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NewsNew Lufthansa arm to offer e-commerce solutions
Lufthansa Cargo is offering a custom solutions service to its e-commerce clients. A new wholly-owned subsidiary, heyworld, based in Frankfurt with Timo Schamber as managing director will offer a range of configurable transport solutions aimed at online retailers, digital marketplaces and forwarders.Described as a digital-first shipping company, it aims to ...
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NewsKalitta selects Stewart as New York mail hub
Kalitta Air has started a daily 747 freighter service between Los Angeles and New York Stewart International Airport, eschewing JFK in favour of the small Hudson Valley gateway, north of Manhattan.The flight is operated on behalf of the US Postal Service, which operates a major facility for region close to ...
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NewsPleuss to spearhead Imperial’s IT expansion
Imperial Logistics International has appointed Hugo Pluess as its new chief information officer (CIO), based in Zurich. He takes up the post on August 1.Reporting to chief executive Hakan Bicil, he will be responsible for all aspects of IT at Imperial Logistics International’s operations, which employ 9,000 staff at 170 ...
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NewsSpiceXpress plans to treble fleet
SpiceXpress, the air cargo arm of India’s Spicejet airline launched in October last year, has announced plans to treble its fleet by the end of the 2020 financial year.Currently the freighter fleet comprises two Boeing 737NG freighters and four more are expected to be added by March 2021, the company ...
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NewsDHL Express welcomes first B777F to fleet
DHL B777FThe first of the 14 new Boeing 777 freighters which DHL has ordered has made its first commercial flight – from its home base at Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport to Bahrain.Operated by DHL partner Southern Air, the plane will soon start scheduled operations."The delivery of our first ...
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NewsMASkargo relaunches weekly freighter to Guangzhou
MASkargo is relaunching its freighter flights between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Guangzhou, China, a thriving cargo route for the e-commerce market in both regions.The weekly service, operating from 4 June until December, will utilise MASkargo’s A330-200F fleet with a 60-ton capacity and is expected to generate a stream of business ...
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NewsLATAM Cargo extends pharma options
Latin American carrier LATAM Cargo has signed a deal with CSafe Global, a provider of active and passive temperature-controlled packaging solutions, to offer more options to customers shipping temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals.“CSafe containers offer cutting-edge technology that will continue to strengthen our Pharma Active product,” explains product development senior manager for LATAM ...
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NewsHong Kong targets high value cargo and e-commerce opportunities in 'Airport City' strategy
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has identified three strategic areas for future development: capturing cross-boundary e-commerce opportunities, targeting high-end, high-value cargo, and enhancing cargo services for the region.The plans are revealed in the airport authority’s “From City Airport to Airport City” report released today, which outlines “an ongoing transformation that ...
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NewsAirBridgeCargo adds Oslo flight for seafood exports
AirBridgeCargo has added a third weekly cargo departure from Avinor Oslo Airport, Norway to cater for seafood exports to South Korea.Martin Langaas, director cargo at Avinor, says: “AirBridgeCargo is an important part of our aim to facilitate more capacity for the Norwegian seafood industry to our largest trading partners in ...
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NewsDSV: 'a complex operation' for generator move
Global transport and logistics company DSV has moved a generator component on behalf of Siemens from Germany to Australia.The piece, which was 6 m long and had a diameter of 3 m, weighed 40 tonnes, so DSV chartered an IL-76 freighter from Volga-Dnepr Airlines for the job.The component was loaded ...
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NewsQatar Airways adds Izmir link
Qatar Airways has introduced thrice-weekly Airbus A320 flights from Doha to Izmir, its seventh destination in Turkey.The airline’s freighter-carrying division also benefits from belly capacity to Adana, Ankara, Sabiha Gökçen and Istanbul. In addition, it operates three weekly Boeing 777 Freighter services to Istanbul.Qatar Airways said: “With the launch of ...
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NewsLATAM Cargo's flying felines
LATAM Cargo has transported five big cats from Argentina to South Africa in a move coordinated by freight forwarder Newport Cargo.The two lions, one lioness and two tigresses had been living in a decommissioned zoo in Santiago del Estero; their 70-hour journey took them to Ubuntu Wildlife Sanctuary and Drakenstein ...
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NewsTigers provides global B2B and B2C solutions for Rapha
Shahar Ayash, TigersHong Kong-headquartered Tigers has expanded its partnership with Rapha, providing fulfilment services for the cycling sportswear brand from Tigers’ new facility in Thurrock.Those services include distribution within the UK, the European Union and Korea; other markets in Asia are to be served from Tigers’ Hong Kong warehouse.Rapha is ...
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NewsDHL Supply Chain rolls out latest version of ‘smart glasses’
DHL Supply Chain, the arm of the Deutsche Post DHL Group that handles contract logistics, is rolling out the latest smart glasses technology across its worldwide facilities.DHL staff will use the second-generation of Glass Enterprise Edition smart glasses.The glasses ‘virtually support’ the vision picking process in warehouses. According to DHL, ...
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NewsUPS adds new connections to Saturday pick-ups
Last week (mid-May), UPS announced that it had expanded the number of countries that are available to its US customers using the company’s Saturday pick-up export shipment service.An additional 122 countries that are to be found across the world have been added to the pre-existing 57-nation coverage.Twenty new markets in ...
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NewsDHL Express collaborates with EHang on last-mile drone delivery
DHL Express has agreed a strategic partnership with EHang in an effort to jointly operate a fully automated and intelligent smart drone that can undertake last-mile delivery in urban areas of China.The launch ceremony was held last week (mid-May) at the EHang Command and Control Center in Guangzhou.The EHang drone ...
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NewsTigers supports K&N Filters’ operations in China
Laura Crow of TigersTigers is working with K&N Filters, a high-performance automotive air filter and air filtration manufacturer that is expanding its operations in China.China is, Tigers noted, the world’s largest automotive market and Hong Kong-based Tigers is providing logistical support through its Chinese network of offices and facilities to ...
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NewsUPS finishes Louisville Centennial expansion project
Express services giant UPS has completed a multi-phase expansion of its Louisville Centennial ground package sortation and distribution facility.“Tripling the size of our Centennial hub provides companies with distribution centers and operations in Kentucky and the surrounding areas with more opportunities to better serve their customers,” stated Joe Boyle, president ...
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NewsAtran teams up with Cainiao to link Hangzhou and Riga
Atran Airlines, the Russian express services carrier within the Volga-Dnepr Group, has introduced a new route into its network that links Hangzhou in China with Riga in Latvia.Hangzhou is an emerging technology hub and an important gateway in China’s burgeoning e-commerce industry.A weekly flight is being operated every Thursday by ...
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NewsSea-Tac welcomes season’s first Copper River salmon
Alaska’s Salmon-Thirty-Salmon plane delivers the first Copper River salmonOn 17 May, about 18,000 pounds of fresh Copper River salmon arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) aboard an Alaska Airlines aircraft.That day represented the official start of the salmon season and Alaska Air Cargo will be flying large quantities of Copper ...