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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Growth starts to slow in October
Air cargo growth at European carriers looks to have slowed in October, with IAG Cargo and Lufthansa seeing increases narrow during the month.Any potential slowdown in demand growth should not come as too much of a surprise given that comparisons are affected by improvements in the market at the tail ...
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Lufthansa Cargo signs up for eight more years with Fraport
Lufthansa Cargo and Fraport Ground Services have signed a contract to extend their ground handling deal at Frankfurt Airport.The agreement has a term of eight years and runs from January 2018 to December 2025 and covers aircraft ground handling, particularly the loading and unloading of all freighter aircraft belonging to ...
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SAS Cargo launches new pharma service
SAS Cargo is increasing the range of its pharma airfreight solutions by adding SAS Pharma Cargo.The Scandinavian carrier will use active GPS trackers to monitor the shipment, assuring accurate temperature is kept throughout the entire transport chain.“The pharmaceutical industry rightly expects high standards and performance from airlines when transporting their ...
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Air Partner appoints Jubb as freight trading manager
Charter broker Air Partner has appointed Robert Jubb as freight trading manager, based at the global aviation services group’s UK headquarters at Gatwick and reporting directly to Mike Hill, director of freight.Jubb has over 13 years of experience in the charter brokerage, airline and time-critical logistics industries. He was previously ...
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iTran and HNA Logistics partner on cargo software project
iTran Systems and HNA Modern Logistics Group have signed a long-term co-operation agreement to jointly develop logistics and air cargo IT solutions.In the first phase of the deal, the two partners will develop a sales and booking platform, which will integrate HNA Modern Logistics' processes from incoming sales and booking ...
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UK forwarders concerned over post-Brexit customs plan
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is right to have concerns over the government and HMRC’s plans for customs procedures post-Brexit.Commenting after the publication of a report by the Committee, the trade association for UK freight forwarders agrees that more needs ...
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CEVA remains in the red despite airfreight demand growth
Freight forwarder CEVA remained in the red during the third quarter of the year despite increases in revenues and airfreight volumes.The forwarder, which has been subject to takeover rumours this year, saw third-quarter revenues increase by 6.1% year on year to reach $1.8bn and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation ...
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Emirates SkyCargo signs space centre logistics deal
Emirates SkyCargo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to become the preferred logistics partner.The deal, signed at the Dubai Airshow, means that Emirates SkyCargo will be MBRSC’s preferred partner to provide air transport services for satellites and related equipment relating to the organisation’s ...
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Network Airline Services extends Kenyan handler contract
Network Airline Services (NAS) has signed a two-year contract extension for Africa Flight Services Kenya (AFS Kenya) to provide cargo handling for NAS' four freighter flights a week into Nairobi.AFS Kenya will handle some 11,500 tonnes of cargo a year for NAS’ MD-11 and Boeing 747 freighter operations, which arrive ...
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UK airport trio notch up October cargo rises
MAG, the UK airports group, reported healthy cargo growth during October at its Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands hubs.Cargo volumes at Stansted airport during October were up 3.0% on last year with more than 23,000 tonnes of goods passing through the airport’s cargo facility. The annual total increased by ...
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Azerbaijan Airlines commits to freighter order
Azerbaijan Airlines has committed to buy "two large freighters", either Boeing 747-8Fs or Boeing 777Fs, as part of a deal with the US planemaker that saw a confirmed order for five B787-8 Dreamliner passenger jets with a total current list-price value of $1.9bn.The freighter commitment will be "finalised at a ...
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VIDEO: Air New Zealand: new track and trace technology
Air New Zealand (ANZ)is installing over 5,500 Bluetooth tags on its cargo containers, pallets and ULDs – plus more than 100 readers at 29 airports.The new technology will make tracking and analysing the movement of the carrier’s cargo shipments and equipment easier, as tagged items will automatically update an online ...
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EVA receives first new B777F
Taiwan’s EVA Air has taken delivery of its first Boeing B777 freighter.The carrier intends to deploy the new freighter on routes linking its Asia network (which includes Shanghai Pudong, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Osaka, Singapore, Bangkok, Penang and Hanoi) with destinations that it serves in North America (Los Angeles, San ...
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AAT takes over Hong Kong Airlines cargo handling
Asia Airfreight Terminals (AAT) has begun handling cargo for Hong Kong Airlines and its freight subsidiary Hong Kong Air Cargo at their home hub in the Special Administrative Region.The agreement had been announced in March but only came into effect on 8 November.Kuah Boon Kiam, general manager for AAT, said: ...
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Heathrow and Gatwick announce record cargo results in October
London’s Heathrow airport had a “landmark” October for cargo, handling more than 150,000 tonnes in a month for the first time since records began.October’s 154,492 tonnes registered a year-on-year rise of 9.2% at the UK’s number one cargo hub and its 15th consecutive record monthly throughput.The same month also saw ...
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ACI board names Bongani Maseko new chair
Bongani Maseko, chief executive of Airports Company South Africa, has been appointed to the post of chair of the world governing board of Airports Council International (ACI) for a two-year term following a vote at the recent ACI Africa/World General Assembly in Mauritius.Maseko has been with Airports Company South Africa ...
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Qatar Airways keeps passengers and pets together
Qatar Airways has made it easier for passengers to travel on the same flight as their pets into and out of its home hub of Doha, by lowering the price and more than doubling the permitted weight of animals being transported as baggage on its passenger aircraft.The weight allowance for ...
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Hats the way to do it: CargoLogicAir satisfies oil and gas demand
British all-cargo airline CargoLogicAir has had a busy time since it launched its first scheduled services in mid-August, due to strong demand from the oil and gas industry for capacity from the US to the Middle East.The twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter flights between London Stansted and Mexico City operate via ...
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Turkish Airlines third-quarter cargo results rocket up
Turkish Airlines moved 810,489 tons of cargo between January and September this year – an increase of 26.8% over the same nine months of 2016.The Far East, Europe and North America led the way in terms of rising volumes of cargo and mail carried, each with around 30% more than ...
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DHL forwarding's quarterly airfreight volumes up 8% as gross profit declines
Deutsche Post DHL Group (DP-DHL) registered positive results during the third quarter of 2017, with total revenue up 5.6% over like period last year, to €14.6bn.“We had a strong third quarter with record earnings yet again,” said Frank Appel, group chief executive of the Germany-based global mail and logistics company.“All ...