New long-haul routes drive Gatwick’s tonnage growth
London Gatwick Airport’s cargo tonnage soared 32.1 per cent in October compared to the same month last year as recorded its busiest ever October. Long-haul route growth fuel the cargo tonnage and the gateway says it is down to the continually increasing global connectivity at the airport with 22 new long-haul routes added in the […]
New digital data sharing concept to be piloted
Tosoh Corporation, Panalpina World Transport, KLM Cargo and facilitating parties Schiphol Cargo, Dutch Customs authorities and Cargonaut, are collaborating in an initiative to re-use data from the shipper throughout the supply chain – as part of joint vision to make processes smoother and more efficient. Global chemical and specialty materials company, Tosoh will act as […]
Peli BioThermal opens new service centre in Belgium
Peli BioThermal has opened a new service centre in Belgium serving the global pharmaceuticals sector. The new facility, the latest in a worldwide expansion, will serve as an additional depot for the company’s Crēdo on Demand rental program. Located in Brussels, a key hub for both pharma manufacturing and transfer, the latest location enables global […]
Munich and Moscow Domodedovo sign sister airport agreement
Munich Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport have forged closer ties after signing a sister airport agreement. Moscow Domodedovo Airport Group chairman of the board Dmitriy Kamenshchik, and Munich Airport president and chief executive officer, Michael Kerkloh signed the agreement (pictured above). The aim of the partnership is a knowledge transfer for employees and managers on both […]
Flexport looking to grow its footprint
Flexport is evolving fast and the rapidly growing freight forwarder has no plans to slow down. 2017 has been quite a year and in August the US-based forwarder opened its first warehouses in Hong Kong (HK) and Los Angeles (LAX). Speaking at TIACA’s Executive Summit in Miami on 18 October, Flexport’s global head of airfreight, […]
Volga-Dnepr delivers 30 ‘Mercs’ to Angola for president’s inauguration
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has used the special two-tier car racking system developed for its An-124-100 freighter fleet to deliver 30 Mercedes vehicles to Luanda in Angola for the inauguration ceremony of newly-elected president, Joao Lourenco. The 90-tonne payload was transported from Leipzig/Halle Airport on behalf of the Angolan Embassy in Germany. It consisted of a fleet […]
RAM Cargo to start B737F Frankfurt – Casablanca service
General sales agent (GSA) ATC Aviation says its long-standing partner Royal Air Maroc (RAM) Cargo will start operating its Boeing 737 Freighter twice weekly from Frankfurt to Casablanca as of today (2 November). The freighter is set to benefit customers from RAM’s extensive network within North and West Africa, as well as South America. In the […]
WFS ensures Asian wine lovers get their Beaujolais Nouveau
The annual Beaujolais run is in full swing in France and Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) has been helping airlines ensure over 3,000 tonnes of this year’s new young wine is delivered to customers in Asia. WFS has played a key role in meeting international demand for Beaujolais Nouveau for more than 20 years. The WFS […]
Crowley and Air Menzies International form service partnership
Crowley Logistics has formed a new reciprocal service partnership with Air Menzies International (AMI) to enhance both companies’ offerings to their respective customers. Under this new agreement, the CrowleyFresh facility in Medley, Florida, will become the centralised consolidation facility for AMI’s Miami Gateway operation, which provides bi-directional links between central and South America, the US, […]
BIFA calls for end to congestion at Heathrow’s cargo centre
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says increasing air cargo volumes at Heathrow Airport are only exacerbating “age-old problems” for companies that have to use the gateway’s cargo centre. Director general, Robert Keen says the centre, which is widely known as the horseshoe is as “bad as its ever been”. He adds: “Congestion at the horseshoe […]
IATA: airfreight demand dips slightly, but still up 9.2%
Airfreight demand fell slightly in September, but was still up 9.2 per cent on the same month last year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports. Freight tonne kilometers or FTKs saw their slowest pace of growth seen in five months. However, it was still significantly higher than the five-year average growth rate of 4.4 per cent. […]
Grayling: open skies to EU will remain and Heathrow expansion on track
Aircraft will continue to fly into and out of the UK post-Brexit and the government is on track to deliver a 3rd runway at Heathrow Airport, delegates at the Airport Operators Association (AOA) Conference heard on Monday, 30 October in London. Much concern has been raised in the aviation industry whether the current open skies […]
Singapore Changi’s tonnage continues to climb in September
Singapore Changi Airport registered a year-on-year (YOY) increase of 9.8 per cent in airfreight throughput in September to 183,560 tonnes. In the first nine months of the year, the gateway has handled 1.56 million tonnes, a YOY rise of 8.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2016. Among Changi’s top 10 cargo markets, […]
Alha signs multi-year contract with Cathay at Malpensa
Alha Group has penned a multi-year contract with Cathay Pacific Airways at Milan Malpensa Airport for the provision of ramp handling services for the carrier’s freighters. Alha started handling services on 10 October and it will extend the extensive and strong partnership between Alha and Cathay Pacific in Italy. President Simone Ceruti says Cathay has […]
Infrastructure investment of €20m to be made at Liege Airport
Liege Airport is to invest more than €20 million in new cargo warehouses and handling facilities as it looks to continue it strong growth path. For more than 12 months, cargo activity at Liege Airport has been undergoing major structural growth. The companies on the site have opened new routes, integrated new aircraft and intensified […]
Sheremetyevo posts 39.4% tonnage growth in first nine months
Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport handled more than 200,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2017 – an uplift of 39.4 per cent on the same period last year. The airport says the increase in traffic volume was due to a significant increase in cargo turnover on international airlines, but domestic carriers saw a fall […]
Jettainer launches cool service to improve efficiency
Temperature deviations in cool chain shipments is something every air cargo carrier wants to avoid and unit load device (ULD) company Jettainer has launched a new service to help its customers. ‘COOL Management’ was launched in September and is a service for temperature-controlled ULDs. It includes the leasing, management and positioning of ULDs as well […]
Pharma standards can help other cool chain sectors
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) is looking to learn from the way pharmaceuticals are now being handled and moved across the air cargo supply chain. Over the last few years, signficant investments have been made by operators whether that is in pharma facilities, or improving processes and standards through CEIV Pharma. As a result traffic has […]
Freight at Nairobi grows 75.5% as Africa tops regional growth
Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport saw the most significant growth of global gateways in August, according to figures released by the Airports Council International (ACI). The airport recorded a 75.5 per cent year-over-year (YOY) increase in freight volumes, but having been in negative territory for several months in the last year, it was able to recover […]
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec sign container agreement
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec are to cooperate in the passive temperature-controlled container market after signing an agreement. As part of the partnership, containers from va-Q-tec are now available worldwide at numerous stations of the German carrier. Customers shipping pharmaceutical goods will benefit from the partnership of Lufthansa Cargo and the advanced container rental service from va-Q-tec. […]
DSV reports stronger set of results than previously forecasted
Higher than expected business performance in both air cargo and sea freight have led to more upbeat results at Danish freight forwarder DSV. The company reported in its financial figures for the period from 1 January to 30 September, that operating profit before special items is expected to be in the range of DKK 4,700-4,900 […]
Lufthansa makes offer for loss-making Italian carrier Alitalia
The Lufthansa Group says it submitted a “concept for establishing a re-structured” Italian carrier Alitalia. Lufthansa said in a statement it has sent an offer letter today, expressing its interest in establishing a “NewAlitalia” – which comes as it is negotiations for parts of Air Berlin. Earlier today, a report in the Italian newspaper Corriere della […]
Frankfurt-Hahn sets up task force as it looks to boost business
A new task force has been set up at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport led by chief operation officer, Christoph Goetzmann as it looks to promote the gateway as an alternative hub for airfreight in the Frankfurt region of Germany. Goetzmann says in the upcoming months, the airport will introduce its improved service in a road show to all international […]
Network growth set to continue at Turkish Cargo
Turkish Cargo has added new freighter routes this year, but is not finished yet and is eyeing more connections. In the last six months, it has started services to Sao Paulo, Paris, Johannesburg, Kano in Nigeria, Oslo and Antananarivo in Madagascar. Turkish Cargo sales vice president (Turkey), Omer Kilic (pictured) says all the new routes […]
EFW launches first Airbus P2F conversion flight tests
EFW (Elbe Flugzeugwerke) has successfully launched the first A330-300P2F test flights at Dresden Airport after months of preparation. Facing unfavorable weather conditions during storm Xavier the first flight only took a few minutes. The second lasted for over six hours, followed by several other flight tests to achieve the supplemental type certificate (STC) in 2017. The […]
China Southern and AF-KL-MP strengthen cooperation with new MoU
China Southern Airlines Cargo and Air France KLM Martinair (AF-KL-MP) Cargo have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further strengthen and shape strategic cooperation. The two airlines signed a MoU in September 2015 focused on strategic cooperation between the two parties, and they plan to collaborate in a number of areas over the […]
FedEx Express opens new ground operations centre in Barcelona
FedEx Express has opened a new ground operations centre in Barcelona in the one of the city’s main industrial areas – Zona Franca. The facility will process both domestic and international shipments, serving as a gateway between the Barcelona region and Europe. FedEx Express says it is creating Europe’s leading logistics network through strategic investments, and […]
Zodiac to launch new main deck container
Zodiac AirCargo Equipment will launch its first Herculight S main deck containers during the Inter Airport Europe Expo that will be held from 10 -14 October in Munich, Germany. After the successful introduction of the lower deck Herculight S container and pallet range, the firm has expanded its product range with cargo containers for the […]
Volumes keep on rising at Heathrow and more targeted
Heathrow Airport has been growing its cargo tonnage and has had 13 successive months of record volumes. In the first eight months of 2017, volumes grew year-on-year (YOY) by 10.3 per cent passing 1.1 million tonnes, and were up 8.7 per cent to over 1.6 million tonnes on a rolling 12-month basis. Head of cargo, […]
IATA: air cargo demand up 12.1% in August
Air cargo demand grew by a double-digit figure for the fifth time in six months in August, according to figures released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The association says freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), increased YOY by 12.1 per cent in the month, compared to the same period a year ago with Africa up […]
