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Tigers sign new deal with Pos Malaysia to support e-commerce
Tigers Ltd, a Hong Kong-headquartered supply chain specialist, has inked a new deal with Malaysia’s national postal service provider Pos Malaysia, covering management of Pos Malaysia’s e-commerce facility in Kuala Lumpur.Tigers will manage Pos Malaysia’s e-commerce fulfilment out of the latter’s Cargo Centre at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) using ...
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March sees airfreight rates improve on last year
Airfreight rates on some of the world’s major trade lanes continued to track ahead of last year’s levels in March as shippers turned from ocean to air transport and fuel prices continued to rise.The latest figures from TAC Index show that net airfreight prices paid to carriers on Hong Kong-Europe ...
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Emirates to add second daily Bali connection
Dubai-based carrier Emirates has revealed that it will introduce a second daily service from its home hub to the island of Bali, Indonesia, on July 2.The frequency will be operated by Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) aircraft. Both inbound and outbound services on the route take in connections at Dili in ...
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UPS to expand DFW presence with $200m package facility
UPS has unveiled plans to build a new $200m package operations facility in Arlington, Texas, to cater for growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.UPS said the facility would span more than 1.1m sq ft on more than 110 acres and is scheduled for completion in 2018.UPS’s Red River District president ...
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Air Incheon signs up for B737-400 conversion
Air Incheon has contracted PEMCO World Air Servicesto convert a single B737-400 aircraft into a freighter configuration.Air Incheon’s B737-400 PEMCO-converted aircraft features a custom cargo loading system, up to 48,000 pounds of payload, and 4,600 cubic feet of total volume under PEMCO’s supplemental type certificate.“We chose PEMCO to expand our ...
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Leisure Cargo appoints GAC as Dutch GSA
Leisure Cargo has appointed ECS subsidiary Globe Air Cargo as its general sales agent in the Netherlands.Leisure Cargo, which offers cargo capacity on a network of 14 leisure airlines, said that through GAC it will offer TUI-flights to Dutch Antilles, Mexico, Florida and various destinations in Europe as well as ...
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Dachser forwarding business hit by low rates
Kempten, Germany-headquartered logistics services provider Dachser enjoyed a solid improvement in revenue in 2016, but its sea and airfreight business division performed less well.In the Dachser Air & Sea Logistics business area, revenue decreased by 3% year on year to €1.54bn, while the number of shipments handled remained constant.This decrease ...
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LATAM Airlines flies the A350XWB to France from Brazil
LATAM Airlines, Latin America’s biggest airline group, has become the first carrier to operate an Airbus A350XWB on the route to Paris Charles de Gaulle from Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport.Rodrigo Contreras, general director of LATAM Airlines in Europe, commented: “Paris is now the 3rd destination in Europe serviced by ...
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UPS offers improved tracking technology to improve transparency
Global express services provider UPS has released an improved Flex Global View, a ‘management and visibility tool’ for air, ocean and surface freight shipping, including warehouse inventory, purchase orders and customs entry.UPS supply chain customers who log into Flex™ Global View will now benefit from upgrades including:Detailed shipping alerts – ...
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Shipper body fears an ongoing boxship capacity crisis
The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) has revealed it will set up a temporary observer group composed of representatives of European exporters to monitor the ongoing ocean capacity shortage on services from Europe to Asia.Massive delays have arisen of late in maritime container shipping, in part because of the bankruptcy of ...
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Airlander makes progress towards resumption of flight testing
Hybrid Air Vehicles, the company behind the new Airlander hybrid aircraft - which utilise new technology to combines favourable characteristics of fixed wing aircraft and helicopters with lighter-than-air technology – has said that it has passed two milestones on its way to the resumption of its flight test programme.The Airlander ...
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DHL Leipzig station receives IATA CEIV Pharma certification
The airfreight station in Leipzig of DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within the Deutsche Post DHL Group, has been granted Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) certification by IATA.IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification “attests the highest service and quality standards for life sciences ...
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Qatar Cargo the latest to add Phnom Penh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has today launched its first freighter service to the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh as it looks to capitalise on growing demand from the Southeast Asian origin.The new service will utilise an Airbus A330 freighter operating on the Doha–Phnom Penh–Doha route once a week, offering 60 tonnes ...
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New San Juan to Philadelphia link represents boost to pharma transport
American Airlines has launched a daily, non-stop Airbus A330-200 service between San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport and Philadelphia International Airport.American Airlines Cargo has a 25,000 sq ft facility dedicated to pharmaceuticals handling at Philadelphia International and the new daily A330-200 widebody service represents a further link between the two ...
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On the move from Mauritius to Madagascar
ALE has completed the first phase of a project to move 11 generators from Mauritius to Madagascar in East Africa.The UK-based heavy transportation and lifting expert flew the machines, totalling 57.2 tonnes, on an Antonov An-124 freighter from Mauritius’ Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport to Ivato International in Antananarivo.ALE used ...
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Heathrow welcomes new China trade link
Heathrow Airport has welcomed the extra cargo capacity that a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner China Southern service will bring to the UK-China market.The west London airport said that China Southern's new twice daily service between Heathrow and Guangzhou would increase capacity to the Chinese city to up to 8,760 metric ...
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Intrepid delivers first of two B747-8 freighters to AirBridgeCargo
US lessor Intrepid Aviation has delivered the first of two new B747-8 freighters from Boeing and placed the General Electric GEnx powered aircraft on "very long term lease" with AirBridgeCargo (ABC), a part of the Volga-Dnepr Group.This latest handover comes after aircraft lessor BOC Aviation last week announced that it ...
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Antonov's An-132D multipurpose turboprop completes first flight
Antonov has completed the first flight of its new An-132D aircraft, which will target the cargo industry as well as other sectors.The Ukraine-based aircraft manufacturer said that on March 31 the An-132D flew for one hour and 30 minutes after taking off from the company’s airfield in Kiev.The aircraft, which ...
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Emirates SkyCargo targets perishables market with new product launches
Emirates SkyCargo has added extra perishables solutions as part of its new SkyFresh product.The cargo carrier said its SkyFresh product brings together the cool chain infrastructure at its Dubai hub, its wide-bodied aircraft including freighters, and a range of innovative cool chain solutions.This includes its new 16-tonne capacity ventilated cool ...
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Air cargo rides the wave of an improving world economy
Air cargo rode the “wave of an improving world economy” over the first two months of the year but should not expect current growth to continue across the whole of 2017.In its latest market update, analyst WorldACD said that air cargo demand grew by 6.3% year on year in weight ...