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WCS: Differing messages in ULD debate
The two leading players in outsourced ULD management brought differing messages to the World Cargo Symposium in China this week. Jettainer released details of a new lightweight pallet design while for CHEP Aerospace Solutions, the key priority is tracking and tracing missing or damaged units.CHEP estimates that 380,000 containers and ...
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Finnair starts work on new cargo terminal
The Finnair board has approved a new €80m cargo terminal for Helsinki Airport.Construction work will start this month on a 35,000 sq m site near the Finnair technical operations area, with an opening scheduled for Spring 2017.The terminal is Finnair’s second largest investment after acquisition of new A350 wide-bodied aircraft ...
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AF-KLM: Neither pushed nor disgruntled
Was he pushed? Is he protesting at the direction that the company is taking? Erik Varwijk, who resigned as executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo with effect from March 1, insists that neither is the case.“It was a personal decision,” he says. “I decided that at the age of ...
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Airbridge International expanding its network
GSSAs can increase their business in two ways: They can add more airline clients – or they can increase the amount of business they do with existing airline customers.Airbridge International (AI) is in the happy position of being able to do the latter, says general manager, Europe, Mark Andrew – ...
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Hyderabad airport set to handle 100,000 tonnes
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) expects to cross the 100,000 tonnes milestone in the current financial year.The cargo facility at RGIA can handle 150,000 tonnes per annum and has a pharma zone for temperature-controlled cargo.While airfreight volumes in India have grown at a compound annual rate of seven per ...
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DHL's Ly makes a Singapore comeback
DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Stephen Ly as managing director for Singapore. The former managing director for DHL Global Forwarding Philippines is returning to Singapore after nearly four years during which he was the head of customs brokerage services, Asia Pacific and Africa.A 12-year career with the logistics giant, starting ...
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JAL's cool delivery to Paris
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Japan Post are to extend their Cool EMS Service to France from April.The two partners hope to tap into the country’s restaurant trade, as well as serve the many Japanese restaurants that have opened in Paris.Following its launch in Europe’s premier foodie market, the plan is ...
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Heathrow rediscovers the regions
Heathrow has announced a package of measures to boost links between the UK regions and to reverse “a lost decade” in which regional connections to long-haul markets have been squeezed out of the UK’s hub airport.The owners of London’s main gateway admit that, at the moment, Amsterdam Schiphol airport has ...
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WCS: Airfreight volumes, a Chinese puzzle
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if China sneezes, the rest of the world will catch a cold, writes Martin Roebuck.The airfreight world may need to keep aspirin on standby for the rest of this year, analyst Gert-Jan Jansen, head of Seabury Cargo Advisory, warned delegates at the World ...
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Hacis to extend mainland road feeder links
Hong Kong Air Cargo industry Services (Hacis) plans to open additional bases on the Chinese mainland to extend its logistical support for cargo customers of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).Hacis has offered road feeder services (RFS) to the mainland since 2000 via its Customs-bonded SuperLink China Direct service.“We run 10 ...
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Shippers go global
Three shipper organisations have formed a new trans-national body, the Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA).The European Shippers’ Council (ESC), the Asian Shippers’ Association (ASA) and the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase cooperation in air and sea freight and trade facilitation.The GSA ...
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Freighters to go as Thai takes a hard look at its fleet
Thai Airways is due to end full freighter operations later this month as part of a fleet reduction that will also see the axing of five A340-600 passenger planes.Consultants CH-Aviation said that the carrier planned to phase out its two remaining B747-400Fs as part of a restructuring that will see ...
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An-124 takes Siemens rotor for a spin
One of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters moved a 50-ton rotor from Germany to Mumbai, India, for engineering and technology firm Siemens.The air carrier’s Engineering and Logistics Centre (ELC) assessed and approved a specially-designed transport skid to get the piece from Siemens' manufacturing plant in Muelheim, Germany, to Leipzig/Halle Airport, taking care ...
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Lufthansa lauds benefits of ANA partnership
More routes, more direct flights and faster service recovery are among the benefits of the new partnership between Lufthansa and All Nippon Airlines, said Matthias Brazel, director of business development at the Germay carrier.He said that the joint venture had effectively created two extra flights between Frankfurt and Tokyo every ...
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Qatar freighter is LA bound
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch a new freighter service to Los Angeles Airport (LAX) from April.The twice-weekly B777F to Los Angeles will become Qatar Airways Cargo’s fourth US freighter destination, alongside Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.Qatar Airways uplifted over 49,000 tonnes of airfreight from the US market in 2014 and it ...
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Jones in at BIFA
The UK’s British International Freight Association (BIFA) has confirmed the appointment of Mike Jones as policy and compliance advisor to look after issues related to air, aviation security and dangerous goods.Jones started his career in freight forwarding in 1977 when he joined Pandair Freight Ltd as a break bulk & ...
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Lufthansa - Decision on B777F option this year
The B777F was the best – virtually the only – aircraft for Lufthansa's needs, says Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber, writes Chris Lewis.While the B747-8 suited carriers with long over-water stretches such as Cathay Pacific, for carriers such as Lufthansa for whom range was not an absolute priority, it ...
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Lufthansa 'may sign another joint venture this year'
Putting together the joint venture with Japan's ANA in 2014 had not been an easy task – it had taken a year to settle the legal issues alone – but the effort had been worthwhile.Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber predicted that the German carrier would sign another, similar but ...
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IAG Cargo adds Cuba and Colombia to LatAm network
IAG Cargo is boosting its Latin America network by utilising a new passenger route into Colombia and a reopened route into Cuba.The A330 bellyhold services by the freight arm of British Airways and Iberia will connect Cali and Medellín in Colombia and Havana in Cuba to IAG Cargo’s worldwide network ...
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Vertannes joins SmartKargo
IATA's ex-head of cargo, Des Vertannes, has joined air cargo software company SmartKargo as a strategic adviser.Vertannes, who now divides his time between UK and Portugal, was at IATA for four years and before that led airline cargo teams at British Airways, Air Canada, and Etihad, in a career spanning ...