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Oil and gas continues to pump up the volumes says Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr Airlines is continuing to see an upturn in the movement of oil and gas cargoes, including its latest delivery of pump and vaporizer skids to Seoul, South Korea.Operated on behalf of Air Charter Service France for its customer, Heppner Transport & Logistics, one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters transported the ...
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Heathrow cargo volumes up 3% in 2016
London Heathrow airport handled 1.54m tonnes of cargo in 2016, a 3% increase on prior year.Heathrow, the fourth largest European cargo hub by volumes in 2015, finished strongly with a 5.1% increase in December with 133,641 tonnes.The final month rise was driven, in particular, by growth to emerging market destinations: ...
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American Airlines' daily widebody link to San Juan pharma hub
American Airlines Cargo will have access to daily non-stop bellyhold capacity to the growing pharmaceuticals hub of San Juan from early April.The Puerto Rican gateway has seen a number of airlines, including United, DHL, Cargolux, Northern Air Cargo and CAL add freighter or bellyhold capacity to the Caribbean island’s pharma ...
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Liege logs a 2016 cargo rise
Belgian hub Liege Airport saw a 1.7% rise in cargo volumes in 2016 to 660,665 tonnes, up from 649,829 tonnes in 2015.“There has been sustained business growth for all our companies with significant increases for CAL, El Al and Qatar Airways,” said Luc Partoune, the managing director of Liege Airport.Commenting ...
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NewsAir cargo demand improvements set to continue in 2017
The recent recovery in air cargo demand could last into the first half of this year after another month of growth in November.The latest statistics from IATA show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 6.8% year on year in November, with Europe and Asia Pacific ...
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Additional pharma packaging solution
Peli BioThermal, the temperature-controlled packing specialist for the pharma and life sciences sector, has launched its CoolPall Vertos Advance.The single-use, passive bulk freight shipping solution builds on the existing CoolPall Vertos packaging product range.CoolPall Vertos Advance has additional advancements, including phase change material (PCM) and vacuum insulated panels (VIPs), which ...
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Budapest volumes surge 22.7% in 2016
Budapest Airport recorded a 22.7% surge in cargo throughputs in 2016 to around 112,000 tonnes.René Droese, director property and cargo at the Hungarian hub, said that the increase in cargo volumes was a “clear indicator that the Hungarian economy is doing well, and that the demand for export by air ...
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Airfreight spot market price enquiries improve compared with ocean
Interest in using airfreight instead of ocean freight improved as last year progressed, according to price enquiry data from booking portal Freightos.The online booking portal said that it saw a spike in price enquiries for using airfreight services in September last year, with airfreight’s percentage of overall spot quotes requested ...
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Voting now open for the Cargo Airline of the Year Awards
Air Cargo News is delighted to announce that voting has now opened for the 2017 Cargo Airline of the Year Awards.Now in their 34th year, the Cargo Airline of the Year Awards are the most coveted accolades celebrating excellence in the air cargo industry.Each year, customers vote for their favourite ...
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WAITING FOR EXTRA INFO Gefco teams-up with UK pharma organisation
Gefco Forwarding UK has become a patron of Medilink East Midlands (EM), an organisation that helps new start-ups in the healthcare industry establish themselves, develop and grow.The forwarder has worked with the organisation for two years, and the new patronage comes as Gefco looks to develop its Life Sciences and ...
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DHL promotion for Goh in Asia Pacific
DHL has appointed Alfred Goh as Regional Head of Customer Solutions and Innovation (CSI) Asia Pacific, providing the company's largest and strategically important customers with simplified access to the full offering of DHL across the business units: express, forwarding, warehouse management to e-commerce services.Goh will also maintain his position as ...
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Kerry Logistics snaps up German film and media specialist
Kerry Logistics Network, the Asia-based service provider, has further expanded its European operations by acquiring Germany’s Multi Logistics, a specialist film and media logistics provider with 30 years’ experience in the sector.The expansion will add four offices and bring in additional logistics expertise to Kerry Logistics’ existing resources and network ...
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China Airlines and Japan Airlines to strengthen cargo and passenger cooperation
Taiwan's China Airlines and Japan Airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their strategic cooperation on cargo and passenger operations.No details were given on the cargo aspect of the cooperation which may have significant benefits for the Japanese carrier. JAL does not operate freighters at present but ...
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Year of steady growth for dnata
Dubai-based passenger and cargo handler dnata has called 2016 a “year of steady growth” despite challenges in the aviation industry and “increased economic pressures around the globe”.The Emirates Group ground handling subsidiary closed 2016 with 419,133 tonnes of cargo at Dubai International Airport (DXB) which is a monthly average of ...
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Brussels airport's 2016 cargo volumes boosted by freighter and pharma
Brussels Airport saw a 1.1% rise in cargo volumes during 2016 to 494,637 tons, helped by strong performances in the pharmaceuticals sector and also by a double digit percentage rise in loads carried by freighter aircraft.A spokesperson for the European cargo hub said: “Strong figures were noted, particularly in the ...
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Vienna announces expansion of air cargo facilities
Vienna Airport has announced plans to expand its air cargo facilities by one third as demand continues to improve.The Austrian airport said the project would expand its Air Cargo Center by 15,000 sq m at a cost of around €16m.At present around 800 tonnes of freight are handled by the ...
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India plans new community system to improve air cargo efficiency
The Indian government will develop an air cargo community system through a public private partnership to try and reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of processing airfreight shipments.A report by an Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation committee said that it backed having a single window system for the air ...
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Asia Pacific carriers record another cargo improvement in November
Asian carriers continued to benefit from improving air cargo market conditions in November but global trade remains soft.The latest update from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines shows that airlines in the region registered a 5.3% year-on-year improvement in cargo demand in November “underpinned by broad-based improvements in new export ...
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Air cargo has the best peak season in years
The latest figures from analyst WorldACD show that the air cargo industry had the "best peak season in years" in 2016, with demand growth recovering from a slow start and yields improving at their fastest pace since 2010.The latest data from the analyst shows that demand in tonnage terms in ...
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IAG Cargo in charitable transport of blankets and sleeping bags
IAG Cargo has transported a charitable collection of blankets and sleeping bags from across the IAG family for special causes in Kenya.IAG Cargo shipped 4 pallets of 400 cabin blankets and 150 crew sleeping bags from London to Nairobi for Kenyan school children in need.The donation traveled 4,255 miles and ...