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Cargojet: Postal deal delivers
IT IS gratifying in this era of increased belly capacity to report that a freighter airline is not just thriving but planning a major boost to its fleet.In November, Canadian carrier Cargojet will be adding two B767-200Fs and four B767-300Fs to bring its fleet up to 22 aircraft. By January ...
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IAG Cargo: Making the tough decisions
With air cargo growth still sluggish, with the passenger business continuing to grow, and freighter operations being cut back, one could forgive mainstream airlines for attaching rather less importance to the cargo business than they used to.But is that in fact the case? One person well placed to answer that ...
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Big freeze: DHL extends life sciences cold chain
DHL Global Forwarding has expanded its air freight cold chain logistics to include shipments at frozen or cryogenic temperatures.Designed for customers from the life sciences and healthcare industry, the service is maintained by LifeConEx, DHL's temperature management specialist, in collaboration with Cryoport, a provider of complete global frozen shipping services.David ...
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DHL air cargo volumes rise but revenues fall
German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL saw a half year 2014 uptick in air freight volumes despite lower demand from several large customers as revenues declined year on year.The largest global freight forwarding purchaser of air cargo volumes saw a 1.1 per cent rise in total bookings to just under ...
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MedVantx opens 'end of runway pharmacy' for UPS
MedVantx is opening an “end of runway pharmacy” adjacent to the UPS worldwide air hub at Louisville, Kentucky.The pharmaceutical supply chain specialist says that the facility will feature controlled substance storage and support the full range of temperature-sensitive products, while offering order cut-offs as late as 1am.Robert Feeney, MedVantx’s chief ...
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Panalpina: A pharma star is born
Panalpina is expanding its own-controlled air freight network by launching a weekly B747-400F connection from San Juan to Europe, aimed at pharmaceutical shippers.The Switzerland-based logistics giant says that the Puerto Rico-originating freighter will fly directly into Luxembourg, in close collaboration with European all-cargo operator Cargolux.The service, called Caribbean Star, uses ...
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DHL adds China to Thermonet network
DHL Global Forwarding is expanding its services for the life sciences and healthcare industry in China.It has added Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the company's worldwide DHL Thermonet network of certified life sciences stations.The 2,000 sq m facilities in Shanghai and Beijing are owned by DHL Global ...
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BidAir acquires Imperial Air Cargo
Johannesburg based BidAir Cargo has acquired the business of Imperial Air Cargo (IAC) in a deal approved by the South African Competition Commission.IAC’s network links Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban with overnight services using a trio of contracted Boeing 737-200 freighters.The cargo flights are integrated with land based ...
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DHL opens Leipzig pharma hub
DHL Global Forwarding has marked the official opening of a €3.4 million logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany, for the pharmaceuticals industry.The air and ocean freight specialist of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL said that the facility, located next to Leipzig/Halle airport, serves as a competence centre for the “transport, transport preparation, ...
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Regulators and demanding customers force the pace on e-freight
Modal shift is occurring in part because of the air cargo industry’s snail-paced adoption of e-freight and reluctance to share data. Airlines and forwarders are looking after their own interests when they should be “protecting air freight as a mode,” according to James Fernandez, VP global commercial operations at technology ...
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New dawn for Aurora in St Louis
A new all-cargo airline, or more accurately a former airline that has been resurrected, announced during the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul that it is to use Mid-America St Louis Airport as a hub for scheduled freighter services to Asia and Latin America.Aurora Air Cargo was mothballed in 1995, but ...
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Eastward push for global trade
A substantial shift to emerging economies is pushing eastward the world’s economic centre of gravity, says global logistics giant DHL in its latest study.The third edition of DHL’s Global Connectedness Index (GCI) indicates that emerging countries are now involved in the majority of "international interactions".This is in contrast to pre-2010, ...
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DHL expands Asia air network
DHL is expanding its Asia air network by adding a five times per week B737-400SF flight connecting the economies of Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.The new service, operated for the parcels and logistics giant by Thailand’s K-Mile Air, connects Bangkok, Hanoi and Hong Kong, using a newly converted freighter with ...
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DP DHL: air freight in Q3 surge
New business helped logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL record a 2.3 per cent growth in air freight volumes to 2.97m tonnes in the first nine months of 2014 versus prior year, outpacing sector revenues that edged ahead 0.6 per cent to E3.7bn.However, third-quarter air cargo volumes climbed “significantly” by 4.8 ...
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Pharma: The human factor
There has been a lot of interest in pharmaceutical shipments in the air freight industry in recent years as airlines and forwarders search for traffic that can give them those elusive higher yields. As a result some thirty airlines now offer pharmaceutical products and many are investing in expanding their ...
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First phase of DHL Leipzig hub expansion opens for business
DHL’s major expansion of its Leipzig air hub has seen the first phase of an expanded warehouse facility open today.Announced a year ago, the €150m investment will see the freight processing capacity increase by 50% to more than 15,000 shipments per hour at Germany's second largest airport by cargo volume.Hand ...
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EuroAirport aims for larger share of cargo traffic
EuroAirport has inaugurated a Euro40m cargo terminal at the French hub which is situated close to Swiss city Basel, a major European pharma industry cluster.EuroAirport Cargo Terminal, located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Region that shares borders with Switzerland and Germany, will enter operation in January 2015.The new facility – ...
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DHL Supply Chain boosts Chinese logistics investment
DHL Supply Chain (DSC) has more than doubled its commitment to infrastructure investment in China, with a further Euro113m added to the Euro105m committed by the German-owned logistics operator last year.The total Euro218m investment will support the development of DHL’s Chinese network and, in particular, six new logistics facilities scheduled ...
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SDV Belgium gains pharma handling certification
SDV Belgium is now fully certificated to handle and transport all pharmaceutical products that require an unbroken cold chain.The logistics operator completed the pharma certification programme organised by Brussels Airport and IATA that means it can handle all pharmaceutical air freight shipments in accordance with the European Union’s Good Distribution ...
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Cologne-Bonn provides air cargo support to fight Ebola virus
Cologne-Bonn Airport has allocated a staging area free of charge to facilitate the consolidation of air shipments in support of humanitarian organisations fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.The Logistics Cluster, a group of humanitarian organisations led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), will ...