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Two more Turkish Cargo stations achieve pharma standard
Turkish Cargo has gained QEP Accreditation from Envirotainer for its Brussels and Atlanta stations for the quality of its pharmaceutical services.The carrier, which also delivers temperature-controlled medical products via QEP accredited stations in Bombay, Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Seoul, Istanbul and Tel Aviv, has been widening its services to over 300 points ...
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Peli BioThermal to open European service centre
Temperature controlled packaging manufacturer Peli BioThermal will this week open a European service centre in Belgium for the pharmaceuticals sector. It also serves as an additional depot for the company’s Crēdo on Demand rental program.Located in Brussels, a key hub for both pharmaceutical manufacturing and logistics, it enables global clients ...
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West Atlantic flies through choppy air
Swedish cargo airline West Atlantic confirmed that it has suffered financially this year, largely as a result of high start-up costs caused by delayed deliveries of aircraft needed to fulfil its new Royal Mail contract.In a statement on its website, the Gothenburg-headquartered airline said: "As a consequence, the company does ...
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Lufthansa is Jettainer’s first Cool customer
Lufthansa Cargo is to be the first customer of the Cool Management service offered by its outsourced ULD management arm, Jettainer.The subsidiary will manage temperature-controlled ULDs for its parent company along with leased units. Jettainer is also opening a new Center of Excellence for the management of temperature-sensitive airfreight at ...
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Tim Strauss says aloha Air Canada Cargo
When Tim Strauss met the Air Canada Cargo team in Montreal for the first time, he was greeted by a sea of people wearing Aloha shirts, lei garlands, shorts and grass skirts. All that was missing was the theme tune from Hawaii Five-0.Says Strauss: “If you want to talk about ...
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UPS reveals ‘solid’ third-quarter results
UPS saw revenues rise by 7% in the third quarter reach $16bn, while international operating profit increased by 8.9% to $627m.Operating profit as a whole at the US based parcels and logistics giant stayed pretty much static at $2bn.The Supply Chain & Freight part of the business enjoyed a 13% ...
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Cargolux turns to temp-control container lessor SkyCell
Luxembourg-based B747 freighter operator Cargolux has agreed a deal with SkyCell that will see the latter’s temperature-controlled containers become available to the airline’s shipper customers.SkyCell containers will enable Cargolux to transport pharma products in the +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C ranges, despite ambient temperature extremes of between -35°C ...
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DHL facility at O’Hare opens its doors
DHL has opened a $10m global gateway facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.The integrator selected Chicago’s new northeast cargo campus at O’Hare because the site is “on track to be the largest cargo development built at a US airport in more than a decade when completed in the next few ...
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Cathay Pacific gains CEIV Pharma
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification.Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s director commercial and cargo, said: “Cathay Pacific Cargo adheres to the highest operating standards and this certification highlights our capabilities in handling these precious, time-sensitive and often life-saving shipments.”CEIV Pharma ...
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Three little words help Aramex deliver more quickly
A study by Middle East based logistic company Aramex has found that using a three word address system for deliveries in Dubai was 42% faster than using traditional street addresses.The study also found that, over 100 deliveries, using the what3words system reduced by 22% the total distance travelled by drivers.What3words ...
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Medical emergency drone deliveries to start in US
Drone delivery service Flirtey and community-integrated emergency medical service provider REMSA are to launch the first automated external defibrillator drone delivery service in the US.The service aims to assist first responders treating victims of cardiac arrest. The drones will be dispatched at the same time as ambulances when REMSA receives ...
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FedEx expands Barcelona hub
FedEx Express has opened a new ground operations centre in Barcelona’s Zona Franca.FedEx says Spain is a key part in its development of a European leading logistics network. Following its acquisition of TNT last year, FedEx Express is adding a European ground network to its existing air operations.It will process ...
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Opticoolers now available on Saudia flights
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions says its RKN and RAP Opticooler active containers are now available on Saudia Cargo flights following a master agreement signed with the German ULD provider.The Opticooler is designed to keep sensitive cargo such as pharmaceuticals cargo within a temperature range of 2° to 8° Celsius or 15° ...
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UPS starts talks with the Teamsters union
UPS has confirmed that it has started talks on a new contract with Teamsters union. The current five-year contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters runs out at the end of July next year.The relationship goes back to the 1930s, and over 250,000 UPS employees are members of the union ...
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Peli BioThermal expands French production site
Temperature controlled packaging firm Peli BioThermal has expanded its European manufacturing capabilities in through the expansion of its facilities in France.The company said the expansion of its facilties in France will be used to produce its bulk thermal shipper product CoolPall, which is experiencing growing demand.David Williams, president of Peli ...
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Emirates SkyCargo reports boom in flying fish from Sri Lanka
Emirates SkyCargo has reported a boom in fish volumes from Sri Lanka to Europe after a ban on their export was lifted by Brussels last year.The airline said it is currently transporting about 100 tons of edible fish a week from Colombo to markets in Europe and the US.In the ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo adds Helsinki to pharma network
Qatar Airways Cargo has added Finnish capital Helsinki to its expanding pharma network, the Middle East carrier’s 74th pharma destination.Qatar Airways’ chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann, said: “The expansion of our pharma network helps us meet the growing air freight requirements in the pharmaceutical industry where time and temperature management ...
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FedEx to double size of air cargo facilities at Incheon airport
FedEx Express has revealed it will double the size of its air cargo handling facility at Incheon International Airport as it looks to cater for rising volumes in South Korea.Establishing a new cargo facility at Incheon International Airport is a strategic move for FedEx — the airport has seen the ...
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Delta and Virgin launch pharma zone at Heathrow
Joint venture partners Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are introducing a new Pharma Zone at their London Heathrow joint facility.The new Pharma Zone will support the growing volumes of temperature-controlled healthcare and life science products being carried by both airlines.Opening today [October 2], the Pharma Zone at their Cargo ...
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Germany and Netherlands are next steps in Panalpina perishables empire (updated)
Freight forwarder Panalpina has reached agreement to acquire two more perishables logistics companies, the Cool Chain Group in Germany (CCG) and Interfresh Airfreight Handling, for undisclosed sums.CCG currently has 100 customers and handles around 14,000 tonnes of air freight per year. It parent company, Rungis Express, is to concentrate on ...