Emirates SkyCargo operates first Luxembourg freighter service
Emirates SkyCargo operated the first of its scheduled weekly freighter service to Luxembourg Airport on 12 June. Emirates SkyCargo’s freighter operation between Luxembourg and Dubai World Central is one of the first steps in the strategic operational partnership between Emirates SkyCargo and Cargolux Airlines announced in May, which both says will customers access a wider range […]
Brussels Airport records freight traffic increase
Cargo traffic at Brussels Airport continued to grow in May as it was up 8.5 per cent on 2016 as the gateway handled 43,836 tonnes compared to the 40,396 tonnes in the same month last year. Freighter traffic was up 9.4 per cent to 32,809 tonnes, an increase on the 29,989 tonnes achieved in May 2016. […]
Growth for cargo at airports in Lithuania
The first five months of 2017 saw a record amount of cargo handled at Lithuanian airports – Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga. In May year-to-date the volume of handled cargo increased by 19 per cent compared to the same period last year, reaching 5,227 tonnes. Lithuanian Airports is the operator and chief executive officer, Gediminas Almantas […]
Pharma investments and focus continue for Cargolux
Cargolux Airlines is seeing strong pharma traffic on routes Europe to the Midwestern US and back, manager for products, Stavros Evangelakakis (pictured below) says. He also explains demand into Asia remains high, especially in China and it is also seeing growth in the Middle East and South America. He says despite growing competition in this […]
Hainan Airlines adds Shanghai to Brussels belly route
Hainan Airlines has added a direct flight between Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Brussels Airport three times a week, which is set to give bellyhold cargo traffic a boost at the Belgian gateway. The flights are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and will be operated by a Dreamliner 787-9. Services will start from 25 October 2017. […]
BIFA calls for ‘big decisions’ as UK goes to the polls
The British International Freight Association’s (BIFA) director general, Robert Keen says ahead of the results of today’s UK General Eelection that it is time for the UK Government to make some big decisions. Keen says: “In the year since the Brexit vote, the UK has been in a period of great uncertainty on the political […]
Silk Way West to increase Maastricht Aachen Airport services
Silk Way West Airlines has increased services to Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) in the Netherlands’ second largest cargo gateway. Recently, Silk Way West Airlines has started to operate one weekly flight, but will gradually increase to four by the end of October. Silk Way West Airlines is the parent company of Sky Gates Airlines, which already operates four flights per […]
CEIV certified ABC joins Pharma Gateway Amsterdam
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines has joined Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA), the second airline to join the 14-member quality pharma initiative. The carrier operates 22 flights per week from Amsterdam to significant pharma destinations in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including Moscow, Chicago, Shanghai, and Singapore. ABC is already IATA Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in […]
ACI Europe: freight traffic up 5.6% in April
Freight traffic saw solid year-on-year (YOY) growth of 5.6 per cent in April as European gateways continue to see a positive start to the year, according to the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe. ACI Europe says in the first four months of the year cargo was up YOY by 7.4 per cent across Europe’s gateways […]
Innovate and digitise top of the agenda at FRA
Pushing innovation within the air cargo supply chain is a top priority for Fraport – the operator of Frankfurt Airport (FRA). Senior vice president for cargo, Dirk Schusdziara (pictured below) says the hub wants to keep its role as “innovation leader”, adding it is always searching for new solutions “to offer our customers faster processes, […]
Incheon posts strong growth and to build new facilities
Seoul’s Incheon International Airport posted a 9.9 per cent year-on-year (YOY) increase in volumes in April – handling 246,268 tonnes. In April, inbound cargo was up 12.2 per cent to 121,298 tonnes and outbound was up 7.4 per cent to 124,970 tonnes. The gateway says this was fuelled by the gradual recovery of Korean exports […]
Cool chain investments being made by LUG in Germany
LUG aircargo handling is building a health care centre at its Frankfurt Airport station to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical sector. LUG handles freight for 16 carriers at Frankfurt and a further eight at Munich Airport, which it is also eventually looking to develop cool chain facilities at. Speaking to Air Cargo Week […]
Turkish chief aiming to be in the top 5 for pharma
Turkish Cargo’s chief cargo officer, Turhan Özen says the carrier’s objective is to be one of the top five air cargo pharmaceutical carriers by 2023. He was speaking at the ‘Pharma Day’ panel in Frankfurt last month, which was organised by Turkish Cargo’s sales team. Özen also noted that one of the primary objectives among the […]
IATA: Airfreight growth slows in April but still up 8.5%
Global airfreight growth slowed in April but freight tonne kilometres still rose by 8.5 per cent, well above the five year average, International Air Transport Association (IATA) data shows. The April figure is down on the 13.4 per cent growth seen in March but well above the 3.5 per cent five year average, and all […]
Kersten to succeed Sorgetti at FIATA
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) has designated Hans Günther Kersten to be director general and chief executive officer – and he will replace Marco Sorgetti who retires in September. Kersten, was previously International Union of Railways (UIC) freight director and has worked for Deutsche Bahn in various senior management positions for 18 years. During a recent […]
ECS Group appoints Adrien Thominet as new CEO
ECS Group has appointed Adrien Thominet (pictured above) – the current chief operating officer – to be its new chief executive officer (CEO). The role is now held by Bertrand Schmoll (pictured below), who will continue to be chairman of the Group. The general sales and service agent (GSSA) says the changes in the top leadership are to “fully […]
WorldACD: Respectable April growth but figures remain unclear
Worldwide air cargo volumes grew a respectable 7.7 per cent in April but WorldACD says it is hard to tell what to make of March-April figures. It says March results were “somewhat inflated”, particularly in Europe due to the late Easter, with year-on-year outbound growth of 19 per cent followed by five per cent in […]
ACI: freight up 8.3% in Q1 across world’s airports
The Airports Council International (ACI) says improvements in business confidence, economic outlook and global trade helped revive airfreight volumes at the world’s airports in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017. ACI notes overall freight volumes increased 8.3 per cent year-over-year in Q1 of 2017 and 10.9 per cent for the month of March with this increase coinciding […]
UPS increases capacity to and from Spain
UPS will increase its air cargo capacity on 5 June from Vitoria and Seville in Spain to its European air hub in Cologne, Germany. The new Boeing 737-400F flights will allow UPS to offer later pick-up times for export shipments in northern and southern Spain and have a payload of 20 tonnes. This new service will complement […]
ACE: Data cloud race is on and the dream remains
A standardised logistics data system that can be used across the air cargo supply chain will be hard to develop but is not a pipe dream, the first conference session at air cargo europe heard. Panelists speaking in the age of digital and the connected discussion moderated by Maresch owner, Bernd Maresch, said it would […]
ACE: Digitisation still too slow but change is coming
Digitisation was on everyone’s lips at air cargo europe in Munich from 9-12 May and it was the theme at the first conference session. Lufthansa Cargo executive board member for products and sales, Dr. Alexis von Hoensbroech (pictured above), hailed the positive impact the digital world can have on air cargo. He was the keynote […]
WFS sells ground handling business in Italy
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has sold its ground handling business in Italy to Inceptus SpA – but will continue to own and operate its growing cargo handling business in Milan. Since June 2015, WFS has operated the ATA business, a ground handler in Italy, through its subsidiary WFS Ground Italy. On 19 May, WFS completed […]
DHL Global Forwarding to keep the Norwegian seafood moving
DHL Global Forwarding is to accelerate the supply chain for the North Norwegian seafood industry by shipping live crabs and seafood from the Lakselv Airport Banak in Northern Norway to Asia and Northern America. On dedicated weekly flights, DHL will transport fresh seafood to the DHL terminal in Oslo, from where the freight is sent to South […]
Sky Gates Cargo Airlines grows fleet by adding a B747F
After launching services between Russia, Europe and The Far East at the end of last year Sky Gates Cargo Airlines is going to increase their freighter fleet with another Boeing 747-400 Freighter. Senior vice president, Nidjat Babayev, responsible for the commercial development, says the next aircraft is going to be delivered by mid-June. It will be […]
VIDEO: Brussels Airport’s head of cargo, Steven Polmans
AZura Productions interviewed Brussels Airport’s head of cargo, Steven Polmans to discuss the airport’s development and to give an update on the BRUcargo community development. In 2016, Brussels handled 495,000 tonnes of cargo and has continued this growth path this year, despite challenging operations conditions. The gateway was the first airport community to gain IATA CEIV Pharma […]
WFS reorganises its top management team
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has announced new appointments, which it says will further strengthen the company’s leadership team and signal its ambition to build its cargo and ground handling operations globally. WFS’ Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia regions will be divided into two service product regions – cargo and ground handling – to facilitate the execution […]
VIDEO: AIA’s Alexis Sioris, Lina Palli and Panagiotis Zaga
AZura Productions interviewed Athens International Airport’s (AIA) Alexis Sioris, Lina Palli and Panagiotis Zagas at air cargo europe to discuss how they achieve efficient cargo flows and what their next phase will be. With the inauguration of the new Athens International Airport in 2001, the cargo division under Sioris adopted a strategy to make the cargo operation […]
VIDEO: Cargogate Munich MD Claudia Weidenbusch
AZura Productions interviewed Cargogate Munich’s managing director, Claudia Weidenbusch at air cargo europe to discuss facilities renovation and new concept of cargo handling in Munich. Cargogate is the largest provider of highly sophisticated cargo handling services at Munich Airport. As a 100 per cent subsidiary of the airport they handled the freight of airlines, who don’t have […]
VIDEO: Leipzig/Halle Airport’s Mario Patyk
AZura Productions interviewed Leipzig/Halle Airport’s Mario Patyk at air cargo europe to discuss opportunities arising in the air cargo community. Leipzig/Halle Airport is one of Europe´s top five cargo hubs with annual freight volumes of more than one million tonnes and it is Germany’s second largest freight airport. Visit https://www.azuraproductions.com/portfolio-item/leipzig-airport/ for more information and to view […]
VIDEO: Pharma.Aero’s Nathan de Valck and Jimmy Nares
AZura Productions interviewed Pharma.Aero’s Nathan de Valck and Jimmy Nares at air cargo europe to discuss pharmaceutical handling. The organisation was set up last year by Brussels Airport and Miami International Airport where de Valck and Nares have have senior roles respectively. Nathan has been leading the CEIV project at Brussels Airport and is now heading the Pharma.Aero project, […]
