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CHEP wins $20,000 innovation award
Floris Kleijn, IT director and project leader at CHEP Aerospace Solutions, said he was “humbled” to top the delegate poll in IATA’s inaugural Air Cargo Innovation Awards, presented during the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai.CHEP receives $20,000 for its CanTrack ULD tracker, which incorporates a solar panel to solve ...
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Pharma audit "really taking off"
Tom Windmuller, IATA’s senior VP airports, passenger, cargo and security, presented Sebastiaan Scholte, chief executive of Jan de Rijk Logistics and chairman of the Cool Chain Association, with a framed Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certificate during the World Cargo Symposium (WCS).The ceremony marked the company’s successful ...
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TNT launches Tel Aviv freighter links
TNT has launched a Monday to Friday B737-400F service between Israeli capital Tel Aviv and the express operator's European hub in Liege, Belgium.The new service "answers increasing demand" and allows TNT to shorten transit times for express shipments to and from Tel Aviv by one day.The flight arrives in Tel ...
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WCS: IATA sets out three priorities for air cargo
IATA has called for further progress on paperless airfreight, global standards for handling pharma goods and tough action on the transport of lithium batteries.Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and chief executive, highlighted “three vital aspects of the air cargo business” during his keynote speech at the association’s World Cargo Symposium ...
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Brussels' second wave of CEIV Pharma
Belgian hub Brussels Airport has launched a second pharmaceuticals certification programme for its cool chain community.BRUcargo last year became the first airport to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Handling programme (CEIV Pharma).“With the launch of this second group the majority of all pharma shipments ...
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Singapore is automatic choice for DHL south Asia hub
DHL Express has unveiled plans for a new South Asia Hub at Singapore’s Changi Airport. The S$140m investment is its largest ever infrastructure project in the country and is due for completion by the first quarter of 2016.With a total floor area of 23,600 sq m, the hub will have ...
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Gunning warns of continued excess cargo capacity
IAG Cargo boss Steve Gunning has warned that excess global air cargo capacity is likely to remain for the “foreseeable future”, with lower oil prices discouraging “capacity discipline” as older freighters continue to fly.Gunning said that excess capacity was a key driver for IAG Cargo’s decision last year to end ...
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IAG Cargo launches B787 Austin, Texas route
BUSINESSES in Austin, Texas are benefiting from the launch of a new air-conditioned B787 IAG Cargo belly-hold connection with London Heathrow.The US city’s first ever regular transatlantic service, gives a direct air link between the hi-tech Texan hub and Europe.IAG Cargo has launched the service in part to help support ...
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Qatar Cargo freighters to Hyderabad, London and Zaragoza
QATAR Airways Cargo (QAC) is to launch scheduled dedicated freighter services to Hyderabad (India), London Stansted (UK) and is reinstating services to Zaragoza (Spain).Textiles, agricultural products, footwear, automobile and pharmaceuticals are among the commodities likely to be shipped on the carrier’s scheduled twice-weekly A330 freighter service to Zaragoza, which began ...
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United launches Control Tower for temperature control
UNITED Airlines Cargo [UAC] has launched Control Tower to run the rule over its growing temperature-sensitive shipments business.It features a highly-trained team of dedicated specialists who provide the carrier’s TempControl product customers with a single point of contact through all phases of their shipments’ lifecycle.Located at UAC’s customer contact center ...
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International trade stifled by protectionism, says Fred Smith
FEDEX founder Fred Smith has warned that 'the golden age' of double-digit air cargo growth is unlikely to return due to trade protectionism, higher fuel costs and the rapid growth in bellyhold capacity.Smith told the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Los Angeles: "The big reason why international trade is not ...
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IAG Cargo B787 targets India pharma
IAG CARGO, the all-cargo arm of British Airways and Iberia, is to capitalise on India’s booming pharmaceuticals and healthcare market by introducing a passenger B787 on its service between London-Heathrow, Hyderabad and Chennai.The aircraft has been optimised for bellyhold with air conditioning in the forward hold, making it ideal for ...
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ACS opens Houston office
CHARTER broker Air Charter Service (ACS) is to open a new office in Houston, Texas to satisfy airfreight demand from oil and gas companies.It comes after the company’s North American operations grew by nearly a third last year.“A large part of that growth was on the cargo side of the ...
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Coming soon: a global air cargo standard for pharma
MEDICAL authorities are devising a GDP-style global standard regulation covering the air transportation of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.It will shake up the air cargo industry and weed out the bad operators.All 44 members of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) are working on draft documentation inspired by the game-changing new ...
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Manston Airport holds talks over possible closure
THE UK’s Manston Airport is holding talks over its possible closure, it is reported.144 staff at the loss-making airport located to the east of London have been given details about a 45-day consultation.The airport was acquired last year for £1 by Ann Gloag, co-founder of the Stagecoach transport group.Last September, ...
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Video game technology boosts air cargo monitoring
TECHNOLOGIES originally designed for video games and smartphones are now being used in the goods distribution industry.A study conducted by DHL has found that this marks a complete reversal of past practices in which new technologies were initially first applied in business – and then migrated to private users later.According ...
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AF-KLM Martinair Cargo adds pharma capacity
AIR FRANCE-KLM-MARTINAIR Cargo has reinforced its commitment to the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry by introducing a new scheduled belly-cargo service to Brasilia – and increasing freighter capacity out of Bombay.The carrier has launched a new thrice-weekly B777-200ER service between Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Brasilia, the federal capital of ...
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Amazon fined for Hazmat breach
AMAZON has paid a US$91,000 civil penalty, handed down by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), for violating hazardous materials regulations.Amazon employees improperly shipped a package containing flammable liquid adhesive on a FedEx service to Boulder, Colorado.FedEx employees in Boulder discovered a gallon container of the hazardous ...
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'Misdeclared' toxic cargo handed to FedEx
NEW YORK shipper Alfa Chemistry has been hit by a massive possible US$325,000 fine after it allegedly sent two separate shipments of toxic, flammable cargo by air.The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing the civil penalty after the company shipped approximately one pint of Acrolein on ...
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IAG Cargo adds capacity to Tel Aviv
IAG CARGO has replaced its narrowbody A321 with widebody B777 aircraft on seven of the 14 weekly flights from London to Tel Aviv, to capitalise on the city’s growing pharmaceuticals market.The B777, which has been operating on the route since the end of March, can carry 18 tonnes on the ...