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Frankfurt perishables centre celebrates 20 years
Perishable Center Frankfurt (PCF) has celebrated its 20th anniversary.PCF operates temperature-controlled logistics at the German hub, with direct access to the airport apron.Joachim von Winning, managing director of Air Cargo Community Frankfurt, said: "For airfreight at Frankfurt Airport, PCF is a very important factor, from which the hypermarkets, supermarkets and ...
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UPDATE: First half air cargo boost for K+N
Kuehne + Nagel delivered a "sensational" airfreight performance in the first half of the year as export increases from Europe, North America and Asia helped the logistics giant outpace the airfreight market with a 5.2% rise in volumes to 610,000 tonnes.In addition, said Switzerland-based K+N, the expansion of services for ...
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June cargo boost for Heathrow
London’s Heathrow Airport saw cargo volumes dip 1.9% in June to just under 123,000 tonnes, but airfreight volumes at the UK hub were up by 2.1% for the first six months of 2015.Heathrow - which awaits a UK government decision to green light to build a third runway – has ...
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TIACA appoints new board members
TIACA has added five new members from Asia, Europe, and North America to its Board of Directors as it continues to expand its scope of representation.The new board members come from a range of companies: an integrator, a charterer, an all cargo carrier, and an airport company are all represented.TIACA ...
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UPDATE: XPO gains injunction against Norbert Dentressangle shareholder
XPO Logistics has won an injunction against one of the shareholders of Norbert Dentressangle as it attempts to acquire all of the shares in the French logistics giant.XPO, which in June completed a deal to purchase the Dentressangle family’s 67% shareholding in the logistics firm, has been pushing ahead with ...
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Coyne launches tracking app
Coyne Airways has launched a smartphone app allowing customers to track their shipments.The app enables customers to create an account where they can view tracking information for their shipments using their air waybill number, look up flight schedules, and search for Coyne Airways offices and General Sales Agents worldwide.Coyne Airways ...
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Protesters cause Heathrow disruption
Protesters against expansion at Heathrow have caused delays and cancellations to flights this morning after they gained access to the airport’s runway.At 03.30 this morning, members of the Plane Stupid protest group managed to cut through a fence and chain themselves together on the runway causing 13 flights to be ...
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WFS targets majority stake in Fraport Cargo Services
The world’s largest cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has started its latest expansion phase with the planned acquisition of a majority stake in Fraport Cargo Services (FCS).The deal will see WFS acquire a 51% shareholding in FCS as part of a strategic partnership with Fraport. Terms of the transaction, ...
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Brussels growth reaches double-digit percentage levels in June
Brussels airport continued its strong start to the year with cargo growth of almost 16% in June compared with a year ago, despite the general slowdown in European volume growth.The Belgian airport saw cargo volumes in June increase to 43,187 tons compared with 37,262 tons a year earlier.Most of the ...
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CAL Group makes new appointment as it looks to expand
The CAL Group has appointed Yossi Shoukroun as its new chief operating officer.Shoukroun, who was previously general manager of Liege Air Cargo Handling Services (LACHS), will take up the newly created position this month.The role will see him take responsibility for the ground operations of both CAL Cargo Airlines and ...
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Swiss join the drone club
Swiss Post and Swiss WorldCargo have launched a project to test the commercial possibilities of logistics drone in partnership with California-based manufacturer, Matternet.They will carry out drone tests in July 2015, but admit that “the widespread use of drones is not expected within the next five years.”Before then, issues including ...
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Brussels Airlines looks to the future with new GSSA
Brussels Airlines Cargo has switched its GSSA from European Cargo Services (ECS) to Air Logistics Group for belly-hold space on its passenger services.The carrier said the decision to break with its representative of 13 years was part of “an ambitious strategic plan to further grow its cargo business.”It said it ...
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Update: Shippers turn to air during Calais chaos
Air charter companies have reported a sharp spike in demand for cargo charters and onboard couriers during the recent chaos at the French port of Calais.London-based Chapman Freeborn Airchartering said that with thousands of goods vehicles stranded due to industrial action by striking ferry workers – which in turn led ...
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Cooperation takes away the pain of new security rules
The International Air Cargo Organisation (TIACA) has welcomed new World Customs Organisation rules on safer and easier international trade.WCO has formally adopted the so–called ‘7 + 1’ data set for risk data analysis, helping to standardise basic Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI) processes.It forms part of WCO’s SAFE Framework of ...
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Another twist in Lufthansa pilots’ saga
Lufthansa management is appealing to its pilots' unions to return to the negotiating table after the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) organisation reportedly rejected calls for mediation in a long-running dispute over pensions.A spokesman for the airline said it would have been possible to solve the conflict with the aid of an ...
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Boeing sees increase in freighter deliveries but cuts back 747-8 production
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has reported an increase in the number of freighter aircraft delivered during the first half of the year, but also confirmed it will scale back production of 747-8s.The Chicago-based manufacturer delivered a total of 19 freighter aircraft during the first half of the year, with Fed-Ex taking ...
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IATA chief sees devil in the detail of Heathrow’s third runway
IATA director general and chief executive Tony Tyler described the Sir Howard Davies’ Airport Commission’s conclusion in favour of a third runway as “a relief” but he also had “serious reservations” about some of the conditions that had been attached to its decision.He told the Runways UK conference in London ...
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Cargolux unions to protest against ‘safety breaches’
The LCGB union is to hold a protest march at Luxembourg airport tomorrow (8 July) against what it claims is a decline in safety culture at all-cargo carrier Cargolux – and is threatening strike action over the issue.LCGB said it would hold the march as it claimed that safety and ...
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Obituary: Kerry Logistics' Gary Wilcock
It is with great sadness that Kerry Logistics announces the passing away of Gary Wilcock, Managing Director of Europe, on Sunday June 21, aged 54, after a short battle against cancer.Kerry Logistics said: "With more than 30 years of experience, he was held in the highest regard in the industry, ...
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IAG hopes to build Kuala Lumpur as fourth Asian hub
IAG Cargo is looking to develop Kuala Lumpur as a fourth Asian hub, alongside Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore, after British Airways restored a direct service from London in May.Extraordinarily for a member country of the UK Commonwealth with long colonial ties, BA suspended services to Malaysia in 2001, leaving ...