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Pharma.Aero adds trio to membership
Pharma.Aero has seen three more companies join the worldwide platform which aims to foster strong collaboration among its membership of airport communities, pharma shippers, and other pharma logistics stakeholders.Logistics company Expeditors and specialist cool-chain ULD provider Envirotainer have joined the organisation, along with Pharma.Aero's seventh airport member, Montevideo Free Airport, ...
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Parcel volumes to grow 17%-28% a year says new report
Global parcel volumes surged 48% between 2014 and 2016 and are set to continue growing at double-digit rates, according to the second annual Parcel Shipping Index from technology company Pitney Bowes.Annual parcel volumes increased from 44bn to 65bn up to the end of 2016, and the growth curve shows no ...
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Takeover of Kenyan perishables forwarders to go ahead, with conditions
Kenya’s competition watchdog has approved “with conditions” the takeover of two specialist perishables forwarders in the African country by European logistics giants Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) and Panalpina.The Competition Authority of Kenya has approved the acquisition of Air Connection by Panalpina Airflo Ltd, Panalpina Airflo BV and Panalpina Kenya Ltd, but ordered ...
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New York JFK animal centre welcomes first import horse guests
The $65m ARK animal centre at New York JFK Airport has welcomed its first horse imports as phase two of the facility gets underway.Last Friday, ARK's Equine Import Quarantine centre welcomed three Irish sport horses named Sandy, Jackson and Polly, also known as three shades of grey, for their their ...
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AirBridgeCargo gets Envirotainer's seal of approval for pharma operation
AirBridgeCargo’s (ABC) has achieved Envirotainer’s quality accreditation at its global hub at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport and in Dallas as part of its push into pharma.Envirotainer, which provides active cool containers, created its Qualified Envirotainer Provider Training and Quality Programme (QEP) to recognise transport service providers which demonstrate their ability to ...
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Time critical firm GBA expands into Germany
Time-critical logistics firm GBA Services has continued with its European expansion, adding a operations covering the German market.The company, which is already present in the UK, Poland and Austria, will add a new office in Bremen from where it will provide the full portfolio of GBA’s services – including time-critical, ...
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Air Partner in time-critical automotive flight
Air Partner recently carried out a time critical lift of 3,044kg of spare car parts to Stockholm via two separate German airports.The first request from the client was for the urgent transportation of 1,676kg of cargo to be transported from central Germany to Stockholm."The client chose the more cost-effective option, ...
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Envirotainer San Juan, it's a RAP e2
Specialist cool-chain ULD provider Envirotainer has added its Puerto Rican station in pharma hub San Juan as a supplier of its flagship RAP e2 unit.The RAP e2 is an active temperature-controlled air cargo container that can maintain product temperatures between ±0 and +25°C."We are proud to add San Juan to ...
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Emirates SkyCargo says it with flowers
Emirates SkyCargo's Boeing 777 'Rosie' freighter has marked Chinese Valentine’s Day and the Indian festival of Onam with special deliveries.The Dubai-based carrier's rose-liveried freighter arrived at Shanghai’s Pudong International airport in the early hours of August 28, on the day of the Qixi festival to mark what is known as ...
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LUG extends Health Care Center at Frankfurt airport
LUG air cargo handling has modernised and expanded its Health Care Center (HCC) at Frankfurt Airport in a 650 sq m first step programme that paves the way for possible expansion to 1,200 sq m.The company has also recruited Dominik Misskampf as senior project manager to handle the expansion project.The ...
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Panalpina Luxembourg licensed to handle organic produce
Panalpina’s hub at Luxembourg Airport has been licensed to handle organic fruits and vegetables by Certysis, an inspection and certification body for organic products.This makes Switzerland-based logistics giant Panalpina the first and only licensed receiver of organic produce at the European hub.Quint Wilken, Panalpina’s regional head of Perishables Europe, said: ...
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Qatar Airways links up with DoKaSch for pharma containers
Qatar Airways Cargo has signed an agreement with DoKaSch Temperature Solutions to offer the Frankfurt-based equipment specialist's Opticooler range of temperature-controlled containers for transporting pharma products.The chief officer cargo of the Middle East Gulf carrier, Ulrich Ogiermann, said: “We understand the intricacies of a seamless cool chain and always aim ...
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Finnair goes green at new cargo hub
Finnair Cargo will utilise solar power at its new COOL Nordic hub to help power the facility as part of the carrier's sustainability strategy.The carrier will install 1,200 panels on the building’s roof, with each panel able to produce up to 260W of energy and the annual energy production level ...
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SF Airlines adds freighter number 40
Chinese express cargo carrier SF Airlines last week added its 40th freighter aircraft to its fleet.The freighter operator, which operates the largest all-cargo aircraft fleet in China, took delivery of the converted Boeing B757-200F aircraft at its Shenzhen Bao'an International airport base.The aircraft is the first in the SF Airlines ...
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DHL forwarding achieves IATA CEIV in Frankfurt and Hamburg
DHL Global Forwarding's airfreight stations in Frankfurt and Hamburg have achieved IATA's CEIV pharma Standard.DHL started to certify its global stations according to the IATA CEIV Pharma Standard in the third quarter of 2016. Its Thermonet Station Leipzig hub was the first to achieve the certification in April this year.The ...
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CEVA adds new Dublin temp control facility
CEVA Logistics has added a new 15,000 sq ft temperature control facility at its airport industrial park warehouse.The new building has been constructed as an insulated building-within-a-building on the city's airport industrial park and will allow the forwarder to "better serve customers with medical products requiring to be kept within ...
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Oslo Airport's fish freight volumes are flying
Oslo Airport expects its seafood traffic to increase by around 50% in 2017 thanks to the addition of new freighter services.The Norwegian Airport expects to handle a total of 90,000 tonnes of seafood as air cargo this year as freighter services flying directly to import markets have been added.Previously, much ...
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X2 Logistics Network members team up for AOG airfreight operation
Members of the X2 Logistics Network recently teamed up to urgently airfreight various aircraft parts from around the world to help get a stranded aircraft back in the air.The logistics network came together for the aircraft on the ground (AOG) operation when an Air Asia X aircraft became stuck in ...
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NewsHorse sense: Jettainer offers leasing option for flying stables
Airfreight container firm Jettainer is now offering a leasing option for "flying stables" so that horse transport boxes can be made available at short notice.The specially designed containers can be leased for one day or up to several months, said the Lufthansa-owned outsourced unit load device (ULD) management company.A wide ...
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Budapest Airport plans animal facilities after horse transport
Cargolux and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics arranged the first transportation of live horses from Budapest Airport after Hungary received clearance to begin flying the animals last year.In total, 14 racehorses bred in Hungary were flown to China last week, on board a Cargolux B747-8F.Budapest Airport property director René Droese stated that, ...