Latest news – Page 738
-
News
Chapman Freeborn sells load data arm to dnata
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has sold Air Dispatch, its specialist centralised load control subsidiary, to ground handler and service provider, dnata.Founded in 2007, Air Dispatch calculates the weight and balance conditions for aircraft prior to flight. It produces over 800,000 load-sheets a year and in 2013 became the first dedicated centralised ...
-
News
Keeping walking on down Electric Avenue
Green logistics experts have always been keen on the idea of bikes and similar human-powered deliveries – less so the people who actually have to deliver the packages.Now, though a new consortium including UPS and the University of Huddersfield think they have made a breakthrough – a new generation delivery ...
-
News
Drones could be more than cargo carriers
Much of the interest in drones has centred on their potential as cargo carriers but they could also help keep larger aircraft flying.At the Farnborough Airshow, European plane maker Airbus demonstrated how the lightweight craft, fitted with a high definition camera, could carry out a visual inspection of one of ...
-
News
Kerry round the clock in Schiphol
Asian-owned Kerry Logistics Network can now offer a 24-hour warehouse operation at Amsterdam Schiphol following its move to new premises. Located at Freight Terminal 207, the facility is five minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from the port of RotterdamIt offers 20,000 sq m of warehouse space, 38 loading ...
-
News
Cargo and earnings surge at MAG airports
UK airport group MAG – owner of Manchester, London Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth – reported that its cargo income had grown strongly in the financial year ended 31 March.Continued growth in internet shopping and new routes boosted freight revenue by 7.0% year-on-year to £22.7m, while cargo volume across the ...
-
News
DHL provides airfreight links for mobile phone firm Transsion
DHL Global Forwarding has become the airfreight solutions provider for mobile phone specialist Transsion Holdings.The carrier will provide services from Transsion’s manufacturing base in South China to 28 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, along with seafreight and warehousing in India.Hong Kong based Transsion, which sold 59m cell ...
-
News
Round the world in 80 weeks
Two Swiss pioneers are nearing the end of a round the world flight – without touching a drop of petrol.Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg landed in Egypt after crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Seville in just over 48 hours in their Solar Impulse 2 – the penultimate leg of the ...
-
News
Public would welcome drones, says survey
The public would welcome the use of drones for some commercial purposes, according to a survey carried out on behalf of the Royal Aeronautical Society.The research, conducted by the ComRes on behalf of the society, found that 46% of respondents agreed that drones could make a significant contribution to the ...
-
News
RiverOak consults on Kent air cargo hub
US-owned hedge fund RiverOak is to hold a local public consultation on 18 July on its plans to redevelop the closed Manston Airport in Kent, south-east England, as a cargo hub. It follows publication of a scoping report outlining plans for the site.The scheme, which is subject to a Governmental ...
-
News
Qatar Airways to take LATAM stake
Qatar Airways signed a deal at the Farnborough Air Show today to acquire up to 10% of shares in LATAM.Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker, described the move as “an exciting opportunity to invest and support the development of our long-term relationship. As a leading airline in Latin ...
-
News
Frankfurt freight on the move again
The German Customs computer problem that caused a backlog of import cargo at Frankfurt airport over the weekend has now been cleared, Air Cargo News has learned. However, it will take a few hours to clear the backlog, according to our sister newspaper, DVZ.DVZ reports that handling companies have restarted ...
-
News
United becomes a DHL cool carrier
United Cargo has won one of the first DHL carrier awards for reliability and excellence. Aiming to set a new industry standard for air transport of temperature-sensitive life science products, the accolade was presented at DHL’s recent Global Life Sciences and Healthcare Conference in Miami.Award winners were ranked on performance, ...
-
News
ECS acquires Asia’s AVS
Airfreight general sales and service agency group ECS has acquired Asian specialist AVS, in a deal signed at the latter’s Singapore regional office on 21 June.AVS GSA Group, founded in 2007 and with 100 staff, consolidates cargo from the ASEAN region on its network of flights and interlines to the ...
-
News
Cargo is the rising star in Frankfurt
Cargo at Frankfurt bucked an overall falling trend in June, rising 3.3% to 179,808 tonnes in the month. This was in contrast to a 4.1% drop in passenger numbers, due to weather and strike-related flight cancellations.Cargo in the first half of 2016 also slightly improved, rising 0.7% year on year ...
-
News
Faster than a speeding Boeing
CargoLogicAir is to help the Bloodhound Project in its quest to break the land speed record and to break the 1,000mph barrier. The new British freighter operator has signed a memorandum of understanding as the exclusive air cargo partner for the attempt to set a new world land speed record ...
-
News
Boeing sees uptick in freighter demand but prices slump
US plane-maker Boeing has marginally increased its forecast for world freighter demand in the latest edition of its Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2016-35.It predicted that replacement of ageing airplanes, and growth, would create a demand for 2,370 freighter deliveries over the next 20 years to 2025. Of these, 1,440 ...
-
News
Jumbo freighter set for Indian summer in Russia?
The Boeing 747 may be in retreat as a passenger plane but the freighter version could receive a boost if Boeing signs a deal with Russian carrier Volga Dnepr at the UK's Farnborough Airshow tomorrow.News agency reports suggest that the US plane maker is expected to firm up at least ...
-
News
More and bigger planes, predicts Airbus
European aircraft-maker Airbus predicted that the global market would grow at an average 4.5% a year to 33,000 new planes by 2035.In its report published at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, the Toulouse-based pan-European company added that the estimated $5trn order book would include 645 freighters with capacity of ...
-
News
Qatar becomes cargo carrier number three
Qatar Airways Cargo became the third-largest cargo operator in the world in October 2015, said the Middle East carrier in its 2015/16 annual report.In what it described as a record year, Qatar increased its dedicated freighter destinations to 54, adding Dallas, Budapest, Prague, Ho Chi Minh City, and New York ...
-
News
Luxembourg pilots join call for Mid East carrier curbs
The Luxembourg pilots’ association has joined a group calling for fair competition in European aviation, which they argue is "competing with the state-funded airlines of the Gulf region".The Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) said that it, together with other pilot associations and the European Cockpit Association, had become ...