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Year end cargo boost for airports in Asia Pacific and the Middle East
Air cargo hubs in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East delivered strong results in November 2016, growing at 9.5% and 9.9% respectively, and recovering from a "stagnant market that persisted from the end of 2015 to early 2016".In its latest monthly regional report, airport association ACI said that the November growth ...
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Forwarder Crane opens new Amsterdam airport office
Freight forwarder Crane Worldwide has invested in a brand new Netherlands head office facility at Amsterdam airport as it looks to grow in Europe.The US-headquartered firm said the new facility is "key to assisting our clients across the globe".The warehouse facility offers value-added services such as storage, pick and pack ...
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Hactl scoops Vietjet deal for new Hong Kong service
VietJet has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl) to provide cargo terminal services for new flights being launched between Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong.The daily services will be operated using Airbus A320 aircraft and come on the back of growing demand between Hong Kong and Vietnam.Hactl said ...
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NewsLogistics industry remains optimistic on emerging market growth despite free trade concerns
The transport and logistics industry remains optimistic about future growth in emerging markets despite concerns the world could retreat from free trade.The 2017 Emerging Markets Index from Agility and Transport Intelligence (Ti) showed that 53% of respondents agreed with the International Monetary Fund’s estimate that emerging markets would grow by ...
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Tracy D’Cruz appointed European regional director for ACS
Air Charter Service (ACS) has promoted Tracy D’Cruz to regional director for the air charter broker’s European offices.ACS Group chief executive Justin Bowman said: “Since Tracy joined ACS almost 10 years ago she has worked in both the marketing and sales teams in the UAE and UK offices, before starting ...
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Dubai's 2016 cargo finale recovers after Q3 lull
Dubai International Airport (DXB) shrugged off a third quarter cargo lull to rebound with a 3.4% rise in 2016 full year volumes to just under 2.6m tonnes.After registering a “contraction throughout the third quarter,” cargo volumes at the Middle East hub recovered in the last three months of 2016, rounding ...
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Malta's Maleth-Aero to add two more B737Fs
Malta-based operator Maleth-Aero will take delivery of two Boeing 737-300 freighters in March and April this year for deployment in regular contract work within Europe.The latest additions will follow the introduction of a B737-300QC in June 2016 and the planned arrival of two more freighters later this year.Maleth-Aero chief executive ...
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Cathay moves into Lufthansa's Frankfurt cargo terminal
Cathay Pacific Cargo is relocating its local cargo handling activities in Frankfurt to the Lufthansa Cargo terminal as part of the co-operation agreement between two airlines that both have sizeable passenger and pure freighter fleets.The Frankfurt move follows a reciprocal arrangement which saw Lufthansa Cargo move its Hong Kong freight ...
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SAA Cargo races to transport Dakar rally vehicles
South African Airways Cargo (SAA Cargo) has transported three racing vehicles and spares for the Dakar Rally as part of a partnership deal with the Toyota Gazoo South Africa team.The cargo division transported the three vehicles from South Africa to Argentina via Sao Paulo for the 13 day race that ...
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Etihad's Hogan to step down in second half of 2017
James Hogan will step down as president and chief executive of Etihad Aviation Group in the second half of 2017.Hogan will join an investment company along with Etihad Aviation Group chief financial officer James Rigney, who will also leave the company later this year. A global search for their replacements ...
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NewsHappy days for Cunningham at FedEx Express
David Cunningham's promotion as head of FedEx Express has been fast tracked from the original 2018 start date.Cunningham will succeed David Bronczek as president and chief executive of FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest cargo airline.Bronczek has been promoted to the new role as president ...
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Lufthansa Cargo increases offering from Sharjah Airport to Hong-Kong
Lufthansa Cargo and Sharjah Aviation Services have launched a twice weekly MD-11 freighter linking the Middle East hub with Hong-Kong.The German carrier's main-deck connections will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays from Sharjah during the 2016/17 winter schedule.Handling agent Sharjah Aviation Services is one of the largest air service providers in ...
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Luxembourg adds weight to European airports' 2016 cargo figures
Luxembourg Airport has added its weight to the top European airfreight hubs recording an increase in cargo volumes last year.The European gateway and home to all-freighter operator Cargolux handled 821,000* tonnes of airfreight in full year 2016, up by 8.2% over the 759,000 tonnes handled in prior year and “almost ...
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Hermes logs Hanoi cargo IT contract
ALS Cargo Terminal Co (ALSC), based at Vietnam's Noi Bai International Airport, has chosen the Hermes air cargo management system for its operations at the Hanoi hub.Le Thanh Binh, ALSC deputy director, said: "Despite being a young cargo handler, ALSC has been serving around 10 prominent airlines, accounting for 30% ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Air cargo demand on the up in 2016
European airlines ended 2016 on a high with annual cargo demand up at Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair.The latest monthly airline statistics show that European carriers enjoyed their best year in terms of demand growth since 2013.The Lufthansa group of airlines saw revenue cargo tonne kms (RCTK) increase by 1.4% during ...
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End of year blip for Finnair Cargo as new CMS system beds in
Finnair Cargo had a weaker than expected December after the implementation of a new cargo management system (CMS) initially caused problems for the airline.The Helsinki hubbed airline has seen cargo demand in revenue tonne km (RTK) terms grow by double-digit levels for most of the year.However, in December there was ...
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Basel in balance despite trucking decline due to ocean freight modal shift
Basel’s EuroAirport saw a 12.2% rise in airfreight volumes during 2016 to around 55,000 tonnes although a modal shift to ocean freight saw the Swiss hub’s trucked cargo fall by 11% to 46,000 tonnes.The airport authority said that the factors responsible for the decline in road feeder volumes were ”the ...
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Etihad: not looking to take a stake in Lufthansa - official statement
Etihad has denied press speculation that it is looking to take a stake of between 30%-40% in German carrier Lufthansa.An Etihad Airways spokesman told Air Cargo News: "We can confirm that we are not looking to take a financial stake in Lufthansa.”This official quashing of rumours, which started in the ...
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ACT Airlines issues further statement following Kyrgyzstan freighter tragedy
Following the tragic crash, ACT Airlines, which operates as myCargo, has issued a statement naming the crew members that lost their lives and giving more details of about the incident that saw a freighter crash into a village close to Manas Airport, resulting in 37 people losing their lives.The ACT ...
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Etihad's Hogan attacks critics of partnership strategy as core element for growth
Etihad Aviation Group’s president and chief executive, James Hogan, has hit out at critics of the Middle East carrier’s partnership strategy, describing it as a “core element of the growth of the business”.Hogan, delivering a keynote speech at the Global Airfinance Conference in Dublin, said that the strategy had resulted ...