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Cathay Pacific: positive peak season for AP region
Cathay Pacific Cargo has reported a positive peak season, based on its performance and its role in transporting freight related to consumer-led holidays such as Singles' Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.In a reflective, positive statement, the company's head of cargo global partnerships, James Conlin (pictured), said: "While still below what it ...
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Foundation stone laid for Swissport cargo facility at Frankfurt
German airport operator Fraport and Swissport Cargo Services have laid the foundation stone for the ground handler’s new airfreight facility at Frankfurt Airport.The new building at CargoCity South will expand Swissport’s handling capacity by almost 50% using a warehouse-concept material handling system that allows containers and pallets to be stored ...
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NewsCutting the carbon, global airports going greener
Source: Airport Carbon AccreditationAirports worldwide are tackling climate change, with 288 hubs actively engaged in a global carbon accreditation programme that registered a collective CO2 reduction of more than 320,000 tonnes or 4.9% in the past year.Some 61 airports are now carbon neutral (Level 3+) according to the latest annual ...
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NewsLogistics City to be built at Stockholm Arlanda Airport
Logistics City visualisation, by Archus ArkitekturA new hub called 'Logistics City' is to be built near Stockholm Arlanda Airport.The Logistics City will cover an area of 1m sq m and building works, scheduled to take commence next month, will take place in two stages.The southern section of the hub will ...
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NewsAsia Pacific airlines see cargo demand fall 5.9% in October
Asia Pacific airlines saw continued weakness in the air cargo markets during October, with International air cargo demand in freight tonne kilometre terms (FTK) down by 5.9% year-on-year and a decline of 5.6% for the first ten months of 2019.The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), in its preliminary traffic ...
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NewsCSafe boosts pharma container service network in Europe
CSafe Global has opened two additional European service centres, in Switzerland and Sweden, to meet increasing pharma sector demand for its temperature-controlled air cargo containers.The Zurich Airport (ZRH) and Stockholm Arlanda Airport technical service centres will strengthen the operator’s European network to handle the higher inbound and outbound traffic of ...
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NewsRecord October for Leipzig/Halle's cargo volumes
Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport handled record cargo volumes in October, with a year-on-year increase of 6.5% to 112,587 tonnes.Götz Ahmelmann, chief executive of Europe’s fifth largest air cargo hub, said: “The new record for air cargo volume once again underlines that our airport is one of the most dynamically growing cargo ...
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NewsCollaboration and sustainability top TIACA summit agenda
TIACA chairman Steven PolmansPartnership, modernisation and sustainability were among the key topics at the TIACA Executive Summit held in Budapest.TIACA also shared its ambition to strengthen the role of members as ambassadors of their association, and made a commitment to pursue collaboration efforts with the whole industry.Steven Polmans, board chairman ...
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CEVA Logistics turnaround strategy proceeding to plan
French container line giant CMA CGM reported a “sustained implementation of the CEVA Logistics’ turnaround plan” for the freight forwarding group that it acquired for an estimated $1.6bn earlier this year.Announcing a “solid operating performance” for the group as a whole in 2019, Marseille-based CMA CGM confirmed that, in line ...
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NewsNew study to monitor horse wellbeing in air travel
Signing event in BudapestCHAMP Cargosystems is partnering with the Animal Transport Association (ATA) and data logger supplier Arioneo in a study to monitor horses' wellbeing while they are travelling by air.The study will provide scientific data that will not only make it possible to better understand shipping-related incidents, but will ...
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Major upgrade for Etihad Cargo's Abu Dhabi hub
Abu Dhabi Airports and Etihad Cargo have announced plans for a major airfreight facility boost for the Middle East airline’s hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport.The partners will implement a “multi-phased cargo infrastructure development” strategy, starting with the imminent upgrade of Etihad’s existing air cargo terminal facilities on the Southside ...
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SAS Cargo and Freightos in digital link-up for e-booking
SAS Cargo and WebCargo by Freightos will partner for fully digital e-booking, dynamic rates and specific capacity on the Scandinavian airline.WebCargo by Freightos will become the first user of SAS Cargo’s digital application programming interface (API) solutions to more than 1,500 freight forwarders and 26,000 unique users around the world.Leif ...
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BCube implements Cargospot Handling at Ostend
Italian cargo handler BCube has implemented CHAMP’s Cargospot Handling solution to support its operations at Ostend–Bruges airport in Belgium, the first station outside of Italy for BCube.CHAMP said that Cargospot Handling is "a sophisticated and comprehensive cargo operations and terminal management system that is straightforward and efficient for ground handlers ...
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Sichuan Airlines to launch Brussels-Xi'an A330 freighter
Chinese carrier Sichuan Airlines, which tomorrow launches an A330 freighter service between Brussels and Xi’an, has appointed ATC Aviation Services as its GSSA in Europe.Chengdu-headquartered Sichuan Airlines will start the twice a week direct freighter service into Brussels on November 26.Edward Zhou, department manager of freighter sales department of Sichuan ...
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SF Express launches bond sale to raise cash for freighters
SF Express has launched a bond issue that aims to raise Yuan5.8bn, with much of that money earmarked for investment in new aircraft.The Chinese express giant said that it would spend Yuan1.52bn of the money raised on aircraft for its fast-expanding SF Airlines division.Meanwhile, Yuan1.49bn will be spent on developing ...
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NewsSubhas Menon to lead AAPA from March 2020
Andrew Herdman. director general, AAPASubhas Menon will be the new director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) from March 2020, when Andrew Herdman steps down after 15 years in the role.Menon has over 35 years of experience in international aviation with the Singapore Airlines Group, having served ...
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Liege Airport aims to improve efficiency with Alibaba tech
Alibaba Cloud and Liege Airport have announced a joint plan to work together to utilise Aviation Brain, a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) program that helps the aviation sector tackle real world operational challenges.Liege Airport said it hopes to leverage Alibaba Cloud’s technologies to improve procedures and efficiency.The two hope to ...
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NewsSpiceJet and Gulf Air to investigate possible collaboration on cargo services
Indian airline SpiceJet and Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore greater co-operation between the two airlines.They are going to examine areas of potential synergy, including looking at co-ordinating cargo services, interline or codeshare agreements, shared engineering services and pilot training.The ...
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NewsSouth African Airways: Industrial action to end soon
South African Airways (SAA) confirmed today (November 22) that it had reached an agreement with the unions in which it has been conflict to end the industrial action which the latter had initiated a week ago.SAA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Airways ...
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NewsKerry Logistics receives recognition from Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition
Ellis Cheng, chief financial officer of Kerry Logistics (right), receives the Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition - Listed Enterprises of the Year 2019 trophyKerry Logistics Network Limited has been named among the awardees recognised as ‘Listed Enterprises of the Year 2019’ by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition.Organised each year by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition, the ...