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NewsCovid-19 impacts Munich Airport cargo volumes
Munich Airport has experienced a 78% year-on-year decline in cargo volumes during the second quarter of this year. The airport also posted a 46.5% year-on-year decline for the first half of this year — from 162,583 tonnes in 2019 to 87,134 tonnes this year."The effects of the coronavirus pandemic are ...
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NTSB releases Atlas Air freighter crash findings
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that Atlas Air flight 3591 crashed outside Houston in 2019 after the first officer, due partly to sensory illusion, improperly reacted to inadvertent activation of the aircraft’s go-around mode.The NTSB, in conclusions released July 14, also cites first officer airmanship deficiencies and ...
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UPS supports e-commerce growth with weekday-cost Saturday deliveries in Europe
UPS has launched a service enabling deliveries on Saturdays at it's top European e-commerce markets: the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Poland.The new delivery service enables customers to receive packages on Saturdays, at one of UPS's 17,000 Access Points in Europe, at the same cost of a ...
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Doncaster Sheffield runway temporarily shuts after cargo B747F excursion
Doncaster Sheffield airport in the UK was forced to temporarily close its runway after a Boeing 747-400F (like the one pictured above) ran onto rough ground. The hub re-opened the runway a few hours later.The aircraft – bearing the Icelandic registration TF-AMU – was pictured on social media with its ...
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Transpacific airfreight rates edge back up
Transpacific airfreight rates increased last week as two US carriers temporarily back tracked on their plans for services to Hong Kong.The latest figures from TAC Index show that airfreight rates from Shanghai to North America increased by 4.2% week on week to $4.69 per kg while from Hong Kong to ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group restructures in light of Covid-19
The Volga-Dnepr Group is restructuring the organisation of the business in order increase flexibility by streamlining processes and speed up decision making.The changes mean that the airline group’s offices will have direct links to the points where decision are made by reducing the number of local vice presidents.Meanwhile, sales offices ...
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Virgin Atlantic finalises $1.5bn refinancing and aims for profit in 2022
Virgin Atlantic has finalised a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) refinancing package over the next 18 months, which the UK-based carrier says marks a “major milestone” in securing its future and under which it is aims to return to profit from 2022.The restructuring plan is based on a five-year business strategy and is ...
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Mesa Air Group to operate DHL Express freighters
Mesa Air Group has won a contract to provide air cargo services for DHL Express utilising Boeing 737-400F cargo aircraft.Under the agreement, Mesa will operate two cargo aircraft from DHL Express Americas global hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for a five-year term. The company will lease the aircraft from ...
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NewsCargolux marks 50-year anniversary with retro-branded aircraft
Cargolux is celebrating 50 years' of operations by carrying out a special flight with one of its Boeing 747-400ERF freighters.The aircraft (LX-NCL) sports retro livery, inspired by the design that Cargolux’s first airplanes bore in the 1970s, which combines "vintage visual with the iconic lines of the jumbo jet".The aircraft ...
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NewsUPS appoints Hwang to board of directors
UPS has appointed Angela Hwang to its board of directors, effective immediately. Her appointment brings the total number of directors to 13.Hwang is group president of the Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group and she is also a member of its executive team. In this role, she leads more than 26,000 global colleagues ...
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AEI set to convert aircraft for CargoAir
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has signed a contract with CargoAir that will see it converting a Boeing 737-400SF freighter for the Bulgaria-based carrier.Work on the aircraft — which will be carried out by AEI partner Commercial Jet in Dothan, Alabama — is scheduled to start in September this year.AEI’s B737-400SF ...
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NewsDachser starts work on Kassel facility
Left to right: Mathias Oetter, branch manager of Dachser Kassel-Lohfelden; Norbert Thiele, deputy mayor of Lohfelden; Michael Schilling, chief operating officer road logistics at Dachser; Alexander Friedrich Wachter, vice-President of the Kassel presidential board; Alexander Tonn, managing director European logistics Germany at Dachser; and Andreas Fritsch, general manager Dachser ...
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TAP enhances digital systems with CHAMP API integration
TAP Air Cargo has implemented CHAMP's application programming interface (API) with its computer system, enabling it to "improve its internal business processes, tracking, and synchronisation of its supply chain".CHAMP said that as a result of "special circumstances", the solution was implemented in less than a week.Nicholas Xenocostas, vice president of ...
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NewsSenator International expands US freighter operations
Hamburg-headquartered logistics firm Senator International has expanded its Senator Atlantic Bridge (SAB) by adding Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) as a destination to its network.Senator will operate a Boeing 747-400 BCF service from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN) to RFD once a week.The company said in a statement: "The new destination provides ...
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NewsANA Cargo appoints new EMEA cargo VP
Sadami SugimotoANA Cargo has appointed Sadami Sugimoto as its new vice president, cargo and mail, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.Sugimoto took up the role on July 1 and has 11 years' of experience in cargo, having worked in marketing, alliance, revenue management, mail sales and operations.He ...
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NewsJan de Rijk signs up to trucking platform to combat 'our biggest challenge'
Road feeder (RFS) firm Jan de Rijk Logistics has signed up to slot booking platform Trucking CDM as part of efforts to reduce waiting times at airports.The RFS company said that the industry is under pressure to reduce costs but also achieve faster transit times between European airports, because much ...
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Video: Qatar Cargo launches '1 Million Kilos' campaign
Qatar Airways Cargo has launched a charitable initiative in which it will transport 1m kg cargo free of charge.The '1 Million kilos' campaign, which was prompted by the Covid-19 outbreak, will enable charities to use the carrier's services to transport medical supplies and humanitarian aid from July to December this ...
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NewsRFS firms see spike in demand with bellyhold operations grounded
Road Feeder Service (RFS) providers have reported a spike in demand during the coronavirus outbreak as a result of the grounding of passenger operations and subsequent loss of bellyhold capacity.Luxembourg-based Wallenborn's commercial director, Jason Breakwell, told Air Cargo News that the pandemic resulted in the company’s trucks travelling 19% more ...
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Vekshin scoops Volga-Dnepr Group chief commercial officer role
The Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Konstantin Vekshin as chief commercial officer as part of a wider move to centralise its approach to sales.The cargo airline group — celebrating its 30th year of operations in 2020 - said that Vekshin’s key objectives will be to implement the its marketing directive and ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to shed 10% of jobs by 2023
Lufthansa Cargo will shed just over 10% of its workforce by 2023 as part of a restructuring at the overall airline group.A spokesperson for the cargo division confirmed that around 500 of the cargo division’s workforce of 4,500 people would leave the company over the next two-and-a-half years.Part of the ...