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Cargo leads Atlanta’s agenda
ATLANTA Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movements, wants to upgrade its cargo side. At the top of the agenda: more warehouse space and upgraded perishables facilities, writes John McCurry.Miguel Southwell, aviation general manager for the airport, says Hartsfield-Jackson has had two successive ...
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Monster challenge
Some 13 teams from carriers and the air cargo industry vied for Hactl’s 2015 International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition, the best in its eight-year history said the Hong Kong handler.The 300 spectators included under-secretary for transport and housing Yau Shing-mu, chief occupational safety officer of the Labour Department, Wu ...
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Wholesaler AMI adds Schiphol to its network
Air Menzies International (AMI) – the trade-only airfreight and express freight wholesaler – is now fully operational at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.AMI Amsterdam has achieved IATA CASS status, so it can now buy space on departures direct from Schiphol, in addition to routeing cargo via its main London Heathrow operation.The company ...
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Hactl welcomes pledge to ease Hong Kong's labour shortage
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl) has welcomed the political commitment to address Hong Kong’s chronic labour shortage, which has pushed up costs for the airfreight industry.In his policy address earlier this month, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), C Y Leung, said he would ...
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Gatwick hails DHL congestion-buster
A consolidation hub set up to supply businesses at Gatwick airport and cut down on road congestion and pollution could be a prototype for other crowded urban areas or even airport cargo areas, says a DHL expert. Ian Lovelock: vice president within the Specialist Services team at DHL Supply Chain ...
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Hong Kong on the rise
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) finished 2014 with a strong final quarter that helped fuel an 8.7 per cent rise in full year handled volumes to just over 1.8m tonnes.Hong Kong’s major independent cargo handler ended 2014 with its strongest quarter of the year, handling 491,000 tonnes, an ...
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1.45m tonne debut year for Hong Kong terminal
Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal (CPCT) handled 1.45m tonnes of cargo in 2014, its first full year, with transshipment traffic the main driver at 54 per cent of volume throughput.Import and export cargo tonnage throughput were 15 per cent and 31 per cent, respectively, said parent company Cathay Pacific Services Ltd ...
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Full year cargo rise at Athens
Athens airport saw a 3.3 per cent rise in full year 2014 cargo volumes at its four freight terminals to 77,327 tonnes.Alexis Sioris, manager cargo development at Athens International Airport, said: “We are once again showing our customers that Athens is a multi-modal cargo hub, which has been a major ...
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Panalpina and Atlas Air extend freighter partnership
Logistics operator Panalpina and freighter lessor Atlas Air are strengthening their partnership with a new five-year agreement that sees the forwarder switch one of its wet-leased B747-8Fs to more than 200 scheduled charters per year.“The new long-term agreement with Atlas Air will intensify our cooperation and increase our joint business,” ...
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Hong Kong's equine VIPs
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (Hactl) handled all 62 horses competing in the Longines Hong Kong Masters event, representing one of the largest horse handling assignments in its 38 year history.It is the third successive year that Hactl has handled the event’s equine show jumping stars.The terminal operator handled ...
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SLi moves into Heathrow
Colchester, UK-based logistics firm SLi is to open a new operation at Heathrow to tap into the air cargo and express distribution market. The company, which is a member of the nationwide Palletways network of road hauliers, has a policy of investing in sites close to the country’s main air ...
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Panalpina launches 'Brazil Wings' freighters to São Paulo
Panalpina is adding a B747-400 freighter service to São Paulo, Brazil, aimed at manufacturers of heavy machinery and equipment for agriculture and mining.The direct service from US hub Huntsville to São Paulo, called Brazil Wings, has been designed for customers in the mid-west and in parts of the s south ...
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Minister praises Singapore streamlining
Initiatives by Singapore ground handler SATS to streamline cargo pallet handling, and a warehouse reorganisation to reduce processing time were among projects singled out for praise by Singapore’s transport minister Josephine Teo.There was also ministerial praise for a cargo track and trace scheme by forwarder DB Schenker.The Aviation Productivity Conference, ...
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Hong Kong will be a three-runway airport by 2023
Hong Kong's government has approved a third runway for the city’s international airport.Expected to open by 2023, it will help the island maintain its status as the world’s busiest air cargo hub and help Hong Kong maintain its position against other Asian rivals in China and Singapore.The HK$141.5bn (US$18.2bn) scheme ...
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Cargojet network expansion
Canada’s Cargojet is expanding its domestic air cargo network from the beginning of April.Cargojet, operating overnight services across North America plus global charters, has a total freighter fleet of 24 aircraft, including the recent introduction of five B767-300ERFs, three B767-200ERFs and one B757-200ERF.The carrier did not outline in detail the ...
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Shanghai’s new perishables centre to open in July
Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) says its new perishable centre is nearing completion and should go into operation in July 2015, once it has gained IATA certification.The 3,500 sq m site will include a deep freeze area (-18 degrees Celsius), several cool storage facilities (+4 to +8 degrees ...
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Aid agencies prepare airlift to Vanuatu
Aid agencies and the military have scrambled to fly supplies into Vanuatu, after the Pacific island nation was hit by Cyclone Pam last week.The Category Five tropical storm hit Vanuatu with winds of up to 170mph, causing widespread damage and knocking out power, water and other services.The storm is likely ...
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WCS: How to reduce the fire risk from lithium batteries
Fires in consignments of lithium batteries have been implicated in the loss of three aircraft over the last 10 years, writes Martin Roebuck.Peter Hunt, airline ground safety manager at Cathay Pacific, told the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Shanghai about risk mitigation measures the airline is taking to make sure ...
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Two more B737F converts for China's SF Airlines
PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered two B737-300Fs to China’s SF Airlines (SFA), the air cargo division of Shenzhen-based logistics specialist SF Express, a leading courier in China.US-based Pemco has now completed nine B737-300/400 freighter conversion projects for SFA.The latest Pemco freighters to join SFA’s growing freighter fleet were converted ...
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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 ...