All Perishable Logistics Articles – Page 18
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Hactl passes GDP audit
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has passed its World Health Organisation (WHO) Good Distribution Practices (GDP) annual surveillance audit.The audit is required in order to maintain GDP accreditation. Hong Kong’s largest cargo handler achieved GDP accreditation – covering the provision of handling, logistics and storage services for pharmaceuticals ...
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Frankfurt perishables centre celebrates 20 years
Perishable Center Frankfurt (PCF) has celebrated its 20th anniversary.PCF operates temperature-controlled logistics at the German hub, with direct access to the airport apron.Joachim von Winning, managing director of Air Cargo Community Frankfurt, said: "For airfreight at Frankfurt Airport, PCF is a very important factor, from which the hypermarkets, supermarkets and ...
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Lufthansa adds Natal freighter call
Lufthansa Cargo has expanded its South American network with a new freighter connection to the Brazilian city of Natal.“The destination fits right into the existing route to Frankfurt via Viracopos,” explained Achim Martinka, vice president Americas at Lufthansa Cargo.A MD-11F now flies to the ‘City of the Sun’ every Sunday.Located ...
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Growth is in the air for Thermotraffic
Temperature-controlled logistics specialist Thermotraffic is to open a branch office at Frankfurt Airport’s Perishable Center in April.The on-airport location, says Thermotraffic, will guarantee rapid handling of all temperature-controlled cargo with cross docking between flights and ground transportation. An on-site IATA agent will support the operation.Thermotraffic says that more and more ...
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JAL's cool delivery to Paris
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Japan Post are to extend their Cool EMS Service to France from April.The two partners hope to tap into the country’s restaurant trade, as well as serve the many Japanese restaurants that have opened in Paris.Following its launch in Europe’s premier foodie market, the plan is ...
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IAG Cargo's Valentine's Day flower shipments blossom
AS THE world’s economy shows tentative signs of recovery, data from IAG Cargo has shown that when it comes to Valentine’s Day this translates to a blooming trade in flowers for key Latin American producers.Preliminary figures from the merged freight business of British Airways and Iberia, show that flower volumes ...
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IAG Cargo replaces B747 with A380 on Johannesburg route
IAG CARGO has marked another milestone in its fleet modernisation programme by celebrating the start of flights to Johannesburg using its brand new A380.Replacing the B747 on the route, the giant Airbus offers precision cargo opportunities for the South African temperature-sensitive market.New air conditioning capabilities for the aircraft’s cargo holds ...
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Finnair Cargo positioned for success
IN recent years very few European carriers have been adding freighter services, but one exception has been Finnair Cargo, which has operated an MD-11 freighter since August 2011.Interestingly in an era where the growth of widebody belly capacity is often cited as making freighters uneconomical, it is just that factor ...
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DHL expands Thermonet life sciences stations
DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING will see 15 more certified life sciences stations go live in the second quarter of 2014, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.Adding to the existing Thermonet network, DHL is expanding the global service for life sciences and healthcare customers with temperature-controlled airfreight shipment ...
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CAL: Still room for a niche freighter specialist
YOU MAY think that the era of all-cargo airlines with a couple of B747 freighters is now past, but at least one longstanding player in the business is still thriving and looking to expand.Cargo Air Lines (CAL) was founded in 1976 to provide export lift for Israel’s agricultural producers and ...
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Global Shippers Forum: Change or lose market share, shippers warn
THERE is bad news and good news for the airfreight industry from Chris Welsh, secretary general of the Global Shippers Forum (GSF). The bad news is that its share of the freight market is under sustained attack from sea and land freight. The good news is that solutions are in ...
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IAG Cargo: Making the tough decisions
With air cargo growth still sluggish, with the passenger business continuing to grow, and freighter operations being cut back, one could forgive mainstream airlines for attaching rather less importance to the cargo business than they used to.But is that in fact the case? One person well placed to answer that ...
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Big freeze: DHL extends life sciences cold chain
DHL Global Forwarding has expanded its air freight cold chain logistics to include shipments at frozen or cryogenic temperatures.Designed for customers from the life sciences and healthcare industry, the service is maintained by LifeConEx, DHL's temperature management specialist, in collaboration with Cryoport, a provider of complete global frozen shipping services.David ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Pharma: The human factor
There has been a lot of interest in pharmaceutical shipments in the air freight industry in recent years as airlines and forwarders search for traffic that can give them those elusive higher yields. As a result some thirty airlines now offer pharmaceutical products and many are investing in expanding their ...
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EuroAirport aims for larger share of cargo traffic
EuroAirport has inaugurated a Euro40m cargo terminal at the French hub which is situated close to Swiss city Basel, a major European pharma industry cluster.EuroAirport Cargo Terminal, located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Region that shares borders with Switzerland and Germany, will enter operation in January 2015.The new facility – ...
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FedEx: shake, rattle and roll for the perfect package
THERE’S a whole lot of shaking going on at Federal Express, plus a whole lot of heating, chilling and dropping.But it is all in the name of supply chain science, to design the best packaging for fragile and sensitive goods.FedEx TechConnect has opened a 30,000 sq ft package laboratory in ...
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LAN Cargo: The shift to belly capacity
There was a brief moment in the late 1990s when LAN Chile (as it was then) looked like becoming a combination carrier with more revenue from cargo than passengers. Serving Latin America’s rugged geography, it built up a stable of twelve 767-300Fs - the largest non-integrator 767F fleet - and ...
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US port chaos boosts ex-Asia Pacific air cargo revenues
Inbound US west coast container port congestion provided a November boost for transpacific air cargo revenues out of Asia to North America, although ex-US revenues fell.WorldACD’s latest monthly market data found that the transpacific was the best of the large markets in November.The Netherlands-based research house posed the question: “Did ...