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CHEP wins $20,000 innovation award
Floris Kleijn, IT director and project leader at CHEP Aerospace Solutions, said he was “humbled” to top the delegate poll in IATA’s inaugural Air Cargo Innovation Awards, presented during the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai.CHEP receives $20,000 for its CanTrack ULD tracker, which incorporates a solar panel to solve ...
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Pharma audit "really taking off"
Tom Windmuller, IATA’s senior VP airports, passenger, cargo and security, presented Sebastiaan Scholte, chief executive of Jan de Rijk Logistics and chairman of the Cool Chain Association, with a framed Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certificate during the World Cargo Symposium (WCS).The ceremony marked the company’s successful ...
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WCS: Air cargo industry needs to modernise
Airlines may be transporting goods worth $6.4trn each year, but the air cargo industry is in “desperate need” of modernisation if it is to capitalise on the international e-commerce opportunity, according to Liu Shaoyong, president of China Eastern.In a welcome address representing the host airline for the IATA World Cargo ...
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TNT launches Tel Aviv freighter links
TNT has launched a Monday to Friday B737-400F service between Israeli capital Tel Aviv and the express operator's European hub in Liege, Belgium.The new service "answers increasing demand" and allows TNT to shorten transit times for express shipments to and from Tel Aviv by one day.The flight arrives in Tel ...
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DP DHL airfreight up 2.4% to 4m tonnes in 2014
Deutsche Post DHL’s global forwarding arm overcame a weak 2014 first half to record a full year 2.4 per cent increase in airfreight volumes to just over 4m tonnes, versus 2013.Announcing full year 2014 results, the Germany-based global post, express, freight and logistics giant said of its air cargo segment: ...
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WCS: Self service freight boosts Qantas
Qantas Freight is seeing major efficiency benefits after adopting a “self service” system for import collections, writes Martin Roebuck.Bob Labrun, head of operations, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) that truck drivers are able to input import collection notifications online at the carrier’s cargo terminals in under a minute, removing ...
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WCS: Silver lining in cargo's IT cloud
A cloud-based IT solution developed by Massachusetts-based SmartKargo has the potential to reshape the way airlines and their supply chain partners manage the flow of freight, writes Martin Roebuck.No less an authority than Des Vertannes, IATA’s recently retired head of cargo, says so. A passionate believer in technology’s ability to ...
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WCS: Shippers slam poor service
If the air cargo community was under any illusion that its efforts to speed up door-to-door delivery and eliminate paper documents are winning over shippers, it may have to think again, writes Martin Roebuck.Two major shippers tore into the industry for its poor service quality and communication in a no-holds-barred ...
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WCS: Hong Kong's CPSL tonnage set to rise
Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal handled 1.45m tonnes of freight in 2014, its first full year of operation, accounting for 40 per cent of overall throughput at Hong Kong International Airport, writes Martin Roebuck.Kelvin Ko, chief executive of Cathay Pacific Services Ltd (CPSL), which operates the facility, expects tonnage to increase ...
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Cargolux links up with Oman Air
Oman Air has signed a Letter of Intent with Cargolux that enables the European all-cargo carrier to use the Middle East airline's facilities in Muscat, Salalah and Sohar.The agreement includes the launch, on April 15, of Cargolux full freighter services from Luxembourg to India via Oman. The formal signing of ...
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Shanghai boost for e-Freight
Shanghai, the third largest air cargo hub by tonnages, is pushing ahead on e-Freight with an agreement to phase out the need for a security check stamp on paper air waybills (AWBs).IATA and Shanghai Customs, Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Shanghai Airport Authority, China Eastern Airlines, and Shanghai E-port ...
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WCS: Jettainer’s lightweight pallet
Jettainer is developing a lightweight pallet that weighs 70 kg, around 32 kg lighter than a traditional PMC aluminium unit.The Germany-based ULD management company says that the pallet is made of a composite material that is being applied for the first time in the aviation sector. It offers an alternative ...
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Virgin Atlantic's "year of resilience"
Virgin Atlantic Cargo reported revenues of £221m for 2014, down 1.8 per cent on prior year, with total network freight volumes virtually unchanged from 2013.The carrier said that the revenues reflected “another year of resilience in a fluctuating global air cargo market that saw yields decline for the third year ...
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WCS: IATA sets out three priorities for air cargo
IATA has called for further progress on paperless airfreight, global standards for handling pharma goods and tough action on the transport of lithium batteries.Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and chief executive, highlighted “three vital aspects of the air cargo business” during his keynote speech at the association’s World Cargo Symposium ...
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Turkish Airlines orders four more A330-200Fs
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order to buy four more A330-200 freighters.The carrier’s Turkish Cargo freight arm already operates five A330-200Fs, and the new order will enable it to “quickly meet the growing cargo market demand”.Temel Kotil, Turkish Airlines’ chief executive, said: “The A330-200F freighter aircraft have demonstrated outstanding ...
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IATA: overcapacity on the up, yields declining
IATA has warned that air cargo’s financial performance “remains poor and does not deliver adequate returns for investors”.The airline association’s 2015 first quarter Cargo eChartbook, while seeing continued positive demand for airfreight commodities, states that overcapacity has resulted in lower load factors and placed downward pressure on yields.Lower jet fuel ...
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Brussels' second wave of CEIV Pharma
Belgian hub Brussels Airport has launched a second pharmaceuticals certification programme for its cool chain community.BRUcargo last year became the first airport to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Handling programme (CEIV Pharma).“With the launch of this second group the majority of all pharma shipments ...
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Cargolux welcomes 12th B747-8F
Cargolux has taken delivery of its 12th Boeing 747-8 freighter, out of an order of 14.The Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline named its latest freighter Joe Sutter – Father of the 747, in honour of the man who designed the B747 in the 1960s.The naming honour came as a surprise to 94 ...
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Singapore is automatic choice for DHL south Asia hub
DHL Express has unveiled plans for a new South Asia Hub at Singapore’s Changi Airport. The S$140m investment is its largest ever infrastructure project in the country and is due for completion by the first quarter of 2016.With a total floor area of 23,600 sq m, the hub will have ...
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Gunning warns of continued excess cargo capacity
IAG Cargo boss Steve Gunning has warned that excess global air cargo capacity is likely to remain for the “foreseeable future”, with lower oil prices discouraging “capacity discipline” as older freighters continue to fly.Gunning said that excess capacity was a key driver for IAG Cargo’s decision last year to end ...