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Hartsfield-Jackson honours air cargo heroes
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber handed out a string of awards to heroes of its local airfreight industry on May 4 and vowed to push the gateway up the US cargo league table.The annual ATL Cargo Awards celebration at the Airport’s North Cargo facility honoured ...
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China to invest billions in aviation
China is to invest 77 billion yuan ($11.9 billion) in aviation infrastructure this year, according to reports by the official Xinhua news agency.The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said the investment would focus initially at 11 new airport construction projects along with 52 upgrades to existing facilities.Part of the ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Turkish takes 26 Boeings
Record delivery to Turkish AirlinesBoeing is to deliver six 777-300ERs and 20 Next-Generation 737-800s to Turkish Airlines in 2016, a record for the carrier, said the US plane builder on 29 April. The new aircraft will be used on the carrier’s domestic and international long and short-haul services.Turkish Airlines’ chief ...
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DHL pilots balloted on strike action
Nearly 2,000 pilots at four of DHL’s five North American carriers - Atlas Air, Southern Air, Polar Air, ABX - are being balloted on strike action in a dispute over working conditions. Pilots at a fifth DHL carrier – Kalitta Air - have already voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ...
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German rail to sell a minority stake in Schenker
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) has confirmed plans to push ahead with the sale of a stake in its DB Schenker forwarding and logistics arm.It confirmed today (5 May) that the management board is to develop an implementation plan for a third-party minority holding in DB Schenker, as well as its ...
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TNT to sell overnight arm
TNT Express is to sell its TNT Innight overnight distribution subsidiary to private equity firm Special Situations Venture Partners III. TNT, which recently announced the approval of the Chinese competition authorfities of its acquisition by FedEx, said it wanted concentrate resources on strengthening its core express delivery activities. TNT Innight ...
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NewsIATA: 2016 shaping up to be a tough year for air cargo
IATA has warned 2016 is shaping up to be another tough year for air cargo as airfreight volumes fell in March.The latest statistics from the industry organisation show that cargo volumes decline by 2% year on year in March in freight tonne km (FTK) terms.Freight capacity (AFTK) during the month ...
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Time to take stock of e-AWB progress, says Champ’s new sales chief
Rather than wait for the proportion of the world’s airfreight using e-air waybills to tick up slowly towards a so-called ‘critical mass’ it is perhaps time to stop and ask why things are not working, says Nicholas Xenocostas, the new sales chief at Champ Cargosystems.It’s not that there has been ...
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Seko finds UK aerospace home
Seko Logistics has opened its first Centre of Excellence for the UK aerospace and aviation sector at Farnborough Airport near London.Seko already has similar centres in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, while its global aerospace and aviation headquarters is in Dallas, the second largest aerospace market in the world.Farnborough ...
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Terror attacks hit Brussels Airlines cargo Q1 results
Brussels Airlines says its cargo traffic in March was sharply down, due to the terrorist attacks on its home airport on March 22.The Lufthansa Group subsidiary said that cargo traffic was largely interrupted after that date and that the total of 2,609 tonnes reflected a decrease of 21% compared with ...
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Freight Transport Association backs Heathrow expansion call
The UK’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) says that a call by the Transport Committee to stop putting off the decision to expand Heathrow Airport echoes a request it made 12 months ago.In a report published today, the committee backed expansion at Heathrow, following on from a similar call by the ...
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Halonen is forwarder’s Mr Multimodal
Swedish-based forwarder Greencarrier Freight Services has promoted Jarmo Halonen to chief operating officer, with combined responsibility for the air, ocean, road and rail freight activities.This is the first time the four modes have been brought under the control of one director.Halonen, formerly group director road freight, says: "We felt that ...
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Meeting of minds in Miami
Representatives from Tokyo Narita International Airport met their opposite numbers at Miami-Dade Aviation Department officials at the US city’s international airport on April 28 to learn about cargo operations and redevelopment plans.Miami is the busiest US airport for international freight and tenth in the world - the only US airport ...
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Mixed first quarter fortunes for Frankfurt
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport said it had mixed financial results in a challenging business environment in its interim report for the first quarter of 2016.With passenger traffic still growing - up 3.3% year-on-year, Fraport achieved higher revenue from airport and infrastructure charges as well as from aircraft handling, but this ...
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NewsChina Southern, Air China and SIA see cargo return to growth in March
There was a slight improvement in the fortunes of some of Asia’s largest cargo carriers in March as three airlines saw demand increase against last year, but declines were registered at a further four companies.The region’s largest cargo carrier Cathay Pacific saw demand decrease by 4.1% year on year in ...
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Freighter conversion frenzy continues with Automatic order
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc (AEI) has signed a contract with US and European leasing company Automatic for two 11-pallet-position B737-400SF freighter conversions.Both aircraft were built in 1993, are standard gross weight and the work will be carried out by AEI's modification and repair specialist Commercial Jet at its Miami facility.The aircraft ...
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New freight director for Air Partner
Aviation services group Air Partner has appointed Mike Hill as director of freight for the group.He joined the company in 2007 when he set up Air Partner’s freight office in Germany from scratch and, in 2014, was promoted to regional freight director – Europe.He will continue to be based at ...
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Transport committee backs Heathrow expansion and urges UK government to avoid further delays
The UK transport committee has backed the expansion of Heathrow airport and warned that any further delays in making a decision could result in lost growth.A Transport Select Committee today issued a report on its investigation into airport expansion in the UK.The committee backed expansion at Heathrow, following on from ...
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Berlin’s new airport nightmare refuses to go away
In the latest twist in the saga of Berlin’s new airport, prosecutors are investigating reports that an engineer working on Berlin's troubled new Brandenburg airport was poisoned for whistleblowing.According to German media, the man, aged about 50, had been threatening to lift the lid on payments paid to officials involved ...
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Revenue and ton-miles on the slide at US carriers
Cargo revenue at United Airlines was sharply down in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the same period last year.At $194million, it was 19.8% below the $242m realised in the same period in 2015.Cargo ton-miles (CTM) fared slightly better; at 622m CTM, traffic was only 6% down on the ...