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John Batten leaves Coyne Airways
COYNE AIRWAYS has appointed Liana Coyne as chief operating officer as part of a restructure that sees managing director John Batten leave the charter airline after seven months in the role.Batten, a former Swissport Cargo executive vice-president, joined the all-cargo carrier in September 2013 with the intention of launching services ...
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New air cargo boss at CEVA
GLOBAL supply chain management company CEVA Logistics has appointed Michael Schaecher as its new chief operating officer of global airfreight.The former chief executive (CEO) of Air Cargo Germany has held a wide selection of management and operations roles, including executive positions with DHL Global Forwarding, Star Broker and Panalpina World ...
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Düsseldorf Airport's cargo boom
LAST year saw the best cargo results for a dozen years at Germany’s Düsseldorf Airport.A total of more than 110,000 tonnes saw the Rhine-Rhur gateway’s airfreight business grow by an impressive 9.1 per cent over the previous year.Extra belly capacity on airlines collectively operating some 180 international routes served by ...
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2014 'a challenging year for air cargo'
GLOBAL air cargo grew by only 1.4 per cent last year as the whole industry fought its way out of a world recession.IATA figures show that cargo markets made very slow progress during the first half of the year, but acceleration took root in the latter half of 2013, eventually ...
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Aer Lingus starts Boston service
AER LINGUS has inaugurated daily B757 services from Shannon Airport to Boston.The new service marks the start of the Irish carrier’s major transatlantic expansion in 2014, which includes new routes from Dublin to San Francisco and Toronto, as well as increasing frequency on services from Shannon Airport to Logan International ...
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Volga-Dnepr completes 1,100th flight for oil and gas industry
VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines has completed its 1,100th flight for customers in the oil and gas industry with this delivery of 45 tonnes of equipment from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Prestwick, Scotland.The cargo consisted of specialist equipment for a water-driven excavation system and auxiliary equipment for use in drilling operations ...
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IAG Cargo boosts capacity to Singapore with A380 super jumbo service
CARGO customers in Singapore will benefit from additional capacity on IAG Cargo’s new A380 super jumbo service which is planned to operate to and from Changi International Airport later this year.IAG Cargo, the merged freight business of British Airways and Iberia, believes the new aircraft will prove particularly beneficial to ...
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Chapman Freeborn delivers unmanned surface vehicle
AIR charter broker Chapman Freeborn and logistics partners SPI International and Logik Logistics International have successfully transported this first ever C-Worker vessel, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) that is set to revolutionise oil and gas operations.The year-long logistics project – which started with loading feasibility studies before construction of the ...
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Carsten Hernig becomes new Jettainer MD
CARSTEN HERNIG, 39, is the new managing director of ULD outsource specialist Jettainer.“He is not only a homegrown talent, but also an experienced international manager,” says Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, executive board member, operations, at Lufthansa Cargo.Hernig’s career at the Lufthansa group of companies extends to 15 years. He initially worked ...
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AEI delivers B737-400SF to FarnAir Europe
AERONAUTICAL Engineers Inc (AEI) has delivered the first of four B737-400SF freighters to Switzerland-based integrator support airline FarnAir Europe.The aircraft, a high gross weight version, was built in 1996, and converted at Commercial Jet’s Miami facility, which is one of five authorised AEI Conversion Centers worldwide.It is AEI’s second delivery ...
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Volga-Dnepr delivers 103-tonne turbine rotor
THIS 103-tonne turbine rotor has arrived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, onboard an An-124-100 Ruslan heavy freighter aircraft operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines.The shipment, delivered from Frankfurt/Hahn, was carried using bespoke transportation tooling and an entire day was required to prepare for its offloading at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport.The physical unloading process took some ...
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Bangkok ground handler wins EU security validation
BANGKOK Flight Services (BFS), a WFS Group company, has been validated as a Regulated Agent (RA3), enabling it to accept cargo on behalf of its airline customers for carriage to EU States in accordance with the European Union’s new ACC3 security rules for incoming cargo and mail.BFS is one of ...
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AirBridgeCargo satisfies Russia's demand for flowers
ROMANTIC Russians provided a business boost for AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the country’s largest cargo carrier, with a big rise in floral imports ahead of St Valentine’s Day.ABC transported some 1,400 tonnes of cut-flowers from Amsterdam to Moscow, an 18 per cent increase over the same period in 2013.Denis Ilin, executive ...
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IAG Cargo's Valentine's Day flower shipments blossom
AS THE world’s economy shows tentative signs of recovery, data from IAG Cargo has shown that when it comes to Valentine’s Day this translates to a blooming trade in flowers for key Latin American producers.Preliminary figures from the merged freight business of British Airways and Iberia, show that flower volumes ...
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Lufthansa Cargo's Karl Ulrich Garnadt appointed to Fraport’s board
LUFTHANSA CARGO’s chief executive officer (CEO) Karl Ulrich Garnadt, has been appointed as a member of Fraport’s supervisory board.The move follows Stefan Lauer’s resignation from the airport’s board at the end of last year.Garnadt’s appointment is valid until Fraport’s annual general meeting on 30 May this year, when shareholders are ...
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Confident Cargolux commits to another B747-8 freighter
DESPITE widespread over-capacity woes, Cargolux has confidently ordered an additional B747-8 freighter from Boeing as part of its ongoing fleet renewal and expansion programme.The additional aircraft takes its total order to 14 B747-8Fs.According to the all-cargo airline, the latest aircraft will support the airline’s growth – “on the back of ...
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Fedex expands its cool chain service
MORE FedEx healthcare and life-science customers in Europe can now keep cool about their temperature-sensitive shipments.The US delivery company has expanded its SenseAware service into 14 new countries across Europe, so that Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany can now ...
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Cargolux eyes combination carriers' dilemma
CARGOLUX will capitalise on the impact that belly capacity is having on some combination carriers, by reasserting its cargo-only credentials.With a number of combination carriers like EVA Air and IAG Cargo forced to dispense with significant freighter lift in the capacity-soaked marketplace, Richard Forson, interim chief executive at Cargolux, sees ...
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Saudia Cargo says it with Kenyan flowers
SAUDIA Cargo is running four additional B747 freighter flights from Nairobi to Amsterdam this month, to meet the high demand of flower exports during the St Valentine’s peak period.The extra frequencies will be supplementary to the carrier’s already existing six weekly scheduled B747F frequencies on this prime sector, thereby providing ...
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Virgin cargo up in 2013
TRAFFIC from the United States to India, business gains in the US north-east and an increase in perishables traffic, all contributed to tonnage, revenue and market share gains for Virgin Atlantic Cargo last year.The airline’s ability to offer fast connections over London to both Delhi and Mumbai also attracted strong ...