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Boeing forecasts 920 new freighters by 2036
Boeing has raised its forecast for new airplane demand, projecting the need for 41,030 new aircraft over the next 20 years, of which 920 will be freighters.The US airframer's annual Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2017-2036 was released today at the Paris Air Show, with total airplane demand rising 3.6% ...
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DHL signs up for four more A330-300P2Fs
DHL Express has signed up for four more A330-300 passenger-to-freighter conversions from ST Aerospace subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke.The express operator, which in July last year became the launch customer for the conversion programme with an order for two of the aircraft, said the deal also includes options for a further 10 ...
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Hybrid Air Freighters to buy up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships
Hybrid Air Freighters (HAF) signed a Letter of Intent to purchase up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships, at a total value of approximately $500m.HAF is working with Hybrid Enterprises, the exclusive re-seller of Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Airships, to finalise the purchase agreement.Paris-based HAF was established specifically to act as ...
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CEA Holding sells part stake in Eastern Air Logistics
China Eastern Air Holding (CEA Holding) has pushed forward with mixed-ownership reforms to its airfreight business by selling a part stake in Eastern Air Logistics.CEA Holding said today that it had sold a 50% majority shareholding in its Eastern Air Logistics arm, which in turn owns 83% of freighter operator ...
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time:matters to enter US market as founder departs
Time-critical logistics firm time:matters is set to expand operations to the US later this year, while the company founder has revealed he is leaving for new opportunities.Time:matters founder and chief executive FJ Miller told Air Cargo News that the company was currently setting up a presence in the US in ...
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Siemens' rotor to Kuwait is project managed by Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed the urgent delivery of a 57-tonne generator rotor to Kuwait on behalf of energy shipper Siemens.Siemens asked Volga-Dnepr to project manage the shipment using one of the Russian airline’s An-124-100 freighters to ensure that the 11-metre long cargo reached its destination on-time from the manufacturing site ...
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Jim Butler: A bigger, better American
Jim Butler took over as president of American Airlines Cargo on December 9, 2013, the day that the merger of the US giant with US Airways was legally finalised. So a lot of his first year or so in post was spent integrating the two carriers’ cargo businesses.That was completed ...
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Ariaen Zimmerman: Cargo 2000, eighteen years later
At next year’s World Cargo Symposium, Cargo 2000 is to get a new name and brand.It has become a bit of a tired joke for those who work for the organisation when they are asked how come it is now 2015 and it still hasn’t achieved its goals.“We have done ...
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Chris Leach: Air Charter Service - the first 25 years
Re-energised by a diet of salad, fish and regular morning workouts in the company multigym, Chris Leach is in robust health. And so is Air Charter Service, the company he founded in the basement of his London home 25 years ago.The story is a familiar one. Leach found himself out ...
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Munich Airport's virtuous circle
If you want evidence that it is still possible for European airports to capture new freighter business, look no further than Munich.The south German airport saw a growth of 9.5% to 236,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2015, with maindeck cargo being the overwhelming — but not the ...
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Ashwin Bhat: Swiss WorldCargo looking to preserve the premium
It can be tough to take over from a high profile figure, as Ashwin Bhat has done in succeeding Oliver Evans as head of cargo at Swiss. But Bhat is no stranger to the organisation he is now leading and nor has he played a minor part in its strategy ...
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Luc Nadal: GEFCO's purchase of IJS not just a takeover
The news in September that French logistics company GEFCO was buying Dutch freight forwarder IJS Global might have surprised those with a knowledge of air cargo history.After all, IJS was created back in 2004 with the aim of creating AEI mark two — a new version of the legendary US-based ...
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Air charterer to the stars
Air Charter Service has moved its Los Angeles operations to new, larger premises on Santa Monica Boulevard.Director of ACS California, Thomas Howe, said it followed a record year for both the company and the LA office, with impressive growth in both the number of charters and revenue in 2015.He ...
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Dan March: How WCA is backing the independents
Just keeping up with all the activities of WCA can leave one a little dizzy. Its founder and outright owner David Yokeum has spent two decades relentlessly travelling the world and creating not one but four different global networks for independent forwarders, and six specialist ones.He has now stepped back ...
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Boeing's Jim Edgar - the history man
Jim Edgar, who retired as regional director marketing, commercial airplanes for Boeing in December after an air transport career of 45 years, seems to have had a knack of being present at historic moments.A self-confessed aviation geek, he first got the whiff of jet fuel straight after leaving high school, ...
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Schiphol's Jonas van Stekelenburg: Only connect
When you are already one of the world’s busiest cargo airports, and arguably the one best known throughout the industry for its innovation and thought leadership, where do you go next? That is the challenge for Jonas van Stekelenburg, who took over as cargo director of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on ...
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Preetham Philip: Quikjet's need for speed
India-based all-cargo carrier Quikjet Cargo Airlines certainly seems to be a big believer in the theory that slow and steady wins the race.Plans to launch the airline were first revealed in 2007 and although some flights were flown using an ATR-72F in the intermittent period, it took nine years before ...
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Lars Droog: TIACA's shipper committee chairman says we need to talk
A lot is said in the air cargo industry about the importance of understanding shippers’ needs, but how closely have they actually been listened to?Not closely enough, according to TIACA, which has set up a new Shippers’ Advisory Committee to “review all elements of the supply chain in order to ...
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AF-KLM's Bram Gräber says premium products won’t save you
The strong air cargo growth of the three decades to 2008 will not return and premium products are not going to save airlines from margin pressure.These are the conclusions of Bram Gräber, executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo, as he prepares to quit the airfreight business for a job ...
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Naomi Landman: Pharma game changers
All specialist product areas have their particular regulations and jargon, but they seem to proliferate in pharmaceuticals more than in any other sector.Naomi Landman, director commercial development for IJS Global GEFCO, says the current hot topic is serialisation. These are rules that say that each pharmaceutical package has to have ...