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NewsWorld's Top 75 Cargo Airports 2015
Air Cargo News has put together a list of the world's top 75 busiest cargo airports in 2015. See below.
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Copenhagen expands network coverage
Looking back over the first half of this year, Copenhagen Airport says it had its busiest ever six months.Moreover, over the last 12 months, the airport authority – Copenhagen Airports (CPH) – says that 40 new routes have been launched out of the gateway.As well as new routes opened up ...
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Avinor looks to Asia potential
Avinor, the organisation responsible for managing 46 Norwegian airports, including the country’s busiest air gateway in Oslo, has prioritised efforts to improve air connections between Norway and Asia, pointing to potential benefits for both passengers and freight.As part of this strategy, Avinor appointed Ulv Elbirk in a consultancy role as ...
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Swiss to suspend Istanbul connection but seeks to continue serving the Turkish cargo market
Swiss International Air Lines has confirmed that it will cut its double daily Zurich-Istanbul Ataturk service from the beginning of this year’s winter schedule.According to a spokesperson for the carrier: “SWISS has decided to remove Istanbul from its programme with effect from winter 2016/17. All our destinations are subject to ...
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LATAM freight traffic on the slide
LATAM Cargo, the freight wing of Latin American carrier LATAM, flew 274m cargo ton miles in July, down by 9.5% on the same month of 2015.With capacity as measured by available ton kilometres down by 6.4% year on year, the cargo load factor also declined – by 1.6 percentage points ...
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San Francisco cargo volumes hold steady over fiscal year
Sa Francisco International Airport handled 39,283 tonnes of cargo (freight and mail) in June, up by 9.6% over the same month of 2015.Approximately two-thirds of the cargo was moving on international routes, one-third of it on domestic lanes.Over the course of the 2015-16 financial year (the airport’s financial year runs ...
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Air France-KLM Cargo struck by difficult July
In July, Air France-KLM Cargo flew 700m revenue cargo tonne kilometres, 6.7% than in the same month of last year.With capacity down by 3.2% year on year to 1.26bn cargo tonne kilometres, the load factor also deteriorated, by 2.1 percentage points to 55.5%.July’s performance is really only more of the ...
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American Airlines enjoys healthy July traffic
American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015.Over the first seven months of the year, the carrier flew a total of 1.35bn cargo ton miles, representing a year on year improvement of 1.2%.North America rival United Airlines reported similarly ...
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UPS rolls out Worldwide Express Freight offering to another nine countries
Integrator UPS has extended its Worldwide Express Freight service to a further nine countries across North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.New to the network for UPS’s dedicated service for urgent, time-sensitive and high-value international heavy shipments of over 70kg are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, ...
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SEKO Logistics invests in new Hong Kong e-commerce facility
SEKO Logistics has added further warehousing and fulfilment capacity in Hong Kong as part of its effort to develop an ‘e-commerce gateway’ for retail and high-tech customers targeting China’s booming online consumer market.The global logistics services provider’s most recent investment in Hong Kong has seen it open a new 50,000 ...
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Xiamen Airlines opts for EzyCustoms technology to support Canadian network expansion
China’s Xiamen Airlines has begun using the EzyCustoms service offered by Hong Kong’s Global Logistics System (HK), otherwise known as GLS.The carrier has successfully migrated over to the platform, which allows for integration within different Customs environments, GLS – an efreight systems specialist – notes.On July 25, Xiamen Airlines expanded ...
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Fraport reports on sluggish July throughput
Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s busiest airfreight gateway, handled 180,425 tonnes of cargo (freight and mail) in July, up by 1.5% on the same month of 2015.Over the course of the first seven months of this year, the gateway handled 1.23m tonnes of cargo, up by 0.8% year on year.Frankfurt Airport owner ...
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Danske Bank freight forwarding index brings little cheer
Danske Bank Markets’ European Freight Forwarding Index for July has been released and it indicates there was a significant decrease in volumes across all modes during the month.The overall index of July freight forwarding volumes came in at 38 compared with the previous month’s (June’s) figure of 57.In July last ...
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WFS wins new carrier clients in France
Globally active handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won new handling contracts with three very different carriers – Rossiya/Aeroflot, Air India and Icelandair.The deals cover cargo handling at Paris Charles de Gaulle as well as at other WFS airport stations across France.WFS began handling for Air India and Icelandair on ...
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ACI looks back on tough first half of 2016
Airports Council International (ACI) Europe, the airport trade representative body, has released recently collated statistics that show that airfreight traffic across a wide spectrum of European gateways increased by 2.1% year on year over the first half of 2016.Airports in EU member states enjoyed a somewhat more positive 3.2% increase, ...
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Finnair Cargo reaches the heights in July
Finnair Cargo flew 12,925 tonnes of cargo in July, up by 15.9% on the same month of last year.The cargo load factor was 59%, a rise of 2.7% on July 2015.Over the course of the first seven months of this year, Finnair Cargo carried 83,925 tonnes of cargo, representing an ...
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IATA points to cargo traffic improvement, but problems remain
IATA’s latest monthly Airlines Financial Monitor, that for July, has highlighted the fact that freight data it has collected points to “an improvement from the weak conditions seen earlier in 2016”.However, it warned: “Familiar headwinds persist, and low freight loads are keeping downward pressure on cargo yields and revenues.”The seasonally-adjusted ...
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Emirates continues to expand A380 coverage
Following hard on the heels of its announcement that it will move to an all-Airbus A380 operation on its Dubai – Manchester route, Dubai-based Emirates Airline has confirmed that it is to operate the super-jumbo on its connection between Dubai and Guangzhou from October 1.This latest announcement also follows the ...
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Munich Airport offers overview of 2015 operations
Flughafen München GmbH, operator of Bavaria’s Munich International Airport, has published its sixth annual ‘Integrated Report’ on the gateway’s performance and progress made on sustainability.Taking a look back at 2015, the report notes that freight and mail throughput grew by about 10% to reach a new high for a calendar ...
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Lufthansa Cargo seals the deal on time:matters
Lufthansa Cargo has completed its planned acquisition of time:matters, the time-critical international delivery specialist that it span off as a subsidiary in 2002 but in which it retained a 49% share.The 51% balance has now been acquired from investor Aheim Capital and time:matters’ own management team.In late July, Air Cargo ...