Special projects driving Chapman Freeborn
Chapman Freeborn has had another strong year, particularly for project based work, according to group cargo and OBC sales director, Reto Hunziker (pictured below). He says the results over the past 12 months were good despite the lack of extraordinary events such as the West Coast port strikes of 2015. Hunziker comments: “It’s always difficult […]
Perishables centre inaugurated in Bengaluru
Air India SATS Airport Services (AISATS) has launched AISATS COOLPORT at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. The facility is India’s 1st integrated on-airport perishable cargo handling centre and covers 11,000 square metres and cost INR 48 crores ($7.8 million) and was inaugurated by the Government of Karnataka’s minister for large and medium industries and infrastructure development, Sri. R.V. Deshpande. AISATS COOLPORT aims […]
Limits on scheduled UK – India flights scrapped
Limits of flights to key Indian cities from the UK have been scrapped to ease restrictions on the number of scheduled services between the two countries. The agreement was signed during a visit to India by the UK government’s aviation minister, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon where he led a delegation of British companies for the […]
Agility opens pharma facility at Hyderabad
Kuwaiti freight forwarder Agility has opened a specialist facility for pharmaceutical products at Hyderabad International Airport in India. The facility has a footprint of 6,000 square metres and it will serve the array of pharma manufacturers that are spread across the area in Hyderabad, Goa, Pune, Vizag and Bengaluru. Agility says the first temperature-controlled life sciences storage and handling facility […]
Mumbai International Airport joins Pharma.Aero initiative
Brussels Airport (BRU) and Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) have announce their partnership in the recently launched Pharma.Aero initiative focused on improving pharma handling and quality in the air cargo industry. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was formally agreed during the Pharma Logistics Summit, organised by Indian Transport & Logistics News (ITLN) held in Mumbai on Thursday. MIAL […]
ACS makes leadership changes in India
Air Charter Service (ACS) has promoted Ashish Wastrad to managing director of the company’s India office and Shahvez Jafary has been promoted to commercial director of the same office. The appointments come following previous managing director, Tracy D’Cruz’s promotion to regional director for ACS’s European offices. ACS’ chief executive officer, Justin Bowman says: “We are very […]
Air Asia India goes for the SmartKargo IT system
Air Asia India has selected the SmartKargo IT system to support its end-to-end cargo business processes. Air Asia India’s, Madhukar Salla says the SmartKargo system has become an “industry standard in this part of the world” and a large number of users in the air cargo community already use the product and like the intuitive user interface. He […]
India the ‘darling’ emerging market, Agility Index finds
The Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index 2017 has ranked China as top once again while India is seen as having the “most logistics potential” ranking in second, up one place from last year. Analysis and research firm Transport Intelligence (Ti), compiled the Index, which says India was an “Index darling for the second consecutive year”, while […]
Lufthansa Cargo looking to China and India in the Far East
China and India are the targets for Lufthansa Cargo as it sees these being the strongest Far East markets for cargo in 2017. The carrier says it expects the strongest relative growth of export and import to come from both these countries. Aside from the Far East it will focus its attentions on the North […]
India’s Spicejet orders 205 Boeing aircraft
Boeing and SpiceJet have signed deal for a commitment for up to 205 aircraft during an event in New Delhi. Booked at the end of 2016, it includes 100 new Boeing 737 MAX 8s, SpiceJet’s current order for 42 MAXs, 13 additional 737 MAXs, which were previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries […]
Single window air cargo community system for India
India is planning on investing in a single window air cargo community system as part of a public private partnership (PPP) model. A report by the Ministry’s of Civil Aviation’s (MoCA) Committee on the National Air Cargo Community System (ACS) has outlined the development plans aimed at improving the efficiency of processing shipments and cutting […]
Partnership set to be expanded between MAB and Silk Way
MAB Kargo is set to expand its partnership with Silk Way West Airlines as it looks to increase the agreement it has on services. In March, the Malaysian Airlines cargo arm penned a memorandum of co-operation with Azerbaijan-based Silk Way West that sees both leverage on each other’s aircraft fleet and network in different regions […]
Strong peak season for IAG Cargo in India
IAG Cargo says it peak season volumes out of the Indian market have so far “outperformed expectations” – primarily as a result of a surge in the carrier’s e-commerce prioritise traffic from the region. IAG saw tonnage rise by 15 per cent between August and October in 2016 with volumes up 41 per cent in October compared to […]
Blue Dart Express to buy remaining shares in subsidiary
Blue Dart Express has bought all the remaining shares of its aircraft operating subsidiary Blue Dart Aviation, it has said to the stock exchange. DHL owns 75 per cent of the Indian express operator. Blue Dart Express says it will increase its stake in the carrier from the current 74 per cent to 100 per cent. Blue […]
DHL to invest in Indian hubs to meet e-commerce demands
DHL eCommerce – part of the Deutsche Post DHL Group – is investing 70 million Euros ($75 million) to strengthen its operations to meet fast-growing demand for e-commerce logistics services in India. Through its subsidiary Blue Dart Express, the investment will go into the expansion of its air hubs in Delhi and Mumbai which are […]
Turkish Cargo launches freighter service to Chennai
Turkish Cargo launched an Airbus A330 freighter service to Chennai in India on 9 November and says the service and the one it already runs to Colombo in Sri Lanka will operate once a week. Turkish Cargo operates to 292 destinations, including 64 freighter destinations, in 117 countries by its 13 freighters and 323 passenger aircraft. […]
Trial operations at AISATS COOLPORT commence in Bengaluru
Air India SATS Airport Services has commenced trial operations of its integrated on-airport perishable cargo handling centre at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2016. The 11,000 square metre facility, AISATS COOLPORT, is a joint venture between Air India and SATS, with a capacity to handle […]
Perishable centre opens at Kempegowda in India
A perishable cargo handling centre has opened at Kempegowda International Airport in India, according to the Indian publication The Hindu’s online edition. The newspaper claims it is the first airport in the country to have such a facility, which commenced trial operations on Monday. Aisats Coolport is operated by Air India SATS Airport Services (AISATS). The centre is […]
New bellyhold cargo routes for Air Canada
Air Canada has added six new destinations to its international bellyhold network – including new routes to Europe, Asia and Africa. These include services from Toronto to Mumbai and Berlin; Montreal to Algiers and Marseille; and Vancouver to Taipei and Nagoya. The new services will launch for summer 2017, with the Montreal-Algiers and the Vancouver-Taipei routes subject […]
One truck for Bangladeshi – Indian trade
Cargo trucks originating in Bangladesh can now travel in to India after clearing customs at the Petropole-Benapole border crossing thanks to the efforts of Expo Freight (EFL) and its offices in India and Bangladesh, reports Air Cargo Week staff writer James Muir. Cargo brought into India from Bangladesh is typically transferred into Indian trucks after […]
Network expansion helps Schiphol grow tonnage
Tonnage at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was up two per cent year-on-year (YOY) in the first seven months of 2016 – as July boosted the figures when YOY growth was 4.4 per cent reaching 139,650 tonnes. During the period, Europe has performed strongly, up YOY by 42.6 per cent and driven by the addition of new […]
Dimerco opens new office in India
Freight forwarder Dimerco has opened a new office in Hyderabad, India. The company says this will support one of Dimerco’s major customers, a mobile handset company who will be establishing a new production facility in Hyderabad. The office it explains will also strengthen Dimerco’s customs brokerage service, according to Dimerco’s India country manager, Mraveen Dadala. […]
Revenue slump for Cathay Pacific in first half of 2016
The Cathay Pacific Group’s cargo revenue plunged 17.2 per cent in the first half of 2016 due to falling yields – compared to the same period last year reaching $9,415 million Hong Kong (HK) dollars ($1.2 billion). Cargo capacity of Cathay Pacific and Dragonair increased by 0.6 per cent while the load factor decreased by […]
Emirates 777 crash-lands at Dubai, but no casualties
An Emirates aircraft flying from India has crash-landed at 12.45pm local time at Dubai International Airport because of an equipment failure. All the 282 passengers and 18 crew on-board were safely evacuated from the Boeing 777-300 passenger aircraft which was carrying out an emergency landing. The 777 carries a significant payload of cargo. Images on social media […]
POP sees post-Brexit cargo opportunities
POP says the UK’s decision to leave the European Union offers potential new opportunities for cargo as it plans services to Amritsar and Ahmedabad. POP, which stands for ‘People Over Profit’, intends to start flying in 2017 to Ahmedabad in Gujarat and Amritsar in Punjab, aims to open new trading links between the UK and […]
Cargo at Changi grows 7.8 % in June
Changi Airport has seen cargo volumes grow 7.8 per cent in June, having welcomed new freighter services from K-Mile Air and Silk Way West Airlines. Volumes in June were up to 163,070 tonnes and by 4.2 per cent in the first six months of 2016 to 950,250 tonnes. Aircraft movements increased by 2.9 per cent […]
A market that just keep on rocking and rolling
Indian airfreight is booming and according to analysts Frost & Sullivan the air cargo market for the country of 1.3 billion people, reached 2.52million tonnes in 2014-15. International traffic makes up a major part of this, taking a 61 per cent share and key markets include the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, UK, Germany, Singapore […]
1,850 new aircraft for India by 2035
India will need 1,850 new aircraft, valued at $265 billion over the next 20 years, the majority being single-aisle, Boeing predicts in its Current Market Outlook. According to the outlook, 1,560 of the aircraft will be single-aisle including the Boeing 737 Next-Generation and 737 MAX, worth $180 billion. Boeing predicts 280 widebody aircraft worth $85 […]
Heathrow urges expansion again, as cargo grows in June
Cargo volumes at the UK’s largest port Heathrow Airport grew 2.1 per cent in June, with strong growth to China which was up 11 per cent, India up 3.3 per cent and Turkey up three per cent. In June, the gateway handled 125,636 tonnes, and so far in 2016 after six months it has processed […]
Airports Authority of India plans subsidiary to handle cargo
Air cargo handling is set to become more efficient in India according to local media reports – as the Airports Authority of India (AAI) plans to separate cargo operations by setting up a logistics subsidiary called Air Cargo Corporation. This move would apply to all AAI owned gateways including Chennai and the plan has reportedly got […]