares had been tendered and accepted with all offer conditions satisfied or waived.“We are pleased with the outcome of the ...
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NewsCargo crime group calls for law enforcement to provide more data
The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has called on law enforcement agencies to increase the amount of cargo crime data they share to help the logistics and transport industry reduce incidents of theft.TAPA said if law enforcement agencies share extra crime data its members would be able to utilise this ...
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TNT tenders shares as next step in takeover by FedEx
TNT Express has tendered 88.4% of its shares for acceptance as part of its proposed takeover by FedEx.The Netherlands-based express firm will announce whether shareholders have unconditionally accepted the offer by no later than May 19.The move comes after China gave its approval for the FedEx-TNT deal in late April.With ...
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NewsEuropean monthly: A new hope as European airlines return to growth
Europe’s major cargo carriers have seen cargo volumes return to growth in April after a difficult start to the year.All four major European airlines monitored in the Air Cargo News monthly spotlight recorded a year on year increase in demand in April for the first time since March 2014.It follows ...
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DSV's UTi acquisition sees airfreight soar but profits take a hit
DSV Air & Sea has recorded drastically improved airfreight volumes as its latest acquisition, UTi, is included in its opening quarter results for the first time.During the first quarter of the year, DSV, which recently won the Air Cargo News forwarder of the year award, saw airfreight volumes increase by ...
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April surge for Frankfurt cargo volumes
Frankfurt Airport has returned to cargo volume growth for the first time in the current business year with a 5% surge in April to 181,948 tonnes.Europe’s number one hub by cargo throughput said that Far East traffic was the main growth driver last month, with cargo tonnage to/from this region ...
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Liege opens first class lounge for four-legged VIPs
Liege Airport has officially opened a ‘Horse Inn’ for travelling equines, aiming to tap into growing demand for purpose-built resting and loading areas.The €2.6m facility will cater for all horses in transit at the Belgian gateway, whether by air or road.Liege Airport is also sponsoring top Belgian show jumper and ...
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Parma to be Etihad cargo hub
Etihad Airways has signed an exclusive agreement to develop cargo traffic at Parma airport in central Italy.The deal initially includes setting a transit centre at Parma Giuseppe Verdi to receive cargo for forwarding to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward transport.The new hub will feed traffic to and from flights operated ...
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LCI leases freighters to Turkish operator
LCI, the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, has increased its fleet of dedicated maindeck freighter aircraft.Two additional Boeing 747-400F aircraft are now flying for Qatar Airways and Saudia, Saudi Arabian Airlines, and are being operated by ACT Airlines, known as myCARGO Airlines, the Turkish wet-lease operator.The two Pratt ...
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UK forwarders latest to urge action on runway decision
UK forwarder association the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has backed a Transport Committee report urging the government to make a decision over airport expansion.BIFA director general Robert Keen said that the 1,500 companies within BIFA share the Transport Committee’s belief that the delay risks damaging UK economic growth by ...
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German rail to sell a minority stake in Schenker
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) has confirmed plans to push ahead with the sale of a stake in its DB Schenker forwarding and logistics arm.It confirmed today (5 May) that the management board is to develop an implementation plan for a third-party minority holding in DB Schenker, as well as its ...
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Seko finds UK aerospace home
Seko Logistics has opened its first Centre of Excellence for the UK aerospace and aviation sector at Farnborough Airport near London.Seko already has similar centres in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, while its global aerospace and aviation headquarters is in Dallas, the second largest aerospace market in the world.Farnborough ...
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Terror attacks hit Brussels Airlines cargo Q1 results
Brussels Airlines says its cargo traffic in March was sharply down, due to the terrorist attacks on its home airport on March 22.The Lufthansa Group subsidiary said that cargo traffic was largely interrupted after that date and that the total of 2,609 tonnes reflected a decrease of 21% compared with ...