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NewsWeak April for air cargo in Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific air cargo markets remained weak in April, failing to keep pace with rising passenger demand, according to the latest monthly statistics from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).April saw the region's airlines carry 24.2m international passengers, a 4.8% increase compared to the same month last year, on ...
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Its a trough life: Heathrow's HOGS making a meal of 25 years
A fine dining and good fellowship institution is celebrating 25 glorious years at Heathrow in early June.The HOGS, which in less politically correct times stood for Heathrow Old Guys/Gits/Gals Society, started in 1991 when 17 “freight chaps” got together for a dinner at The Crown hostelry in Horton, near Heathrow.Dave ...
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Double decker container carrier hits the road
A double deck trailer which can carry up to 13 AKE air cargo containers with a 60% reduction in carbon emissions has been designed to transport ULDs between Japan’s Haneda and Narita airports.Designed and built by Van Eck, the Netherlands-based road-transport equipment specialist, the customised trailer was commissioned by Japan’s ...
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Tim Scharwath to be boss of DHL Global Forwarding, Freight
Deutsche Post has appointed Tim Scharwath as the new chief executive of its DHL Global Forwarding, Freight division.Scharwath will join the German logistics giant “within the next twelve months”. In the meantime Frank Appel, chief executie of Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL) retains responsibility for this divisionScharwath joins from rival ...
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NewsASL confirms purchase of TNT Express airline operations
ASL Aviation Group of Ireland has acquired the airline operations of TNT Express, comprising TNT Airways in Belgium and Pan Air Líneas Aéreas in Spain.The two airlines are to be renamed ASL Airlines Belgium and ASL Airlines Spain respectively, bringing the number of airlines in ASL's portfolio to nine.ASL’s offer ...
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IAG cargo says hello to Santiago
IAG Cargo will launch a new passenger route to Chile from winter 2016, becoming the only carrier to fly directly from London Heathrow to Santiago International Airport.With the four times a week bellyhold freight service, IAG Cargo – the freight arm of British Airways (BA), Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus ...
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HNA looks to tap into Portuguese airline
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, which owns ground handler Swissport, is preparing to take a stake of up to 20% in Portuguese national airline TAP, according to French news agency AFP.It is reported that HNA will buy an initial 7% stake in Atlantic Gateway, the private consortium that owns 61% of ...
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Davies Turner boosted by lifting of Iranian sanctions
Freight forwarder Davies Turner is slowly seeing improvements in its volumes to and from Iran following the lifting of sanctions.The UK-based company first established its Tehran office in the country in the mid-1960s and has maintained a presence since then.The company said its market knowledge and understanding of local rules ...
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Chapman Freeborn utilises AN-225 for transport from Germany to Abu Dhabi
Chapman Freeborn and Fiege Logistics Switzerland have successfully completed a project to transport outsize oil and gas equipment totalling 232 tons from Germany to Abu Dhabi.Chapman Freeborn utilised an Antonov AN-225 freighter and an additional Boeing B747-400F aircraft to deliver the time-critical cargo from and Frankfurt–Hahn Airport to Abu Dhabi ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds new weekly freighter service from US to Middle East
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) will today introduce a new weekly US-Europe-Middle East-Russia service aimed to cater for the oil and gas industries.The service will set off from Houston on Monday evenings before heading to Chicago, Luxembourg and then onto Abu Dhabi before returning via Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.ABC vice president North and ...
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Is there a future for unmanned air cargo operations?
It will not be long until Google cars are driving us to work and we won’t have to get out of our armchairs to answer the door to blustering delivery drivers as drones land on our lawns to drop off the latest order from Amazon, or so the vision goes. ...
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John Good Air achieves IATA agency accreditation
Recently launched airfreight agent John Good Air has achieved its IATA cargo accreditation, allowing it deal with registered airlines and agents.The accreditation provides John Good Air with industry recognition of its financial and professional competence.The company said one of the benefits of becoming an accredited agent is that members are ...
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Air India settlement brings US antitrust litigation to a close
The final defendant in the long-running air cargo shipping antitrust litigation, Air India, has reached a settlement agreement with plaintiffs.Law firm Robins Kaplan LLP announced yesterday evening that Air India has agreed to pay $12.5m to bring the decade long litigation over an alleged air cargo cartel to a close.The ...
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Cargo partnership trend continues as ANA-United finally reveal start date for transpac tie-up
The ongoing ANA Cargo and United Cargo transpacific partnership will finally launch in July, 18 months after news of the tie-up first broke.ANA said the two airlines had finally signed the partnership contract on March 30 and they planned to launch the tie-up on July 5.Joint sales and aligned operations ...
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CEVA looks to ease complex Brazilian Customs processes
CEVA Logistics has updated its Customs clearance operation in Brazil as it attempts to streamline country’s complex and changing processes.The forwarder said the complex nature of Brazilian Customs processes can lead to delays for those companies not working with a partner who is fully conversant in all aspects of their ...
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Brussels' cargo traffic continues to recover after March attacks
Cargo traffic at Brussels airport continued to recover in April after the terrorist attacks in March.The airport said that in April cargo volumes were down 4.8% year on year to 39,129 tons as passenger operations were closed until April 3 and took a while longer to fully recover after that ...
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PEMCO makes latest conversion delivery to SF Airlines
PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) has redelivered a Boeing 737-300 freighter aircraft to fast expanding Chinese express carrier SF Airlines.The conversion was carried out by PEMCO partner STAECO in Jinan Shandong, China, and its redelivery marks the fifteenth B737-300/400 converted by the company for SF Airlines since 2013.Four more PEMCO ...
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Shippers can track key airfreight rates with new index
A new air cargo freight rate index is set to provide transparency on general cargo pricing on key city pairs.Aimed at shippers, freight forwarders and financial analysts, the TAC Index is a weekly snapshot compiled on actual physical transactions for selected air cargo routes."Air Cargo is taking a step closer ...
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Silk Way freighter crashes on take-off in Afghanistan
A Silk Way-owned freighter has reportedly crashed in Afghanistan, killing seven of its nine crew members.The exact details of what happened to the aircraft have yet to emerge, but new agency Reuters and Azerbaijani publications are quoting the State Aviation Administration (ASAA) as saying an Antanov-12 aircraft crashed when taking ...
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FedEx ups support of Duke of Edinburgh Award charity
FedEx Express has stepped up its sponsorship of Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award charity to become a gold partner.Though its sponsorship, FedEx Express is supporting the charity's Diamond Anniversary Ambition to encourage two million more young people to a DofE award by 2020.DofE Awards are given to young people aged ...