All Turkish Cargo Articles – Page 6
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Turkish Cargo’s flying arks help protect endangered penguins and lions
Turkish Cargo has flown 20 Humboldt Penguins, an endangered species, from Lativa to the Public Oceanic Aquarium in China.In a separate operation, the air cargo carrier has transported six lion cubs to Bangladesh and 14 adult lions to China.The penguins were picked up from the Riga Zoo and then taken ...
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New Turkish Cargo freighter to be used on Miami route
Turkish Cargo will use its recently delivered Boeing 777-200F on a new weekly route to Miami.The service will begin at Istanbul, departing on Sundays, first heading to Madrid, then new destination Miami before heading to Houston and then back to Istanbul, arriving on Tuesday mornings.The move means that Turkish Cargo ...
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Two more Turkish Cargo stations achieve pharma standard
Turkish Cargo has gained QEP Accreditation from Envirotainer for its Brussels and Atlanta stations for the quality of its pharmaceutical services.The carrier, which also delivers temperature-controlled medical products via QEP accredited stations in Bombay, Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Seoul, Istanbul and Tel Aviv, has been widening its services to over 300 points ...
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Turkish Cargo sees freight traffic take off in 1H
Turkish Cargo registered a double-digit percentage improvement in cargo revenues during the first half of the year, helped by strong growth in the Chinese market.The Istanbul-headquartered airline saw total cargo revenues increase by 25% year on year during the first six months of 2017 to $580m on the back of ...
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Flying fish: Turkish Cargo provides Pearls of the Aegean for Kuwait dining tables
Turkish Cargo is now accepting fresh fish shipments on its direct Bodrum-Kuwait passenger flights as part of a sameday perishables supply chain to serve the appetites of consumers in the Middle East country.The Turkish carrier said that it is offering the service after requests from the Aegean Region, where three ...
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Istanbul New Airport signs cargo contracts worth €250m
The operator of Istanbul New Airport, Turkey's showcase hub set to open in 2018, has signed 25-year contracts worth €250m with six companies for its Cargo City and Ground Services Campus sites.IGA Airport Operation, which has the contract to build and operate the mega hub, said that it has signed ...
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Turkish Cargo launches freighter flights to Johannesburg and Madagascar
Turkish Cargo is launching scheduled Airbus A330 freighter flights to Johannesburg in South Africa and Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa.South Africa sees the majority of its exports going to European and the Americas. These generally consist of machinery, electronic equipment, chemicals and automotive parts.Madagascar exports a wide range ...
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Turkish Cargo freighter to Sao Paulo
Turkish Cargo has launched scheduled Airbus A330 freighter flights to Sao Paulo in Brazil, one of the largest industrial and trade centres in South America.The weekly service operates out of Istanbul, via Dakar International and Guarulhos International airports.Brazil, which had exports totalling $190bn in 2016, mainly to China, also sells ...
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Turkish Cargo launches freighter flights to Paris
Turkish Cargo has launched weekly scheduled Airbus A310 freighter flight between Istanbul and French hub Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport. The flight schedule may be revised, based on permits.Automobile, aircraft and aircraft engines, as well as pharmaceutical products and plastic raw materials are the top-ranking items in the exports from ...
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We want to be in pharma top five says Turkish Cargo chief
Chief cargo officer Turhan Özen says he wants Turkish Cargo to become one of the top five pharma carriers by 2023. Speaking at a Pharma Day panel of industry representatives in Frankfurt organized by the carrier’s cargo sales team in late May, he said pharma was an important part of ...
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Turkish Cargo freighter flights to Oslo
Turkish Cargo has confirmed the launched of a two times a week Airbus A330-200 freighter service to Oslo Airport, aimed at the growing Norwegian seafood export market.Said the carrier: "2016 was a record year for Norwegian seafood export, and Turkish Airlines wishes to take part in this development. Turkish Cargo ...
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Freighters World profiles Istanbul's new mega airport in the making
If you had asked anyone in the air cargo industry a year ago whether Istanbul needed a new airport, or at least new airport capacity of some variety, the answer would have been a resounding ‘yes’.The reason for the enthusiasm about potential new cargo capacity is simple: Atatürk International Airport ...
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Cargo to play a central role at Istanbul New Airport
Cargo is set to play a central role in the development of Istanbul’s new airport, which has ambitions to become the largest in the world.The new airport is being built on a 25-year build, operate and transfer (BoT) basis by the IGA consortium made up of five companies from the ...
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Cargo to play central role at Istanbul New Airport
Cargo is set to play a central role in the development of Istanbul’s new airport, which has ambitions to become the largest in the world.The new airport is being built on a 25-year build, operate and transfer (BoT) basis by the IGA consortium made up of five companies from the ...
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Turkish Cargo gains pharma certification
Turkish Cargo has become the latest airline to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certificate for its pharmaceutical operations.The airline was awarded the CEIV certificate after meeting IATA’s CEIV standards.Turkish Cargo has a storage area totalling 3,000sq m and covering four different temperature ranges (from -20 ...
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Swiss to suspend Istanbul connection but seeks to continue serving the Turkish cargo market
Swiss International Air Lines has confirmed that it will cut its double daily Zurich-Istanbul Ataturk service from the beginning of this year’s winter schedule.According to a spokesperson for the carrier: “SWISS has decided to remove Istanbul from its programme with effect from winter 2016/17. All our destinations are subject to ...
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Turkish Cargo makes promising start to 2016
Turkish Cargo carried a total of 111,691 tons of cargo in the first two months of this year, up 14.6% on the same period of 2015. Of that, 103,309 tons of cargo was carried on international services, 8,382 tons on domestic routes.Considering regional performance, volumes carried within the Middle East ...
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Turkish Cargo get in on the superhero market with transport of Batmobile
For a while now pharma has been the segment of choice for the air cargo industry, but with more and more companies targeting the high-margin industry, Turkish Cargo has identified a new customer base to target: superheroes.The Turkish cargo carrier revealed that it will be transporting the Batmobile to various ...
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Turkish Cargo adds new African freighter destination
Turkish Airlines’ cargo division has added a tenth African destination to its freighter network.Turkish Cargo announced that it had today launched a dedicated A330 freighter service to Dakar.The service heads from Istanbul to Los Angeles then onto Dakar before returning to Turkey.“These all-cargo flights will supplement the already substantial cargo ...
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Management changes at Turkish Cargo
TURKISH CARGO has appointed Tarik Parlak as its new regional cargo manager for central and southern Europe.Parlak formerly served as the carrier’s regional cargo manager for Africa.Mehmet Gürkan, whose previous position was cargo marketing and sales supervisor at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, will succeed him.“We are certain that Mr Parlak ...