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Algeria links gain from Marseille upgrade by DHL Express
An €8m investment at France’s Marseille Provence Airport by DHL Express has allowed the logistics giant to add direct links to Algeria in North Africa from the French Mediterranean hub.DHL’s warehousing capacity has more than doubled to 3,000 sq m at Marseille, and the workforce will also double to 84 ...
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United boss Munoz returns home after heart attack
United Airlines boss Oscar Munoz has returned to his Chicago home from hospital after undergoing a heart transplant.Munoz said in a statement to the US carrier’s staff: “I'm excited to let you know that today I'm headed to my Chicago home following my heart transplant. With the help of the ...
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Puetz joins cargo cover team
Therese Puetz has joined the DuPontTM Tyvek® Cargo Cover team as an external consultant with responsibility for market development in key pharma regions of central Europe.Puetz will be responsible for developing partnerships with major shippers and logistics providers. She will also act as a "sounding board" for new product concepts ...
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LATAM expands IAG and American partnerships
The LATAM Group has announced it will expand its partnerships with oneworld alliance members IAG and American Airways as all the airlines look to expand the number of destinations they can offer.LATAM and IAG announced today that they had signed a joint business agreement to cooperate commercially on flights between ...
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Volga-Dnepr helps out on mission to mars
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has helped transport equipment and materials for the ExoMars space exploration programme.The charter airline operated three An-124-100 cargo flights for Bollore Logistics, carrying equipment for the Mars mission, which aims to discover whether life is present on the red planet.The flights, which operated on December 18, 20 and ...
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Liege and Munich celebrate 2015 cargo surges
European cargo hubs Liege and Munich both reported sizeable increases in airfreight volumes for 2015 versus prior year.Belgium’s Liege handled nearly 650,000 tonnes in 2015, a 10% surge over 2014. The airport’s general manager, Luc Partoune, said: "The new airlines – Qatar Airways and ANA Aviation – have boosted our ...
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NewsVIDEO: Logistics industry says India shows greatest growth potential
India has overtaken China as the emerging economy to show the most growth potential, according to a survey of logistics professionals.The 7th annual Emerging Markets Logistics Index from logistics firm Agility and analyst Transport Intelligence shows that supply chain executives expect an uptick in emerging markets growth in 2016, despite ...
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Heathrow to 'Go Electric'
Heathrow hosts more than 80 airlines, 300 service providers and 76,500 employees each day. It is one of the country’s biggest ports, handling a quarter of the UK’s exports by value, and sees 1.5m tonnes of freight travel through it each year.A large operation like this requires big environmental ambitions, ...
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K+N relocates to Heathrow site
Freight forwarder Kuehne+Nagel has relocated its main air cargo operations in the UK to its new Heathrow South Cargo Centre.The new dedicated airfreight hub is adjacent to the Heathrow cargo area and has security certifications including those from the Transported Asset Protection Association and IATA’s Regulated Agent programme.The warehouse, which ...
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The only way is ethics, but 46% of UK SMEs don't agree
Just under half of UK small and medium sized (SME) companies in the transport sector said that they do not have an ethics policy.The Close Brothers Business Barometer said that that 46% of those polled for a survey did not have an code of ethics “because it’s something they feel ...
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Weak November for cargo at Asian and Middle Eastern hubs
Airfreight volumes remained weak in November in the Middle East and Asia, reflecting the “slowdown of the Chinese economy and uncertainty in the commodity exporting countries”, according to latest data from the Asia-Pacific arm of Airports Council International (ACI).Freight volumes in the Asia-Pacific region declined by 1.5% and the Middle ...
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Etihad-airberlin codeshare ban overturned
Etihad Airways has welcomed a ruling by Germany’s higher administrative court reversing an earlier judgment that had called a halt to codeshares with airberlin.Etihad said that the Luneburg court today ruled that the Middle Easter airline could continue operating 26 out of the 31 codeshare flights it has with airberlin ...
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Kijac lands SEKO Logistics sales role
SEKO Logistics has appointed Carol Kijac as chief sales officer as it looks push ahead with its global expansion.Kijac will be responsible for global, local and strategic sales as well as marketing and sales training.Prior to taking up her new post with SEKO Logistics, she was the Principal of Peripheral ...
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NewsAmerican air cargo carriers record 2015 demand declines
The majority of America’s major combination airlines recorded declines in cargo demand last year, with United being the only carrier to buck the trend.Of the four major North and South American airlines that report monthly cargo statistics, American, Delta and LATAM all recorded declines in cargo demand last year.Source: companies. ...
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Davies becomes tech manager at Cargo 2000
Chris Davies has been appointed technical manager at Cargo 2000, based at the organisation’s Geneva headquarters.Davies brings over 14 years of experience in the airfreight IT sector and joins the new Cargo 2000 management team, headed by Ariaen Zimmerman, executive director.“Chris has a reputation for delivering robust projects and solutions ...
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Aeroflot to merge three airlines
Aeroflot is set to merge three of its subsidiaries to create a new airline as it looks to fill the void left by the bankruptcy of rival Transaero.Russian media reports suggest that Aeroflot will merge Rossiya Airlines, Donavia and Oren Air under the Rossiya brand.The move will leave the group ...
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UTi shareholders vote yes for $1.35bn takeover offer from DSV
Shareholders in US logistics player UTi have voted “overwhelmingly” to approve a $1.35bn takeover bid by DSV of Denmark, a deal that will create the world’s eighth largest airfreight forwarder.DSV said that closing of the transaction is subject to the “relevant regulatory approval being obtained from competition authorities in South ...
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Frankfurt freight figures fall in 2015
Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Europe’s number one cargo hub by volumes, saw its 2015 full year airfreight and airmail throughput fall by 2.3% to around 2.1m tonnes.FRA said that the decline was “attributable mainly to weakening global trade and economic difficulties in some emerging markets”.By contrast, the German airport’s passenger traffic ...
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‘Abandoned’ freighters claimed
Malaysian-based freighter airline Swift Air Cargo says it is the owner of three apparently abandoned 747-200Fs at Kuala Lumpur airport, saying it had been “stunned” to read press reports that the planes had been abandoned and that it had been unable to trace their owners.In early December, the airport authority ...
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NewsLufthansa tops the cargo pile in Europe for 2015 despite demand declines
Europe’s major combination carriers saw cargo volumes decline in 2015, with Lufthansa maintaining its position as the busiest of the airlines.The German carrier group was the busiest of the airlines that report monthly statistics for the third year in a row.However, it was not all good news for Lufthansa as ...