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NewsRacing certs for Emirates SkyCargo
Emirates SkyCargo has transported some of the world’s top racehorses to its Middle East hub for the Dubai World Cup event, which will take place on March 25 at the Meydan racecourse.Champion thoroughbred horses have been arriving at the Dubai World Central hub on Emirates SkyCargo freighters over the last ...
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Riga Airport Supervisory Board nominates Ilona Līce as chairman
Ilona Līce, already a member of the airport’s board, has been nominated by the Supervisory Board of Riga Airport to be its new chairman.However, the Latvian Ministry of Transport, as shareholder of Riga International Airport, has to approve the nomination.Līce has been a member of the board at Riga since ...
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American Airlines Cargo appoints new head of Florida, Caribbean and Latin America
American Airlines Cargo has announced the appointment of Lorena Sandoval as managing director of its Florida, Caribbean and Latin America (FCLA) division.She takes over from Carmen Taylor who retired from the airline at the end of 2016. Sandoval joined the carrier 26 years ago in Quito, Ecuador, and has held ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Another mixed month for carriers
February was another mixed month for Europe’s cargo airlines as Lufthansa and IAG recorded improvements in demand, while there was a decline at Finnair and Air France KLM.Despite an extra day in February 2016 due to it being a leap year, the continent’s busiest carrier Lufthansa registered a 5.2% year-on-year ...
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Hong Kong cargo boost in February
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) experienced strong cargo growth in February, with a sharp year-on-year increase of 14.1% to 294,000 tonnes.In the first two months of 2017, HKIA recorded a 7.7% increase to 666,000 tonnes from the same period of last year.An HKIA spokesperson said: “The combined robust growth in ...
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Qatar expands freighter fleet with B777F
Qatar Airways Cargo has received its latest Boeing 777 freighter, taking the Doha-based carrier's total freighter fleet count to 21.Qatar Airways chief officer cargo Ulrich Ogiermann said: “The arrival of our newest Boeing 777 freighter comes at a time when we are consciously strategising our freighter network expansion this year, ...
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Lufthansa and Vereinigung Cockpit reach a deal
Lufthansa and the German pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) have reached an agreement regarding what the former describes as “all previously unresolved collective bargaining matters”.Lufthansa and VC had been in dispute for some time, leading to strikes on more than one occasion last year, before the two agreed to mediation.In ...
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EC re-adopts punitive decision on airfreight cartel
The European Commission (EC) has re-adopted a cartel decision previously made against 11 air cargo carriers and imposed a fine totalling more than €776m for operating a price-fixing cartel.The Commission’s original decision had been annulled by the European Union’s General Court on procedural grounds.Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition ...
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Lufthansa reveals tough times for cargo operations
Lufthansa, the German flag-carrier, has released details of its 2016 financial performance, within which are a number of indicators pertaining specifically to its logistics business.As well as marketing the freight capacities of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines’, Eurowings’ and Austrian Airlines’ passenger aircraft, Lufthansa Cargo operates its fleet of freighter aircraft, comprising ...
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Panalpina’s airfreight business on the up
Panalpina’s 2016 management report has taken a look back at last year and the global supply chain services provider’s performance over the 12 months.The company noted that the global airfreight market grew by between 1 and 2% in 2016, while capacity outpaced demand by more than 5%.This created a “continuous ...
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Fraport reviews 2016 performance
Fraport, operator of Frankfurt Airport – Europe’s biggest airfreight gateway – as well as a number of other airports around the world, has looked back at its 2016 performance and said that overall it was a “successful business year”.The operator achieved record financial results, despite what it described as “challenging ...
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ACI: Cargo on the up in January
Figures produced by Airports Council International (ACI), which represents most of the world’s bigger air gateways, show that airfreight traffic continued its recovery in January.Air cargo volumes as a whole were up by 5.7% year on year.International freight volumes continued to post relatively higher growth with an increase of 9.5%, ...
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Alitalia board gives the green light to 2017-21 business plan
The board of directors of Italian flag-carrier Alitalia has approved the airline’s turnaround business plan, which is said to include a range of “radical and necessary measures” required to stabilise and secure Alitalia’s long-term sustainability.Funding of the 2017-21 business plan by the company’s shareholders remains subject to Alitalia’s trade unions ...
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Cathay Pacific reveals encouraging February cargo performance
The latest figures from Cathay Pacific Airways show that its Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carriers handled a significant increase in cargo and mail in February compared to the same month of 2016.The two airlines carried a total of 137,674 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of ...
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Saudia Cargo takes the plaudits in Africa
Saudi Airlines Cargo has been awarded the International Cargo Airline of the year in Africa at the Air Cargo Africa event in Johannesburg, South Africa.The award received by Saudia Cargo VP Commercial Rainer Mueller & Saudia Cargo VP Operation Joseph Notter, they thanked the guest of honor South African Member ...
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Brussels Airlines makes profit despite headwinds
Despite the terrorist attack on Brussels Airport of 22 March last year and what it describes as “strong low-cost competition”, Brussels Airlines made a profit last year.It achieved a net profit of€ 15m euro, after a deduction of €2.5m – money that the airline will redistribute to its staff in ...
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Air Kiribati and Solomon Airlines collaborate on new service
Air Kiribati and Solomon Airlines have signed an agreement paving the way for a new service linking Tarawa in Kiribati with Honiara (the capital of the Solomon Islands), Brisbane and Nadi in Fiji.Kiribati’s national carrier only recently relaunched as an international airline.At the official signing of the deal in Tarawa, ...
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Volga-Dnepr flies three satellites into French Guiana
Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the cargo charter specialist within the Volga-Dnepr Group, has flown three satellites to the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.The AN-124-100 freighter flights were made in support of a long-standing deal with Bolloré Logistics and Thales Alenia Space.The movement of these valuable but delicate shipments saw Volga-Dnepr use ...
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Dachser grows its footprint at Singapore Changi
Dachser Singapore has expanded its office at Singapore’s Changi International Airport in order to cope with what it says is its “growing business” handled from the island.Another floor was added to the Dachser office, and the total space available at the office is now said to be five times larger.The ...
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CargoIT opts for Traxon cargoHUB
Stockholm-based logistics software provider CargoIT has connected to the Traxon cargoHUB.Traxon cargoHUB is CHAMP’s fully automated host-to-host communication product that links more than 100 airlines with approximately 3,000 forwarders, general sales agents (GSAs), ground handling agents (GHAs) and shippers.CargoIT is connected to Traxon cargoHUB using IATA Cargo-XML version 3.0, which ...