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PEMCO on the up
PEMCO World Air Services, the Florida, US-based maintenance and conversion company, enjoyed a successful 2015 fiscal year. It delivered passenger-to-freighter conversions to new as well as long-standing operators, the company confirms, while turnaround time on its B737 cargo door conversion was reduced by 14 days.Lean production procedures were implemented throughout ...
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Jettainer develops new ULD software to assist in fleet management
ULD management firm Jettainer and the University of Cologne are in the process of developing a new tool that will offer live decision making assistance to improve the management of ULD fleets based on analysis of large amounts of data.Jettainer sales director Thorsten Riekert told Air Cargo News that it ...
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DB Schenker bucks the trend on 2015 airfreight volumes
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has released its financial results for the 2015 fiscal year, and those that relate to freight forwarder DB Schenker’s air cargo business are positive. Airfreight volumes handled by Schenker were up 1.4% over the 2014 figure. That’s an impressive result when compared to how some of the ...
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Aircargo Club Deutschland plans new innovation forum
Germany’s air cargo industry is hoping to push forward innovation in the sector through the creation of a new forum.The Aircargo Club Deutschland (ACD) has announced plans to create a new forum named The Future of Air Cargo Supply Chains in an attempt to restore international competitiveness in a “sustainable ...
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NewsAmerican cargo carriers monthly: Tough times for US carriers
America-based airlines’ monthly airfreight statistics for February made for difficult reading as American, Delta and United all recorded year-on-year demand declines for the first time in years.While demand declines are not good news for the airlines, the comparisons with a year ago are affected by the west coast US port ...
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CHAMP and GLS Hong Kong extend their partnership
Luxembourg-headquartered logistics IT systems provider CHAMP Cargosystems has extended its partnership with e-freight specialist Global Logistics System Hong Kong (GLS Hong Kong, or GLSHK) to provide a joint solution designed to enable small and medium-sized freight forwarders in Hong Kong to create and submit electronic air waybills (e-AWB) quickly and ...
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Fraport’s freight volumes fall, but its financials are healthy
Airport operator Fraport has reported that the group’s 2015 annual revenue climbed by 8.4% year-on-year to reach €2.58 billion, while operating profit (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, or ebitda) increased by 7.4% to €848.8 million.The positive business performance was mainly due to increased passenger numbers passing through Frankfurt ...
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SAS opts for lightweight ULDs
Scandinavian airline SAS is extending its contract with ULD service provider CHEP Aerospace Solutions.In future, SAS will use CHEP's 65kg containers which are over 20% lighter than its existing units and as a result will save over 13,000 tonnes of CO2 during the five-year term of the new agreement.SAS head ...
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alpha trans rings the changes
Munich, Germany-headquartered multimodal freight forwarder alpha trans Luft- und Seefrachtspedition has named two joint managing directors to replace its one current managing director, Fred Eichenseher, who retires at the end of 2016.Tim Teubert, one of the two joint MDs, has responsibility for the company’s ocean freight services and administration activities. ...
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Panalpina’s 2015 annual report hits the streets
Global supply chain services giant Panalpina has published its full annual report for 2015. It adds some more flesh to the bones of the summary of 2015’s performance that was released a couple of weeks ago. It also offers some more insight into the company’s plans for the rest of ...
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Tyler addresses issues of German efficiency
Speaking at IATA’s World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Berlin today, the association’s director general and CEO, Tony Tyler, considered the host nation’s aviation transport policy and how the German Government can offer some valuable assistance to the industry by improving its international competitiveness.By way of background, he noted: “Aviation supports ...
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Jettainer and DoKaSch ink new deal at WCS
Jettainer, the Frankfurt-based provider of outsourced ULD management services, and DoKaSch, a Staudt, Germany-headquartered manufacturer and repair service provider of air freight containers and pallets, have signed a new collaborative deal at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) under way in Berlin this week.The aim of this deal is to improve ...
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GSF adds its thoughts on ‘The Value of Air Cargo’
Chris Welsh, secretary general of the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) – the trade body that represents national and reginal shippers – has offered his thoughts on the subject of ‘The Value of Air Cargo’, the tag line of IATA’s World Cargo Symposium taking place in Berlin this week between 15-17 ...
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RJ revels in positive 2015 results
Amman-headquartered Royal Jordanian (RJ) has revealed that the carrier made a net profit before tax of JD21 million (US$30 million) last year, while in 2014 it had registered a net loss before tax of JD49.5 million (US$70 million). The net profit after tax for 2015 was JD16 million (US$22.6 million), ...
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Cathay announces fall in February cargo volumes
Cathay Pacific and sister carrier Dragonair moved a total of 117,299 tonnes of cargo and mail in February, a 10.1% fall on the same month of last year. With capacity, as measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, rising by 1.1%, and the cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres (RTKs) figure ...
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Iron Maiden: the show must go on
Following the much-publicised incident on the ground at Santiago Airport on 12 March that saw rock band Iron Maiden’s customised Boeing 747 – known as Ed Force One – damaged in a collision during ground towing, the group released a statement on its website the same day to say that ...
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Dubai International still on the up
Dubai International airport (DXB) handled 201,483 tonnes of cargo in January 2016, an increase of 8.2% compared to the 186,230 tonnes that passed moved through the gateway in the same month of 2015.The healthy performance of the first month of this year continues a positive trend. Dubai International Airport (DXB) ...
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ICAO: ensuring global connectivity
Fragmented supply chains and infrastructure constraints are preventing local businesses and citizens in some regions from taking full advantage of the benefits of air cargo.That was a key message from ICAO secretary general Fang Liu who addressed the IATA Air Cargo Symposium in Berlin.The head of the United Nations aviation ...
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Remaining elements of ASL join ERA trade body
ASL Aviation Group, plus ASL Airlines Ireland, ASL Airlines Hungary and ACLAS Technics of the UK have joined the other elements of the ASL Aviation Group (namely, ASL Airlines Ireland, ASL Airlines Switzerland and its associated entities as well as ACLAS Global of the UK) as members of the European ...
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Silk Way West opts for Descartes’ Global Air Messaging Gateway
Silk Way West Airlines, part of the Baku, Azerbaijan-headquartered freighter operator Silk Way Group, has begun using Descartes’ cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway. The system will help the carrier achieve “higher standards of service and minimise costs by expanding and automating air cargo communication processes such as the electronic airway ...