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CargoLogicAir adds to management team
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has announced two new appointments to its executive team.The freighter operator has appointed John Nicholas as technical director and David Bowden as its chief financial officer.Nicholas will take charge of all technical matters relating to the airline’s Boeing 747 freighter fleet and air safety programme.He worked for 19-years ...
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Swiss WorldCargo looks to roll out new innovations
Swiss WorldCargo is an airline that likes to innovate, and in a move to “keep pace with the modern challenges of global logistics” it has created a new organisational structure and revealed a further push into digitalisation.Swiss International Air Lines head of cargo Ashwin Bhat tells Air Cargo News that ...
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Lynne Embleton replaces Drew Crawley as IAG Cargo chief
IAG has appointed Lynne Embleton as the new chief executive of its cargo division with immediate effect, as incumbent Drew Crawley leaves the role after just over a year.IAG said it had appointed Embleton - current British Airways managing director at Gatwick - as Crawley will move on to the ...
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Air Incheon signs up for B737-400 conversion
Air Incheon has contracted PEMCO World Air Servicesto convert a single B737-400 aircraft into a freighter configuration.Air Incheon’s B737-400 PEMCO-converted aircraft features a custom cargo loading system, up to 48,000 pounds of payload, and 4,600 cubic feet of total volume under PEMCO’s supplemental type certificate.“We chose PEMCO to expand our ...
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Leisure Cargo appoints GAC as Dutch GSA
Leisure Cargo has appointed ECS subsidiary Globe Air Cargo as its general sales agent in the Netherlands.Leisure Cargo, which offers cargo capacity on a network of 14 leisure airlines, said that through GAC it will offer TUI-flights to Dutch Antilles, Mexico, Florida and various destinations in Europe as well as ...
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Shipper body fears an ongoing boxship capacity crisis
The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) has revealed it will set up a temporary observer group composed of representatives of European exporters to monitor the ongoing ocean capacity shortage on services from Europe to Asia.Massive delays have arisen of late in maritime container shipping, in part because of the bankruptcy of ...
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Qatar Cargo the latest to add Phnom Penh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has today launched its first freighter service to the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh as it looks to capitalise on growing demand from the Southeast Asian origin.The new service will utilise an Airbus A330 freighter operating on the Doha–Phnom Penh–Doha route once a week, offering 60 tonnes ...
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Heathrow welcomes new China trade link
Heathrow Airport has welcomed the extra cargo capacity that a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner China Southern service will bring to the UK-China market.The west London airport said that China Southern's new twice daily service between Heathrow and Guangzhou would increase capacity to the Chinese city to up to 8,760 metric ...
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Intrepid delivers first of two B747-8 freighters to AirBridgeCargo
US lessor Intrepid Aviation has delivered the first of two new B747-8 freighters from Boeing and placed the General Electric GEnx powered aircraft on "very long term lease" with AirBridgeCargo (ABC), a part of the Volga-Dnepr Group.This latest handover comes after aircraft lessor BOC Aviation last week announced that it ...
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Antonov's An-132D multipurpose turboprop completes first flight
Antonov has completed the first flight of its new An-132D aircraft, which will target the cargo industry as well as other sectors.The Ukraine-based aircraft manufacturer said that on March 31 the An-132D flew for one hour and 30 minutes after taking off from the company’s airfield in Kiev.The aircraft, which ...
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Emirates SkyCargo targets perishables market with new product launches
Emirates SkyCargo has added extra perishables solutions as part of its new SkyFresh product.The cargo carrier said its SkyFresh product brings together the cool chain infrastructure at its Dubai hub, its wide-bodied aircraft including freighters, and a range of innovative cool chain solutions.This includes its new 16-tonne capacity ventilated cool ...
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Ethiopian launches freighter services to Milan and Zaragoza
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest cargo operator in Africa, has launched two new cargo routes to Europe: Milan in Italy and Zaragoza in Spain.Currently, Ethiopian is providing the European market with minimum weekly tonnage capacity of 2,200 from Liege (LGG), deploying Boeing 777 freighters.Ethiopian Airlines Group chief executive Tewolde GebreMariam said: ...
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Swiss drones on track for hospital deliveries
Swiss Post is to begin regular drone flights of laboratory samples between two hospitals in Lugano, Switzerland, from 2018.Switzerland’s Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) has given the project the green light after assessing 70 autonomous test flights undertaken by Swiss Post, the Ticino EOC hospital group and US-based drone ...
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BOC Aviation in B747-8F lease deal with AirBridgeCargo
Aircraft lessor BOC Aviation has purchased two Boeing 747-8 freighters from the US plane builder which have been committed on long-term leases to Russia's AirBridgeCargo (ABC).Steven Townend, chief commercial officer (Europe, Americas and Africa) for BOC Aviation, said: “We are pleased to add a strong new partner, AirBridgeCargo Airlines, to ...
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Seko Logistics appoints new chief operating officer for Asia
SEKO Logistics has named Tony Barnes as chief operating officer Asia Pacific. He will also lead SEKO’s Global Ocean Product as senior vice president ocean services.Barnes brings more than 25 years’ experience in the shipping, freight forwarding and logistics industry in sales and marketing, business development, operations and general management ...
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Warsaw opening continues Kerry’s European expansion
Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics Network has opened a new office in Warsaw, Poland as part of its European expansion programme.It will be headed by Diana Sokół, managing director of Poland, who was previously at C.Spaarmann Logistics in Warsaw.Sokół, who holds joint Polish and German citizenship and has extensive knowhow in ...
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Nairobi cargo terminal for perishables and dry cargo
A new cargo terminal for perishables and dry cargo is soon set to open at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, East Africa.Logistics provider Mitchell Cotts commissioned the terminal, opening in September 2018, which will have an annual throughput capacity of 80,000 tons. There are already plans to expand ...
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American set to take stake in China Southern
American Airlines could take a stake in China Southern Airlines, according to press reports. The state-owned Chinese carrier, one of the country’s largest, said the deal could also involve other forms of cooperation, but was subject to shareholder and government approval.In a statement, China Southern said it was negotiating “a ...
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A tale of two airports: Heathrow and Schiphol
It was a tale of two cities and their airports, when the cargo chiefs of Amsterdam-Schiphol and London Heathrow took to the stage in Abu Dhabi for the IATA World Cargo Symposium.The theme was “It takes a village”, with Jonas van Stekelenburg, head of cargo at Schiphol, seated alongside Nick ...
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Schiphol’s pharma efforts rewarded
IATA presented a certificate of recognition for the airport community’s pharma efforts at the World Cargo Symposium in Abu Dhabi.IATA senior vice president, airport, passenger, cargo and security, Nick Careen, handed over the certificate to Schiphol cargo director to Jonas van Stekelenburg in recognition of Schiphol’s support for its Center ...