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Egyptair to fly scheduled freighter service into Baghdad
Egyptair Cargo is to launch a new Cairo-Baghdad freighter connection later this month (May).Operated weekly by A300-600F, Germany-based GSA Skyline Air Services is marketing the capacity of the new all-cargo connection with the Iraqi capital.Egyptair Cargo will also be operating a A300-600F connection with Dubai World Central (DWC) transiting via ...
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Military autonomous cargo carrier shows its worth
An un-piloted helicopter showed off its capability last week in a test supply drop to US Marines, pointing the way perhaps for a civil airfreight sector looking to the future.A UH-1H helicopter employing the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System (AACUS) developed by Virginia-based Aurora, a Boeing company, delivered cargo to ...
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Make or break time for air cargo collaboration projects?
Air cargo collaboration projects are facing make or break time as those that contribute positive developments to the industry thrive and those that achieve little begin to fail.During the Air Cargo China event in Shanghai, a panel session explored the benefits of the many collaboration projects and cargo communities that ...
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Cathay Pacific enjoys April uptick in cargo
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Group saw a year-on-year 6.7% increase in April's cargo and mail volumes, totalling 174,489 tonnes for sister airlines Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon combined.Traffic, as measured in cargo/mail revenue tonne-kilometres (RTKs) flown, increased by 7.9% year-on-year. Capacity, as measured in available cargo/mail tonne-kilometres (ATKs), rose by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo introduces twice weekly B777Fs to Chengdu
Lufthansa Cargo has confirmed its latest capacity increase into the Chinese cargo market by adding twice weekly B777 freighter services to the city of Chengdu.Chengdu in western China has joined Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong as Lufthansa Cargo freighter connections to the country.Speaking at Air Cargo China in Shanghai, ...
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TIACA rebranding and new website
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) is rolling out a new look with a fresh logo and redesigned websites to "underpin its new vision supporting the development of an efficient, modern, and unified air cargo industry".Sebastiaan Scholte, TIACA chairman and chief executive of Jan de Rijk Logistics, said: “We are ...
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Full year profit turnaround for SIA Cargo
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) cargo division reported an operating profit of S$148.1m in the 2017/18 financial year, up from S$3m in the prior year which was impacted by a S$132m provision for competition-related matters.Cargo revenue in the 12 months to the end of March 2018 grew S$264m to around S$2.2bn as ...
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Kempis to take over as director flight operations at Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced that Chris Kempis, currently general manager flying at the Hong Kong-based carrier, will become its director flight operations in mid-2018 (subject to regulatory approval).In this role, he will oversee all aspects of the airline’s flight operations.Chris will take up the position after 25 years of ...
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Peli Biothermal opens service centre in Sao Paulo
Peli BioThermal, the temperature-controlled packaging specialist, has opened a service centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil.The facility will service reusable Credo Cube parcel packages, part of the Peli BioThermal product range, including refurbishment and repair of the boxes.“Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceutical market, the largest economy in South America and ...
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Cargolux swoops on freighters as it looks to build flexible capacity
Cargolux is in the process of purchasing second-hand freighter aircraft as it looks to build extra flexibility into its ability to expand capacity.Speaking to Air Cargo News at the Air Cargo China event held this week in Shanghai, Cargolux chief executive Richard Forson said that the airline had this year ...
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Antonov Airlines flies power plant rotor into Pakistan
Antonov Airlines has transported a power plant rotor from Genoa in Italy to Karachi, Pakistan, on one of its seven An-124-100 freighter aircraft.The rotor and associated equipment carried weighed in at a total of 108 tonnes.“Careful planning was necessary to guarantee the safe loading and unloading of the rotor,” commented ...
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Regional airports look to capitalise on congestion at major hubs
Europe’s regional airports are hoping to capitalise on congestion at their larger rivals by winning cargo traffic from operators looking to avoid delays.Speaking at the Air Cargo China event in Shanghai today, Budapest Airport cargo managing director Rene Droese said that shippers were taking an increasingly active role in their ...
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DHL prepares for MySupplyChain launch
DHL Supply Chain has confirmed that its latest customer technology platform, MySupplyChain, is soon to be available for commercial customer use, initially in North America.The platform, which DHL said is “secure and easy-to-use”, integrates data from DHL Supply Chain applications, providing customers with “complete supply chain visibility, accessible online anytime, ...
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AP Moller-Maersk reports ‘unsatisfactory earnings’ in first quarter
AP Moller-Maersk saw its revenue rise by 30% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2018 to reach $9.3bn.That year-on-year revenue improvement figure would be 10% if shipping line Hamburg Süd – which was acquired at the end of 2017 – was taken out of the figures, but there was growth ...
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WiseTech Global acquires Turkey’s Ulukom
WiseTech Global, a logistics industry software provider, has acquired Ulukom, based in Turkey.Headquartered in Istanbul, Ulukom offers a range of logistics, customs, freight forwarding and warehouse support software in its Logistics Information Management System, designed to carry out financial and operational transactions on an integrated platform.Ulukom’s customers include Çelebi Ground ...
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Jettainer think-a-thon in Shanghai
Outsourced ULD manager Jettainer has launched a three-day Think-A-Thon at the start of Transport Logistic China in Shanghai.Together with 25 logistics students from Tongji University, the Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary is going about a thinking marathon. The aim is to search directly on the international industry platform for new approaches for ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo reveals new brand video
Qatar Airways Cargo launched its “Moved by People” brand video at the Air Cargo China event in Shanghai.The 90-second video, said the Middle East carrier in a statement, brings its strongest attribute, its "human touch", to the forefront of the campaign and emphasises its "commitment to deliver on promises, and ...
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AirBridgeCargo and PACTL sign MoU aimed at pharma customers in China
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) and Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co Ltd (PACTL) have signed up for closer cooperation on time & temperature sensitive shipments, primarily pharmaceutical and healthcare products.The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will serve as a commitment by both parties to develop, expand, and promote ...
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Trade compliance software for airlines
Airlines handling millions of shipments every year have to negotiate a complex web of global security rules, to make sure the goods they transport do not fall foul of trade compliance regulators.There have been a number of high profile cases involving illegal shipments of dual-use goods -for either civilian or ...
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Vigilant adds to global trade compliance managed services capability
Trade compliance IT systems supplier Vigilant Global Trade Services has begun using Descartes CustomsInfo and Descartes MK Denied Party Screening to help its clients comply with rapidly changing regulations.Compliance systems appear increasingly valuable in today’s world of fast-changing international trade regimes and the increasing numbers of parties with whom trade ...