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Kenya Airways adds its thoughts on the wildlife preservation issue
Kenya Airways was one of the cargo carriers that put their name to the United for Wildlife declaration signed at Buckingham Palace earlier this week.The Nairobi-based airline was represented by group managing director and chief executive Mbuvi Ngunze, who signed the document along with 40 other representatives from transport, conservation ...
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MIQ Logistics warns of summer supply chain disruption as Chinese factories close for G20 summit
Freight forwarder MIQ Logistics has warned of potential supply chain disruption this summer as Shanghai factories are closed ahead of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou.The forwarder said that its Shanghai office was receiving reports that factories in Shanghai and Hangzhou were being instructed by officials to prepare for slowdowns and ...
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Airbus points to the potential of the Indian aviation market
By pretty much any measure, the Indian aviation market is going to be huge in the decades to come, and the airfreight industry will be looking to take its share of the pie.European aviation giant Airbus points out, for example, that driven by a rapidly expanding population and particularly its ...
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Eurogate to launch forwarding services in Iran
Freight forwarder Eurogate Logistics is launching services in Iran, including airfreight, as it looks to take advantage of the lifting of sanctions in the country.Eurogate said that in response to the easing of sanctions earlier this year, had established a local network in Iran, which is able to offer freight ...
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Shanghai Pudong has strong February
Shanghai Pudong International airport handled 194,300 tonnes of air cargo in February, down by 12.6% on the same month of 2015.Nearly 144,000 tonnes of this total was carried on international services.The result was disappointing, particularly in the light of the strong start that had been made to the year.In January, ...
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Cargo Composites launches new Flyweight AKH container
Charleston, South Carolina-headquartered ULD and pallet manufacturer Cargo Composites announced during this week’s IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Berlin (held between 15-17 March) that it is beginning series production on an entirely new lightweight container for narrowbody aircraft.The company says that the Flyweight AKH container weighs just 53kg, yet ...
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Düsseldorf Airport gains CEIV Pharma certification
Düsseldorf Airport Cargo GmbH (FDCG) has been granted Center of Excellence of Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma validation by IATA. The airport operator becomes the first company in Germany to gain the trade association’s approval for its safe and stringent handling of these highly sensitive products.Gerton Hulsman, CEO of the airport’s ...
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Lufthansa Cargo names new area managers
Lufthansa Cargo has appointed new area managers for its Europe & Africa and the Americas regions, as well as a new head of global handling management.On June 1 this year, Achim Martinka will take charge of sales and handling in the Europe & Africa region, succeeding Carsten Wirths.Since October 2010, ...
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SIA struggles in tough times
Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) had another difficult month in February, if its recently released traffic figures are anything to go by.Capacity, as measured in available tonne-km, rose 4.9% year on year to 804.6m, while flown cargo as measured in freight tonne-km was down 2.3% year on year to 474.7m. ...
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FedEx reports strong third-quarter results, but FedEx Freight suffers
FedEx has released its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year, the three months covering the December 1-February 29 period.Adjusted operating income rose 19% year over year to reach $1.16bn, primarily due to improved yield management and the continued positive impacts from profit improvement programme initiatives at ...
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ACI reports on moderate gains in January for cargo gateways
Airports Council International (ACI), the industry body that represents airports around the world, has revealed that its gateways saw comparatively little in the way of year on year freight growth in January. Across all its member airports worldwide, cargo traffic rose 1.5% over the first month of 2015 compared to ...
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PACTL becomes first Chinese air cargo terminal to gain CEIV
Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport Cargo Terminal (Pactl) has successfully completed the validation process to obtain IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) in Pharmaceutical Logistics.As a result, Pactl now operates the first Chinese air cargo terminal that has obtained the CEIV certification.“Having satisfied the IATA CEIV Pharma regulations, our ...
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Turkish Cargo makes promising start to 2016
Turkish Cargo carried a total of 111,691 tons of cargo in the first two months of this year, up 14.6% on the same period of 2015. Of that, 103,309 tons of cargo was carried on international services, 8,382 tons on domestic routes.Considering regional performance, volumes carried within the Middle East ...
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Brussels Airlines: “dynamic and competitive”
Brussels Airlines has published financial results for 2015 that show turnover rose by 6.9% compared to 2014 to reach €1.27bn, while net profit totalled €41.3m.Due to what is perceived to have been a successful repositioning in the market and ongoing cost control measures, “Our efforts to make Brussels Airlines a ...
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Gebrüder Weiss reveals healthy 2015 results
Lauterach, Austria-headquartered international transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has said that its 2015 fiscal year figures prove that it “surpassed the result of the previous year and successfully strengthened its position in several growth markets and sectors”. Enjoying a year on year increase of 3%, the group has revealed ...
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CHEP and Cargolux extend their collaboration up to 2020
Luxembourg-headquartered Boeing 747 freight operator Cargolux and CHEP Aerospace Solutions , a provider of outsourced ULD pooling and repair services, have signed a new agreement to extend their existing collaborative deal out to 2020.Cargolux has been a CHEP client since 2009; in fact, it is one of CHEP’s biggest customers. ...
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Brussels handles major horse shipment
On the morning of 16 March, a Boeing 747-400F took off from Brussels airport destined for the Middle East carrying 86 horses in what was the largest shipment of horses in one aircraft for many years.Steven Polmans, head of cargo at Brussels Airport Company, remarked: “A horse transport of this ...
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Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings fall 40% in 2015
Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings contribution to the parent group airline declined 40% to €74m in full year 2015 as seasonal “sizeable overcapacities” in the airfreight market hit load factors and yields.In addition to the excess capacity from the beginning of the summer onwards, cargo earnings were also depressed by the strike ...
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Heathrow offers another weapon in fight against cargo-related emissions
London Heathrow has revealed plans to create an online portal aimed at consolidating freight loads and thereby lessen the number of trucks and volume of unwanted emissions on the roads around the airport. Encouraging freight company partners to operate sustainably is one of the ten priorities that Heathrow has set ...
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Aviation industry gets together to combat wildlife trafficking
A total of 40 public and private sector bodies, many of them major players within the global transport industry, have signed a declaration at Buckingham Palace in the heart of London that will help tackle the illegal trafficking of wildlife products. At the palace for the signing was Britain’s Duke ...