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Bangladesh's forwarders call for more charter flights amidst capacity shortage
Bangladesh-based freight forwarders are calling for the government to speed up the approval of cargo charter flights as they face an airfreight capacity shortage.In written comments seen by Air Cargo News, the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA) wrote to one of the Bangladesh’s leading newspapers calling on the government to ...
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Wilson appointed divisional director of Toll Global Express
Australia's Toll Group, owned by Japan Post, has appointed Bruce Wilson as divisional director of Toll Global Express, effective immediately.Wilson has been acting in this role since April, managing the express freight operations and business logistics solutions in Australia, including the Toll IPEC, Toll People and Toll Priority businesses.Wilson’s career, ...
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GSF adds new board member
The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has welcomed to its board Sean Van Dort – Chairman of the Sri Lankan Shippers’ Council.Van Dort is head of commercial & logistics at MAS Holdings, a $1.6bn conglomerate, positioned as one of the world’s most recognised design–to-delivery solution providers in the clothing and textile ...
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Panalpina moves Cairo operations to the new cargo city location
Panalpina Egypt has moved its country head office and all of its Cairo operations to the newly developed Cairo Cargo City at Cairo International airport.Fouad A. AbouElela, country head of sales and marketing, said: “Being in the heart of action and close to the government’s business related entities, such as ...
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East Midlands Airport to close at weekends for runway refurbishment
East Midlands Airport in the UK will close at the weekends during November and December as its runway undergoes refurbishment.The refurbishment will be completed over seven consecutive weekends, a UK first for airport runway refurbishment projects, meaning that the airport will be closed to all traffic for 48 hours each ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Boeing confirms Volga-Dnepr deal, conversions snapped up
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Boeing signs freighter-logistics deal with Volga-DneprAs previously reported by Air Cargo News, Boeing signed a deal at the Farnborough Airshow with Russian heavylift airline Volga-Dnepr Group for 20 747-8 Freighters, including four that have already been delivered. ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo looks forward to new A350s
Virgin Atlantic’s cargo division is looking forward to extra capacity and increased fuel efficiency of the 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft that were ordered at last month's Farnborough International Airshow.The airline said the $4.4bn investment is part of a fleet modernisation programme, which will see 50% of Virgin Atlantic’s aircraft replaced ...
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IAG Cargo adds new freighter services through DHL partnership
IAG Cargo has announced it will begin offering two new European freighter services through its shared capacity agreement with DHL.One of the services will fly between Madrid and Amsterdam and the other will add a stop in Paris CDG to an existing London Luton-Frankfurt flight that IAG offers through its ...
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Dimerco adds new India office
Taiwanese logistics company Dimerco is opening a new office in Hyderabad, India, to cater for a major customer.The new office is being opened in line with one of its mobile phone customers decision to establish a new production facility in the city.It will also strengthen Dimerco's customs brokerage service.Dimerco India ...
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IAG Cargo and Exelsius announce next GDP Academy
Following the success of their recent workshops in London and Hyderabad, IAG Cargo and Exelsius Consultancy have announced that their next GDP Academy training workshop will take place in Dublin, Ireland.Scheduled for 28-29 September at the Radisson Blu hotel at Dublin Airport, the Good Distribution Practice Academy combines classroom training ...
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NewsDachser appoints Krüger as EMEA MD
Thomas Krüger has been appointed managing director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business unit at German-owned forwarder Dachser Air and Sea Logistics.He has held a variety of management positions at the company, and was most recently responsible for the Northern Central Europe region. He succeeds Rüdiger Klug, ...
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Cathay’s cargo revenue slips in weak market
Cathay Pacific Group’s cargo revenue fell away by 17.2% in the first six months of 2016, to HK$9.4bn, said the Hong Kong carrier.Cargo capacity on Cathay Pacific and Dragonair increased by 0.6% while load factor decreased by 1.9 percentage points, to 62.2% and tonnage carried decreased by 0.2%.Cathay attributed the ...
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Finnair unveils plan to save €20m a year as cargo market remains uncertain
Finnair unveiled a €20m cost efficiency programme on the same day that it announced its half-year results, in which it admitted that the outlook for cargo and passenger traffic in its main markets remains uncertain.The Finnish flag carrier said that while savings programmes in 2011-14 have improved its performance, it ...
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Cargo demand weakens at Brussels Airport as airlines reduce services
UPDATE: Brussels Airport saw cargo volumes decline in July as airlines reduced services and cancelled flights in response to weakening demand.The European airport saw total cargo volumes decline by 8.8% year on year in July to 39,689 tons. The largest decrease in percentage terms was felt by its belly cargo ...
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Japan gives go-ahead for Iberia to join airline grouping
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has extended anti-trust immunity to include Spanish flag carrier Iberia in the cooperation between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair.It will allow the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan, including a new service between Madrid and Tokyo ...
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Jet-setters lift ACS business
London-based Air Charter Service had its best month on record in July, despite a fall in UK cargo business.Group chief executive, Justin Bowman said the company had organised more than 1,100 charters in the month, or one every 36 minutes.He added: “Full cargo charter numbers did appear to suffer a ...
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Good day for American in London
American Airlines Cargo shipped a record 575,000lbs (260,000kg) of freight and mail from London Heathrow (LHR) in a single day on Sunday 31 July, setting a new daily record for the station.American Airlines, which completed a merger with US Airways last year, broke its previous daily record in London in ...
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Tech loss drags down Air T
US-based overnight air cargo and aviation support company Air T reported a loss of $3.68 million in the first quarter of the 2016/17 financial year, which ended June 30.However, the figures included those of new acquisition Delphax Technologies, which ran up an operating loss of $6.9m including $5.6m in impairment ...
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Ceva appoints specialist in Costa Rica
Ceva Logistics has appointed Willie Parra Fonseca as country manager Costa Rica, based at the San José office.A specialist in retail, fast-moving consumer goods, technology, life science and healthcare, he has an extensive track record in project management and the design and implementation of distribution centres in Latin America.He reports ...
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Çelebi chief Onno Boots steps down
Çelebi Aviation chief executive Onno Boots has stepped down but will continue as a consultant to the Turkish-owned handling company for its planned initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.He has been at the helm of Çelebi Aviation Holdings Group since 2014.Çelebi added that it expects a new chief executive to be ...