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Swissport Cargo USA opens new Chicago O’Hare warehouse
Swissport Cargo USA has opened a new warehouse at Chicago O’Hare Airport, featuring an automated material handling system.The new 138,000sq ft facility is at the North Cargo Area of Chicago O’Hare Airport and includes the first automated material handling system in the region.The system can accommodate over 120 10-ft ULDs ...
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BRUcloud app smooths the export flow at Brussels
Freight forwarders within Brussels airport's BRUcargo community are saving air waybill (AWB) processing time by accessing the new Customs Export Application which went live on July 1.This latest application is one of several made possible by BRUcloud, the open community platform at the Belgian hub based on Nallian’s data-sharing technology ...
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A new book on ULD handling and safety
ULD CARE, a not-for-profit Canadian corporation, has published a new book, ULD Explained, aimed at promoting the correct handling of unit load device (ULD) containers.The book, available in eBook and hard copy formats, will promote greater awareness of the flight safety contribution of ULDs, the need for correct handling of ...
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Worldwide Flight Services adds three LA ground handler deals
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has been awarded three new ground handling contracts at Los Angeles International Airport.China Southern selected WFS to provide ramp services at the airport for its 10 flights per week connecting Los Angeles and Guangzhou.Xiamen Airlines has also chosen WFS’ ramp services for its new four times ...
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Manchester kicks-off airport transformation programme
Manchester Airport has started work on its £1bn 10-year Transformation Programme that it hopes will help increase the number of long-haul flights from the UK northern gateway.Manchester Airport’s Transformation Programme, which will double the size of terminal two, represents the largest single private sector investment in the north of England ...
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UK launches aviation strategy consultation
The UK government has launched plans to develop a new aviation strategy to “help shape the future of the aviation industry to 2050 and beyond”.The public are being asked to have their say on how the aviation sector should respond to a range of “technological, security, environmental and customer service ...
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LUG lands Emirates handling contract at Frankfurt
Ground handler LUG Aircargo has won an airfreight contract to handle Emirates' cargo operations for passenger and freighter aircraft at Frankfurt airport, starting from October this year.The Dubai-based carrier has three Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 passenger flights per day, plus eight B777 freighter flights per week from the German ...
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NewsEuropean air cargo monthly: Fidget spinners help IAG to double-digit growth
Air cargo demand at some of Europe’s major airlines continued to grow at a high level in June, with double-digit percentage improvements at IAG Cargo, helped by the fidget spinner craze.The latest monthly traffic statistics released by airlines show that in June IAG Cargo, which includes British Airways, Iberia and ...
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UPS experiments with drone delivery option
Express services giant UPS has taken another step down the road towards the delivery of packages and other small shipments by drone.It has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a vehicle, autonomously delivers a package to final destination and then returns to the vehicle, all while ...
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DHL and Huawei announce 'internet of things' partnership
Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL) and communications giant Huawei Technologies have announced a new partnership that aims to develop supply chain solutions using the internet of things.Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU), Huawei and DP DHL Group will collaborate on innovation projects focusing on cellular-based internet of things technology, which ...
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UPS supersizes in Salt Lake City
UPS is to build one of its largest packaging processing hubs to date at Salt Lake City as part of an ongoing expansion programme. When completed in late 2018, the new 840,000 sq ft facility will process 69,000 packages per hour, adding to the existing 200,000 sq ft operations in ...
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WCS17: How air cargo can fight back to profitability
Air cargo can improve profitability levels by encouraging adherence to contracts, offering transparent pricing, developing joint global solutions, moving to a modern commerce business model and creating carrier partnerships.Speakers at an IATA World Cargo Symposium session on air cargo profitability largely agreed that capacity was set to continue to grow ...
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How smart ULDs and better data can help the cargo terminal of the future
Cargo warehouses of the future will have smart devices, smart people and technology-driven ULDs transformed from “dumb boxes” to interactive equipment.Those were some of the takeaways from the “cargo facility of the future” panel discussion at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Abu Dhabi.The air cargo warehouse of the past ...
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SATS opens e-commerce hub at Changi
Singapore ground handler SATS has unveiled its new eCommerce AirHub at a Changi airport.The S$21m, 6,000 sq m facility, co-funded by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), will increase Changi’s mail sorting capability to support the growing e-commerce market.A spokesperson for the handler said: “By deploying state-of-the-art technology, SATS ...
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Robots are DHL’s automatic choice
DHL Supply Chain has kicked of its robotics deployment programme in the UK and Ireland with the purchase of four Sawyer machines. They will be used in the express logistics operator’s co-packing and production logistics centres in the region, moving between different sites to support seasonal demand or to fill ...
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Bolloré to open state-of-the-art Singapore site
Bolloré Logistics Singapore has revealed plans for a $10 million automated logistics facility in cooperation with the LVMH French luxury products group.The 20,000sq m facility will include a Dematic 12,000 tote multi-shuttle system – claimed as the first of its kind in the region - that will raise throughput tenfold ...
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Online portal Freightos expands services to the UK
Online forwarder portal Freightos is expanding internationally with the addition of services for the UK market.The online freight marketplace was launched in the US in 2016 and provides instant freight comparison, booking, and management of freight services for thousands of US importers and exporters of all sizes. The UK has ...
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Healthcare supply chains to digitise and automate, says new report
The automation and digitisation of healthcare supply chains will drive the development of future pharmaceutical supply chains, according to a report by DHL.The report identified six transformational trends that would affect future healthcare supply chains: big data analytics; the internet of things; healthcare on demand; robotics and automation; augmented reality ...
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Celebi goes live with Kale cargo management system at Delhi airport
Ground handler Celebi has gone live with IT provider Kale’s Galaxy (domestic module) cargo management system at its Delhi cargo terminal in India.The move forms part of a phased implementation of the entire suite of Galaxy Air Cargo management software system comprising of export/import operations, warehouse management, invoice and accounts ...
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Online quotes increase AMI's express imports business
Airfreight and express wholesaler AMI UK has seen a 10% rise in traffic during the first three months of its trade-only online service, Click2ship Express Imports.AMI said that the recently-launched service aims to make handling imports "less labour-intensive and more profitable for couriers and freight agents," by enabling customers to ...