All Technology Articles – Page 52
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FedEx cleans up its planes and reduces its fuel bill in the process
FedEx has adopted a new fuselage cleaning procedure for 13 aircraft serving Europe from its Roissy-Charles De Gaulle hub that it claimed will help reduce its fuel bill.FedEx has begun cleaning the 13 aircraft using brooms equipped with microfiber rags to apply an anti-static biodegradable, non-toxic and non-flammable cleaning product.The ...
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Kerry adds robots to Hong Kong warehouse
Kerry Logistics has introduced six robotic butlers at its flagship facility in Hong Kong to speed up the picking process in line with trends in e-commerce.The robots operate 24/7 and can pick 280 items per hour compared to 50 items normally, and the pick rate is four times faster.Kerry said ...
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AF-KLM offers real time notification when a problem occurs
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo is offering RealTime Care, a service that tells customers automatically when a shipment is affected by an “irregularity”.As part of the European carrier's Let's Get Digital programme, customers will be “notified about the situation, its cause and the repair solution that has been found for them”.RealTime Care ...
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Frankfurt community website gets a refresh
The Air Cargo Community Frankfurt’s internet presence now has a fresh new look (www.FRA-fr8.com).The new website now provides full details of companies, institutions and organisations and is geared to an international audience, being completely bilingual in German and English. It now has a modern layout and a responsive design, so ...
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SpiceJet opts for SmartKargo
Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet has become the first airline in India to deploy cloud-based air cargo management solution, SmartKargo, for its in-house and international cargo operations.The SmartKargo system is built on cloud computing instead of dedicated hardware and software and offers mobile platforms and data analytics.The deployment of the system ...
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DuPont appoints le Minor to Tyvek EMEA air cargo role
DuPont Protection Technologies has appointed Yves Le Minor as European business development manager for the Tyvek® air cargo cover range.Drawing on his experience as part of the Tyvek air cargo team since the beginning of 2014, Le Minor will work alongside his DuPont counterparts in the Americas and Asia to ...
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Software guardian for Australian cargo compliance
Cargo Guardian, a compliance management software for the Australian air cargo industry, is set to launch before the end of July.It has been developed by industry specialists to integrate with airfreight operational processes and existing data exchange practices.A statement from the Cargo Guardian developer said: “Ground handlers, airlines and freight ...
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Coyne launches tracking app
Coyne Airways has launched a smartphone app allowing customers to track their shipments.The app enables customers to create an account where they can view tracking information for their shipments using their air waybill number, look up flight schedules, and search for Coyne Airways offices and General Sales Agents worldwide.Coyne Airways ...
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E-AWB reach record levels but a long way to go to hit target
Electronic air waybill (e-AWB) penetration reached its highest ever level in May, but the current growth rate is not enough to see it hit the IATA target for 2015.The latest IATA figures show that in May e-AWB penetration reached 27.9% as 410,720 air waybills were processed electronically.This is the most ...
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P2F partnership confirms A321 conversions to start this year
Aircraft sales, leasing and conversion group PACAVI and partner Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co (Gameco) have confirmed they will begin the serial production of both Airbus A320 and A321 passenger-to-freighter conversions by the end of this year.PACAVI chief executive Stephan Hollmann said: “Our joint project team will commence conversion of ...
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COSH and carry: US patent for cargo airships
A newly awarded US patent for Control-of-Static-Heaviness (COSH) in airship flight systems has been welcomed by the sector's technology pioneer, Worldwide Aeros Corp (Aeros).Aeros said that COSH technology overcomes a “historical limitation” of airships regarding their need for external ballast, and now permits the aircraft type to “engage in a ...
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Accenture goes in with SaaS
Management consulting and technology firm Accenture has released a new version of its Air Cargo Suite and has made it available as software as a service (SaaS).It says that the package, which includes reservations, routing, price and operations functions can improve workflows and help reduce revenue leakage and is aimed ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to test drone technology
Swiss WorldCargo, Swiss Post and Matternet are teaming up to test the deployment of drones, including their potential use for internal logistics and the last mile delivery of small packages.The air cargo division of Swiss International Air Lines, the Swiss postal group and the US-based manufacturer of drone technology will ...
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Vertannes joins SmartKargo
IATA's ex-head of cargo, Des Vertannes, has joined air cargo software company SmartKargo as a strategic adviser.Vertannes, who now divides his time between UK and Portugal, was at IATA for four years and before that led airline cargo teams at British Airways, Air Canada, and Etihad, in a career spanning ...
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DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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Have you given paper the boot?
I HAVE absolutely no idea how many companies out there are totally ignorant of the urgent need to digitise their documents.If there are any – and remember, this is the airfreight business I’m talking about – here’s a brief word of warning: we’re in the age of technology, the age ...
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CHAMP: A man with all the right connections
THE PAST year has been a busy one for CHAMP Cargo-systems and the next one looks to be no less busy. For a business that is continually urging modernisation and change on others, one cannot accuse the IT company of shirking it itself.Successful ticks on the 2013 to-do list of ...
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Emirates: Secondary connections, primary goals
It must be hard for the cargo team at Emirates to keep up with all the new destinations that are added to their network each year. Oslo, Stockholm, Boston, Chicago, Taipei, Kabul, Abidjan and Conakry have all had new Emirates services in the last eight months, and the carrier has ...
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Fifteen years of insights
IT IS now fifteen years since the Air Cargo News Interviews started (as the Peter Conway Interviews), the first being on 20 August 1999 with Klaus Herms, then chief executive (CEO) of Kuehne + Nagel, writes Peter Conway. Key topics in that interview included a frustration at not having one ...
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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 ...