AAPA: Cargo volumes up 9% in April
Preliminary traffic figures for the month of April released today by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed cargo volumes rose year-on-year (YOY) by nine per cent. AAPA says this performance was on the back of strong international demand, as business conditions continued to improve across Asian economies, in turn lending support to international trade […]
Jet Airways expands cargo capacity on Heathrow belly route
Jet Airways is to add a third daily flight between Mumbai International Airport and London Heathrow Airport using a Boeing 777-300ER. The Indian carrier says the new service will boost cargo capacity between the UK and India by almost 33 per cent, allowing the airline to capitalise on the growing round-the-year demand being witnessed between the UK […]
China Eastern A321 skids off runway at HKIA
A China Eastern Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft this morning (May 24) skidded off the runway after landing at Hong Kong International Airport. China’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) says: “The aircraft concerned (flight number: MU765) was flying from Nanjing to Hong Kong at 10.52am today. The Civil Aviation Department’s (CAD) Air Traffic Control Tower spotted the aircraft deviating […]
Cathay Pacific makes 600 redundant and scraps cargo director role
Cathay Pacific has reorganised its head office and made around 600 people redundant in Hong Kong and has also restructured the cargo department. The Asian carrier says in line with the reorganisaition it will “streamline” the structure by removing the role of cargo director. Last month, Cathay Pacific revealed that Simon Large was leaving his role as director […]
Cargo volumes continue to surge in Hong Kong
The positive start to the year at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continues as the world’s busiest freight hub saw year-on-year (YOY) cargo growth in April of 8.9 per cent as it handled 398,000 tonnes. The strong performance was largely attributed to a 14 per cent YOY growth in exports and among the key trading regions, North America […]
E-commerce, technology and pharma focus for Hactl
2017 has to date been a strong year for Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) as freight flies through Hong Kong and it is expanding services to meet rising demand. This follows from a record-breaking 12 months last year when Hactl handled 1.65 million tonnes of cargo, up 1.7 per cent on the previous […]
Alibaba looks to grow e-commerce in Pakistan
Alibaba has signed of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to grow the e-commerce sector in Pakistan, which could give the country’s airfreight sector a boost. Executive chairman, Jack Ma and Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif penned the MoU during PM Sharif’s visit to the Alibaba Headquarters in Hangzhou, China this week. Under […]
Cargo and logistics high up KLIA Aeropolis development
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad is growing air cargo and logistic facilities at Kuala International Airport where all four of the major integrators and 20 of the world’s top 25 freight forwarders are active. The future vision is to develop KLIA Aeropolis – including growing infrastructure for cargo and logistics. KLIA Aeropolis is an airport city development of over 9,000 acres, extending its commercial reach […]
SIA Cargo to be re-integrated as a division within Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) wholly-owned subsidiary – SIA Cargo – is to be re-integrated as a division within SIA, in a move intended to improve efficiency through greater synergy with the wider SIA Group. The re-integration is expected to be completed in the first half of 2018, when SIA Cargo will become the ‘Cargo Division’ of […]
MAB Kargo tonnage grows in Q1 but it suspends Chongqing freighter
MAB Kargo chief executive officer, Ahmad Luqman Mohd Azmi (pictured below) says business has been good and riding on the momentum of the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016 and in Q1 tonnage was up five per cent on Q1 in 2016. “The restructuring was done back in 2015. Our operations has since been stabilised and […]
E-commerce and key Asian markets fuel Cathay surge in April
Cathay Pacific Airways and Cathay Dragon carried 163,473 tonnes of cargo and mail in April between them – an increase of 10.7 per cent on the same month in 2016 with e-commerce and key Asian markets driving the surge. In April, the cargo and mail load factor rose by 2.2 percentage points to 65.7 per cent […]
Major cargo expansion plans at Moscow’s main gateway
Moscow’s main cargo gateway Sheremetyevo International Airport and the hub of rapidly expanding AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines has big plans to grow freight volumes. The first two months of 2017 have seen dynamic growth and according to the Airports Council International Europe, it handled 27,888 tonnes, a 29.7 per cent year-on-year (YOY) rise on 2016. This […]
Tigers opens office in Myanmar and looks to further expand
Asian supply chain firm Tigers is to expand its e-commerce offering in South East Asia with new branch in Yangon and plans for further expansion in Myanmar later in the year. The opening of the new office in Yangon is part of the firm’s ongoing growth programme, supporting customers across South East Asia. The new branch, […]
Fresh cargo markets boost Korean Air’s bottom line
Korean Air’s cargo operations have a strong and beneficial influence on its bottom line as the company grows by developing new markets. Figures show during the fourth quarter of 2016 that freight generated 2,868 billion Won ($83 million) for Korean against 2,284 billion Won in the same period of 2015. Korean Air declined to comment […]
New cargo facilities to be constructed at Incheon International Airport
Incheon International Airport is adding more cargo facilities to its already impressive roster so it can meet rising local demand and increasing competition. Korea’s main cargo gateway is to extend its offering for the airfreight community in the next few years as growth continues at a fairly rapid pace. “We are currently developing additional space […]
Airfreight revenues and tonnage rise in Q1 for Expeditors
Expeditors has reported its net revenues increased two per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017 and airfreight tonnage increased by 16 per cent – compared to Q1 last year. The freight forwarder’s net revenues reached $528 million in Q1 this year, up on the $517 million in Q1 2016. Operating income was $146 […]
DHL looks to capture e-commerce business in Malaysia
The expansion of DHL eCommerce continues after it launched a domestic delivery service with nationwide coverage in Malaysia, which includes a range of customer-centric services catered to the growing e-commerce market. The division of Deutsche Post DHL Group says local online retailers will also benefit from DHL’s range of cross-border shipping and fulfillment network. DHL says the move will […]
Revenues in Q1 at C.H. Robinson boosted by APC acquisition
C.H. Robinson Worldwide’s total revenues increased by 11.1 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017 compared to Q1 in 2016 – reaching $3.41 billion. The company says performance for the first three months of the year was driven by volume growth across all transportation services, while total net revenues rose by 0.9 per cent […]
Another strong month for Changi with 10.2% cargo growth
Changi Airport has had another strong month with 10.2 per cent year-on-year growth in March to 188,600 tonnes. Volumes have grown 6.2 per cent in the first three months to 494,200 tonnes, with a small 0.5 per cent increase in January to 158,700 tonnes, while February was up 7.9 per cent year-on-year to 146,900 tonnes. […]
Ban on direct cargo flights from Bangladesh could soon be lifted
Hopes are rising a ban on direct cargo flights from Bangladesh could be lifted soon a senior official with Biman Bangladesh tells Michael Mackey. Airport regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), is near to completing the installation of dual view scanning machines, something their overseas counterparts wanted, Biman managing director and chief executive officer, […]
Q1 surge for Cathay as tonnage and load factor up
Cathay Pacific Airways posted impressive numbers for March and in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017 as tonnage grew strongly and other figures were up. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon combined carried 181,189 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, a year-on-year (YOY) increase of 15.4 per cent compared to the corresponding month in 2016. The cargo and […]
Tonnage growth of 17.8% for Hong Kong
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) recorded significant year-on-year (YOY) growth of 17.8 per cent in cargo volume in March 2017. The gateway handled 433,000 tonnes with the strong growth in cargo throughput was largely driven by exports, which recorded a robust 24 per cent YOY increase. Imports and transshipments also experienced double-digit growth and amongst the key trading […]
LATAM Cargo names Bianchi as new CEO
LATAM Cargo has promoted Andrés Bianchi (pictured below) to chief executive officer (CEO) from his role as senior vice president (VP) of sales for North America, Europe and Asia. He will take on the position from 15 April when current CEO, Cristián Ureta leaves the company and has been part of the group since 2001 when he joined the […]
Cathay Pacific’s Manchester service to go daily from December
Cathay Pacific is to up its current four-times-weekly Hong Kong to Manchester ballyhooed service to a become a daily operation from 1 December 2017. Having announced in March that it would be increasing the number of weekly flights to the northern English city to six by the end of the year, the airline is boosting frequency […]
Tigers team up with Pos Malaysia for e-commerce
Tigers Ltd has signed a new cooperation agreement with Malaysia’s national postal provider Pos Malaysia to manage its e-commerce facility in Kuala Lumpur. The Hong Kong-headquartered company will manage Pos Malaysia’s e-commerce fulfilment out of the Cargo Centre using Tigers’ SmartHub technology and warehouse management system, and will handle business to customer (B2C) fulfilment across Malaysia […]
Macau and Hong Kong look to strengthen logistics cooperation
Senior air cargo and freight forwarder figures from Macau and Hong Kong are looking to strengthen logistics ties between the two countries and are to set up a task force to make the most of opportunities on offer. Macau International Airport Company (CAM) acting director of logistics and general aviation development department, Frank Wu and Macau Air Freight Forwarding (Logistics) Association […]
Qatar Airways Cargo starts freighter service to Phnom Penh
Qatar Airways Cargo started its first freighter service to Phnom Penh in Cambodia on 3 April using an Airbus A330 Freighter. It will operate on the Doha–Phnom Penh–Doha route once a week and will offer over 60 tonnes of cargo capacity each way. Garments represent the largest portion of Cambodia’s manufacturing sector and account for 80 […]
GEFCO appoints new EVP for freight forwarding division
The GEFCO group has appointed Anthony Gunn as its new head of its freight forwarding division and activities. With over 25 years of experience in the logistics sector, the company says Gunn has developed and carried out major transformation projects in Europe, the US and Asia. GEFCO says Gunn’s objective will be to strengthen the profitable growth of […]
DFW cool chain facility on track and CEIV on the way
Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport has big cargo plans and is building a new cool chain facility along with working on gaining the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) CEIV Pharma certification. The gateway’s executive vice president for global strategy and development, John Ackerman (pictured below) spoke to Air Cargo Week at IATA’s World Cargo […]
Changes to board at ANA Cargo
ANA Cargo has made changes to its board and management team – which become effective from 1 April. These include Meiji Watanabe being made executive vice president (EVP) of cargo operations, and Sei Suehara EVP of domestic cargo. New roles have been created including EVP for global sales, Toshiya Tamada and EVP for global marketing, […]
