DHL Express expands presence at Incheon airport
DHL Express has signed a concession agreement with Incheon International Airport Corporation to invest €131 million in expanding its South Korean gateway. The expansion of the gateway, next to Incheon International Airport brings commitments to the strategic hub to €161 million in total. Since opening in 2008, shipment volumes have grown 45%, and the multi-year […]
Cargolux Italia connects Malpensa with Incheon
Cargolux Italia has opened a new route from Milan to Incheon, connecting the main gateways of Italy and South Korea twice a week. The services started on 16 July, flying from Milan Malpensa Airport to Seoul’s Incheon International Airport on Tuesdays and Sundays. The service operates on a Malpensa – Incheon – Zhengzhou – Malpensa […]
Tyre failure caused UPS flight 5X61 crash at Incheon
The crew aborting take-off due to tyre failure caused a UPS MD-11F to be written off at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport in June 2016. A report by the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board says UPS flight 5X61 suffered a runway excursion and nose gear collapse on take-off on 6 June. The MD-11F, which was […]
Unilode to manage Korean Air Cargo’s ULD fleet
Korean Air Cargo has awarded the management of its entire container and pallet fleet to Unilode Aviation Solutions for a five-year term. The agreement creates one of the largest ULD management partnership, and will see a regional ULD management office set up at Korean Air’s hub at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport. Unilode will take over […]
5000th posting: Korean Air flies aid for Laos dam collapse victims
Korean Air has provided emergency relief supplies for victims of the Laos dam collapse, flying water and blankets on a service to Vietnam. The carrier delivered a 40 tonne package including 36,000 litres of water and 2,000 blankets on flight KE461 from Seoul’s Incheon International Airport to Da Nang, Vietnam. The aid will be delivered […]
Korean Air expands in India with Delhi freighter flights
Korean Air is helping strengthen relations between India and South Korea with the launch of three weekly freighter flights to Delhi. The airline will operate three Boeing 777 Freighter flights a week on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays departing Seoul’s Incheon International Airport at 11.10PM, making a stop in Hanoi, Vietnam before arriving in Delhi at […]
DHL Global Forwarding flies around the world
DHL Global Forwarding is deploying a second Boeing 747-400 Freighter to connect the US, Europe and Asia in response to high demand. Up to 100 tonnes of capacity per flight will be on offer, which will operate on a transpacific route from Shanghai Pudong Airport to Cincinnati in the USA, from where it returns to […]
ATSG delivers first 767-300 converted freighter to Air Incheon
Air Transport Services Group has delivered its first Boeing 767-300 converted freighter to Air Incheon under a six-year dry lease agreement. The South Korean airline, based at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport received the aircraft from ATSG’s subsidiary, ATSG West Leasing and has agreed to lease a second 767-300 when the aircraft completes modification in the […]
Emirates flies first UAE built satellite to Seoul for space mission
Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first satellite developed and built by Emirati engineers in the UAE to Seoul on its first journey into space. The KhalifaSat was developed and built at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and the remote sensing satellite will provide images of the earth for practical applications in a variety […]
Incheon cargo rebounds in November
The volume of international air freight handled at Incheon Airport rose five per cent in November 2017 over same month 2016. The airport, the largest airport in South Korea, saw cargo grow in November by 5.2 per cent to 242,218 tonnes. An airport statement is pleased this volume offsets “tepid performance last month caused by […]
Tonnage fall of 2.5% in October at Incheon
Seoul’s Incheon International Airport saw cargo volumes fall 2.5 per cent in October handling 247,000 tonnes. The gateway put the decline down to the loss of operating days in the month, due to the golden Chuseok Holiday, which meant it only operated on 18 days in October as opposed to 22.5 days. However, the airport […]
Silk Way West Airlines launches Baku – Kansai freighter route
Japan will get its first regular freighter service to Azerbaijan after Silk Way West Airlines launched a weekly Boeing 747F route from Baku to Kansai International Airport (KIX). The service will start on 29 December and see the carrier operate flight number 7L608 from Baku direct to KIX on a Friday, arriving at 19.00h. Flight number 7L128/129 […]
Imports drive cargo growth at Incheon in July
Cargo volumes at Incheon International Airport grew 6.7 per cent in July to 248,905 tonnes, with a large rise in inbound traffic. International inbound volumes were up 9.5 per cent to 121,455 tonnes while outbound traffic increased 3.9 per cent to 118,941 tonnes, with transhipments also rising 11.2 per cent to 95,056 tonnes. A major […]
Cargo grows 4.4% in June at Incheon
International cargo at Incheon International Airport continues to grow with a 4.4 per cent year-on-year increase in June to 242,355 tonnes. Inbound cargo was up by 6.9 per cent to 122,455 tonnes with outbound growing by two per cent to 118,941 tonnes, which it says thanks to increasing exports of major products including semiconductors and […]
Incheon joins the Asian tonnage growth party
Incheon International Airport in South Korea saw international cargo grow year-on-year (YOY) by 7.7 per cent in May to 238,000 tonnes, continuing the strong growth trend it posted in the first quarter. The gateway says the gradual recovery in the country’s exports in core products such as semiconductors and display manufacturing equipment was one reason […]
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 […]
New cargo facilities to be constructed at Incheon International Airport
Incheon International Airport is adding more cargo facilities to its already impressive roster so it can meet rising local demand and increasing competition. Korea’s main cargo gateway is to extend its offering for the airfreight community in the next few years as growth continues at a fairly rapid pace. “We are currently developing additional space […]
ACI: Hong Kong retains position as world’s busiest cargo hub in 2016
The world’s top 20 cargo airports grew 3.3 per cent in 2016 as air cargo markets experienced a revival in the second half of 2016, Airports Council International (ACI) revealed in its 2016 world airport traffic rankings. The top 20 handled 47.4 million tonnes between them, representing 44 per cent of global volumes between them. […]
Antonov flies giant compressors from London to Seoul
Antonov Airlines has transported three giant compressors from its UK base at London Stansted Airport to Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea. The UK-manufactured parts, each weighing 23 tonnes and measuring 648cm long, 284cm wide and 358cm high, travelled in modified crates designed to work with the Antonov AN-124-100 unique on-board crane system. Antonov […]
Oil & gas flying high as Volga-Dnepr transports equipment to Seoul
Volga-Dnepr Airlines is benefitting from the upturn in the movement of oil and gas cargo with its latest delivery of pump and vaporiser skids to Seoul, South Korea. Volga-Dnepr used one of its Antonov AN-124-100s to transport the cargo from EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Switzerland to Incheon International Airport on behalf of Air Charter Service France’s […]
Halifax Stanfield and Incheon expand sister airport agreement
Halifax Stanfield International Airport has celebrated six years of a ‘sister airport’ agreement with Incheon International Airport by further expanding the deal. Since initially starting the agreement in 2010, cargo exports have been a major focus area, with live lobster exports to Asia doubling between 2010 and 2015. Halifax says the value of live lobster […]
ACI: airfreight volumes remained sluggish in July
Airfreight markets were left behind the passenger traffic growth of 5.4 per cent recording a 1.9 per cent growth in total freight during the month of July, the Airports Council International (ACI) reports. ACI says there was an “optimistic” 3.9 per cent growth in international freight, which was counterbalanced by a 2.7 per cent decline […]
ACI World: Hong Kong retains spot as world’s busiest cargo airport
Hong Kong International Airport retained its spot as the world’s busiest cargo airport as the whole market registered modest growth of 2.6 per cent in 2015, Airports Council International (ACI) says. In its 2015 ACI World Airport Traffic Report, the association reports that air cargo growth was slower than the passenger division due to subdued […]
ACI reveals top 20 cargo hubs for 2015
Most of the world’s top 20 airports saw at least small amounts of growth in 2015, with Hong Kong International Airport retaining the top spot, according to Airports Council International (ACI). The association says total cargo volumes including mail grew by 2.4 per cent and among the top 20 airports, only four saw a fall […]
Industry misses e-AWB penetration target
The airfreight industry has missed the 2015 electronic air waybill (e-AWB) penetration target of 45 per cent set by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), managing just 36.4 per cent. This is in contrast to 2014, when the industry beat the target of 22 per cent target, hitting 24.8 per cent. Penetration rose quickly from […]
Incheon’s Kwang-Soo Lee joins TIACA board
Incheon International Airport’s vice president for marketing, Kwang-Soo Lee has joined The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) board of directors. Lee joined Incheon in 1998 having worked in aviation at Northwest Airlines since 1990. Before this he worked at the electronics company, Samsung. He graduated from the Korea Aerospace University in 1984 and has a […]
Imports boost Incheon International Airport’s growth
Incheon International Airport has seen cargo volumes increase by 1.8 per cent to 1.7 million tonnes in 2015 up to August because of a growth in imports of consumer goods. Imports have increased by 2.9 per cent to 832,379 tonnes, while exports were up by 0.8 per cent to 870,998 tonnes. The airport’s operator, Incheon […]
