WebCargo acquires Air Freight Bazaar
WebCargo, a Freightos company has acquired Air Freight Bazaar, a regional air cargo rates and sales platform based in Chennai, India. The acquisition combines WebCargo’s advanced air cargo rates, sales and eBooking platform, used by over 1,400 forwarders with Air Freight Bazaar’s market share of 300 regional air forwarders. Air Freight Bazaar customers will receive […]
Lufthansa Cargo adds summer freighter connections
Lufthansa Cargo will be adding freighter connections for the summer, putting the two new Boeing 777 Freighters into service. Capacity will increase 10% with increased flights across Asia, the Americas Africa utilising Lufthansa Cargo and AeroLogic’s freighter capacity on the summer schedule starting on 31 March. In Asia, two flights a week will be added […]
AF-KL Cargo and Jet Airways Cargo strengthen cooperation with MoU
Air France KLM Cargo and Jet Airways Cargo have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen cooperation and develop products for specific industries such as e-commerce. Under the MoU, the airlines say they seek to deepen cooperation and endeavour to link and leverage their route networks to create and offer expanded high-value cargo services, as […]
Ethiopian adds Ahmedabad to Indian network
Ethiopian Cargo is to add a freighter service to Ahmedabad in India with flights starting from 28 March. Ahmedabad is home to more than six million people, India’s second oldest stock exchange and is a large producer of cotton, and will be Ethiopian’s fifth Indian cargo gateway. Ethiopian started cargo flights to India in the […]
Turkish Cargo launches freighter service to Chennai
Turkish Cargo launched an Airbus A330 freighter service to Chennai in India on 9 November and says the service and the one it already runs to Colombo in Sri Lanka will operate once a week. Turkish Cargo operates to 292 destinations, including 64 freighter destinations, in 117 countries by its 13 freighters and 323 passenger aircraft. […]
Airports Authority of India plans subsidiary to handle cargo
Air cargo handling is set to become more efficient in India according to local media reports – as the Airports Authority of India (AAI) plans to separate cargo operations by setting up a logistics subsidiary called Air Cargo Corporation. This move would apply to all AAI owned gateways including Chennai and the plan has reportedly got […]
Muscat sees 7% growth in Q1
Muscat International Airport has seen cargo volumes increase by seven per cent in the first quarter of 2016 to 34,759.8 tonnes. The airport says Oman Air and Cargolux Airlines International extended their partnership in February to cover twice weekly operations to Mumbai. They had been operating a partnership from Chennai to Muscat connecting on to […]
Kerry Logistics raises stake in Indev Logistics
Kerry Logistics has entered into memorandum of understanding to increase its stake in Indev Logistics (INDEV) – an Indian logistics company headquartered in Chennai. Kerry has upped its interest from 30 per cent to 50 per cent, and it says it has an increasingly positive view of India’s economic prospects. The announcement was made at the re-branding […]
Cargolux and Oman Air extend Indian partnership to Mumbai
After successful cooperation between Cargolux and Oman Air for cargo flights to Chennai as part of an agreement signed last year, the carriers have added an additional destination in India with two weekly flights to Mumbai, beginning on 8 March 2016. Flight CV6102 leaves Luxembourg on Tuesdays at 12.25h and is routed via Bahrain where it arrives […]
Qatar Airways expands freighter fleet to 16 aircraft
Qatar Airways Cargo has increased its fleet, having taken delivery of its seventh Airbus A330 Freighter and its first Boeing 747 Freighter. The new aircraft will be used on routes to the Indian cities of Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai, as well as Bahrain, Brussels and London’s Stansted Airport. Qatar now has 16 freighters in its […]
