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WCS17: Mercator promises revolution in airfreight systems
Transport software specialist Mercator is offering an Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem, which it describes as the industry’s first open API platform for air cargo management and ground handling.APIs (application programming interfaces) are used to provide the ‘building blocks’ which simplify the task of writing computer programs.Mercator says its open architecture platform ...
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WCS17: Schiphol gets grant for pharma temperature alert system
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is to develop an early warning system for pharma shippers with the help of a €1m research grant, it was revealed at the IATA World Cargo Symposium on 14 March.The money, from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and TKI Dinalog, the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, ...
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WCS17: China-Europe rail a threat to air cargo but box shipping troubles an opportunity
Air cargo should start taking the threat presented by China-Europe rail services seriously, but the difficulties faced by the container shipping sector could provide opportunities.Speaking at the IATA World Cargo Symposium, Seabury Group senior vice president Marco Bloemen said that rail freight services were “no longer carrying volumes that can ...
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Envirotainer flies the flag in Luxembourg
Cold chain specialist Envirotainer is to supply its flagship RAP e2 solution at Luxembourg airport. Head of healthcare sales for the region, Niklas Lönnkvist said it would significantly increase the company’s ability to service customers at the seventh largest airfreight location in Europe.He added: “The new facility is well located ...
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Airports deal extended
Airports Company South Africa and Germany’s Munich Airport have extended their sister partnership agreement, launched in 2015.It now extends to joint marketing activities to raise awareness of the partner airports in the respective countries including exhibitions at the airports, mutual links between websites and joint appearances at events.The existing cooperation ...
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WCS17: IATA chief makes modernisation call
The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the air cargo industry to speed up modernization and deliver high quality service at the World Cargo Symposium in Abu Dhabi on 14 March.The airline organisation’s director general and chief executive Alexandre de Juniac told delegates: "Complicated and convoluted ...
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New UK and Ireland chief for Swissport
Luzius Wirth is to become chief executive UK and Ireland at handler Swissport from 1 June, following the early retirement of Tommy Watt.Wirth, who will retain his role as executive vice president group services, joined Swissport in 2012. His new tasks will include further developing and expanding the regional organisation.Tommy ...
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Champ in the corner for ULD Partner
Champ Cargosystems says that Hong Kong based ULD Partner is using its ULD Manager application to support the operations of its launch customer, Air China Cargo. Under the contract, ULD Partner will supply, repair, maintenance and manage the combined Air China Cargo and Air China inventory of over 13,000 ULDs, ...
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WCS17: Etihad takes freighter number ten
Etihad has taken delivery of its tenth all cargo aircraft, an Airbus A330F. The new addition takes the Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s Airbus freighter fleet to five, joining five Boeing 777 freighters.Etihad has launched ten new freighter routes in the past 12 months and carried 602,026 tonnes of cargo in 2016, ...
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New index to keep tabs on Asian freight
A freight industry consultant and a journalist have created a new Asian forwarding index. Cathy Roberson, an industry veteran who has been consulting on logistics markets for two decades and freight journalist and consultant Mike King, say that their new APAC Forwarding Index will measure current demand and forward sentiment.It ...
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DHL seeks CEIV status across the Americas
DHL’s Global Forwarding, arm is to certify a further seven of its 11 Americas stations to IATA’s CEIV Pharma Standard. It has already achieved CEIV status at Bogota, Colombia and the seven remaining stations – Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia and San Juan - are expected to follow ...
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WCS17: Cutting edge technology
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Svilen Rangelov of Dronamics is promising to shave off a flowing beard when his company’s first cargo drone ‘car’ is ready to fly, by the end of 2017.The Bulgarian entrepreneur and his equally bearded brother vowed to forsake the facial razor 2.5 years ago when they ...
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Carrier springs into action to keep gas plant going
CargoLogicAir positioned extra aircrew in Rome to help move an urgent shipment for an industrial gas plant. The UK-based all-cargo carrier was responding to call to shift 96 tonnes of adsorbents from Leonardo Da Vinci Fiumicino International Airport to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on board its 747 freighter on behalf of ...
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ABC turns its hand to charters
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) says demand for charters of its 747 freighters grew 47% in 2016, although it is primarily a scheduled carrier.Its latest flights were operated on behalf of DHL Global Forwarding for high tech coating firm Evatec, delivering a series of seven-tonne boxes of machine tools from Europe to ...
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Delta takes Aeromexico stake
Delta Air Lines has completed its acquisition of an additional 32% of the outstanding capital stock of Latin American carrier Aeroméxico Group, for about US$620 million.The US carrier now owns 36.2% of Aeroméxico shares and holds options to acquire an additional 12.8%, which would bring its stake in the carrier ...
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UPS scores top marks in healthcare survey
UPS and its specialist pharmaceutical supply chain arm, Marken have been recognised as top providers of temperature data collection and management services for clinical trial materials by an industry survey.New York-based Nice Insight’s 2017 Clinical Supply Chain Logistics Survey quizzed 320 healthcare decision-makers at large and midsize organizations in North ...
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Damco offers digital dashboards
Third party logistics company Damco is offering its customers a new supply chain intelligence solution. It provides a suite of interactive ‘dashboards’ delivering up-to-the-minute information on their supply chains, fully integrated into Damco’s operational systems.Damco says that using data to provide actionable insights for decision making has until now been ...
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Ethiopian scoops Brussels cargo award
Ethiopian Airlines won the Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at the Brussels Airport Aviation Awards on March 9.It was in recognition of the largest African carrier’s commitment to expand its cargo network and for becoming the largest cargo airline at Brussels Airport.Ethiopian Group CEO Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam remarked: "With ...
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Volcano alert for North Pacific
Airlines have been warned of possible disruption following a major eruption of an Alaskan volcano.The Alaska Volcano Observatory reported that the Bogoslof Volcano had erupted on the night of Tuesday 7 March for three hours, sending an ash cloud up to 35,000 feet.It was Bogoslof’s 36th eruption since mid-December and ...
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DHL centre taps into Asian e-commerce boom
DHL eCommerce has extended its global fulfilment centre network with a new facility in Hong Kong. It will cater to the growing demand for cross-border services in Asia Pacific particularly from greater China and will allow online sellers to move their goods closer to their end customers and speed up ...