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    Cargo volumes up at Frankfurt, Brussels and Vienna

    2025-01-17T16:47:00Z

    Frankfurt, Brussels and Vienna are the latest European airports to report a rise in air cargo demand last year as e-commerce volumes boosted performance

  • Photo: Lufthansa Cargo. Image supplied with press release. 6/09/2024
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    Lufthansa Cargo's Frankfurt Airport hub renovation begins

    2024-09-06T11:18:02Z

    Lufthansa Cargo hub modernisation project at Frankfurt Airport. Photo: Lufthansa CargoConstruction work has now begun on Lufthansa Cargo's €600m renovation project to modernise its cargo hub at Frankfurt Airport by 2030.The construction work is being carried out in sections so that daily operations can continue undisturbed in the 330,000 m² ...

  • Photo: Swissport. Supplied with press release. 23/08/2024
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    Swissport wins Frankfurt Airport ground handling license

    2024-08-23T11:44:25Z

    Photo: SwissportSwissport has secured a seven-year license to provide ground handling services at Frankfurt Airport from February 1 2025 until January 2032.The cargo handler has been operational at Frankfurt Airport since 1995. Swissport currently provides airport ground handling, air cargo handling and fuelling services at 15 airports in Germany, but ...

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    China Airlines and Frankfurt Cargo Services extend partnership

    2024-08-08T10:03:19Z

    Photo: China AirlinesChina Airlines has struck a new multi-year cargo handling contract with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) subsidiary Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) that will extend the partnership of the companies at Frankfurt Airport to more than 25 years.Taiwan-headquartered China Airlines signed its first cargo handling agreement with FCS in 2000. ...

  • Photo: Georgi Group. Supplied via Meantime Communications. 26/07/2024
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    Georgi upgrades to Hermes cargo management technology

    2024-07-29T08:21:37Z

    Benjamin Weil. Photo: Georgi GroupHermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has rolled out its latest cargo management system (CMS) for the Georgi Group in Frankfurt.The German logistics and road feeder services specialist signed a contract with HLT in May to replace an existing CMS at its cargo handling facilities at Frankfurt and ...

  • Swissport's air cargo centre at Frankfurt Airport. Photo: Swissport. 11/06/2024. Supplied with Swissport press release.
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    Swissport Frankfurt recertified by IATA for pharma

    2024-06-11T15:55:17Z

    Swissport's air cargo centre at Frankfurt Airport. Photo: SwissportSwissport's air cargo centre at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) has been reawarded with IATA’s CEIV Pharma (Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics) certification.The certification demonstrates a company's rigorous adherence to the quality and security standards essential for handling sensitive pharmaceuticals.“The ...

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    Fraport aims to ramp up Frankfurt cargo capacity

    2024-04-26T11:08:28Z

    Fraport will invest in digitalisation and develop new cargo areas at Frankfurt Airport as it expects volumes to increase to around 3m tonnes per year by 2040.The airport operator has developed a new cargo masterplan split into three areas - further investment in digitalisation to create efficiency; the redesign of ...

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    Frankfurt high-flier wins IATA talent competition

    2024-03-14T11:57:10Z

    Frankfurt Airport ‘s Erik Goldenstein won the IATA FACE-UP award for 2024, presented at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Hong Kong on 14 March.FACE-UP is a competition for recent university graduates who have developed innovative and transformational solutions in air transport logistics.Goldenstein was voted the winner for his role ...

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    DHL GF begins construction of Frankfurt Airport airfreight centre

    2024-02-06T17:17:26Z

    Anke Giesen (left) Fraport, and Tobias Schmidt, DHL. Photo DHLConstruction has begun on DHL Global Forwarding's new airfreight centre at Frankfurt Airport.The forwarder expects to inaugurate the air cargo centre in mid-2025. Fraport, the owner and operator of Frankfurt Airport (FRA), has leased the property space to DHL Global Forwarding ...

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    Top German cargo hubs see cargo volumes slide in 2023

    2024-01-18T10:26:12Z

    Leading German cargo hubs Frankfurt and Leipzig/Halle both saw their cargo volumes fall in 2023 as the economic conditions put pressure on the market.Germany's busiest cargo airport, Frankfurt, saw cargo throughput comprising airfreight and airmail decline 3.9% year on year to 1.9m tons. Compared with pre-Covid 2019 volumes were down ...

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    Fraport reports record profit, but cargo struggles

    2023-11-07T09:03:20Z

    Image Source: FraportFraport, the airport operator that operates Germany’s busiest airfreight hub of Frankfurt Airport and also has interests in numerous other air gateways worldwide, has reported all-time high profit revenue, earnings and profit for the third quarter of this year.This record performance boosted an overall strong first nine months ...

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    Lufthansa Cargo opens new freighter service through Arlanda

    2023-11-06T09:37:45Z

    Lufthansa Cargo A321 freighter. Image Source: SwedaviaLufthansa Cargo, the logistics arm of Germany’s flag-carrier, has introduced a new once-a-week service linking its home hub at Frankfurt Airport to the Scandinavian hub of Stockholm Arlanda Airport.The connection was launched on 4 November, with a newly acquired Airbus A321 freighter now ...

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    Frankfurt finally reports cargo increase... thanks to a difficult July 2022

    2023-08-11T08:49:40Z

    Europe's busiest cargo airport Frankfurt has reported its first year-on-year increase in cargo volumes in 19 months.The German hub in July registered a 2.3% increase in cargo volumes compared with a year earlier as volumes reached 164,503 tonnes.This is the first time Frankfurt has registered an increase in its monthly ...

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    Frankfurt cargo volumes down again in February

    2023-03-14T11:11:04Z

    Cargo volumes at Frankfurt Airport continued to decline in February as the global economic downturn and war in Ukraine affected the airfreight market.The German air cargo hub in February registered an 11% year-on-year decline in cargo volumes to 146,620 tonnes.Volumes were also 9.1% behind pre-Covid 2019 levels and followed an ...

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    German airport strikes have "massive consequences" for cargo operations

    2023-02-17T17:02:52Z

    Strikes taking place today at many of Germany's airports will have "massive consequences" for air cargo and lead to "significant challenges" for humanitarian aid flights, according to the Barig airline association.Public sector workers and ground handlers at seven airports - Frankfurt Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hannover and Bremen - ...

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    German cargo operations set to be hit by airport strikes on Friday

    2023-02-16T10:30:47Z

    Airport workers at major hubs in Germany are this Friday (February 17) set to take part in a day-long strike over pay causing disruption to airline operations.The strikes organised by the Ver.di union will start in the early hours of the morning and end Friday night at seven airports: Frankfurt ...

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    Lufthansa Cargo shipments face delays due to IT outage and strikes

    2023-02-15T15:05:19Z

    Lufthansa Cargo has placed a stop on all bookings for cargo shipments to and via Frankfurt and Munich as a result of an IT outage while operations will also be affected by airport strike action.The Frankfurt-hubbed cargo carrier said that during construction work in Frankfurt, fibre optic cables belonging to ...

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    Frankfurt the latest European airport to register a cargo decline in 2022

    2023-01-16T11:14:04Z

    Frankfurt is the latest European airport to announce a decline in its cargo volumes last year.Europe's busiest hub saw cargo volumes in 2022 decline by 13.3% year on year to 2m tonnes.Airport operator Fraport said that the main factors contributing to this decline included the airspace restrictions related to the ...

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    Top 20 Cargo Airports: Leading hubs bounce back after Covid hit

    2022-11-04T08:55:04Z

    Covid lockdowns and virus-related freight surges in 2021 influenced the final ‘premier league’ table of the world’s top 20 cargo airports in 2021 (see chart at end of article).Global economic shocks, China’s Covid lockdowns and the war in Ukraine will similarly impact 2022’s final running order. As we enter the ...

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    Frankfurt reports drop in cargo volumes in H1

    2022-08-09T12:51:31Z

    Europe's busiest cargo airport saw cargo volumes drop in the first half of the year as Covid lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine took their toll on cargo demand.Airport operator Fraport said that during the first six months of the year cargo demand declined by 11% year on ...