Love is in the air for NAM
To meet additional demand ahead of Valentine’s Day, Network Airline Management has transported over 1200 tonnes of freshly cut flowers from Nairobi, Kenya into Europe. During this year’s “Valentine’s Rush” in the first two weeks of February, Network reports it operated a total of 12 B747F flights, including four additional flights due to the high […]
Bloomin’ lovely as Ethiopian Airlines celebrates historic UK milestone
Ethiopian Airlines has marked its one-year anniversary of flights from the North of the UK by donating a rose bush featuring the nation’s famous flowers to three iconic gardens across the North of England. Yorkshire, Manchester and the North East were the top regions to fly with the airline since it launched flights from Manchester […]
IAG Cargo’s warehouses are smelling of roses
With events such as Valentine’s Day approaching, you wouldn’t want to present someone you love with a shrivelled flower. Daniel Johnson spoke to Air Cargo Week about what IAG Cargo is doing to ensure they arrive in perfect condition. With around 2,500 tonnes of flowers being transported across its network every year, IAG Cargo has […]
Turkish Cargo flower traffic blooms on wide body cargo aircraft
Turkish Cargo scheduled additional 12 flights between January 26 and February 12 in order to satisfy demand of Valentine’s Day. The airline carried 906 tonnes of cut roses to the Netherlands from Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Turkish Cargo became the air cargo carrier that had carried the most flowers from Nairobi between those dates with its […]
New service will bloom for Kenya
The Kenyan horticultural industry, especially its rose growers, look set to benefit from the launch of a Kenya Airways non-stop flight from Nairobi to New York in late October this year. It becomes the first airline to offer a non-stop flight between East Africa and the USA. “We are honoured to contribute to the economic […]
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 […]
Panalpina seeing fresh African perishable trends
Panalpina is well positioned to grow its airfreight perishable volumes from Kenya, but there are some new trends emerging and challenges ahead. In May, it said it would acquire Kenyan forwarder Air Connection, a specialist in the export of flowers and vegetables. This follows the buy-out last year of Airflo in Kenya and launch of […]
Extensive opportunities for Siginon, but imports slow this year
Kenyan cargo handler Siginon Aviation believes there are plenty of future opportunities for it as Kenya and Nairobi ‘s airfreight market continues to grow. Siginon handles for Qatar Airways Cargo, Cargolux, Singapore Airlines Cargo, CargoLogicAir and others at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO). Imports manager, Jared Oswago (pictured below) says Kenya is the regional […]
Digital innovations and flowers high priorities for AFKLMP
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) is focussing much of its energy on digitisation and innovation. The launch of myCargo is contributing to its ambition to innovate customer service by offering relevant and improved digital services. A personalised toolkit for customers, namely employees working at freight forwarders, myCargo is a portal where customers can make bookings, quote […]
Community approach and cargo initiatives paying off at Schiphol
E-commerce, pharmaceuticals and perishables helped propel Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to year-on-year (YOY) tonnage of 8.5 per cent in the first five months of 2017. In May alone, there was a YOY uplift of 12.3 per cent and head of cargo, Jonas van Stekelenburg (pictured below) says the gateway is happy with the progress as various […]
Kuehne + Nagel acquires two forwarders specialising in perishables
Kuehne + Nagel has expanded its global perishables network with the acquisition of CFI (Commodity Forwarders Inc) an airfreight forwarder of perishables products in the US, and Trillvane Ltd, one of the largest perishables specialists in Kenya. These it says will add more than 150,000 tonnes of perishables to the forwarder’s perishables network and further “strengthens […]
MD11 freighter service to start at Doncaster Sheffield
Doncaster Sheffield Airport has won a new cargo contract bringing flowers and vegetables to the UK. The airport has secured a deal with Network Airline Management who begin a weekly MD11 service from Nairobi in Kenya to Yorkshire this week. It will be the airport’s first scheduled flight handling perishable goods opening up a major […]
Miami keeps the perishables flowing into North America
Miami International Airport (MIA) is the main gateway for perishables into the US and accounted for more than 64 per cent of all air imports last year. In 2016, the Florida hub’s perishable imports grew from 809,952 tonnes in 2015 to 846,787 tonnes in 2016 (4.5 per cent increase) as perishables continue to be very strong at MIA. The volumes of US […]
Cargolux looking to open up new African markets by the end of the year
Cargolux Airlines International is looking at opening up two new markets in Africa by the end of the year, regional director for Africa Jonathan Clark (pictured below) tells Air Cargo Week. They will probably be perishable markets and though Clark cannot say where they are, Cargolux has its eyes on two potential ones in East […]
Panalpina to acquire Kenyan specialist perishables freight forwarder
Panalpina is to acquire Air Connection – a Kenya-based forwarder which specialises in the export of flowers and vegetables. The move comes after Panalpina’s acquisition of Airflo in Kenya in 2016 and only two weeks after the company formally announced the launch of its global Perishables Network. Panalpina will acquire the family-owned Kenyan company Air […]
New cool chain warehouse opens at Leipzig Halle Airport
Leipzig Halle Airport has opened a new refrigerated warehouse to store temperature-sensitive cargo at its World Cargo Center. The facility has direct access to the apron area and therefore guarantees short transport routes to and from aircraft and trucks. The configuration of the refrigeration centre enables parallel storage of pharmaceutical items and perishable goods as well […]
Volumes grow but overcapacity hits yields at Ethiopian
As a major player in the African market, Ethiopian Airlines has suffered from declining yields caused by overcapacity, but Ethiopian Cargo managing director Fitsum Abadi (pictured below) says cargo traffic has grown strongly. He says the industry has seen huge capacity growth compared to demand, primarily due to extra space on wide-body passenger aircraft, hitting […]
Kenya Airways Cargo to export flowers into Australia
Kenya Airways Cargo (KQ Cargo) is now exporting Kenyan cut flowers to Australia after partnering with Qantas Airways. The new service was introduced after market research identified Sydney and Melbourne as being key markets for Kenyan flowers. The Kenyan carrier is targeting to lift more than 30 tonnes of flowers into Australia every month as part of […]
Record tonnage year for Amsterdam Schiphol
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol ended 2016 with a record as it handled 1.66 million tonnes, up 2.5 per cent on 2015. Europe’s third largest air cargo hub had a strong end to the year, with December figures up 10.4 per cent on the same month in 2015 at 149,000 tonnes. Cargo until November was up 1.8 per […]
Increasing perishables to Asia the main focus for Kenya Airways
Kenya Airways (KQ) is looking to develop new Asian markets for the Africa countries flower-led perishables industry, acting general manager of cargo Peter Musola tells Michael Mackey. Some 70 per cent of the perishables market is Europe-bound Musola tells Air Cargo Week and the Nairobi-headquartered carrier is looking to do something similar in China by […]
Kenyan perishables in high demand
Perishables make up the bulk of cargo handled by Siginon Aviation at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi. This consists of flowers, which are 80 per cent of perishables it handles with the other 20 per cent vegetables and herbs. But aviation divisional manager, Jared Oswago (pictured below) says performance has been affected in […]
Panalpina blossoming after buying Airflo
Flowers and perishables in general are blooming for Panalpina in Kenya and across Africa and it expects this trend to continue over the next five to six years. Country manager for Kenya, Conrad Archer tells Justin Burns that growth has been considerable since the acquisition of Airflo last year – Kenya’s second largest freight forwarder, which […]
Lufthansa Cargo: Perishable volumes might see fall
Flowers, fruits and vegetables volumes may fall as customers shift from scheduled freighters to charter services and belly flights, Lufthansa Cargo head of operations Fresh/td and cross functions, Oliver Blum tells Air Cargo Week. Blum says: “On the routes from Ecuador and Columbia, we have recently shifted from scheduled freighters services to our network on […]
AirBridgeCargo blooms in February thanks to flowers
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has reported a 15 per cent growth in its airfreight volumes in February, transporting over 37,000 tonnes across its global route network in Asia, Europe, North America and Russia. The airline’s freight tonne kilometres rose three per cent over the same month last year when the airline saw an extraordinary demand for […]
Flower focus for American and Hawaiian
American Airlines Cargo and Hawaiian Airlines Cargo have been added by the California Association of Flower Growers and Shippers (CalFlowers) to its list of transportation partners. The association says the providers offer competitive shipping rates to CalFlowers members, allowing them to be competitive in national and global flower markets. CalFlowers’ mission is to get flowers […]