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DHL facility at O’Hare opens its doors
DHL has opened a $10m global gateway facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.The integrator selected Chicago’s new northeast cargo campus at O’Hare because the site is “on track to be the largest cargo development built at a US airport in more than a decade when completed in the next few ...
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LATAM flies relief cargo to Puerto Rico
LATAM Cargo, South America’s biggest cargo airline, has flown more than 40 tons of water, food, generators, medicine and other aid from Miami to Puerto Rico as part of the humanitarian aid effort launched in the wake of Hurricane Maria and the devastation it caused to the island in September.The ...
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Heathrow reports strong cargo growth
Cargo traffic through Heathrow airport rose by 10.5% year on year to reach 1.25m tonnes in the first nine months of 2017.Passenger volumes at key UK London gateway also rose, helping to generate a year on year revenue increase of 3.2% to £2.2bn ($2.9bn).Adjusted earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and ...
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Silk Way grows its fleet with B747-8Fs
SILK WAY Airlines has ordered two B747-8Fs, expanding its current fleet of aircraft to seven.The national flag carrier for Azerbaijan, based at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, hopes the move will help strengthen its competitive position in the airfreight market.“One of the goals of the Azerbaijani government is to ...
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Atlas warns of constrained freighter supply
Atlas Air Worldwide (AAWW) is expecting to see constraints on the supply of freighters over the coming years due to limited supply of aircraft and demand increases.Speaking at the Freighters World conference, AAWW president and chief executive William Flynn said the “supply of airframes is somewhat constrained”, although he added ...
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London airports "completely full" by mid-2030s says UK government
All five of London’s main airports will be "completely full" by the mid-2030s, and four of them within a decade, according to updated aviation demand forecasts published today by the UK government.Transport minister Chris Grayling said that the forecasts “also show us that the north-west runway scheme at Heathrow is ...
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NewsUK airfreight fails to keep pace with passenger growth
Department for Transport statistics confirm that UK airfreight has not kept pace with the national growth in passenger numbers, in terms of both tonnage and numbers of aircraft movementsIn 2011, (77%) and 2016 (78%) most freight by tonnage was in carried the bellyholds of passenger aircraft, states the latest updated ...
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AF KLM Cargo adds four winter destinations
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has announced it will add four new destinations to its winter schedule.From October 29, the Franco Dutch airline group will add new services to Malé in the Maldives, San José in Costa Rica, Port Louis in Mauritius and Mumbai.The Malé service will operate from Paris ...
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Cathay Pacific gains CEIV Pharma
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification.Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s director commercial and cargo, said: “Cathay Pacific Cargo adheres to the highest operating standards and this certification highlights our capabilities in handling these precious, time-sensitive and often life-saving shipments.”CEIV Pharma ...
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Lufthansa sees cargo business continue to improve in third quarter
Lufthansa’s cargo and logistics division saw revenues and operating profits continue to improve during the third quarter of the year as the market maintained its upward trend and the carrier offloaded two MD-11Fs.The German airline’s logistics division, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, Jettainer, time:matters and an equity investment in AeroLogic, saw ...
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WFS wins Qatar Airways handling contract for Pittsburgh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide cargo handling for its new twice-weekly Being 777 freighter services to Pittsburgh.The flight makes Qatar Airways the first international airline to begin a scheduled freighter service to the Pennsylvanian hub, and it becomes the Middle East airline’s fifth freighter ...
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Silk Way West inks ULD deal with ACL Airshop
Silk Way West Airlines has confirmed a multi-year unit load device (ULD) agreement with ULD management company ACL Airshop, starting next month (November).The deal extends a long-standing business relationship between the two companies, with ACL Airshop being a service partner with other airline units of Silk Way Holding for almost ...
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Forwarders look to secure airfreight capacity for busy peak
Freight forwarders are bracing for a busy peak period by securing air cargo capacity under block space (BSA) and ACMI agreements.Speaking shortly after announcing third-quarter results, Panalpina said it expected capacity to be an issue while slot constraints at airports, a veiled reference to the issues at Schiphol, would also ...
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Cargo demand up in Asia Pacific but carriers still face pressure
Asia Pacific carriers reported another month of cargo growth in September, but continued to come under pressure due to fierce competition in the region.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show that cargo demand increased by a “solid” 11.4% year on year in September to 6bn ...
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IAI gains STC approval for its 737-700 freighter conversion
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has received a supplemental type certificate (STC) for its Boeing737-700BDSF passenger aircraft to freighter conversion programme.IAI recently completed its first ever conversion of a prototype aircraft from passenger to full-freighter configuration, including the installation of a wide cargo door.The aircraft was delivered to Alaska Airline as ...
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Trinity and Etihad launch B777F to Hanoi from Ohio
Trinity Logistics USA and Etihad Airways have again joined forces to launch a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service between Hanoi in Vietnam and Ohio’s Rickenbacker airport (Columbus) in the US.The US logistics operator and the Middle East carrier already operate a joint twice a week B777F to Asia, from Colombo ...
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Canada Post extends Cargojet contract
Cargojet has secured an early extension to its major contract with the Canada Post Group of Companies (CPGOP).The Canadian freighter operator revealed today that its contract with Canada Post had been extended by three years and would now run until March 31, 2025."Cargojet is extremely pleased to have successfully transitioned ...
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Tiaca launches drive for air cargo quality standards
Tiaca has developed a new online Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool as part of its drive launched yesterday to help create standards across the supply chain.The tool will allow participants in the CSQ project to fill out an online cargo quality assessment form either every quarter, or every six months.The ...
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Dave Edwards appointed as BACA chief executive
Dave Edwards has been appointed chief executive of BACA, the London-based worldwide air charter association.In addition to Edwards’ part-time appointment, Madeleine Puzey has been promoted to the role of business and events manager and a new administration role has been created which sees Nicki Baynes providing key support to the ...
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WFS calls in Allot to fix IT network congestion
When the Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) team in France complained about slow response times from the ground handler’s cargo applications it called in Israel-based Allot Communications to find and fix the problem.Something was clogging up the WFS IT network and degrading performance. While WFS tried many ways to accelerate application ...