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time:matters expands flight network to Birmingham and Dublin
Time-critical logistics provider time:matters has expanded its flight network for spare parts logistics from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in southern Germany to Birmingham and Dublin on weekdays.The new routes extend the current network to the UK and Ireland, which have been served by flights from Frankfurt and Maastricht since 2011.The Lufthansa subsidiary confirmed ...
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Swissport Netherlands awarded CEIV Pharma
Swissport International's Netherlands subsidiary has gained IATA's CEIV certificate for pharmaceutical logistics at (CEIV Pharma) Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.CEIV Pharma certification for the ground and air cargo services provider in the Netherlands will increase its contribution to the Pharma Gateway Amsterdam – a programme established in 2016 to position Schiphol as ...
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Join the exclusive cargo club at Farnborough International Airshow 2018
The organisers of the world famous Farnborough International Airshow 2018 have announced record monthly bookings for next year's event, which takes place on July 16-22.Air Cargo News will be in attendance and we are exclusively selling exhibition packages for the dedicated Cargo Village, which will feature some of the biggest ...
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Kuehne+Nagel expects to make more perishables logistics acquisitions
Freight forwarder Kuhne+Nagel (K+N) is expecting further consolidation in the perishables logistics market after it yesterday announced the acquisition of two companies.Speaking shortly after announcing the company’s second-quarter results and the acquisition of two perishables forwarders, chief executive Detlef Trefzger said that K+N’s market share in the sector was “extremely ...
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Qatar Cargo confirms cattle charters
Qatar Airways Cargo has confirmed it will transport more than 4,000 cattle as part of a project to set up a dairy farm in Qatar and bypass the blockade set up by some of the state’s neighbours.In a statement sent out today, the airline confirmed it had won the deal ...
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Emirates SkyCargo to launch specialist pharma flights
Airline Emirates SkyCargo has revealed that next month it will begin offering “dedicated” pharma flights from London and Frankfurt.Speaking at an event organised by the airline and new partner SkyCell, Emirates SkyCargo manager global sales pharma Julian Sutch said that where applicable it would begin to group pharma shipments on ...
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K+N expands perishables network with US and Kenyan acquisitions
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has expanded its global perishables network with the acquisition of sector specialist forwarders Commodity Forwarders Inc. (CFI) in the US and Trillvane in Kenya.Switzerland-based K+N said that the two acquisitions would add more than 150,000 tons of annual perishables traffic to its network and “further strengthens ...
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FedEx financial performance hit by TNT cyber attack
Express firm FedEx said today that its financial results will be affected by the Petya cyber attack that hit subsidiary TNT. The company continues to be affected by the virus.In a stock exchange announcement, the express giant said it was still evaluating the financial impact of the attack, but it ...
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Qatar Airways sees cargo demand surge past 1m tonnes
Qatar Airways saw cargo demand surpass the 1m tonne mark for the first time during the last fiscal year, while revenues were also up.In its annual report, the airline group revealed that in the 2017 fiscal year it saw cargo demand increase by 20.9% year on year to 1.15m tonnes. ...
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Qatar Cargo mooooves cattle as diplomatic row continues
Freighter operator Qatar Cargo has begun flying cows into Doha for a project that aims to establish a dairy farm and bypass a blockade by its neighbours.The first 165 Holstein dairy cows were flown out from Budapest Airport last week onboard one of Qatar’s Boeing 777Fs operating on charter.The airport ...
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New KLM Cargo facility has e-commerce and pharma sorted at Schiphol
KLM Cargo has opened officially a new sorting system at its Amsterdam Schiphol airport hub that can handle post, express and pharmaceutical consignments.The new express product sorter will allow KLM to launch a Europe-wide sameday delivery product, called 12Send, in September this year after completing trials this summer in London, ...
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Prime Day sales beat Black Friday and Cyber Monday for Amazon
Sales on Amazon’s third annual ‘Prime Day’ surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making it the biggest day ever in Amazon history.On July 11, members of the e-commerce giant’s Prime service were given discounts on goods and streaming services over a 30 hour period.Although the company did not release sales ...
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DHL scoops Cathay Pacific MRO logistics deal
DHL Supply Chain has commenced management of all aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul logistics activities for Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon in the airlines’ home base at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), part of a 10-year contract signed earlier this year.The contract will see DHL Supply Chain take overall responsibility ...
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Volga-Dnepr in the fast lane for Nippon Express' urgent automotive machinery
Volga-Dnepr Airlines' load planners responded to an urgent request from Nippon Express to transport 197 tonnes of sensitive automotive machinery from Japan to the US.The airline’s Hanoi-based load planning experts were on hand to assess quickly the cargo and prepare the most efficient plan for its delivery from Toyko to ...
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Tigers speeds Rapha Racing deliveries in APAC
Hong Kong-headquartered supply chain specialist Tigers is handling Asia Pacific B2C distribution for cycling clothing brand Rapha Racing from its e-commerce fulfilment hub in the Special Administrative Region.The company is also providing value-added services such as labelling, quality checks, kitting and returns management for the region. It handles around 250 ...
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DHL robot: Take me to your loader (VIDEO)
Technology group Wärtsilä and DHL have completed a successful pilot to test mobile robots in a warehouse environment.The pilot phase of Fetch Robotics technology was carried out in Wärtsilä’s central distribution centre in Kampen, the Netherlands, where the entire logistics chain of Wärtsilä’s spare parts, from order intake to customer ...
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Amerijet awarded CEIV Pharma certification
Amerijet has become the first US-based all-cargo airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV) Pharma certification.Vic Karjian, president and chief executive of Amerijet International Airlines, said: “This certification reconfirms our commitment to offering the highest consistent quality, professionalism and transparency to our ...
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E-commerce: UPS boxing clever
Thinking outside of the box has never been truer when it comes to e-commerce and the social media trend of ‘unboxing’.Unboxing is defined as the “an act or instance of removing a newly purchased product from its packaging and examining its features, typically when filmed and shared on a social ...
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VIDEO: Prime Air fuelled and ready to go for Amazon's US e-commerce bonanza
E-tailer Amazon’s Prime Air cargo planes are “fuelled and ready to support” Prime Day in the US in an air express debut for the leased freighter fleet.Amazon is kicking off its third annual Prime Day six hours early this year – giving members 30 hours to shop, beginning at 9pm ...
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Delta Cargo awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification
Delta Cargo has been awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma and is the first US Global carrier to receive this certification.It was awarded to the airline at the headquarters level and at Delta’s largest cargo operation, located in Atlanta.Said an airline spokesperson: "With this certification, Delta ...