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BCube implements Cargospot Handling at Ostend
Italian cargo handler BCube has implemented CHAMP’s Cargospot Handling solution to support its operations at Ostend–Bruges airport in Belgium, the first station outside of Italy for BCube.CHAMP said that Cargospot Handling is "a sophisticated and comprehensive cargo operations and terminal management system that is straightforward and efficient for ground handlers ...
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Sichuan Airlines to launch Brussels-Xi'an A330 freighter
Chinese carrier Sichuan Airlines, which tomorrow launches an A330 freighter service between Brussels and Xi’an, has appointed ATC Aviation Services as its GSSA in Europe.Chengdu-headquartered Sichuan Airlines will start the twice a week direct freighter service into Brussels on November 26.Edward Zhou, department manager of freighter sales department of Sichuan ...
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SF Express launches bond sale to raise cash for freighters
SF Express has launched a bond issue that aims to raise Yuan5.8bn, with much of that money earmarked for investment in new aircraft.The Chinese express giant said that it would spend Yuan1.52bn of the money raised on aircraft for its fast-expanding SF Airlines division.Meanwhile, Yuan1.49bn will be spent on developing ...
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NewsSaudia Cargo transports 67 race cars to Formula-E Championship
For the second year in a row, Saudia Cargo successfully transported 67 electric race cars for the World Championship Formula-E event, which took place on November 22-23 at the Historical Diriyah in Saudi Arabia.The airline carried the vehicles, which collectively weigh 375 tonnes, in four shipments from their starting locations ...
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NewsSubhas Menon to lead AAPA from March 2020
Andrew Herdman. director general, AAPASubhas Menon will be the new director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) from March 2020, when Andrew Herdman steps down after 15 years in the role.Menon has over 35 years of experience in international aviation with the Singapore Airlines Group, having served ...
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NewsFIATA appoints new secretary general
FIATA Secretary General Stéphane GraberFreight forwarder group FIATA has appointed Stéphane Graber as its new director general.Graber will take up his new role in Geneva on October 1 and will head up FIATA's push to more closely align itself with international governmental and non-governmental organisations linked to international trade and ...
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Liege Airport aims to improve efficiency with Alibaba tech
Alibaba Cloud and Liege Airport have announced a joint plan to work together to utilise Aviation Brain, a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) program that helps the aviation sector tackle real world operational challenges.Liege Airport said it hopes to leverage Alibaba Cloud’s technologies to improve procedures and efficiency.The two hope to ...
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Boeing eyes improvements for 767 freighter
Boeing has confirmed it is examining how it can improve the efficiency of the 767 freighter during the next decade.Air Cargo News sister title FlightGlobal revealed in October that Boeing has been studying a possible re-engined version of the twinjet for freighter and passenger markets, powered by GE Aviation GEnx ...
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NewsSpiceJet and Gulf Air to investigate possible collaboration on cargo services
Indian airline SpiceJet and Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore greater co-operation between the two airlines.They are going to examine areas of potential synergy, including looking at co-ordinating cargo services, interline or codeshare agreements, shared engineering services and pilot training.The ...
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NewsToowoomba Wellcamp appoints Kasch as general manager
Queensland airfreight gateway Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport has appointed Robert Kasch as general manager.Kasch has been with the airport for nearly two years and has plenty of experience in the airfreight industry.He started his career in the industry as a document runner at Sydney Airport but over his 30-year career, Kasch ...
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NewsWTO: World trade continues to suffer
World trade is expected to remain “below trend” into the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) latest Goods Trade Barometer. That is not good news for an already ailing global airfreight industry.The indicator’s reading of 96.6 marks a slight improvement compared to the 95.7 registered ...
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NewsSouth African Airways: Industrial action to end soon
South African Airways (SAA) confirmed today (November 22) that it had reached an agreement with the unions in which it has been conflict to end the industrial action which the latter had initiated a week ago.SAA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Airways ...
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NewsBUD Cargo City opens for business
From left to right: Csaba Szlahó, mayor of Vecsés; Szűcs Lajos, member of the National Assembly of Hungary; Levente Magyar, parliamentary under secretary of state; Rolf Schnitzler, chief executive, Budapest Airport; Gerhard Schroeder, chairman, Budapest Airport; Steven Polmans, chairman, TIACA; and René Droese, chief property and cargo officer, Budapest AirportBUD ...
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NewsJuneyao Air to launch Manchester–Shanghai service
Shanghai-based carrier Juneyao Air is to launch flights to Manchester on 31 March next year.The service will be operated as a Shanghai Pudong-Helsinki-Manchester route, flown three times a week.Juneyao Air will operate the route with Boeing 787-9 ‘Dreamliner’, and the service will represent an extension of the existing Shanghai-Helsinki route ...
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NewsKerry Logistics receives recognition from Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition
Ellis Cheng, chief financial officer of Kerry Logistics (right), receives the Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition - Listed Enterprises of the Year 2019 trophyKerry Logistics Network Limited has been named among the awardees recognised as ‘Listed Enterprises of the Year 2019’ by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition.Organised each year by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition, the ...
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NewsVirgin Atlantic reports record loads on A350-1000s
Virgin Atlantic has launched its all-new A350-1000s on the trans-Atlantic route, increasing average cargo capacity on each flight to 27 tonnes.The airline said that its new Airbus A350-1000s operating on a Heathrow to JFK connection are carrying record loads.Although the amount of cargo that can be carried on each flight ...
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NewsAAWW claims further victory in labour dispute
Bill FlynnAtlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW), a global provider of outsourced aircraft and aviation operating services, has claimed that its subsidiaries Atlas Air, Inc. and Southern Air, Inc. have “prevailed” in another legal dispute with the union that represents its pilots, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT).A statement from AAWW ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines Cargo flies brown bears to DFW
Fausto, the father of many of the bears on the flight to DFWYesterday (November 21), American Airlines Cargo flew 10 brown bears from Ezeiza International Airport near Buenos Aires in Argentina to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, Texas, on board one of its Boeing 787s.The bears, who had been living ...
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NewsFedEx plans busy start to peak season
FedEx has said that it expects to kick off this year’s peak holiday shipping season by handling record package volumes on Cyber Monday (December 2).It expects to move more than 33 million packages through its global network on that day alone.The global integrator also expects to more than double its ...
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NewsJoint effort delivers Beaujolais Nouveau to Japan
From left to right, the three partners involved: Kim Van Assche, VP sales Europe at DHL Aviation; Taneda san of Nippon Express; and Jean Ceccaldi, managing director of Aero Cargo FranceDHL Aviation, Nippon Express and general sales and services agent (GSSA) Aero Cargo France (a subsidiary of ECS Group) have ...