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Navitrans to operate leased B747-400ERF to Zhengzhou
The start of September will see air charter service provider Navitrans begin the lease of a Boeing 747-400ERF (Extended Range Freighter) from Sky Lease.The lease on the nose-loading freighter covers a period of 36 months from September 1.Navitrans is to use the aircraft to operate a scheduled three times a ...
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Cathay Pacific: plenty to look forward to in the Americas
Fred Ruggiero, vice-president cargo, Americas for Cathay Pacific, has reported on a “very strong year in the Americas so far” for the Hong Kong-headquartered carrier.“Our monthly network performance has continued to grow from last year’s base and July was a particularly strong month for transhipment volumes from the US via ...
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NewsLargest US horse airlift ahead of World Equestrian Games
Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), a relatively small air hub in the northwest corner of South Carolina becomes the focal point this weekend as what is believed to be the largest-ever airlift of horses into the US gets underway.On Sunday, afternoon, the first of 20 chartered Emirates freighters will bring 75 ...
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B777F boom continues as AeroLogic adds another freighter
AeroLogic, the freighter operator jointly owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Deutsche Post AG through their subsidiaries Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express (each with 50% shares), is to add another Boeing B777 freighter to its fleet in January.This latest addition will take the carrier’s all-cargo inventory to 11 aircraft.Lufthansa Cargo ...
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Centurion Air Cargo closes its doors
Centurion Air Cargo has surrendered its air carrier operating certificate (AOC) and has decided against continuing to pursue the resumption of operations.According to the US Department of Transportation (DoT), the Miami-based freighter operator "operated under its certificate and exemption authority until December 31, 2016, when Centurion ceased all operations".In January ...
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UK production company to make airfreight TV show
A UK production company is making an eight part TV show about air cargo for channel UKTV.Production company Back2Back Productions, which made the MegaShippers programme about cargo shipping, said the TV show, provisionally called MegaAir, will "showcase the incredible logistics involved in air cargo".The company is looking to talk to ...
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Marken gains Brazilian approval for UPS airline pharma shipments
Marken, the UPS pharma supply chain arm, has gained approval from Brazil's health regulator ANVISA to ship biological samples from Sao Paulo's Viracopos airport to the US, using the parent group's airline.The pilot programme approved by the Brazilian authorities will permit biologic samples to depart from a second Sao Paulo ...
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Cargolux in Jakarta race horse charter flight
Cargolux has flown race horses from Luxembourg to Jakarta, Indonesia, where they participated in the Asian games.The part-charter was operated in conjunction with horse transport specialist forwarder JIT-EX.This ad hoc shipment was routed directly from Luxembourg to Jakarta, which required additional preparation from the Cargolux Charter team because Jakarta is ...
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SIA and Cainiao linking up for cargo services
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba Group, will work closely to "enhance international air cargo services".The link-up, part of a wider passenger-led "comprehensive strategic collaboration" will see SIA joining Cainiao Network’s broader efforts in building "a global smart logistics network that delivers ...
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LATAM cargo revenues rise 16.8% in the second quarter
LATAM Airlines saw 2018 second quarter cargo revenues increase 16.8%, driven by a recovery in both imports and exports in the region.The Chilean-based carrier saw cargo revenues for the three months ended June reach $299.7m, helped by a 6.7% increase in cargo yields, mainly due to a better demand environment ...
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ABC transports 500th aircraft engine in 2018
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has transported its 500th aircraft engine in 2018, a 50% increase year on year.ABC said that fact it has already transported 500 engines in 2018 is a testament to its abcXL product.ABC global director, heavy & outsized cargo Vasily Zhukov said: “We have strengthened our position in the ...
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DHL confirms purchase of Etihad A330Fs for replacements and upgrades
DHL has confirmed it has purchased Etihad Cargo's five unwanted A330-200 freighters, which the Middle East-based airline took out of action at the start of the year.In a short statement in response to Air Cargo News questions, the express company said: "The purchase of these aircraft are part of our ...
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Aloha freighters: Hawaiian launches all-cargo turboprop operation
Hawaiian Airlines has launched its freighter operation with flights between Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Līhu‘e Airport (LIH) and Hilo International Airport utilising two ATR-72 aircraft.The operation, which it was hoped would have been underway by March, started on August 13 with a flight carrying humanitarian shipments to ...
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Turkish Cargo completes rhino transport
Turkish Cargo has transported five endangered white rhinos from Johannesburg to Shanghai.The rhinos, which each weighed one ton at the time, were transported on July 25 on board one of the carrier's Airbus A330F aircraft."Turkish Cargo carried these five white rhinos to Shanghai as accompanied by specialist teams and keepers," ...
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Emirates transports 25 tonnes of vaccines to Brazil
Emirates SkyCargo has transported over 25 tonnes of vaccines — some 1.8m doses — from Milan to Bello Horizonte airport in Brazil, the largest vaccine shipment by the Middle East carrier on a single flight.Given the extreme sensitivity of the vaccines to temperature fluctuations, the entire shipment on board the ...
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Southern Air pilots agree to interim agreement but demand further improvements
Southern Air pilots have ratified an agreement for interim enhancements to the collective bargaining agreement covering pilots, but union representatives are demanding further improvements.The interim agreement increases pay rates for Southern Air pilots to the same wage scales as provided to pilots of sister airline Atlas Air.It also provides for ...
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SF Airlines continues expansion with Chennai route
SF Airlines has expanded its international cargo operations with the launch of a flight between Shenzhen and Chennai.The new route will operate using a Boeing 767-300F and follows on from the launch of international services to Dhaka and Hanoi.It is the longest route currently offered by the airline.“The line from ...
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Ethiopian to launch Oslo-Guangzhou freighter to net seafood traffic
Ethiopian Airlines will start a Boeing 777 freighter operation between Oslo Airport and Guagnzhou in September as it looks to capitalise on seafood volume growth between Norway and China.The airport said that Norway is expected to generate more than 230,000 tons of seafood airfreight in 2018."We are pleased that our ...
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Volga-Dnepr links up with Henan for trans-Siberian air bridge initiative
Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group has linked up with China's Henan Airport Group and Zhongyuan Asset Management to create a “trans-Siberian air bridge” as part of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative.The three parties have signed a framework agreement on long-term strategic co-operation.Aleksey Isaikin, president of Volga-Dnepr Group, spoke of a tri-partite ...
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Waste not want not, DHL transports 140 ton heat boilers to Saudi
DHL Global Forwarding is transporting four 140-ton waste heat boilers from Germany to Saudi Arabia, using the Antonov An-225 freighter.DHL Industrial Projects, a unit within DHL Global Forwarding, is handling the multimodal movement of the four boilers, each measuring 3.7 m high, 4.1 m wide and 19 m long. According ...