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FedEx considers appealing French cartel fine as it reports profit improvements
FedEx has said it is considering appealing against the fine issued by France’s competition authority for alleged price fixing in the parcel delivery sector as it announced its latest quarterly results.The Memphis-headquartered integrator recorded an increase in second-quarter fiscal year revenues of 5% to $12.5bn, operating income was up 4.6% ...
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The challenge of meeting pharmaceutical supply chain requirements
Air cargo carriers face the challenge of balancing the need to make investments to meet the needs of pharmaceutical shippers and justifying those investments to finance departments.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals conference, American Airlines manager cold chain strategy Tom Grubb provided an example of how ...
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France slaps price-fixing fines on 20 express carriers
France’s Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence, FCA) has ordered 20 parcels delivery firms to pay a total €672.3m for price-fixing.Some 20 companies including Chronopost, Exapaq (now DPD France), Dachser France, DHL Express France, FedEx Express France, Gefco, Geodis, GLS France, Norbert Dentressangle Distribution, Schenker-Joyau (now Schenker France), TNT Express ...
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European court overturns fines imposed on carriers for alleged air cargo cartel
The General Court of the European Union has annulled fines totalling nearly €800m imposed by the European Commission against a range of airlines for the alleged fixing of airfreight charges.According to the Court, "the grounds and the operative part of the decision are contradictory".The airlines named in the original lawsuit ...
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Winter jackets for refugees delivered by China Southern
China Southern Airlines has transported thousands of winter jackets to Europe for Syrian refugees in Germany, part of a donation by Chinese-Australian businessman Henry Ngai.The 1.5 tonnes load spurred a major logistical effort involving China Southern Airlines, the German government and the German Red Cross.The A$1.15m donation for 100,000 jackets ...
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Sören Stark joins Lufthansa Cargo in operations role from 2016
Sören Stark will be appointed to the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo with responsibility for operations, effective from April 2016.The 48-year-old industrial engineer is currently in charge of aircraft maintenance at Lufthansa Technik. In this post, he is responsible for all the maintenance events and cabin modifications that are carried ...
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Kahala Aviation bags converted B737-300F
US-based freighter conversion specialist PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered a Boeing 737-300F aircraft to Ireland-based Kahala Aviation, a leading lessor of narrow-body freighter aircraft.The freighter, converted at PEMCO’s headquarters in Tampa, has now entered service. This conversion marks PEMCO’s third redelivery of a B737-300 to Kahala since 2008. A ...
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European Court judgement ruling
Here is the full text of a press release published by the General Court of the European Union regarding its annulment of the fines imposed by the European Commission on several airlines for an alleged cargo rate cartel:The General Court annuls the decision by which the Commission imposed fines amounting ...
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Va-Q-tec opens rental station in Mumbai
Cool chain equipment lessor va-Q-tec has opened its first container rental network station in India for pharmaceutical shipments.The recently qualified and trained network station in Mumbai, opened in cooperation with Japan's Yusen Logistics, is the first of multiple hubs to follow in India.Siddarth Kasturia, senior general manager at Yusen Logistics, ...
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LatAm pharma boost for IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate pharma product will have access to three new passenger routes in Latin America from the summer of 2016, offering bellyhold capacity to growing life science markets.From summer 2016, the carrier will operate direct flights from London Gatwick to San Jose, Costa Rica and Lima, Peru. In ...
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Brussels Airport launches airside pharma transporter to avoid temperature fluctuations
Brussels Airport has developed an airside pharma transporter in order to get around the problem of temperature fluctuations during the transfer of air cargo to and from the aircraft.The Belgian airport said its airside pharma transporter, which will swoop into action this month, is a trailer on which an insulated ...
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AstraZeneca on course for pharma modal shift to ocean from air
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca (AZ) is still on course for a modal shift from air to sea that will see 70% of its products transported by ocean within two years.But Julian Wann, global category manager, freight and logistics at AZ, said airfreight will still have an important role to play in ...
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If you have a hoverboard, you won’t fly warns Qatar
Qatar Airways has banned hoverboards and similar devices as checked-in or cabin baggage on all its flights. It applies regardless of the watt-hour rating of the Lithium battery that power the devices “due to concerns regarding the questionable quality of such items and the potential fire hazard associated with their ...
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Hactl welcomes back Mynmar
Myanmar National Airlines has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) –to handle its newly-launched services from Yangon.The airline, which as Union of Burma Airways, can trace its origins back to 1948 and operated flights to Hong Kong in the 1950s, is emerging after 22 years of isolation and ...
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Yangtze River gets into passengers
Hitherto all-cargo Chinese carrier Yangtze River Express Airlines yesterday has gained Civil Aviation Administration permission to operate domestic passenger flights from Shanghai. Yangtze River Express, owned by Hainan Airlines, will operate passenger flights from Pudong International Airport to Sanya, Guiyang and Zhuhai with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It already has 26 ...
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The show goes on, thanks to Qatar Cargo
In the absence of a magic carpet, Premium Events moved its production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from Bucharest to Doha’s on one of Qatar Airways cargo aircraft. The 70-tonne shipment, arranged by Qatar Airways Cargo’s dedicated charter team, took up an entire B747 freighter and included the full ...
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GDP doubts over airline certification
Airlines cannot be certificated for Good Distribution Practice (GDP) along the entire supply chain for pharmaceutical transport but can still be compliant to GDP standards.Annette Kreuziger of Lufthansa Cargo told a pharma conference in London that “it is not just possible” for airlines to assess all the varied third party ...
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Expeditors opts for single GDP standards for all stations
Freight forwarder Expeditors has implemented a single pharmaceutical Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliance standard across all of its stations in order to avoid the issue of operating with different procedures in each country.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Science and Pharmaceutical conference, Expeditors global director healthcare vertical Andrew Lester ...
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China Postal Airlines orders ten B737-800 freighter conversions
China Postal Airlines has signed up with US planemaker Boeing for ten Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), pending a program launch."This is a historic order both for China Postal and Boeing," said Yufeng Li, president of China Postal Airlines, who signed the agreement with Boeing in Beijing. He added: ...
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Emerging markets buck flat Heathrow trend
Cargo to and from emerging markets at London Heathrow increased 1.8% over the past 12 months, said the airport authority. Traffic with Mexico was up 31%, Turkey 27% and China 3%.The airport said this underlied the export growth potential of an expanded Heathrow which would be able to offer up ...