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FedEx opts for long-term peak season freighter deal with Atlas
FedEx has moved to a long-term agreement with lessor Atlas Air to provide it with extra freighter aircraft to cover extra demand during the peak shipping season.Atlas Air revealed today that it had entered into a five-year agreement with FedEx Express that will see it provide the parcel giant with ...
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ABX Air to start new daily airfreight operation
ABX Air will start running a daily airfreight service from Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) in September for a mystery customer.The airline will begin operations from the airport on September 8 using Boeing 767 freighters, with plans to expand flights to five times per day by the end of the ...
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Antonov signs deal with China to build giant An-225 freighters
Ukrainian plane maker Antonov has signed a cooperation agreement with Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC) to build a second An-225 giant 'Mriya' freighter — and prepare the way for a series of the 250 tonne cargo capacity aircraft to be built in China.In a short statement on its website, ...
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Antonov will move to ground Volga-Dnepr's An-124s only if support functions are moved
Antonov has moved to clarify that it has not yet asked for a ban on Volga-Dnepr flying An-124 aircraft and will only do so if the Russian airline moves support functions for the aircraft to another company.In response to press reports that the Ukrainian company will attempt to gain a ...
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Ancra wins B737-800 loading system contract for converted freighters
Ancra International will provide the cargo loading system for the new Boeing 737-800BCF (Boeing conversion freighter) aircraft as a Boeing Supplier Furnished Equipment (SFE).Boeing Commercial Aviation Services made the appointment of Ancra, which has delivered 550 cargo loading systems for Boeing’s 737 and 757 airplanes. More than 900 freighters currently ...
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Liege to be Africa hub for NAS
Liege Airport has signed a new partnership with Network Airline Services (NAS) to make the Belgian gateway its hub for Africa and to increase flights to Angola.London-based NAS has, since setting up its operation in Liege in May 2014, transported over 90,000 tonnes of freight through Liege on its worldwide ...
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Intrepid orders B747-8Fs for long-term lease
Intrepid Aviation has switched an order for Boeing 777-300 aircraft to B747-800 freighters for lease on a long-term basis.The aircraft lessor said that it would switch two of six B777-300ER aircraft it has on order to two B747-8F aircraft to be delivered in 2017 and subject to long-term lease with ...
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Ancra gains AEI cargo loading order for converted B737-800s
Ancra International will provide the cargo loading system for Aeronautical Engineers Inc’s (AEI) new 737-800 passenger to freighter (P2F) converted aircraft.This new contract comes on top of similar deals with Boeing and Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI).Ancra currently supplies the cargo loading systems for all of AEI’s 737-300, 737-400, MD80SF, and ...
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GECAS places first B737-800NG with ASL
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed its first Boeing 737-800NG passenger-to-freighter converted aircraft with Dublin-based ASL Aviation Group. The agreement covers the lease of two 737-800NG freighters.In May this year, ASL acquired the airline operations of TNT Express and entered a multi-year service agreement to operate flights for the ...
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Judge rules that ATSG dispute with pilots should go to arbitration
A judge has ruled that the dispute between US freighter lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) and its pilots should be resolved through a grievance and arbitration process.Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said that the dispute is a minor dispute under ...
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Canadian transport minister 'miscommunicated' on foreign ownership rules for cargo carriers
Foreign owners will be able to take up to a 49% stake in Canadian cargo airlines, the government has confirmed after an earlier policy "miscommunication".Canada’s transport minister Marc Garneau has clarified his earlier statement that seemed to suggest that a raising of the cap on foreign ownership, from 25% to ...
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Ex-Delta cargo boss Neel Jones Shah joins the Amerijet board
Ex-Delta cargo boss Neel Jones Shah has been appointed to the board of managers at the parent group of Amerijet, the Miami based scheduled freighter operator.Shah’s appointment, “to help the company fulfil its strategic growth objectives and operational goals” follows a change of ownership at Amerijet in the summer of ...
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Matheson wins Cathay handling at Portland
Matheson Flight Extenders has signed a freight consolidation agent agreement with Cathay Pacific to provide US import/export air cargo services at Portland International Airport in Oregon.Cathay Pacific Cargo this month (November) launched a twice-weekly scheduled Boeing 747-8 freighter service between its Hong Kong home hub and Portland, the Asian carrier’s ...
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AirBridgeCargo beats annual tonnage record
Fast growing AirBridgeCargo beat its annual tonnage record last month, its thirteenth consecutive year of growth, as it continues to expand fleet and network.The all-cargo airline recorded a 30% improvement in demand in October to 57,608 tonnes bringing its total for the first ten months of the year to 498,177 ...
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Hong Kong joins Shanghai with bumper October cargo volumes
China’s top two cargo hubs, Hong Kong and Shanghai, both enjoyed bumper volume rises in October.Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 420,000 tonnes of cargo, up 7.1% from the same period last year, while year to date volumes grew 1.9% to 3.7m tonnes compared with previous year.A spokesperson for HKIA ...
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CEVA sees airfreight improvement but stays in the red
CEVA Logistics recorded double-digit airfreight growth during the third quarter of the year but revenues declined on currency effects and it reported another loss.The world’s twelfth largest airfreight forwarder recorded a 1.2% year-on-year decline in revenues during the period to $1.7bn and its net loss for the period stood at ...
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Shanghai's PACTL had a record breaking October for airfreight
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal Co Ltd (PACTL) handled 153,607 tonnes in October, a volume growth of 8.9% year-on-year and the highest monthly tonnage in the ground handler’s history.The largest provider of air cargo handling services at Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) recorded a 3.2% rise in tonnages year ...
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NewsRapid growth and need for speed fuels DHL's Leipzig investment
When DHL Express first announced plans to switch its main European hub to Germany’s Leipzig-Halle Airport in 2005 it was hard to imagine how quickly freight tonnages would increase once the facility was open.In 2007, the year before the new DHL hub was opened, the airport handled 101,364 tonnes. In ...
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Lufthansa Cargo re-signs for innovation scheme
Lufthansa Cargo has signed up to once again participate in a scheme to identify companies with innovative ideas that could be applicable to the air cargo supply.The Logistics Tech Accelerator programme from US firm RocketSpace helps identify and select young technology companies to help bring their ideas and visions of ...
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Jaw dropping transport for An-124
An 88-tonne ‘jaw crusher’ used for gold mining has arrived at Russia’s Sokol Airport in Magadan onboard one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ An-124-100 freighters.The jaw crusher, which was transported along with other equipment and tooling from Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg, will be used for primary ore crushing during the gold ...