Alaska Airlines’ booking engine to be powered by SmartKargo
SmartKargo has been selected by Alaska Airlines to provide its state-of-the-art booking engine for Alaska’s expanding cargo business throughout North America. The IT provider will provide the leading-edge technology to drive growth and business innovation for the carrier. The cloud-based SmartKargo solution will feature ease-of-use for cargo customers through a smart booking process that provides […]
C.H. Robinson opens global forwarding office in Vancouver
C.H. Robinson continues to expand its Global Forwarding division by opening a new global forwarding office in Vancouver. The new office will be led by Sohrab Kazerooni, who has been with the company for the past five years. The forwarder says Vancouver is a strong commercial market, was strategically chosen as the location for this office […]
Air Canada Cargo to add second South American freighter service
Air Canada Cargo is to add a second weekly service to South America with an additional flight to Bogota and Lima. The Boeing 767-300ER Freighter services operated by Cargojet were launched in June with flights from Toronto to Lima via Atlanta and Bogota, as well as Toronto to Mexico City via Dallas Fort Worth. Air […]
DSV sets up new division in North America
DSV has established a new ‘solutions’ division in North America – as it continues to grow its activities in the region following the acquisition of UTi – in which it gained substantial contract logistics business. Previously, DSV only had a few contract logistics sites and activities in North America, but these have now been merged […]
ACI predicts cargo volumes will grow ‘modestly’ to 2025
The Airports Council International (ACI) says that cargo volumes will grow “modestly” at around 2.4 per cent up to 2025. This was revealed in ACI’s World Airport Traffic Forecasts 2016–2040 at the ACI-NA/World Annual General Assembly, Conference and Exhibition in Montreal this week. ACI World director general, Angela Gittens says: “The weakened global economy and […]
Halifax Stanfield and Incheon expand sister airport agreement
Halifax Stanfield International Airport has celebrated six years of a ‘sister airport’ agreement with Incheon International Airport by further expanding the deal. Since initially starting the agreement in 2010, cargo exports have been a major focus area, with live lobster exports to Asia doubling between 2010 and 2015. Halifax says the value of live lobster […]
Cathay Pacific to increase Vancouver and Boston flights
Cathay Pacific is to increase North American services from March 2017 by flying to Boston daily and an extra three flights a week to Vancouver. From 26 March Cathay Pacific will make Boston services daily while Vancouver will add receive three extra flights a week from 28 March using an Airbus A350, serving the Canadian […]
Hearts race as Porsche 356 flies from Belgium to Canada
Hearts were racing when international freight forwarder a. hartrodt (Belgium) arranged the transportation of a classic Porsche 356C to fly from Brussels to Montreal. The classic car, which was built in 1965 and had been lovingly restored by the Porsche Centre Brussels Classic, flew in the bellyhold of an Air Canada flight for delivery to […]
Hybrid Airships to move freight to Alaska and Northern Canada
Hybrid Enterprises has signed a strategic partnership with PRL Logistics and Straightline Aviation to use LMH-1 airships to move airfreight and personnel to isolated regions of Alaska and Northern Canada. Hybrid Enterprises is the reseller of the LMH-1 airship, which was developed and built by Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airships, and is designed to land on […]
IPR delivers first LCD and structural tube conversion
IPR Conversions has re-delivered its first large cargo door (LCD) and structural tube conversion to Summit Air based in Yellowknife, Canada – an ATR72-202 Freighter. The company says this was converted by IPR’s partner ASI-Maintenance in Toulouse-Francazal, France, and marks the first IPR-converted LCD aircraft since the the purchase of the supplemental type certificate from Alenia last year. […]
e-AWB progress being made as US hubs make the switch
The electronic air waybill (e-AWB) is gaining momentum but adoption is still short of targets and below where many in the industry want to see it. The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) e-AWB360 conferences are aiming to further drive penetration rates and launched the e-AWB360 program to help airlines, freight forwarders, ground handling agents (GHA) […]
Seafood booming from Halifax International
Seafood exports were up 21 per cent at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in the first half of the year fuelled by an increase in lobsters moved to Asia. However, this was the bright spot as volumes at the Canadian East coast airport to the end of June fell by about three per cent on the […]
Perishables and agrifood boost Edmonton
Edmonton International Airport (EIA) is performing above forecasts in 2016, due to a strong first quarter in international cargo charter growth and perishables in June and July. The gateway’s primary market is international and the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific sectors are above target due to new capacity offerings of AFKLMP Cargo, Icelandair Cargo and Westjet on […]
Aeronaves orders fourth AEI MD-82SF converted freighter
Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has received a fourth order for an MD-82SF converted freighter from Mexico-based Aeronaves. AEI will start modifying the aircraft, registration MSN 49990, at its Commercial Jet facility in Miami. The aircraft will be re-delivered to fly for the DHL network in Mexico. Aeronaves is the largest overall operator of AEI MD-80SF series […]
Qatar Airways to run Nova Scotia route packed with seafood
Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA) will soon welcome Qatar Airways Cargo when the carrier launches a weekly Wednesday service to Doha with a stop in Zaragoza, Spain. The new service, set to begin on 20 July, 2016, will operate with a Boeing 777-200 freighter. The freighter can carry up to 103 tonnes of cargo. Much of […]
Network Cargo Management appointed GSA for TAAG Angola
Network Cargo Management has been appointed as the general sales agent (GSA) for TAAG Angola Airlines in the USA, Canada and Mexico to market cargo for the carrier. The national airline of Angola operates a weekly Boeing 747-400 Freighter with nose door from Liege in Belgium to Luanda in the capital of Angola, carrying a payload […]
DHL to be main lease holder at Calgary’s new cargo facility
DHL Express is to be the primary lease holder at Calgary International Airport’s (YYC) new cargo facility – spread over 100,000 square feet. YYC says it continues to deliver on its mission to be a key driver of economic diversity for the region, with the announcement of DHL, to be the initial, anchor tenant in its […]
ANA – United joint cargo venture to start on 5 July
All Nippon Airways and United Airlines are to start their joint cargo venture on trans-Pacific routes from 5 July. The joint venture and aligned operations will start on flights from Japan to the US and Canada, followed by routes from North America to Japan at an unspecified date “in the near future”. The Japanese carrier […]
WestJet connects Gatwick with six Canadian cities
Gatwick Airport has received 28 new weekly flights to Canada with WestJet launching routes to Toronto, St John’s, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The low cost carrier will have bellyhold cargo capacity, and will use Boeing 767-300s on all the services except the St John’s flights, which will use a Boeing 737. The Toronto flights […]
Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet announce freighter from Dallas to Mexico City
Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet have announced new freighter service from Toronto to Mexico City via Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport will begin on 9 June, 2016. The route is a result of a co-operative arrangement between Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet and will be operated with Boeing 767-300ER Freighter aircraft. DFW Airport executive vice […]
Miami welcomes KF Cargo for South American charter flights
Miami International Airport has welcomed Canadian airline, KF Cargo, launching charter services into South America. The first flight by the subsidiary company of KF Aerospace was bringing in thousands of flowers for Mother’s Day. KF Aerospace, headquartered in Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, employs 1,000 people and provides air cargo operations, aircraft leasing, heavy maintenance […]
Air Logistics wins Wings OBC contract
Air Logistics Group has been appointed as the exclusive general sales and service agent (GSSA) by the Wings On-Board courier network in Europe, the US and Canada. The group will provide full sales and customer service support for the Wings network. Air Logistics Group managing director, Helmut Mair says: “We are very excited to be the GSSA […]
Air Canada and Cargojet to run freighter from Canada to LATAM
Air Canada and Cargojet today announced they are finalising a commercial arrangement that will see Air Canada Cargo introducing dedicated freighter services from Canada to Latin America and Europe with a Boeing 767-300ER Freighter operated by Cargojet. Air Canada Cargo will become the only provider of direct scheduled freighter service between Canada and Latin America. The […]
UPS to double capacity in Ontario
UPS is to double capacity at Ontario International Airport with a new sorting facility and expanding an existing building to process e-commerce and retail packages. The new building will process urgent, UPS Next Day Air packages and will feature automated sorting capabilities and the expanded facility will be retrofitted with automated sorting systems and will […]
Gatwick’s cargo falls again in February
Gatwick Airport has had another difficult month with cargo volumes falling by 12.2 per cent to 5,628 tonnes in February. The double digit fall in February follows from January, when volumes were down 9.7 per cent to 5,231 tonnes. On a 12 month basis from March 2015 to February 2016, cargo volumes are down 18.1 […]
Air Inuit to be Bombardier Q300 launch customer
Air Inuit is to be the launch customer for Bombardier’s Q300 passenger to freighter conversion, which will serve Canada’s Northern Communities. The converted Q300 will have a large cargo door, a capacity of about 5.6 tonnes and will be designed to accommodate palletised and free load cargo. A supplemental type certificate will be developed under […]
Edmonton sees cargo volumes rise for 6th consecutive year
Edmonton International Airport (EIA) saw its cargo volumes growth climb for the sixth consecutive year in 2015 and is set to see a further rise in 2016. The Canadian gateway has not yet revealed how many tonnes of freight it handled, but president and chief executive officer, Tom Ruth says: “Overall, 2015 was a year of wins […]
LATAM signs joint business ventures with American and IAG
LATAM Airlines Group has signed joint business ventures with its oneworld partners, American Airlines and IAG. As a result of the agreement, IAG and American Airlines customers will get access to LATAM’s network of over 100 destinations with more than 1,000 flights a day. LATAM, which consists of LAN and TAM, and its affiliates will […]
Buffalo Airways allowed to fly again
Buffalo Airways is allowed to fly again as its air operator certificate has been reinstated by Transport Canada. Transport Canada had suspended its certificate on 30 November 2015 because of the company’s poor aviation safety record. The certificate has been reinstated with immediate effect following approval of its corrective action plan. Transport Canada says: “Buffalo Airways’ […]
CAL Cargo starts Halifax freighter service stocked with seafood
Tonnes of Nova Scotia seafood has been shipped overseas again from Halifax Stanfield International Airport (HIAA) by CAL Cargo Airlines. CAL Cargo Airlines now operates cargo flights to Liege Airport using a Boeing 747-400 Freighter with connecting service to Hong Kong and Shanghai in China. The carrier’s chief executive officer, Eyal Zagagi says: “We’re thrilled […]
