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Atlas reaches tentative agreement with dispatchers
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has reached a tentative contract agreement with aircraft dispatchers at subsidiaries Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo Worldwide.The tentative agreement includes pay increases, as well as benefits associated with the dispatcher’s relocation to the Cincinnati operating hub.One of Atlas' largest customers, Amazon, has announced it will ...
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CargoLogicAir adds to management team
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has announced two new appointments to its executive team.The freighter operator has appointed John Nicholas as technical director and David Bowden as its chief financial officer.Nicholas will take charge of all technical matters relating to the airline’s Boeing 747 freighter fleet and air safety programme.He worked for 19-years ...
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Cargo pilots take protest over pay and conditions to Trump
Pilots at airlines flying on behalf of DHL are taking a dispute over pay and working conditions to US president Donald Trump.In an open letter to Trump, the Airline Professionals Association, Teamsters Local 1224, accuses DHL of lowering US industry standards in pay and quality of life, pointing out that ...
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Conference speakers point the finger at hold-ups on the ground
During one of the conferences at the ongoing Multimodal 2017 event, being held in Birmingham in the UK this week, a number of speakers have questioned the efficacy of the air cargo supply chain during those times when a shipment is on the ground.For example, Mark Olney, general manager – ...
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Air Canada Cargo to offer freight space in direct link to Mumbai
Air Canada has confirmed that a new year-round, direct service to and from Mumbai will be inaugurated by the carrier on July 1.The service, on which Air Canada Cargo will market the available bellyhold space of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft operating the route, will complement Air Canada’s existing year-round ...
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AAPA reports on encouraging February for Asia Pacific cargo carriers
Preliminary traffic figures for the month of February produced by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) reveal that the rate of growth in air cargo markets in the region quickened.International air cargo demand on the region’s cargo carriers, as measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTKs), increased by 11.3% compared to ...
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Swiss WorldCargo looks to roll out new innovations
Swiss WorldCargo is an airline that likes to innovate, and in a move to “keep pace with the modern challenges of global logistics” it has created a new organisational structure and revealed a further push into digitalisation.Swiss International Air Lines head of cargo Ashwin Bhat tells Air Cargo News that ...
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Canadian airport authorities meet with parliamentarians
Senior executives from Canada’s biggest airports came together earlier this week (on April 5) to meet with parliamentarians.Leaders from more than two dozen of its air gateways met in the capital, Ottawa, to highlight the important role they play in the Canadian economy.According to Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of the Canadian ...
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Lufthansa Cargo takes a lead on climate protection
Lufthansa Cargo has been named as one of two runners-up in the ‘CO2 avoidance as a contribution to climate protection’ category of the German CSR Forum awards for the freight carrier’s ‘OMEGA – using big data to reduce CO2’ project.OMEGA (short for Ops Monitor and Efficiency Gap Analyzer) is a ...
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Cathay Pacific to fly daily to Manchester in December
Cathay Pacific’s current four times a day Hong Kong to Manchester, UK connection will be upgraded to a daily frequency from 1 December this year.In March, the carrier had said that the frequency on the route would be increased to six times a week by the end of the year. ...
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MIA hosts life sciences workshop
Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD), operator of Miami International Airport (MIA), has continued its efforts to support the local bio-medical industry by recently hosting an inaugural South Florida Life Sciences Showcase.The event was held at MIA on March 23, and was attended by more than 100 professionals working in medical technology, ...
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Silk Way West to fly new B747-8F on additional O’Hare frequency
The latest Boeing 747-8 freighter – the fifth such aircraft – to join the fleet of Baku-headquartered Silk Way West Airlines was only flown from the Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington state, to the Azerbaijani capital on April 2.But it will be quickly put into service. On April 20 in ...
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NewsIT Focus: The intelligent cargo ecosystem revolutionising freight forwarding
An End-to-End Cargo Management SolutionThe air cargo industry is a complex and operationally challenging environment with many stages and checkpoints across the globe, and with the industry’s rapid rate of growth, these challenges will only intensify.In short, digital transformation will be essential to managing such complexities.Last year, the air cargo ...
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Boeing continues to look to sales to Iran
Boeing has confirmed the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Iran Aseman Airlines, expressing the airline’s intent to purchase 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.The agreement also provides the Iranian carrier with purchase rights for 30 more B737 MAXs.If executed, the deal would be worth $3bn at list prices ...
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An-124 delivers heavy load into Dube
On March 30, Dube Cargo Terminal welcomed an Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft, just part of the process of shipping 80 tonnes of highly specialised spools which will form part of the main furnace at the local oil refinery.The components, flown in on an Antonov Airlines freighter, ranged from 4 to ...
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Hybrid Airships to take to the air with Helium One
Hybrid Enterprises, the exclusive worldwide re-seller of Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airships, has agreed a strategic partnership with Helium One, an explorer, developer and producer of high value bulk liquid helium for the international market.Helium One will use the LMH-1 Hybrid Airship to safely transport helium out of Helium One’s deposit ...
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Lynne Embleton replaces Drew Crawley as IAG Cargo chief
IAG has appointed Lynne Embleton as the new chief executive of its cargo division with immediate effect, as incumbent Drew Crawley leaves the role after just over a year.IAG said it had appointed Embleton - current British Airways managing director at Gatwick - as Crawley will move on to the ...
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IATA implements CASS in Russia
IATA has confirmed the “successful implementation” of its Cargo Accounts Settlement Systems (CASS) in Russia, achieved in partnership with the Russian bank VTB and with the national flag-carrier Aeroflot.CASS is designed to simplify the billing and settlement of accounts between airlines and freight forwarders.It operates through CASSlink, which IATA describes ...
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DHL’s Dublin station receives IATA CEIV Pharma certification
DHL Global Forwarding, the air, ocean and road freight specialist within the Deutsche Post DHL Group, has received Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) certification for its DHL Air Thermonet airfreight station in Dublin.CEIV Pharma certification attests to “the highest service and quality standards for life ...
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IATA reports on encouraging February
IATA has published statistics covering global air freight markets in February 2017 that reveal there was an 8.4% increase in demand, as measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTKs), compared to the same period of last year.After adjusting for the impact of the leap year in 2016, global airfreight demand increased by ...