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Brussels Airlines sees cargo load factor rise
Brussels Airlines’ September 2017 freight volumes increased year on year, the airline has stated.The cargo load factor rose by 13.9 percentage points; revenue ton-km (RTK) was up 15.8%, while capacity as measured in available ton-km (ATK) increased by 9.1%.Brussels Airlines will expand its network this winter with new destinations and ...
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CIS airlines look to expand fleets on cargo growth
Airlines based in CIS countries are looking to expand their fleets in order to capitalise on growth in the region.At the Caspian Air Cargo Summit, speakers from Silk Way West, Sky Gate Cargo and Air Astana gave presentations on their outlook for the region.Baku-hubbed Silk Way Group senior vice president ...
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AirBridge adds Liege as a European freighter hub
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has introduced new freighter calls at Liege airport, flights that are understood to be shifting from slot-constrained Amsterdam Schiphol airport, as earlier reported by Air Cargo News.Starting with its winter schedule, ABC will "gradually increase its cargo capacity up to 12 flights per week," said the Russian ...
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Central Asia growth outpaces the overall market
Cargo demand to and from central Asia is growing at a faster pace than the overall market, while the region’s airlines could also benefit from their position between Asia and Europe.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, World ACD Market Data director Ken de Witt Hamer said that ...
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WCA joins forces with Elite Global Logistics Network
Global forwarder network WCA is to acquire a majority interest in Elite Global Logistics Network (EGLN) in a move that is expected to lead to more opportunities for expansion and growth for the combined membership.EGLN president Roy Stapleton, who will remain in post after the acquisition, said: “This new agreement ...
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Schiphol has high hopes for Chinese e-commerce
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has declared that e-commerce is “helping to strengthen” China’s position as the Dutch gateway’s largest cargo market, with exports from the Netherlands to the Far Eastern nation on the rise.A trade delegation from the Netherlands is due visit to South China later this month and will comprise ...
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Air cargo landscape changing but there will always be middlemen
The air cargo landscape is undergoing change with more players seeking to control assets and enter the market, but there will always be a role for the middleman, according to one speaker at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit.Speaking at the two-day conference in Baku, PAS Aviation Logistics managing director Peter ...
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A night of the freighter stars in Chicago
Cargolux has won the Best Freighter Operator category in a new set of awards launched in Chicago by Freighters World, a quarterly magazine produced by the UK publishers of Air Cargo News.The Luxembourg-based cargo airline won the Liege Airport-sponsored award in a hotly contested category, with four finalists submitting evidence ...
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Freight forwarders unconcerned by airline-shipper relationships
Freight forwarders say they are not concerned by airline attempts to bypass them and form direct relationships with shippers.Speaking at the Freighters World conference in Chicago, a panel of freight forwarders responded to a report in the October issue of Air Cargo News that claimed IT solutions and the new ...
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NewsAmericas cargo monthly: LATAM cargo on the up
The LATAM Group saw cargo demand take off in August, while US carriers continued their impressive run of formSantiago-headquartered LATAM Group registered a 7% year-on-year improvement in cargo traffic in August to 291m revenue tonne km.This is the largest year-on-year percentage improvement recorded by the carrier group since April 2013.The ...
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Forwarders' network demands drive new opportunities for all-cargo carriers
Freight forwarder and e-commerce companies’ need to control their transport network is driving demand at all-cargo carriers.Speaking at the Freighters World conference, a panel of all-cargo airline executives discussed future opportunites for freighter operators.One area of opportunity identified by panelists was customers - forwarders and e-commerce companies - wanting freighter ...
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IATA-WCO collaboration to improve air cargo efficiency and security
IATA’s Cargo-XML messaging standard has been fully integrated into the World Customs Organization's (WCO) Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS), a risk assessment tool available to WCO member countries worldwide.The integration of Cargo-XML in the WCO CTS enables electronic communication between airlines and customs authorities using the IATA Cargo-XML standards format.This ...
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New multimodal hub for East Midlands airport
Two property partners have launched what they describe as an inland port, close to East Midlands Airport in the UK.Investment trust Segro and property developer Roxhill say that the Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway, a 700 acre `inland port’ with a new rail freight terminal, pointing out that it ...
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Emirates signs codeshare with Cargolux
Cargolux Airlines and Emirates SkyCargo have signed a codeshare partnership for cargo.The carriers said the new codeshare would allow both carriers to procure cargo capacity on each other’s flights and then offer it to their customers under their own airway bills and flight numbers. The codeshare agreement will be applicable ...
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New safety hoop to cut apron accidents
TBD has delivered 700 container dollies featuring a patented safety hoop design to a flag carrier airline the UK-based ground support equipment maker announced at the Inter Airport Europe show in Munich.Following close discussions with the airline, TBD developed the safety hoop system which discourages operators from taking a potentially ...
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FedEx expands Barcelona hub
FedEx Express has opened a new ground operations centre in Barcelona’s Zona Franca.FedEx says Spain is a key part in its development of a European leading logistics network. Following its acquisition of TNT last year, FedEx Express is adding a European ground network to its existing air operations.It will process ...
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Nippon Express exports up by a fifth
Japanese forwarder Nippon Express said that its airfreight exports in September were 23,258 tons, up 20.5% on the same month of 2016. Total air exports for the six months from April 2017 to September 2017 were 129,785 tons, up 27% on the same period of 2016.Air imports on September 2017 ...
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Hactl wins Aviastar handling
Moscow-based carrier Aviastar-Tu has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) to handle its new freighter services from eastern Russia.Aviastar-Tu has started weekly operations from Tolmachevo to Hong Kong, using a Tupolev Tu-204C freighter aircraft with 28.5 tonne payload and 14 pallet positions. It plans to increase services to ...
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First flights for Airbus freighter conversion
The converted first A330-300P2F Airbus freighter has made its first test flights at Dresden Airport in Germany and has gained supplemental type certification (STC).While the first flight had to be curtailed by storm Xavier after a few minutes, the second lasted for over six hours and was followed by several ...
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Opticoolers now available on Saudia flights
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions says its RKN and RAP Opticooler active containers are now available on Saudia Cargo flights following a master agreement signed with the German ULD provider.The Opticooler is designed to keep sensitive cargo such as pharmaceuticals cargo within a temperature range of 2° to 8° Celsius or 15° ...