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'Marginal' 2015 cargo growth for Asia Pacific airlines
Asian Pacific airlines saw a “marginal increase” in cargo markets during 2015, while passenger traffic recorded “robust growth”.Preliminary full year 2015 traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) saw international air cargo demand, measured in freight tonne km (FTK), register a 1.6% increase for the year, ...
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From lamb cargo to LAN Cargo, 2,000 Magellan sheep flown to Ecuador
LAN Cargo has begun transporting more than 2,000 sheep from the Magallanes region, destined for the sheep-farming and wool-weaving indigenous communities that inhabit Ecuador’s central mountains.Following an agreement between the governments of Chile and Ecuador, the Marin Magellan Meat Merino specimens — 1,500 females and 507 males — will be ...
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Luxembourg cargo on a three year high
Luxembourg airport ended 2015 on a high note with a total of 738,136 tonnes of freight and post transported by air — up 4.2% compared to 2014 and continuing the trend of the past three years.October and November saw a growth surge of 9% while August was up 8% and ...
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Qatar adds east Europe options
Qatar Airways has announced a clutch of service improvements from its Doha hub to eastern Europe in 2016.They include increases in the current daily service to Zagreb and Budapest to ten times a week and to Baku from daily currently to 11 services a week.One of the airline’s double-daily services ...
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US East Coast still snowbound
Air services on the US east coast are only just beginning to resume after the recent snowstorm put all major airports out of action, along with most surface transport.United Airlines, which suspended services as a precautionary measure ahead of some of the worst winter weather of recent years, said it ...
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Rico squares the Circle
Troubled UK airfreight collection and delivery specialist Circle Express has found a new home in Rico, part of the TVS logistics group.Rico has taken a majority shareholding in Slough-based Circle, which entered into a company voluntary arrangement in 2012 and appointed turnaround specialists KSA Group to allow it to continue ...
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Green sky thinking in Scandinavia
SAS, KLM and Lufthansa are taking part in a biofuel trial at Oslo Gardermoen airport, the first international gateway where biofuel is regularly available on a regular basis, says airport operator Avinor.The three carriers have signed a purchase agreement with fuel supplier Air BP, in the hope that it will ...
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Londoners ‘favour Gatwick expansion’ claims airport operator
Londoners are more in favour of expanding Gatwick than the alternatives says the airport operator, quoting a YouGov poll, the first to be carried out since the UK government once again delayed a decision on the issue.Gatwick scored more highly than Heathrow on issues such as the effect on air ...
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Iran poised to buy planes again
Iran is poised to begin the long process of rebuilding its civil aviation fleet, following the ending of UN sanctions this month.The country’s government is expected to sign a deal for about 114 Airbus aircraft in Paris this week, which would allow state carrier Iran Air and other operators to ...
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Airfreight prices down in December
Airfreight prices ended the year on a low note as underlying market weakness caused rates to sharply decline, but improvements are expected in January.The latest Drewry East-West Airfreight Price Index shows that airfreight rates slid to $2.96 in December from $3.22 in November. It is the second monthly decline in ...
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'The best of times and the worst of times'
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, according to Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities.He might well have been talking about global air cargo in the year 2012. At the start of 2013, there are ...
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'The best of times and the worst of times'
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, according to Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities.He might well have been talking about global air cargo in the year 2012. At the start of 2013, there are ...
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We’re in this together
MEANINGFUL partnerships may be the new way forward for competing air cargo companies.When there is too much capacity, when prices are at rock bottom and yields are in decline, when shippers are modal-shifting to sea, when economies of scale are desperately required – maybe that is the time to turn ...
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Munich subsidiary buys Berlin airport ground handler
Southern Germany airport group Flughafen München (FMG) has expanded its ground handling operations in Berlin with the purchase of a Spanish-owned operator at the capital’s Tegel Airport (TXL).AeroGround Flughafen München, a ground handling subsidiary of FMG, has acquired the established ground handling companies Acciona Airport Services Berlin and HSD Flughafen.A ...
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Global GSA parent firm wins Maastricht Airport concession
The parent company of Global GSA has been awarded a ten year concession to take over operations of Maastricht Aachen Airport as it looks to expand freight volumes.The Dutch airport announced yesterday that it had awarded the concession to Trade Centre Global Investments (TCGI), owner of Global GSA, as it ...
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Cargo demand jumps by 8% at Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines saw its cargo volumes jump by more than 8% last year as it added several new freighter routes.The airline saw cargo tons carried increase by 8.1% year on year in 2015 to 704,570 tons.Cargo demand on flights to and from Africa recorded the largest percentage increase, jumping by ...
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Atlas Air to acquire Southern Air in $110m takeover
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Southern Air Holdings, a US provider of intercontinental and domestic air cargo services.The deal is "an immediately accretive, all-cash, debt-free transaction" valued at approximately $110m, said Atlas.The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and approval ...
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Michael Richter appointed new managing director of Cargogate
Munich Airport cargo handling company Cargogate has appointed Michael Richter as managing director.Already familiar with the company through his experience with Munich Airport's ground handling subsidiaries, Richter has been in charge of the two affiliated companies, Cargogate and aerogate, in the role of managing director since the beginning of this ...
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Etihad launches new green temperature controlled dolly system
Etihad Cargo has teamed up with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology to launch a new design of temperature-controlled and energy-efficient air cargo container cool dolly system.The carrier says that the diesel-powered cooling systems on dollies used at many airports and ground-handling operations use too much energy, are expensive ...
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NewsBoeing cuts 747-8 production on weak cargo market
Boeing has announced it will cut the production rate of its 747-8 aircraft as a result of weak supply and demand fundamentals in the cargo industry.The Seattle-headquartered manufacturer announced that from September it would cut production of the aircraft from one per month to one every two months to match ...