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NewsMixed year for Europe's largest airfreight forwarders
Europe’s leading airfreight forwarders had a mixed year in 2015, with Panalpina and DHL Global Forwarding reporting demand decreases and Kuehne+Nagel (K+N), DSV Sea and Air and DB Schenker benefitting from increases.The forwarder that recorded the largest decrease in airfreight volumes was DHL Global Forwarding, which had a tough time ...
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NewsEuropean cargo carriers monthly: cargo declines at Lufthansa and Air France
IAG Cargo and Finnair both managed to record air cargo demand increases during the first quarter of the year while Air France-KLM and Lufthansa suffered declines.While all four carriers recorded a spike in demand during March, compared with February, the level of increase was weaker than in previous years, although ...
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Freight down at Frankfurt
Frankfurt Airport cargo volumes fell 1.6% year on year in March and 1.2% in the year to date. Passenger business meanwhile rose 3.9% in the month and 3.3% for the year to date.Cargo traffic appears to be continuing the trend seen in 2015, when cargo traffic for the year fell ...
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UPS moves to annul European veto on TNT takeover
UPS is asking the Luxembourg-based General Court to overturn a European Commission veto on its failed bid three years ago to take over European express operator TNT, a company which is now on course to be acquired by FedEx, arch rival to UPS.News agency Reuters said that the UPS challenge ...
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CargoLogicAir to fly Beirut freighter for ABC
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is furthering its partnership with UK-registered CargoLogicAir (CLA) by launching a weekly Boeing 747 Middle East freighter link to Beirut out of London-Stansted via Amsterdam.The Beirut service is due to begin on April 17 and extends the operational contacts between Stansted-hubbed CLA and Russian-owned ABC.CLA conducted its ...
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Kestrel Liner Agencies opens dedicated airfreight office
Shipping line agency Kestrel Liner Agencies has opened a dedicated airfreight office following on from recent growth in the air cargo side of the business.The forwarder opened an office at Heathrow earlier this month with John Fiddies, who previously worked for forwarder Link Shipping UK, running the operation.Kestrel chief executive ...
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Metro Supply Chain buys Evolution Time Critical
Canada’s Metro Supply Chain Group has acquired Evolution Time Critical, the Europe-based specialist in automotive emergency logistics.The deal — financial terms were not disclosed — provides 3PL provider Metro with an opportunity to increase its automotive industry presence beyond North America.“We have the platform from which to expand our capabilities ...
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Defiant Brussels is back in business
Brussels Airlines operated the first passenger aircraft since the March 22 attacks on Brussels Airport at 13.40 on Sunday. In a low-key ceremony, emergency services saluted the flight to Faro, Portugal in the presence of mobility minister Jacqueline Galant and defence minister, Steven Vandeput.Chief executive of Brussels Airport Company, Arnaud ...
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Garuda picks dnata for Heathrow handling
Garuda Indonesia has appointed dnata to provide all ground handling services for its new five weekly flights from Jakarta and Singapore to London Heathrow.Dnata will provide a full range of ground and passenger services, from check-in to ramp operations and baggage handling, when Boeing 777-300ER services commence at the end ...
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NewsBrussels' cargo operations begin to return to normal after attacks
UPDATE: Air cargo operations at Brussels airport have begun to return to normal over the last couple of days after last week’s attacks that left 15 people dead.The Belgian airport began accepting freighter flights last Wednesday, the day after suicide bombers launched an attack in the airport’s check-in area, but ...
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FedEx and TNT deal gets clearance in Brazil following UPS appeal
FedEx’s proposed takeover of TNT Express has finally been approved by Brazilian authorities after UPS filed an appeal with the economic regulator in Brazil.The two express firms today announced that Brazil’s Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) had rejected the third party appeal of the unconditional approval of FedEx’s takeover ...
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WFS and Fraport Cargo Services complete operations merger
Ground handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has moved its Frankfurt customers into the premises of Fraport Cargo Services (FCS) following its acquisition of a 51% stake in the German firm.In November last year, WFS completed its investment in FCS and the two companies began merging operations at the German airport.FCS ...
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Straightline eyes $480m deal for up to 12 hybrid airships
Straightline Aviation (SLA) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships with a potential value of $480m. UK-headquartered SLA, set up by ex-Virgin Group senior managers to act as an owner-operator of craft that do not need mooring towers or runways, is ...
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NewsCargo 2000 reveals Cargo iQ rebranding and expanded data project
Cargo 2000 is to get a new identity and will launch a new data project and certification scheme as part of a revamp of the organisation.At the World Cargo Symposium, the IATA organisation revealed that it would now go by the name of Cargo iQ as part of a strategic ...
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NewsCargolux sees 2015 profits soar but revenues slide
All-cargo airline Cargolux saw profits and airfreight volumes surge in 2015 but revenues and load factors declined.The Luxembourg-based airline saw profits increase to $49m in 2015 compared with $3m in 2014, while demand jumped by 8.7% year on year to an estimated 6.9bn freight tonne km.It is the third year ...
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Air Cargo Community Frankfurt adds new members
The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt has added three new members to its ranks.The airport community announced today that cargo handler Frankfurt Cargo Services, LATAM Airlines and Frankfurt Road Cargo had all joined the community, bringing its total number of members to 38.Air Cargo Community Frankfurt executive director Joachim von Winning ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to focus on developing services after a flat start to the year
Swiss WorldCargo hopes to further enhance its services for the pharmaceutical and e-commerce industries as it faces up to another year of flat growth for the air cargo industry in 2016.Head of cargo at Swiss Ashwin Bhat said 2015 was not a good year for the airline’s cargo division in ...
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IAG hopes perishable growth will fill South Africa winter service
IAG Cargo hopes a new UK-South Africa Boeing 777-200 winter service will be boosted by the African country's growing perishables market.The service between Gatwick and Cape Town will operate three times each week and supplements an Airbus 330-300 Madrid-Johannesburg service, due to start August 1, and the existing London Heathrow-Cape ...
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Brussels Airport update on cargo and passenger services
Brussels Airport, which suffered a terrorist attack yesterday in which 12 people died, has issued the following statement: "There will be no passenger flights tomorrow. Brussels Airport and airlines are in narrow contact to find suitable solutions for all passengers."Brussels Airport is looking at the possibilities to start cargo flights ...
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Schiphol launches pharma gateway
European cargo hub Schiphol has launched Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA), a community-based cool chain logistics programme for the niche high value airfreight product.All participants in PGA will be IATA CEIV Pharma-certified and the programme is the initiative of Schiphol’s Pharma Task Force, launched in July 2015 by Air Cargo Netherlands, ...