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NewsMHT Airport set to increase cargo volumes with new facility
Rendering of the new cargo facility at Manchester-Boston Regional AirportManchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) and Aeroterm, a company that provides facility-related services to airports, have entered into a ground lease to develop a cargo facility at the hub over the course of three years.As part of the terms of the ground ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo teams up with Lemon Queen
Qatar Airways Cargo has selected Lemon Queen as its communications agency.The two companies have been working together on the airline's WeQare sustainability programme and will now look to expand the relationship.The partnership covers all aspects of Qatar Airways Cargo’s communications, both external and internal: strategy, creation, advertising, public and press ...
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NewsWarwick Brady takes CEO role at handler Swissport
Warwick BradySwissport International has appointed Warwick Brady as the company’s new president and chief executive.Brady will replace Christoph Mueller, who assumed the chief executive on an interim basis after he was appointed to the board of directors of Swissport in December of last year.Brady is currently the chief executive of ...
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Aeronaves signs up for two CRJ200 conversions
Mexico-based Aeronaves TSM has signed up for two additional CRJ200 SF Freighter Conversions with Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI).Work on the first CRJ200 (MSN 7708) of this order will commence in May 2021, followed by the second aircraft (7679) commencing modification in September 2021.The authorised AEI Conversion Center, Commercial Jet, located ...
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Delta's Vaccine Watch Tower springs into action
Delta Air Line's Vaccine Watch Tower was called into action recently when mechanical issues delayed a flight.The carrier said that it recently had two Covid-19 vaccine shipments connecting through Atlanta to the west coast.Due to mechanical delays on the inbound flights to Atlanta, both shipments would miss their connections without ...
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Heathrow and East Midlands apply for UK Freeport status
Heathrow Airport and an East Midlands consortium have applied for Freeport status in the UK.The government closed the application period for Freeport status on Friday, with 30 bidders thought to have submitted proposals.Companies using Freeports will be able to import goods without paying tariffs, process them into a final good ...
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Swissport wins Lufthansa cargo deal at Heathrow
Swissport in the UK has won a contract to handle the Lufthansa Group's cargo volumes at Heathrow Airport.Swissport said the contract win meant it now handles the German airline group’s cargo at all of its UK destinations, this includes Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines."We are pleased to be able to ...
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NewsWFS to offer pharma trucks to transport goods to Paris CDG
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed partnerships with trucking companies that will help it maintain the cold chain for temperature-sensitive goods being moved to Paris CDG Airport from the French provinces.The move comes as the global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines continues.The temperature controlled trucks will move the goods from Bordeaux, ...
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Modal shift to air to continue as ocean shipping faces ongoing crunch
Current modal shift from ocean to air is expected to continue as chaos in the container shipping industry is expected to continue beyond the Chinese New Year.Seko Logistics chief growth officer Brian Bourke said that this year its seafreight team had been offering customers airfreight capacity as an alternative to ...
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Kenya Airways ups cargo capacity with Dreamliners' seat removal
Kenya Airways is increasing its cargo capacity by removing the seats from two of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners.The carrier recently received confirmation from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make the conversions.The carrier said that the modification works on the aircraft are ...
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BelugaXL set for transatlantic flying?
Airbus is to seek extended twin-engined operations (ETOPS) approval for the BelugaXL outsize transporter, in order to support commercial services involving overwater flights.Three BelugaXLs, based on the A330, have been built, the most recent introduced in October 2020. Another three will be manufactured, the last two of which will have ...
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SF Holding set to invest in Kerry Logistics?
China-based express firm SF Holding is considering investing $5bn in Kerry Logistics, according to Bloomberg.Unnamed sources told the newswire that the Shenzhen-listed firm will invest in a stake of around 20%.The news comes after shares in SF Holdings, which owns SF Express and SF Airlines, were suspended on Friday for ...
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Air cargo capacity expected to remain constrained
Air cargo capacity is expected to remain constrained for some time, resulting in forwarders increasingly relying on charter operations.In the latest Baltic Exchange airfreight rate newsletter, Bruce Chan, vice president of global logistics at investment bank Stifel, said that vaccination programmes were expected to lead to a pick-up in passenger ...
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SpiceJet renews with SmartKargo
SpiceJet has renewed its contract with shipment data platform SmartKargo as it looks to utilise the platform for its pharma business.The platform provides its airline users with shipment tracking, e-AWBs, customer/agent booking and capacity management.The airline said that it, along with its Spice Xpress cargo business, was using the platform ...
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NewsAir cargo heroes going not just the extra mile, but way beyond
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures. The past year has been a real challenge – and air cargo executives around the world have often asked us, the freight publications, to help express their gratitude to those who have kept the world moving.So nine airfreight titles have suspended competitive concerns today ...
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NewsTop 10 Boeing 747 freighter operators revealed
Atlas Air, UPS and Cargolux are the top three operators of Boeing 747 freighters, according to data from Spire Aviation.The figures show that at the end of the year, Atlas was operating 44 queens of the sky, UPS had 32 and Cargolux operates 26 of the four-engine freighter.The figures from ...
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Strong cargo demand helps Singapore Airlines cut Q3 loss
Singapore Airlines Group narrowed its third-quarter operating loss, as a stronger cargo performance helped offset revenue loss from the pandemic-led collapse in passenger travel demand.Releasing its financial results for the three months ending December 31, 2020, SIA Group reported an operating loss of S$331m ($248m). That compares with the S$449m ...
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NewsWFS scoops EVA Air cargo handling deal in Seattle
EVA Air has signed a new three-year cargo handling contract with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Seattle.The deal extends the two companies’ more than 15 years of working together in North America.The agreement sees WFS take responsibility for handling all cargo onboard the Taiwanese airline’s daily Boeing 777 passenger flights ...
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NewsCLIVE: Air cargo load factors "exceptional" as unpredictable market continues
January saw air cargo load factors and rates pick up quickly after a post-Christmas slowdown in the first part of the year.The latest statistics from CLIVE Data Services show that in January, dynamic cargo load factors for the month stood at 66%, an increase of nine percentage points compared with ...
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Dnata begins using IATA's Dangerous Goods AutoCheck platform
Ground handler dnata has started using IATA's Dangerous Goods AutoCheck (DG AutoCheck) platform to help it "enhance the safety and efficiency" of dangerous goods handling at 20 airports.DG AutoCheck facilitates the acceptance of dangerous goods by checking the compliance of the Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods (DGD) with IATA's Dangerous ...