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Liege Airport to invest more than €50m in cargo in 2018
Liege Airport will invest €30m in four new parking areas for large freighter aircraft next year, bringing 2018's total planned cargo investment to €50m at the busy Belgian hub.The announcement on additional freighter parking space follows November’s decision to provide a further 20,000 sq m of warehouses and handling facilities.“The ...
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NewsCopenhagen Airport the latest Nordic player looking to capitalise on air cargo
Copenhagen Airport (CPH) is the latest Nordic company to reveal plans to expand its cargo operation in response to growth in the region.The Denmark-based airport has signed an agreement with German developer AXXUS Capital to develop a 20,000 sq m air cargo centre in the eastern part of the airport. ...
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Panalpina picks Belgian perishables specialists for takeover
Logistics giant Panalpina is to acquire the Belgium-based perishables specialists Adelantex and AD Handling.The move follows similar acquisitions by Panalpina in September this year: Cool Chain Group in Germany, and Interfresh Airfreight Handling in the Netherlands.The two Belgian companies are specialised in the handling of perishables imports in Brussels, Liège ...
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Air France-KLM Cargo launches What Counts for SMEs
Air France-KLM Martinair Cargo (AF-KLMP Cargo) has introduced its What Counts product for small and medium-sized customers, bundling together 24/7 easy-to-connect services, tailor-made offers, and a loyalty programme.The Franco-Dutch carrier said that implementation of What Counts is “a substantial enhancement of our service through the utilisation of big data, digital ...
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From Russia with airfreight, Moscow volumes surge
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport handled more than 260,000 tonnes of cargo in the first 11 months of 2017, a 30% increase on the same period last year.Management at Russia’s largest cargo hub said that the airfreight surge was due to the “significant increase in cargo turnover on international flights”.The volume of ...
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European Union hopes new regulations will boost cross-border e-commerce
The European Union (EU) is hoping new cross-border regulations will help boost e-commerce trade.Yesterday, EU negotiators reached a provisional agreement that it is hoped will make prices for cross-border e-commerce more transparent and affordable and increase regulatory oversight of the parcel market.To improve price transparency, the regulations aim to foster ...
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New local rule proposed to end Schiphol's freighter slot deadlock
Schiphol Airport's key cargo stakeholders have agreed a proposed "local rule" that would ease the slot constraints on freighter flights at Europe's third largest freight hub.The solution for the Amsterdam gateway now goes to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, with the request to consider the proposal as ...
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Lufthansa Cargo adds transatlantic charter flights to cover e-commerce demand
Lufthansa Cargo will carry out six charter flights between Frankfurt and New York on behalf of Deutsche Post as the postal operator looks to meet e-commerce demand.The Frankfurt-hubbed airline began the MD-11 flights in mid-November and they will continue until shortly before Christmas Eve, flying each Monday.Lufthansa Cargo chief product ...
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November boost for cargo hub Leipzig
Leipzig/Halle Airport’s monthly freight volumes exceeded 100,000 tonnes for the first time in November.Germany’s second-largest cargo hub handled 105,100 tonnes of freight last month as volumes rose by 9.4% in comparison with the same month in 2016.Cargo volumes also broke through the one million tonne barrier for the second time ...
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ABC and DHL complete a multi-modal RKN vaccine shipment to Miami
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has completed a successful multi-modal pharma trial shipment for DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) to deliver healthcare products from Moscow to Miami.The shipment, which replaced real vaccines with service water for test purposes, used an RKN active cargo container in accordance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) cool chain ...
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NewsUK freighter hubs see record November
The UK’s "two most important airports" for freighter aircraft, East Midlands (EMA) and London Stansted, have seen record volumes of cargo in November, said airport owner MAG.The increased volumes were driven by early Christmas shopping and e-commerce, as Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending "shifted increasingly online from the high ...
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Heathrow airport details "Christmas cargo" stats
Over 143,000 tonnes of “Christmas cargo” is expected to fly via London Heathrow airport in the month leading up to December 25, a record to date, said the UK hub’s management.A statement added: “The airport’s data from November and December 2016 shows a clear spike in the volume of certain ...
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ACI statistics reveal solid October performance
Airports Council International (ACI) Europe, the trade body representing the Continent’s air gateways, has released its air traffic report for October, revealing that airfreight traffic across the European airport network averaged year-on-year growth of 6.2% in the month.Airports located in EU nations averaged 5.3% year-on-year airfreight traffic growth in October, ...
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VIDEO: Turkish Airlines' first B777 freighter enters the fleet
Turkish Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777 freighter, with another on order.“The delivery of our first 777 freighter is a milestone event in our cargo business,” said M. İlker Aycı, chairman of the board and the executive committee of Turkish Airlines.He continued: “Turkish Cargo increased its freighter ...
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UK roadshow to highlight ways to reduce airport trucking congestion
The user group for the CCS-UK airfreight community system is to hold a series of roadshows around the UK in early 2018 to promote its advanced information system and general issues surrounding truck congestion at London Heathrow airport.The non-profit body which manages, and commissions enhancements to the CCS-UK freight community ...
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West Atlantic in talks with potential ‘significant’ shareholders
West Atlantic is in “advanced discussions” with “parties who have shown serious interest in taking on a significant shareholding in the company”, said chief executive and president, Fredrik Groth in the Swedish cargo airline’s third quarter interim report.Admitting that the carrier – a major air network provider to several European ...
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Finnair Cargo launches an eye in the sky – and on the ground
Finnair Cargo has introduced Cargo Eye, an airfreight monitoring tool, and invited other innovators to pitch for solutions to the air cargo industry’s remaining "unsolved challenges".Finnair says that its Cargo Eye solution integrates multiple data sources, transaction data and sensors to help its newly formed Cargo Control Center to monitor ...
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Airfreight's special October for volumes and revenues, says WorldACD
October was a “special” month in global air cargo, said analyst WorldACD. In its latest analysis of 75 airlines, monthly volumes were higher than ever, while revenues (in euros) also peaked.Although revenues in dollar terms did not reach the heights scaled in October 2010-14, it should be noted that oil ...
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October gets fourth quarter off to a strong start, says IATA
The fourth quarter of 2017 has got off to a strong start, with global air freight demand (in freight tonne-kilometres) up 5.9%, said IATA in its latest figures.While this was a slowdown from the 9.2% year-on-year growth in September 2017, it was comfortably ahead of the average annual growth rate ...
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Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines sign cooperation agreement
Cargolux has signed a cooperation agreement with Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) that allows both partners to access each other’s capacity through code-share and space swap agreements.The Luxembourg all-cargo carrier now has access to NCA’s flights from Frankfurt-Hahn to Tokyo (Narita) while NCA has access to Cargolux’s flights from Luxembourg ...