Yusen Logistics acquires Romanian 3PL Tibbett Logistics
Yusen Logistics has extended its business in Central Eastern Europe with the acquisition of Tibbett Logistics. The Japanese company has reached agreement to acquire Tibbett, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based Keswick Enterprises Group. No financial figure of the deal has been announced and the acquisition is subject to regulatory approval by the […]
60 Seconds with Soner Akkurt
Istanbul New Airport (INA) is set to open in the fourth quarter of 2018 and the gateway is set to be one of the globe’s ‘megahubs’ and help grow freight into and out of Istanbul. The operator is the IGA Airport Operation and Air Cargo Week spoke to chief commercial officer, Soner Akkurt (pictured below) […]
Flexport to charter own weekly freighter from HK to LAX
The growth in e-commerce and lack of capacity out of Hong Kong (HK) has led to Flexport to charter its own freighter flights from HK to Los Angeles. The growing freight forwarder say to ease the air cargo capacity shortages, the first of the these flights is a Boeing 747-400 departing on Sunday, 19 November. […]
ANA becomes first Japanese carrier to achieve CEIV Pharma
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first airline in Japan to be awarded the IATA CEIV Pharma certification. The airline has achieved the accreditation at ANA’s largest cargo operation, at Narita International Airport in Tokyo. ANA says to provide a higher quality in handling and transporting pharmaceutical products, it implemented numerous enhancements in various areas, […]
Cathay Pacific continues to post tonnage growth
Cathay Pacific Airways grew its cargo tonnage and freight figures in October compared to the same month in 2016. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried 180,706 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of 4.8 per cent compared to the same month last year. The cargo and mail load factor rose by 1.2 percentage […]
Hactl breaks three more handling records
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) broke no less than three records in the first week of November. In its giant SuperTerminal 1 facility, Hactl handled 31,280 tonnes of exports, beating its previous weekly record of 30,593 tonnes in November 2016. In the same week, its overall total of 42,471 tonnes of cargo handled […]
DHL Express to expand its HK hub with €335m investment
DHL Express is to invest €335 million in its Central Asia Hub (CAH) – in partnership with the Airport Authority Hong Kong. The expansion brings DHL’s commitment to the hub to over €520 million, making it the largest infrastructural investment by DHL Express in Asia Pacific to date. The express freight firm says the development […]
Q3 airfreight volume growth of 11.8% for CEVA
CEVA says it maintained its “positive momentum” in the third quarter (Q3) ending 30 September this year as revenue grew 5.4 per cent, but still remains in the red. In Q3, the freight management division maintained volume growth for its air product at 11.8 per cent versus prior year and CEVA says market volatility in […]
EVA Air takes delivery of first Boeing 777F
EVA Air took delivery of its first Boeing 777 Freighter at the Boeing Everett Delivery Center in Seattle on Wednesday, 8 November. The carrier flew its newest freighter from Paine Field to Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport, departing shortly after delivery and arriving on Thursday, 9 November in Taipei. The airport welcomed Taiwan’s first 777F with […]
Cargo sales soar in 2017 for Oman Air Cargo
Cargo sales are up 27 per cent at Muscat-based Oman Air Cargo this year compared to the same time in 2016. Senior vice president for commercial cargo, Mohammed Al Musafir (pictured below) says: “Provided this trend continues until the end of December, with all relevant indicators supporting this expectation, we should end up somewhere in […]
China’s CASC signs up for 300 Boeing’s
Boeing and China Aviation Suppliers Holding Company (CASC) today signed an agreement for 300 aircraft during a ceremony in Beijing. It was part of the United States trade mission to China, and was signed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and chief executive officer, Kevin McAllister, in the presence of US President Donald Trump and China […]
SIA Cargo turns around its financial figures
Singapore Airlines (SIA) Cargo turned around a loss of S$45 million (US$33 million) last year to an operating profit of $32 million in the first half of the 2017/18 financial year. The carrier says revenue improved $122 million as freight carriage growth of 6.1 per cent was further supported by a 6.7 per cent improvement […]
Flexport looking to grow its footprint
Flexport is evolving fast and the rapidly growing freight forwarder has no plans to slow down. 2017 has been quite a year and in August the US-based forwarder opened its first warehouses in Hong Kong (HK) and Los Angeles (LAX). Speaking at TIACA’s Executive Summit in Miami on 18 October, Flexport’s global head of airfreight, […]
CargoLogicAir adds Tel Aviv to scheduled freighter network
British freighter carrier CargoLogicAir (CLA) is adding Tel Aviv in Israel to its growing network of scheduled freighter operations – the third route it has launched this year. Starting on 10 November 2017, the London Stansted Airport based carrier will operate a weekly Boeing 747-400 Freighter service to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt. The flight will […]
Surge expected in 2018 as demand keeps growing
Following 17 per cent perishables growth so far in 2017, Qatar Airways senior vice president and acting chief officer for cargo, Guillaume Halleux is expecting a surge in demand in 2018, writes James Muir. The airline has transported over 135,000 tonnes of perishables to date, 17 per cent growth in 2016-17 compared to 2015-16, and […]
Chinese belly traffic boosts Brisbane’s cargo volumes
Belly traffic to and from China is driving cargo at Brisbane Airport (BNE) and more will follow as new services are operated, writes Justin Burns. In the first half of 2017, the gateway handled more than 54,000 tonnes, an 11 per cent uplift on the same period last year with 24 per cent growth in imports […]
1GSA adds Vietnam to growing network
1GSA – the recently-launched independent general sales agent (GSA) network – has appointed Transviet Promotion Limited as its exclusive member for Vietnam. Transviet Promotion was launched in 1996, and is Vietnam’s leading GSA organisation, active in both cargo and passenger operations. It has five bases in Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi and Da Nang, and 55 […]
WFS ensures Asian wine lovers get their Beaujolais Nouveau
The annual Beaujolais run is in full swing in France and Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) has been helping airlines ensure over 3,000 tonnes of this year’s new young wine is delivered to customers in Asia. WFS has played a key role in meeting international demand for Beaujolais Nouveau for more than 20 years. The WFS […]
Singapore Changi’s tonnage continues to climb in September
Singapore Changi Airport registered a year-on-year (YOY) increase of 9.8 per cent in airfreight throughput in September to 183,560 tonnes. In the first nine months of the year, the gateway has handled 1.56 million tonnes, a YOY rise of 8.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2016. Among Changi’s top 10 cargo markets, […]
JAL Cargo appoints Starlight Express as GSA in Nepal
Starlight Express – the Nepalese independent freight forwarder and agent of the U-Freight Group (UFL) – has been appointed general sales agent (GSA) for Japan Airlines Cargo (JAL Cargo). As an official representative for JAL Cargo, Starlight Express says it has committed to selling cargo space on the airline’s flights between Japan and Nepal, and […]
Sheremetyevo posts 39.4% tonnage growth in first nine months
Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport handled more than 200,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2017 – an uplift of 39.4 per cent on the same period last year. The airport says the increase in traffic volume was due to a significant increase in cargo turnover on international airlines, but domestic carriers saw a fall […]
Pharma standards can help other cool chain sectors
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) is looking to learn from the way pharmaceuticals are now being handled and moved across the air cargo supply chain. Over the last few years, signficant investments have been made by operators whether that is in pharma facilities, or improving processes and standards through CEIV Pharma. As a result traffic has […]
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec sign container agreement
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec are to cooperate in the passive temperature-controlled container market after signing an agreement. As part of the partnership, containers from va-Q-tec are now available worldwide at numerous stations of the German carrier. Customers shipping pharmaceutical goods will benefit from the partnership of Lufthansa Cargo and the advanced container rental service from va-Q-tec. […]
Cathay Pacific awarded CEIV Pharma certification
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) CEIV Pharma certification. The carrier says this underlines its capabilities in the treatment and transportation of high-value, time-sensitive and temperature-controlled pharmaceutical products with “speed, consistency and efficiency”. Cathay Pacific director of commercial and cargo, Ronald Lam […]
Asia Pacific carriers continue to see strong demand
Preliminary traffic figures for the month of September released today by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show international air cargo markets continued to enjoy double-digit growth in traffic volumes. International air cargo demand, in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) increased by a 11.4 per cent compared to the same month last year, reflecting the […]
New cargo facility opens at Edmonton International Airport
A new state-of-the-art $10 million Canadian ($7.9 million) cargo and logistics warehouse opened on Friday, 20 October at Edmonton International Airport (EIA). The new 50,000 square-foot cargo facility is the third building owned by Aeroterm and construction began in Spring 2016 and it opened earlier this month. Local media also reported on Friday, that Korean […]
Near 10% tonnage uplift for Cathay in September
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried 177,691 tonnes of cargo and mail in September, an increase of 9.6 per cent compared to the same month last year. The cargo and mail load factor rose by 3.1 percentage points to 68.1 per cent. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, was up by 2.6 per cent […]
Trinity and Etihad link up for Hanoi-Rickenbacker 777F service
Trinity Logistics and Etihad Airways have collaborated on operating a weekly Boeing 777 Freighter service between Vietnam’s Hanoi International Airport (HAN) and Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport (LCK). The move represents the first time the airports have been directly connected, making the transfer of goods between the two countries faster than ever before. The companies made […]
Strong cargo growth continues in Hong Kong in September
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continues to see strong cargo growth with a 9.1 per cent year-on-year increase in September to 430,000 tonnes. Cargo volumes have grown in every month of 2017 year-on-year varying from a 3.1 per cent increase in January to 17.8 per cent in March. Exports rose by 14 per cent, helping […]
New president and board members elected by FIATA
FIATA elected a new president and an extended board for the next two years at its general meeting in Kuala Lumpur last week. The FIATA World Congress saw over 1,000 delegates from 77 countries and on the day after the FIATA General Meeting took place – Transfreight Corporation chief executive officer, Babar Badat from Pakistan was elected president. He succeeds […]
