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German shippers join cartel claims lawsuit
German carmaker BMW and car supplier Bosch are joining German railway Deutsche Bahn in a $2.4bn claim for damages against airlines involved in a global air cargo cartel between 1999 and 2006.Spokespeople for BMW and Bosch told Reuters that the companies had joined the lawsuits, announced by Deutsche Bahn’s DB ...
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Turkish Cargo expands in Budapest
Turkish Cargo has increased its scheduled flights between Hungary’s Budapest Airport and freight hub Istanbul to three a week.Depending on volumes, the fast-expanding cargo carrier operates A310F or the larger A330F on the route, transporting between 38-64 tonnes of cargo per flight.Turkish Cargo’s volume on the strategic trade lane to ...
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Transhipment sags but Changi is stable
Singapore Changi Airport’s cargo volumes were stable at 1.84m tonnes in 2014 compared with 2013, although passengers hit a record 54.1m.Flight movements dipped 0.7 per cent to 341,390 for the year. In December 2014, the airport handled 158,600 tonnes of cargo (+1.4 per cent).Total cargo throughput for 2014 was up ...
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Transport experts back Heathrow – but with caveats
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport – the international professional body for individuals and companies associated with the sector – has come out in favour of Heathrow as the site of south-east England’s additional runway but says that its impact needs to be capped.CILT is responding to the UK ...
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Turkish Cargo opens new terminal at Istanbul
Turkish Airlines’ new cargo terminal at Istanbul airport is now fully operational after completing a transition phase.The facility has an annual capacity 1.2 million tonnes and a total area - airside and landside - of 71,000 sq m.Said a spokesperson: “With the launch of the new cargo facility, operational processes ...
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Stansted flower power
Stansted Airport played cupid as 200 tonnes of flowers arrived in preparation for Valentine’s Day.Freighters have flown in tens of thousands of roses from Kenya and Colombia into the UK hub.Stansted handles around 230,000 tonnes of freight per year on 11,000 cargo flights to and from 200 countries including textiles, ...
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Schiphol: Shippers, not freighters
In any industry, does it not make sense to study the strategies of the most successful players? Yet at a time when Amsterdam Schiphol airport is showing robust growth in cargo volumes, many of its major rivals are taking the opposite approach.They are dispensing with cargo managers and making cargo ...
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DWC passes 750,000 tonnes in first full year
Airfreight volumes at Dubai World Central (DWC) reached 758,000 tonnes in 2014 compared with 209,000 tonnes in 2013, following the shift of freighter aircraft operators from the older Dubai International airport (DXB).Owner Dubai Airports added that the new UAE gateway also registered robust growth in the 2014 fourth quarter, with ...
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Freighter fillip for Brussels
Cargo at Brussels Airport grew across all segments in January compared with the same month last year – including the first increase in full freighter traffic for four years, said the airport authority.A 3.8 per cent rise in all-cargo aircraft tonnage (excluding integrators) at the Belgian hub contributed to a ...
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Tackling pharma’s ‘blackhole’
Brussels airport has launched a pilot project to end the industry-wide airside “black hole” that remains a major problem for pharma shippers globally when sending their goods by airfreight.The Belgian hub is working with industry players to find a benchmark solution that can monitor and control airside temperatures.Steven Polmans, head ...
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Good start for Heathrow
Cargo at London Heathrow airport grew 3.3 per cent to 115,847 tonnes in January, compared with the same month in 2014.The January cargo results included increases of 54.0 per cent to Mexico, 28.6 per cent to Brazil, 11.3 per cent to India and 11.2 per cent to Turkey.In the 12 ...
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Ménage a trois for Delta
Delta Cargo is to co-locate with Air France-KLM at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport.The move brings all three Skyteam Cargo alliance members under one roof and will improve efficiency, said the US carrier. It would also offer more frequent routing options with the benefits of a broader joint network.Delta ...
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DHL Shanghai’s cool chain investment
DHL Global Forwarding has opened a RMB115m (€16m) expansion of its Shanghai air freight terminal, including a new warehouse and 1,600 sq m of cold storage for life sciences and healthcare customers.The logistics arm of Deutsche Post DHL says that its new Shanghai air freight centre has been developed on ...
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Dentressangle extends HK consolidations to the UK
Norbert Dentressangle is extending its Hong Kong air cargo consolidations to the UK, following the launch of a similar service to Paris.With cargo space on flights from China and Hong Kong at a premium in the weeks and months leading up to the Chinese New Year, the freight forwarder will ...
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Freighter exit affects DBX cargo tonnages
Freight volumes at Dubai International (DBX) continued an expected downward trend in January, falling 5.5 per cent to 186,230 tonnes compared with like month in January 2014.The reduction follows the shift of freighter operations to the UAE's Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central from May last year.DBX began 2015 ...
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Saudi freight blooms as Kenya trade flowers
Heightened seasonal demand for Kenyan flowers will see Saudia Cargo boost its freighter capacity from Nairobi to Amsterdam during February by at least six additional B747F flights.The 25 per cent boost on the Africa to Europe route equates to an extra 3,000 tons for the month, supplementing the Middle East ...
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Schiphol freighters flow more freely
A new Schiphol taxiway, linking the ‘Kaag’ runway with the Sierra cargo zone, has halved live runway crossings for freighter aircraft since it opened in November.Amsterdam Schiphol Airport says that the new link is also cutting taxiing distances and hence fuel and CO2 emissions, as well as time.The ‘Kaag’ runway ...
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Support grows for Hong Kong's self-funded third runway
Cathay Pacific Airways has reiterated its “unequivocal support” for a third runway at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world's top cargo hub, believing that the project can be self-funded.Cathay Pacific chief executive Ivan Chu said: “There is an urgent need to move ahead with the third runway project as ...
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Network Aviation Group expands cargo services at Stansted
Network Aviation Group has added a fourth MD-11 freighter service per week between Kenya and the UK's London-Stansted.The MD-11 will depart Nairobi on Fridays and arrive on Saturdays at Stansted.The increase in freighter services was welcome by Stansted owner and operator MAG. Graeme Ferguson, MAG commercial director for cargo, said: ...
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Panalpina and Atlas Air extend freighter partnership
Logistics operator Panalpina and freighter lessor Atlas Air are strengthening their partnership with a new five-year agreement that sees the forwarder switch one of its wet-leased B747-8Fs to more than 200 scheduled charters per year.“The new long-term agreement with Atlas Air will intensify our cooperation and increase our joint business,” ...