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US Customs digitises cargo entries
US CUSTOMS and Border Protection (CBP) has admitted Lambert-St Louis International Airport (STL) into its ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) cargo release pilot scheme, with immediate effect.The simplified entry scheme allows importers to file a streamlined set of data earlier in the import process, and update their entries right up to ...
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Search for missing Malaysia Airlines B777-200
AN INTERNATIONAL air and search continues in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam for a missing Malaysian Airlines B777-200 aircraft, with 239 people on board, reports say.Flight MH370, which disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur, was due to land in Beijing at ...
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Malaysia Airlines jet still missing
NO wreckage has been found in the search for the Malaysia Airlines’ B777-200 with 239 people on board, which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, reports say.Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s Minister of Transport, has suggested the aircraft may have tried to turn back.An international air and sea search, ...
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Search for Malaysia Airlines continues
THE fate of the Malaysia Airlines’ B777-200, which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, has been described as a ‘mystery’.Officials are reportedly ‘puzzled’ by the jet’s disappearance at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday). It was scheduled to land ...
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Search for Malaysia Airlines jet widens to West Coast
THE missing Malaysia Airlines jet may have tried to turn back to another airport, says the airline.As the major search enters day four, the authorities are looking at the possibility flight MH370 may have attempted to turn back to Subang Airport (on the west coast of Malaysia), says a company ...
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Growth gap between passenger and air cargo widening
PASSENGER volume growth is outpacing air cargo, with a "big gap" emerging in the last three years as onshoring has stifled international trade volumes.IATA chief economist Brian Pearce said that air cargo's role as a lead indicator for passenger volumes has broken down since 2010, as witnessed by a ‘dramatic ...
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International trade stifled by protectionism, says Fred Smith
FEDEX founder Fred Smith has warned that 'the golden age' of double-digit air cargo growth is unlikely to return due to trade protectionism, higher fuel costs and the rapid growth in bellyhold capacity.Smith told the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Los Angeles: "The big reason why international trade is not ...
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Thai Cargo seeks to widen EU security status
THAI CARGO is in the process of applying for European Union security accreditation to handle airfreight from customers in New Delhi and Madras.The regulations require air carriers flying air cargo and mail into the EU to be designated as an ‘Air Cargo or Mail Carrier operating into the Union from ...
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Cargo crime up 66 per cent
A SUPPLY chain watchdog is calling for greater collaboration between European law enforcers and businesses following an increase in air cargo crime.An annual report conducted by the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) reveals 1,145 individual crimes involving high value, high risk goods across Europe, the Middle East and African regions ...
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Coming soon: a global air cargo standard for pharma
MEDICAL authorities are devising a GDP-style global standard regulation covering the air transportation of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.It will shake up the air cargo industry and weed out the bad operators.All 44 members of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) are working on draft documentation inspired by the game-changing new ...
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Device designed to screen air cargo
THIS awkward-looking device is a metal detector, which has been designed specifically to screen air cargo shipments.It seeks out metal secreted in all types of paper, perishable foods and organic material, says manufacturer Mettler Toledo Safeline.The US company’s PowerPhasePRO Select digital metal detector automatically screens air cargo shipments for the ...
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IATA to facilitate a unified industry position on aircraft global tracking
IATA has called on governments and industry to focus on partnerships, data analysis and runway safety in the ongoing quest to make flying even safer.Tony Tyler, the association’s director general, speaking amid the ongoing search for MH370, also committed IATA to facilitating a unified industry position on global tracking of ...
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Lufthansa Cargo takes a strong lead on security
COUNTRIES in South America, the Middle East and Africa have been placed on a strictly confidential cargo-risk list.A map, drawn up by Lufthansa Cargo in combination with the German authorities and international bodies, including the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), points the finger at those countries that are demonstrably less ...
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Lufthansa Cargo throws the book at security wastage
LUFTHANSA Cargo has demanded no double-screening of air cargo shipments, when stringent new international security regulations come into force in a matter of weeks.In a plea for a more efficient air cargo screening process, Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, head of operations at the German airline, says the forthcoming implementation of the EU’s ...
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Amazon fined for Hazmat breach
AMAZON has paid a US$91,000 civil penalty, handed down by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), for violating hazardous materials regulations.Amazon employees improperly shipped a package containing flammable liquid adhesive on a FedEx service to Boulder, Colorado.FedEx employees in Boulder discovered a gallon container of the hazardous ...
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'Misdeclared' toxic cargo handed to FedEx
NEW YORK shipper Alfa Chemistry has been hit by a massive possible US$325,000 fine after it allegedly sent two separate shipments of toxic, flammable cargo by air.The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing the civil penalty after the company shipped approximately one pint of Acrolein on ...
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Air cargo ground handling profit margins squeezed
WITH margins ‘extremely tight and under constant pressure’ in the ground handling sector, businesses are facing mounting obstacles to delivering better quality.Carriers on the look-out for ever-lower prices has become a major bone of contention.Patrik Tschirch, managing director and chief operating officer at Germany’s LUG aircargo handling, argues: “Whilst our ...
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Is it time to ban these dangers?
I HAZARD no apologies for repeating here something we published on aircargonews.net only a few days ago.For readers who missed it, New York-based shipper Alfa Chemistry has been hit by a possible US$325,000 fine after it allegedly sent two separate shipments of toxic, flammable cargo by air.The US Department of ...
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Air cargo security starts at home
HARALD Zielinski, global head of security and environment management for Lufthansa Cargo, has just finished collaborating with professors Elmar Giemulla and Bastian Rothe on a new guide to air cargo security.To be published in June - so far only in German - and aimed at the non-specialist audience as well ...
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US food shipper faces hazmat fine
SHIPPER Uniliver BestFoods could be fined US$77,000 by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for allegedly violating hazardous materials regulations.The FAA alleges the company sent a fibreboard box containing a pump bottle of flammable liquid styling spray and three aerosol cans of flammable gas hair spray for ...