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The great airport debate: Do you want to be a hub or a spoke?
Will Britain choose to be a hub or a spoke? That was a question posed in a debate about the looming political choice for additional airport runway capacity in the south east of England.The speaker posing a rhetorical question, at least from his perspective, was Heathrow airport chief executive John ...
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UK runway decision, a beginning and not the end of the process
A UK government decision on a new runway to be built at either Heathrow or Gatwick will not push a magic button for extra capacity. Many more potential obstacles stand in the way.Who will pay the full cost of providing extra capacity and when are two thorny issues. Alongside those ...
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Kalibox passive pallet enters CSafe product range in the US
CSafe Global has moved quickly to introduce the Kalibox passive pallet to the US market after taking over the equipment’s French manufacturer at the end of August.The Kalibox front-loading pallet features a patented quick assembly system, easy opening and loading, as well as up to five days of thermal protection ...
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CSafe expands European footprint with Kalibox acquisition
CSafe Global, which provides temperature-controlled containers for pharma and medical products, has acquired its first manufacturing capacity in Europe.It has bought Kalibox, a France-based provider of cold chain packaging.Kalibox’s two production centres in France will continue CSafe's global expansion plans by adding over 5,000 sq m of manufacturing capacity to ...
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Cargo to play central role at Istanbul New Airport
Cargo is set to play a central role in the development of Istanbul’s new airport, which has ambitions to become the largest in the world.The new airport is being built on a 25-year build, operate and transfer (BoT) basis by the IGA consortium made up of five companies from the ...
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China's Shenyang Taoxian aims to become regional cargo hub
Plans have been revealed to develop Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in north east China into a major regional cargo hub.To help develop the airport, the owner of Shenyang Taoxian, Liaoning Airport Management Group, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hactl Development Holdings (HDHL).Although specific plans are yet to be ...
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Qatar Cargo the first to fully implement Cargo-XML
Qatar Airways Cargo has fully adopted, implemented and integrated IATA's Cargo-XML data messaging standard, becoming the first airline to do so.IATA’s Cargo-XML was created to replace the incumbent system, Cargo-IMP, which has been criticised for being too rigid.It was also created with the aim of having a standard format for ...
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Logistics firm Carousel launches UK-Germany airfreight operation
Logistics firm Carousel has launched a new daily airfreight linehaul service between the UK and Germany on behalf of customer John Deere.The service is operated by a turboprop two tonne capacity Metro III aircraft and flies between London Southend in the UK and Baden Baden airport in Germany.The service was ...
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New Customs declaration speeds e-commerce cargo through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport
Dutch Customs has teamed up with the Schiphol airport cargo community in Amsterdam to launch a simplified e-commerce declaration called VENUE.The declaration has been designed to help shippers import and export items that are being purchased via e-commerce platforms - such as fashion, personal care, and homeware - throughout the ...
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NewsBrussels sees first cargo increase since terror attacks
Brussels Airport saw a 6.6% growth in cargo volumes during August, due to a strong performance of the freighter aircraft segment.It was also the first monthly airfreight throughput increase at the Belgian gateway since the March 22 terror attacks in the passenger terminal which left 16 people dead. A further ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: Divergence in freight growth continues
The divergence in performance among the main freight carrying airlines in the US continued in August as United and American airlines both achieved growth while Delta Air Lines registered another decline.The country’s largest cargo airline, United, recorded another strong month in August with demand increasing by 8.8% compared with last ...
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NewsLufthansa Cargo confirms management job losses by year end
Lufthansa Cargo has confirmed reports that it is to cut a large swathe of management level positions by the start of 2017.The falling of the axe forms part of Germany carrier’s Cargo Evolution strategy and C40 cost-cutting programme, announced in June this year, to make the bellyhold and freighter operator ...
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Lufthansa Cargo becomes sixth airline to achieve CEIV
Lufthansa Cargo has become the sixth airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification.The German airline said that over the past few months independent specialists had reviewed the airline’s processes when transporting pharmaceutical products. The airline’s Frankfurt Cool Centre was also certified.“Pharmaceutical shipments are extremely ...
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Boeing forecasts China trillion dollar new plane order boom
Boeing is projecting a demand for 6,810 new airplanes in China over the next 20 years with a total value of just over $1trn, the US plane maker’s first trillion dollar aviation market.Driven by China's growing e-commerce business – already the largest in the world – air cargo is expected ...
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Cold chain charter to Libya
Cargo Movers, an X2 Cold Chain member, arranged a full charter of Fresenius medicals to Mitiga Airport in Tripoli, Libya including ground handling.The cargo included 217 pallets of medicine, medicals and related materials with a total weight of 90.8 tonnes.“It was a very big deal and very difficult but was ...
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Mixed August for European cargo hubs
European cargo hubs saw a mixed August, with two of the top three airports seeing monthly declines but year to date increases in airfreight volumes.Cargo throughput (airfreight+airmail) at Frankfurt, Europe’s number cargo hub in 2015, remained “almost stable” at 171,871 tonnes in August, down 0.1% on the same month last ...
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CH Robinson swoops on Australian forwarder
CH Robinson has expanded its presence in Australasia with the acquisition of forwarder and customs brokerage provider APC Logistics.The US forwarder and trucking giant said it would pay around $225m for APC, with which it has had a long standing exclusive agent relationship.The agreement is subject to certain customary closing ...
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K-Mile signs up FL Technics for freighter spare parts service
Cargo airline K-Mile Asia has signed a deal with FL Technics that will see the maintenance company provide spare parts for the Thai airline’s two Boeing 737 freighters.The deal will see FL Technics provide both routine and ad hoc spare parts delivery for K-Mile’s two B737-400SF at the carrier’s hub ...
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RAF Avia adds freighter to Hahn operation
Latvian cargo airline RAF Avia has added a second aircraft to its operations based at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.The airline has been flying from the German airport since August but has now added a second aircraft to its set up.Frankfurt-Hahn head of sales Roger Scheifele said the airline had decided to start ...
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ANA to end scheduled charter operation with NCA
ANA Cargo has revealed it is ending its scheduled charter operation partnership with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) after just over three years.The Japanese airline recently revealed that it would cut the number of cargo and passenger flights it offers in the second half of the year because of a downturn ...