Full speed ahead for Wallenborn
Across the Benelux region, business grew by 7.2% for Wallenborn with Belgium leading the way as airlines increasingly fly into Liege due to slot reductions in Amsterdam. Frantz Wallenborn, president and CEO of the Luxembourg-headquartered transportation company, which provides extensive road feeder services to the air cargo industry tells Air Cargo Week that Belgium grew […]
Bellies are full of cargo at Schiphol
Full freighter movements may have fallen by 10% at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in 2018, but strong passenger links meant that overall volumes only saw a small dip. Total volumes were down 2.5% to 1.72 million tonnes, which head of cargo Bart Pouwels says was due to more effective usage of belly capacity on passenger flights. […]
Outrageous times are over for Global GSA
After the “outrageous” high yields in the final quarter of 2017, Ismail Durmaz says that 2018 was steadier for Global GSA Group with 9.8% growth globally. The CEO says that while not all markets performed the same, Global GSA was able to compensate small set-backs in certain markets with solid increases in other markets. Durmaz […]
No complaints from AFKLMP
After a strong year in 2018, things are slowing down a bit in 2019 due to global issues, but there is nothing to complain about at Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP). In separate interviews with Gertjan Roelands, vice president of Europe and Ivo Frankort, director of Benelux, both were happy with the way business […]
Nielsen named Crane Benelux managing director
Crane Worldwide Logistics has appointed Kenneth Nielsen to serve as managing director for Benelux, reporting to EMEIA regional vice president, Marco Nazzari. Nielsen, who holds a business degree from Tietgen Business College in Odense, Denmark, will work at Crane’s office in Amsterdam. He has more than 20 years of experience in a variety of senior […]
Region’s growth driven by the traditional and the new
Cargo volumes continue to grow across the Benelux region, with new game-changing cargo sources emerging out of Asia and ongoing challenges as airports face growing capacity constraints, writes Donald Urquhart. Across the Benelux region, like much of the world, 2017 was a good year. For Liege Airport it was a record year. And it is […]
Oman Air picks ECS Group as Benelux sales partner
Oman Air Cargo has chosen ECS Group as its sales partner in Europe’s Benelux region, in a contract to be serviced by ECS subsidiary, Globe Air Cargo (GAC). The airline plans to improve its market presence in the Benelux region and the partnership, which started on 1 April 2017, will provide the carrier with overnight […]
American Airlines starts Amsterdam – Dallas flights
American Airlines Cargo has launched Amsterdam – Dallas Fort Worth services as well as adding a number of seasonal routes to other European destinations. The new service to Europe’s third largest cargo airport started on 5 May using a Boeing 767-300, and American says it will offer customers in the Benelux region new opportunities to […]
CEVA reacts to market movements with new strategy
CEVA Logistics has drawn up new strategies for the European market as it targets further growth, reports Mike Bryant. Chief operating officer for air and ocean at supply chain services, Helmut Kaspers explains: “Our main focus in Europe is on growing outbound volumes to increase our market share. “Especially in Europe, we have significantly increased […]
Tough July for cargo at Brussels Airport
Brussels Airport has seen cargo volumes plunge year-on-year (YOY) by 8.8 per cent in July to 39,689 tonnes, down on the 43,539 tonnes in the same month last year. The gateway says volume of all-cargo flights fell by 9.8 per cent compared with July 2015 and put the downturn down to various factors, including certain […]
Egyptair appoints FlyUs as GSSA for Benelux
Egyptair has appointed FlyUs as its cargo general sales and service agent (GSSA) for the Benelux region, covering its Amsterdam and Brussels flights and road feeder services. FlyUs will be responsible for the Egyptian national carrier’s daily flights to Amsterdam and four times a week services to Brussels, while the six weekly freighters ex Ostend […]
Ter Bruggen joins Cargolux
Gerard Ter Bruggen has been appointed regional director West and North Europe by Cargolux, joining from Qatar Airways. Ter Bruggen started the Cargolux on 1 January and is based in Amsterdam. He will be covering the UK, Scandinavia, the Baltic States and the Benelux countries. Before taking the Cargolux job, Ter Bruggen was the Qatar […]
