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An-225's flying visit to Robin Hood airport
Antonov Airlines’ An-225 Mryia freighter made a flying visit to Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport, to collect 150 tonnes of engineering equipment for a transatlantic flight.Dayle Hauxwell, cargo manager at the northern UK hub, said: “The arrival of this huge aircraft is further proof of Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s ability ...
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EuroAirport aims for larger share of cargo traffic
EuroAirport has inaugurated a Euro40m cargo terminal at the French hub which is situated close to Swiss city Basel, a major European pharma industry cluster.EuroAirport Cargo Terminal, located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Region that shares borders with Switzerland and Germany, will enter operation in January 2015.The new facility – ...
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DHL Supply Chain boosts Chinese logistics investment
DHL Supply Chain (DSC) has more than doubled its commitment to infrastructure investment in China, with a further Euro113m added to the Euro105m committed by the German-owned logistics operator last year.The total Euro218m investment will support the development of DHL’s Chinese network and, in particular, six new logistics facilities scheduled ...
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Fraport consortium wins tender for 14 Greek airports
Fraport Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide and its partner Copelouzos Group have been selected as preferred investors for a 40-year operating concession covering 14 regional airports in Greece.The concession, priced by the winning consortium at Euro1.2bn, sees the previously government-operated sites move into private hands after a tender process run as ...
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DB Schenker seeks $2.5bn in cargo cartel compensation
German logistics giant DB Schenker is seeking estimated damages of $2.5bn after filing lawsuits in US and Germany against airlines involved in a global air cargo cartel between 1999 and 2006.It has warned that the total damages could add up to more than $3.3bn.The parent company, German rail operator Deutsche ...
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SDV Belgium gains pharma handling certification
SDV Belgium is now fully certificated to handle and transport all pharmaceutical products that require an unbroken cold chain.The logistics operator completed the pharma certification programme organised by Brussels Airport and IATA that means it can handle all pharmaceutical air freight shipments in accordance with the European Union’s Good Distribution ...
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Chinese economic growth slows and sustainability pressures mount
Economic and environmental pressures are coming to bear on the Chinese economy, and the logistics industry has a key role to play in responding to the challenge.That was the message delivered by Lv Jijian, deputy director of trade in services for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, to the Sino International ...
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Cologne-Bonn provides air cargo support to fight Ebola virus
Cologne-Bonn Airport has allocated a staging area free of charge to facilitate the consolidation of air shipments in support of humanitarian organisations fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.The Logistics Cluster, a group of humanitarian organisations led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), will ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: Finding the right balance
Strikes are never easy to navigate. So, for Peter Gerber, Lufthansa Cargo’s new chief executive officer, having to deal with nine in 2014 should have been quite the challenge. Fortunately, he says, while the strikes disrupted passenger flights, freighters saw only minor changes to their scheduling. Nonetheless, there is still ...
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Heathrow volumes rise in November
A surge in cargo to Mexico, Brazil, India and Turkey helped London-Heathrow airport freight volumes rise 2.3 per cent in November to 136,400 tonnes, compared with like month 2013.For the 11 months in the year to date, the UK’s top air cargo hub registered an overall 5.3 per cent increase ...
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Top five sign roadmap to combat cybercrime
Five major international aviation organisations have agreed a “common roadmap” to combat attacks from hackers and other cyber criminals.The group is made up of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Airports Council International (ACI), the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International ...
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Qantas management reshuffle
A top level management reshuffle at Australian carrier Qantas has seen Gareth Evans appointed chief executive of Qantas International and Freight.Evans, currently chief financial officer for the Qantas Group, has been a senior executive at Qantas for 15 years and brings experience from previous roles that spanned network, pricing, scheduling ...
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Panalpina and Luxair combine for UNICEF Relief Flight
Panalpina has joined forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support the ongoing fight against the Ebola crisis, donating a charter flight from Luxembourg to Freetown in Sierra Leone to bring almost 80 tons of vital supplies and equipment destined for community care centres in the Ebola-affected region.Adding ...
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PACTL's record November
Shanghai's Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) saw November year-on-year freight volume growth of 13.9 per cent to 147,267 tonnes, the strongest monthly result in its history.PACTL’s domestic cargo volume grew by just under 13 per cent year-on-year to 9,744 tonnes in November, while its international cargo volumes rose by ...
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My Opinion
Speaking about the growth in road feeder services by the terminal operator’s trucking subsidiary, HACIS.Mark Whitehead, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals’ chief executive says:“HACIS is already highly successful in its scheduled road feeder services between Hong Kong and China, but even in this it has barely scratched the surface of ...
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Cologne cargo up 2% in 2014
Cologne Bonn Airport saw record air cargo growth in 2014, handling 753,000 tonnes, a two per cent increase on 2013.The German airport handled 9.5m passengers in 2014 – a “significant rise” over prior year.“2014 has exceeded our expectations. We have developed better than the German passenger market, partially with growth ...
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Thumbs up for Emirates' all-in freight rates
Shippers and forwarders have welcomed Emirates SkyCargo’s move to introduce an all-inclusive freight rate that does away with separate pricing components based on weight/volume plus fuel and security surcharges.“It is the best start to 2015 that I could imagine,” said Joost van Doesburg, airfreight policy manager with the European Shippers’ ...
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Heathrow cargo volumes hit new heights
London Heathrow Airport saw a 5.3 per cent growth in cargo volumes in full year 2014 to 1.5m tonnes, ending with a final freight flourish.In December, cargo volumes at the number one UK freight hub rose 6.2 per cent overall, including increases of 33.5 per cent to Mexico, 29.4 per ...
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French forwarders slam fuel surcharges
French freight forwarders have called on airlines to end separate fuel surcharges, which they argue are no longer relevant.TLF Overseas, the French freight forwarders organisation representing 95 per cent of general air cargo transactions, expressed its “incomprehension” of a situation that requires “more transparency and real positive economic signals from ...
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Monster challenge
Some 13 teams from carriers and the air cargo industry vied for Hactl’s 2015 International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition, the best in its eight-year history said the Hong Kong handler.The 300 spectators included under-secretary for transport and housing Yau Shing-mu, chief occupational safety officer of the Labour Department, Wu ...