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Bloodhound scents a record, with help from CargoLogicAir
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has congratulated the Bloodhound SSC team following the first public run of its 1,000mph car, for which the carrier is the official cargo airline partner.Representatives of the British all-cargo carrier joined 3,500 spectators at Cornwall Airport Newquay to witness Bloodhound successfully complete its first test run. It completed ...
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Heathrow councils call for an "open mind" in support of a second Gatwick runway
Local authorities in the Heathrow area have welcomed evidence which, they say, supports an extra runway at rival London airport, Gatwick.Hillingdon, Richmond, Wandsworth and Windsor and Maidenhead councils say that the UK national government has admitted that the benefits froma second Gatwick runway would exceed that of a third one ...
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Emirates goes daily to Algiers
Emirates is to add an extra flight to its Dubai-Algiers schedule making it a seven days a week service from December 13. The new service will operate every Wednesday with a Boeing 777-300.Emirates senior vice-president commercial operations for Africa, Orhan Abbas, said that the Algiers flight offered connections to and ...
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Oman switches over to SmartKargo
Oman Air Cargo has introduced a new 100% Cloud-based cargo ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution from SmartKargo: an advanced cargo management platform suitable for airlines, ground handlers, sales agents and regulators.Oman Air stated that it chose SmartKargo to “maximise the potential of its cargo business – leveraging the solution’s advanced, ...
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David Kerr named as chief executive of CargoLogicAir
Etihad Airways cargo boss David Kerr has been named as the new chief executive of CargoLogicAir (CLA), the UK-registered freighter airline, with effect from 1 January 2018.Sir John Holmes, advisory board chairman of CLA, said: “David is a highly respected, experienced and well-known air cargo industry executive who will bring ...
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Tim Strauss says aloha Air Canada Cargo
When Tim Strauss met the Air Canada Cargo team in Montreal for the first time, he was greeted by a sea of people wearing Aloha shirts, lei garlands, shorts and grass skirts. All that was missing was the theme tune from Hawaii Five-0.Says Strauss: “If you want to talk about ...
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Norwegian looks back – and forward
Norwegian's third-quarter 2017 results saw revenue reached NKr10bn, up from NKr8.3bn in the same quarter of last year.Within that total, the ‘other revenue’ figure of NKr313m derived from freight carriage, commissions, third-party products and external aircraft leases.Norwegian made a net result of NKr1bn, an improvement of 4% compared to the ...
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Air Canada revels in ‘best-ever’ earnings figure, and cargo is up too
Air Canada made C$1.4bn in EBITDAR (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortisation, impairment and aircraft rent) in the third quarter of 2017, a record figure.It was a $140m increase on last year’s third-quarter EBITDAR of C$1.25bn.Cargo-related revenue rose by a 38% year on year, with an increase of C$179m. In ...
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JAL goes for Starlight Express in Nepal market
Nepalese freight forwarder Starlight Express is to act as the general sales agent (GSA) for Japan Airlines Cargo in the Nepalese market.Starlight Express will sell the cargo capacity of the Tokyo-headquartered carrier’s flights between Japan and Nepal.Starlight, as an agent of the Hong Kong-based freight forwarder and logistics solutions provider ...
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Western Global adds to Puerto Rico relief effort
Florida-based Western Global Airlines is continuing to operate relief flights to Puerto Rico, carrying emergency supplies aboard its widebody MD-11 freighters to the Caribbean island that has been hard-hit by Hurricane Maria.Each flight delivers approximately 90 tonnes of relief supplies, such as food, water and equipment. Two of its relief ...
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Lufthansa opts for va-Q-tec passive temp-control containers
Lufthansa Cargo has partnered with va-Q-tec to offer the temperature-controlled specialist's va-Q-tainer thermal containers at stations across the German flag-carrier’s global network.The va-Q-tainer is a temperature-controlled container solution for six temperature ranges from -70°C to +25°C. Negating the need for external energy sources, it is available in five sizes, and ...
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Leipzig/Halle supports ever-growing freight volumes
Leipzig/Halle airport handled 828,163 tonnes of cargo during the first nine months of 2017, a 7.7% increase over the same period last year for Germany’s second-largest airfreight hub.It also represented the 13th consecutive year of cargo growth at Europe’s fifth-largest airfreight gateway.The airport, operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen, serves as a ...
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IAG Cargo enjoys ‘strong growth’ in third quarter
IAG Cargo’s 2017 third quarter results saw airfreight's commercial revenue reach €259m, a 10.2% increase over the same July-September period in 2016 when measured at constant exchange rates.The carrier - which includes British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling - saw its cargo yield for the quarter up by 2.4% ...
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Scholte takes up lead TIACA role
The new chairman of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), Sebastiaan Scholte, has taken up his position at the head of the airfreight industry trade body.So too has TIACA’s new vice chairman, Steven Polmans.Polmans is head of cargo and logistics at Brussels Airport Company (BAC), while Scholte is chief executive ...
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DSV looks back on positive three months for sea and airfreight volumes
DSV, the Denmark-headquartered supply chain specialist, has reported on its third-quarter performance.Net revenue over the third quarter reached DKr18.7bn Danish Krone, up from DKr17.2bn in the same three months of 2016.Gross profit rose from DKr4bn in the year-earlier period to reach DKr4.1bn in the 1 July to 30 September 2017 ...
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Airline cargo bosses remain in positive mood
Airline cargo bosses are in an upbeat mood, with a new IATA survey suggesting a continued strong financial performance in the second half of 2017.IATA’s latest business confidence survey, conducted in early-October, asked for the opinions of airline chief financial officers and heads of cargo.Exactly 80% of respondents reported that ...
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American Airlines on the up
American Airlines achieved revenues of $10.9bn during the July to September period, up by 2.7% on the same three months of 2016.The giant US carrier also reported a third-quarter pre-tax profit of $1bn despite a challenging operating environment in the second half of 2017, not least because of the hurricanes ...
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UPS reveals ‘solid’ third-quarter results
UPS saw revenues rise by 7% in the third quarter reach $16bn, while international operating profit increased by 8.9% to $627m.Operating profit as a whole at the US based parcels and logistics giant stayed pretty much static at $2bn.The Supply Chain & Freight part of the business enjoyed a 13% ...
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Rhenus consolidates airfreight operations through Frankfurt
Supply chain operator Rhenus is consolidating its European airfreight volumes at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest air cargo hub.The decision to create the new hub was taken in response to “the positive global development in business and the increasing volumes of freight in its air and ccean business”.The airfreight hub at ...
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Cargolux turns to temp-control container lessor SkyCell
Luxembourg-based B747 freighter operator Cargolux has agreed a deal with SkyCell that will see the latter’s temperature-controlled containers become available to the airline’s shipper customers.SkyCell containers will enable Cargolux to transport pharma products in the +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C ranges, despite ambient temperature extremes of between -35°C ...