ECS wins contracts and targets Asia
ECS Group has won two new general sales agent (GSSA) contracts in Germany with DHL and Malaysian Airlines, starting from 1 July. Speaking to Air Cargo Week at Air Cargo China on 14 June, the Group’s chief executive officer, Adrien Thominet says it sees a room to increase DHL’s revenue in Germany and will operate […]
Lufthansa Cargo to open Paderborn-Lippstadt station
Lufthansa Cargo will open a station at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport on 15 June, which will truck goods to Frankfurt Airport under an LH flight number. It will initially handle consignments of standard freight, express and hazardous materials, which will be handled, sealed and transported to Lufthansa Cargo’s Frankfurt hub. The Paderborn station will be open from […]
DHL Global Forwarding appoints Lawson in India
DHL Global Forwarding has appointed George Lawson as chief executive officer (CEO) and country manager for India, effective 1 June, 2016. Relocated from Bonn, Germany, he is now based in Mumbai. In his new role as a member of the Asia Pacific Management Board, and reports to Kelvin Leung, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding Asia Pacific. Leung says: […]
Delta Cargo and AFKLM Cargo cement relationship
Delta Cargo and Air France-KLM Cargo are further cementing their relationship within the North Atlantic Joint Venture (NAJV) by transitioning responsibility for sales and customer service in France and Germany to Air France-KLM. Effective 1 June, Air France-KLM Cargo became responsible for all sales activities, bookings and enquiries for Delta Cargo in France and Germany. […]
Chinese investor to buy majority stake in Frankfurt-Hahn
Chinese investor Shanghai Yiqian Trading Company says it is to buy a majority stake in Germany’s Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The Chinese company has agreed to pay a low double-digit million-euro amount for the 82.5 per cent stake in the gateway sold by the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a statement by the state’s interior ministry explains. Frankfurt-Hahn handled […]
K + N appoints new head of airfreight
Kuehne + Nagel (K + N) has appointed Yngve Ruud as a new member of the Management Board effective 1 October 2016 – to take on the role as head of the business unit Airfreight Logistics. He succeeds Tim Scharwath who will leave the company – as communicated four weeks ago – in the course of the next year. […]
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo enter joint business agreement
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo have entered into a joint business agreement, which they say brings numerous benefits to customers from joint network between Hong Kong and Europe. Both carriers explain it means more direct connections, greater flexibility and time savings combined with service enhancements, which are just some of the benefits customers will enjoy thanks […]
Boost for Frankfurt as volumes rise 5% in April
Frankfurt Airport operator, Fraport has seen cargo rise in April – making it the first month it has risen in 2016 after struggled in the first quarter (Q1). In market contrast to passenger traffic, which fell by 2.5 per cent, freight soared by five per cent to 181,948 tonnes. Fraport says: “Far East traffic was […]
Air Partner appoints Mike Hill as director of freight
Air Partner has appointed Mike Hill as director of freight, with responsibility for freight across the entire Group. Hill has been with the Group since 2007, when he joined to set up Air Partner’s freight office in Germany from scratch. In 2014 he was promoted from a business development position to Regional Freight Director – Europe. Hill will […]
Lufthansa makes Q1 loss, Cargo struggles
Lufthansa has seen net income in the first quarter become a loss of eight million euros ($9.2 million) while Lufthansa Cargo has struggled. For the airline group, revenue was down 0.8 per cent to 6.9 billion euros and the loss of eight million euros compares to a profit of 425 million euros in 2015. The […]
Express and charter sectors driving Leipzig to new heights
Leipzig/Halle Airport expects tonnage growth to be boosted this year through the even closer links it has forged at the airport between rail and road. One area it is looking for further business is as a result of handling the Emons freight trains from Hamburg and Bremerhaven, which have been operating on working days since […]
Turkey a key market for DHL as business continues to boom
Turkey may be going through tough economic and political times, as well as suffering instability due to problems in neighbouring countries but DHL Express and DHL Freight are aiming for continued growth. DHL Express Turkey chief executive officer (CEO), Markus Reckling tells Air Cargo Week (ACW): “Despite being a very difficult year for Turkey, 2015 […]
Lufthansa Cargo drives on with digital innovation
Lufthansa Cargo is going to closely collaborate with promising technology start-ups as it looks to move forward with its digital innovation plans. The carrier’s logistic division is the first freight airline globally to participate in the new ‘Logistics Tech Accelerator’ program in co-operation with US-American company RocketSpace. The company has been helping tech start-ups and […]
Frankfurt aiming to be Europe’s largest IATA CEIV certified hub
Air Cargo Community Frankfurt is aiming to make Frankfurt Airport the largest International Air Transport Association (IATA) Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certified hub in Europe. The community are aiming to make Frankfurt the largest certified pharmaceutical gateway in Europe by early 2017. At present, Perishable Center Betriebs and Bollore Logistics Germany […]
Amazon set to bid for Frankfurt-Hahn, reports claim
Online retail giant Amazon.com could be set to ramp up its logistics plans further by buying Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, according to a report in a German newspaper. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that discussions between Amazon and the airport had taken place, and that the gateway planned to decide between three possible bidders soon. Amazon runs a large fulfilment centre […]
Q1 tonnage surge for Munich Airport
Munich Airport saw growth in all traffic segments in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016, and cargo led the way in terms of percentage growth. The Bavarian gateway handled 79,300 tonnes of airfreight handled in Q1, which was a rise of six per cent on Q1 last year. Munich Airport also saw 88,350 take-offs and landings in Q1, […]
All-time high in 2015 for airfreight at Munich Airport
Munich Airport has achieved an new airfreight tonnage record in 2015 and also saw record earnings of 135 million euros. The airport says growth in airfreight was more “dynamic than in the passenger segment” last year and cargo tonnage was up by about nine per cent to a new record level of over 336,000 tonnes. The […]
German airports see 0.3% tonnage rise in February
German airport saw a cargo tonnage rise of 0.3 per cent in February compared to the same month in 2015, handling 340,418 tonnes, according to the Germany Airports Association ADV. The association says cargo throughput for the third consecutive month was positive, but at a low level. ADV explains: “In the developments of imports and projections […]
Peter Gerber talks paperless processes, pharma, Amazon and freighters
Paperless processes must become a reality, pharmaceuticals will be a key pillar in the future of airfreight, freighters will remain essential and Amazon must be dissatisfied if it is moving into airfreight, are just some of the views express by Lufthansa Cargo chief executive officer and chairman, Peter Gerber. He was speaking on Tuesday in […]
Lufthansa Cargo sees decline in volumes and earnings in 2015
Lufthansa Cargo saw a 2.3 per cent decline in the amount of cargo it carried in 2015 and EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) fell a massive 97.6 per cent, it has revealed at its annual results in Berlin today. The German airline handled 1.63 million tonnes last year, down on the 1.66 million in […]
IATA WCS: WCS 2017 to be held in Abu Dhabi
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that the 11th World Cargo Symposium (WCS) will be held in Abu Dhabi between 14 and 16 March 2017. The announcement was made by IATA global head of cargo, Glyn Hughes, at the closing of the 10th WCS in Berlin, which was held at the Intercontinental Hotel […]
Lufthansa Group profits up in 2015, but cargo weak
The Lufthansa Group increased profit significantly in 2015 and generated revenues of 32.1 billion euros – a 6.8 per cent rise. The Adjusted EBIT, the leading indicator of economic success, increased by 55 per cent to 1.8 billion euros and the result sits within the forecast range defined last October, and includes the 100 million euros […]
IATA WCS: Jettainer tests self-learning software for ULD management
Jettainer and the University of Cologne are conducting a live test on management software for big data in the movement of unit load devices (ULD) that they have jointly developed. They says this is designed to illustrate how well the software can support the company’s controllers by offering them assistance in making decisions as a result of […]
Aircargo Club Deutschland urges change in Germany
Aircargo Club Deutschland has urged the need for rapid introduction of digitisation in supply chains and it says the airfreight in Germany is in need of innovations. Representatives say there too little readiness on the part of the German airfreight sector to introduce innovations, which clearly “visible in international competition”. The club says South East Asia […]
IATA WCS: Jettainer and DoKaSch sign ULD repair agreement
Jettainer and DoKaSch have signed an agreement to improve the processes for repairing unit load devices (ULD). The companies signed the agreement at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium in Berlin on 15 March on Jettainer’s stand. The agreement is designed to speed up repair procedures between the two companies. Jettainer and DoKaSch […]
IATA WCS: German government urged to improve air transport competitiveness
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged the German government to focus on improving the competitiveness of the German air transport sector in the development of its national aviation policy. Speaking at IATA’s World Cargo Symposium today in Berlin, the association’s direct general and chief executive officer, Tony Tyler says: “Aviation supports the German […]
IATA WCS: calls for continued transformation in air cargo industry
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for continued transformation in the air cargo industry with a focus on raising the quality of its offering at the opening of the 10th annual World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Berlin. The association says global air cargo sector continues to face a difficult business environment. The anemic […]
Lufthansa Cargo expands freighter network
Lufthansa Cargo is adding countless new routes to its freighter network by adding destinations and upping frequencies when the summer schedule begins on 27 March. A weekly freighter service to Moscow is one new addition to the schedule. An MD-11F has already been flying every Monday since March from Frankfurt to Domodedovo Airport, before connecting the Russian capital […]
Third runway a must in Munich
Construction of a third runway at Munich Airport is paramount to achieving cargo growth for the airport and Germany in the years ahead. The gateway’s director of traffic development for cargo, Markus Heinelt explains to Air Cargo Week future success depends on implementation of the project, which is awaiting approval by the airport’s shareholders. “Global […]
Bright Flight to base AN-26B at Paderborn-Lippstadt
Bright Flight has chosen Germany’s Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport (PAD) as its base for an Antonov AN-26B Freighter with a capacity of 5.5 tonnes. The Bulgarian carrier, which was founded in May 2014 says it can now transport deliveries up to 5.5 tonnes at short notice to any location throughout Europe. Bright Flight says it mainly transports […]
