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Network Airline Mangement renews MD11F deal
Network Airline Management (NAM) has renewed its long-standing freighter deal with Western Global Airlines (WGA) covering Africa-Europe operations.Under the terms of the agreement, WGA will continue to operate up to three MD11Fs on behalf of NAM, with operations based in Liege, Belgium.The aircraft support NAM’s operations with Allied Air of ...
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FedEx adds Bangladesh security surcharge
FedEx Trade Networks will add a surcharge on shipments from Bangladesh to the European Union (EU) after stricter security standards were introduced.FedEx's forwarding arm said that as a result of the EU adding Bangladesh to its list of high-risk countries shipments will need to go through new screening measures in ...
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Volga-Dnepr in the fast lane for Nippon Express' urgent automotive machinery
Volga-Dnepr Airlines' load planners responded to an urgent request from Nippon Express to transport 197 tonnes of sensitive automotive machinery from Japan to the US.The airline’s Hanoi-based load planning experts were on hand to assess quickly the cargo and prepare the most efficient plan for its delivery from Toyko to ...
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Tigers speeds Rapha Racing deliveries in APAC
Hong Kong-headquartered supply chain specialist Tigers is handling Asia Pacific B2C distribution for cycling clothing brand Rapha Racing from its e-commerce fulfilment hub in the Special Administrative Region.The company is also providing value-added services such as labelling, quality checks, kitting and returns management for the region. It handles around 250 ...
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Frankfurt cargo volumes rise in June
Frankfurt Airport saw its June cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) increase by 4.7% to 188,256 tonnes, "supported by ongoing economic growth, particularly in the eurozone's industrial sector".Frankfurt's cargo volume grew by 4.8%in the first half of 2017, reaching almost 1.1m tonnes - the highest first-half volume achieved in the past ...
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DHL robot: Take me to your loader (VIDEO)
Technology group Wärtsilä and DHL have completed a successful pilot to test mobile robots in a warehouse environment.The pilot phase of Fetch Robotics technology was carried out in Wärtsilä’s central distribution centre in Kampen, the Netherlands, where the entire logistics chain of Wärtsilä’s spare parts, from order intake to customer ...
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Amerijet awarded CEIV Pharma certification
Amerijet has become the first US-based all-cargo airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) Pharma certification.Vic Karjian, president and chief executive of Amerijet International Airlines, said: “This certification reconfirms our commitment to offering the highest consistent quality, professionalism and transparency to our ...
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Heathrow cargo volumes up 13.4% in June
London's Heathrow airport saw monthly airfreight volumes in June increase by 13.4% on last year to 142,349 tonnes, with cargo going to and from Latin America up by more than 38% compared with like period 2016.North America retains its position as the largest cargo market for Heathrow, with June’s volume ...
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E-commerce: UPS boxing clever
Thinking outside of the box has never been truer when it comes to e-commerce and the social media trend of ‘unboxing’.Unboxing is defined as the “an act or instance of removing a newly purchased product from its packaging and examining its features, typically when filmed and shared on a social ...
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VIDEO: Prime Air fuelled and ready to go for Amazon's US e-commerce bonanza
E-tailer Amazon’s Prime Air cargo planes are “fuelled and ready to support” Prime Day in the US in an air express debut for the leased freighter fleet.Amazon is kicking off its third annual Prime Day six hours early this year – giving members 30 hours to shop, beginning at 9pm ...
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Delta Cargo awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification
Delta Cargo has been awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma and is the first US Global carrier to receive this certification.It was awarded to the airline at the headquarters level and at Delta’s largest cargo operation, located in Atlanta.Said an airline spokesperson: "With this certification, Delta ...
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Cathay to buy partner DHL's stake in Air Hong Kong
Asian airline Cathay Pacific is to buy the 40% stake held in freighter carrier Air Hong Kong (AHK) by joint venture partner DHL, the German-owned global logistics and express parcels operator.Cathay Pacific currently owns 60% of the AHK stock.In a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing, Cathay Pacific and DHL confirmed ...
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Interjet and Swissport Canada sign ground handling contract
Swissport Canada has signed a contract with Mexican low cost carrier Interjet to provide ground handling services for the airline’s operations at Montreal Trudeau International Airport and Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport.Swissport will provide Interjet with ground handling services including passenger and ramp handling, baggage services, operations coordination and ...
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Approval for underground warehousing near Heathrow
An underground warehousing project near Heathrow Airport has taken a major step forward after councilors at local authority Hounslow approved the proposal, described as “visionary” by its backer, Formal Investments.Above the subterranean warehouse would be created the largest new park in West London for more than 100 years, using extracted ...
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Logistics sector can prove Barnier wrong, says FTA
The UK's logistics industry has issued a "wake-up call" as Britain's chief Brexit negotiator David Davis met today (July 7) with the nation's business leaders to discuss the trading implications of Britain leaving the European Union (EU).The Freight Transport Association (FTA), which represents more than 16,000 companies nationwide, urged all ...
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UK freight forwarders welcome Customs fallback system
UK freight forwarders have welcomed the setting up of a new Customs declaration fallback system to prevent an airfreight meltdown if the primary network collapses.The back-up facility would prevent the catastrophic impact of a systems failure by the HM Revenue & Customs' CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight) ...
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Gartner: Worldwide device shipments will decline 0.3% in 2017
Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to decline 0.3% from 2016 to around 2.3bn units in 2017, according to Gartner, the research and advisory house.The market is forecast to return to growth in 2018 with a 1.6% increase in shipments, it added. Hi tech devices such as ...
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Boeing and FedEx Express test green technologies on B777F
Boeing and FedEx Express will use a new B777 freighter to test emerging technologies, such as propulsion advancements and flight deck innovations.The ecoDemonstrator program, now in its fifth phase, serves as a series of flying testbeds designed to improve the environmental performance and safety of future airplanes."The ecoDemonstrator program is ...
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NewsBelly enhancer as Norwegian opts for Telair cargo loading system
Low cost carrier Norwegian has taken delivery of the first Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft equipped with the Telair Sliding Carpet Edge loading system for bellyhold freight.Anders Helmner, chief executive of Sweden's Telair International, said: “The most advanced model of the world’s most popular aircraft arrived with the most advanced ...
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Pemco inks Asia Pacific freighter conversion alliance with Gameco
Asia-Pacific's booming market for passenger to freighter aircraft conversions, fueled by e-commerce demand for parcel delivery networks, has another strategic alliance put in place.Boeing 737 passenger-to-freighter conversion specialist Pemco World Air Services has reached agreement with China-based MRO Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co (Gameco) to perform B737-700, -400 and -300 ...