Alha Group opens new cargo terminal at Rome Fiumicino

Italian air cargo handler Alha Group has opened a new cargo terminal at Rome Fiumicino (FCO) Airport, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for special cargo services. Alha is now offering a selected range of services for special cargo shipments, with a focus on asset protection, security services for vulnerable cargo and time and temperature […]

Jaguar Land Rover selects K + N to manage three warehouses

Jaguar Land Rover has appointed Kuehne + Nagel to manage three warehouses in France, Spain and Italy serving continental Europe. The new contract also includes transport management control tower function and customer contact centres for Jaguar Land Rover retailers for the region. The European Aftermarket is seen as being of high importance and Jaguar Land Rover has consolidated its supply chain into […]

WFS sells ground handling business in Italy

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has sold its ground handling business in Italy to Inceptus SpA – but will continue to own and operate its growing cargo handling business in Milan. Since June 2015, WFS has operated the ATA business, a ground handler in Italy, through its subsidiary WFS Ground Italy. On 19 May, WFS completed […]

Kerry Logistics enters Italian market with Tuvia Italia stake

Kerry Logistics has entered the Italian freight forwarding and logistics market by taking a majority stake in Tuvia Italia. It signed the agreement with holding company, Tuvia Group, and Tuvia Italia will be integrated into the Kerry Logistics European network, and will be overseen by managing director, Alessandro Canese. Kerry Logistics managing director of Europe, […]

Alitalia in administration as workers reject restructuring plans

Alitalia has entered ‘extraordinary administration’ after workers rejected its restructuring plans to save €2 billion ($2.1 billion). It says shareholders and Etihad Airways, which owns 49 per cent of shares had created an industry plan to reduce structural costs of which two thirds were not related to labour costs, and were committed to recapitalise and […]

Alitalia facing administration as employees reject cost cutting plan

Alitalia is facing the possibility of going into administration after employees rejected plans to reduce costs by cutting jobs and salaries. The Italian airline says the deal rejected by the workforce would have unlocked €2 billion of recapitalisation including more than €900 million of new finance. Unions and the company had approved the pre-agreement on […]

Germany, the Netherlands and Italy exports boost CEVA

CEVA Logistics enters Leaders Quadrant in Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant

CEVA Logistics senior vice president global product airfreight, Peter Baumgartner (pictured below) says it has been a “very positive” few months for the logistics services provider, and for the airfreight forwarding sector across Europe in general. He notes airfreight volumes in the fourth quarter of 2016 showed a global seven per cent year-on-year growth and […]

Ethiopian Airlines launches two new freighter routes to Europe

Africa’s largest cargo operator Ethiopian Airlines launched two new freighter routes to Europe – in the shape of Milan in Italy on 2 April and Zaragoza in Spain on 28 March. At the moment the carrier services the European continent to Liege in Belgium using Boeing 777 Freighters with a minimum weekly tonnage of 2,200 tonnes, and […]

Cargolux Italia flying high after roller coaster 2016

Business in 2016 was a “roller coaster ride” ending with a very strong final quarter, something that has carried over into 2017, Cargolux Italia chief executive officer, Pierandrea Galli tells Air Cargo Week. He says the first nine months of 2016 were weak but the final quarter was “exceptionally good”, pushing freight tonne kilometres up […]

13% growth at Malpensa and more to come in 2017

MXP: Riding the cargo wave

Freight volumes have grown 13 per cent in the first two months of 2017 at Milan Malpensa Airport (pictured), following three years of growth averaging eight per cent, operator SEA Group tells Air Cargo Week. Volumes were up 7.4 per cent in 2016 to 537,000 tonnes, and the positive momentum seen in the last quarter […]

Kuehne + Nagel makes pharma acquisitions

Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has acquired two specialised pharma logistics companies as it continues its drive to focus on providing GxP compliant end-to-end solutions to pharma and healthcare customers. In Turkey K+N has entered into an agreement to acquire Zet Farma, which manages 56,000 square metres at four pharma grade warehouses in the metropolitan area of Istanbul. This transaction […]

CargoLogicAir sends extra crew to speed up adsorbent delivery

CargoLogicAir sped up the delivery of 96 tonnes of adsorbents to Saudi Arabia to improve process economics at industrial gas plants by sending extra aircrew to Rome to avoid delays due to crew rest. The airline was contracted by DHL Global Forwarding’s charter desk to operate a Boeing 747 Freighter flight from Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino […]

Strike action on Thursday forces Alitalia to cancel flights

Alitalia says it pledges to “minimise inconvenience” due to strikes scheduled on 23 February – which is forcing it to cancel 60 per cent of its flights aand set to impact cargo on some trade lanes. The 24-hour strike has been called by the USB and CUB Trasporti trade unions, together with ANPAC and ANPAV professional associations. […]

FedEx Express’ Southern Europe gateway opens at Milan-Malpensa

FedEx Express’ new international gateway to Southern Europe at Milan-Malpensa Airport is now fully operational, with advanced technology to improve efficiency to meet volume growth. The 35,000 square metre facility features advanced technology to boost package sorting capacity by 25 per cent, which FedEx says will enable it to better meet volume growth. FedEx has […]

Freight fall in 2016 at Milan Bergamo Airport

Orio al Serio International Airport also known as Milan Bergamo Airport saw freight fall by 2.7 per cent in 2016 – as it handled just over 117,000 tonnes in the year – down on the 121,000 tonnes in 2015. The Italian gateway did have a good peak season seeing a 3.7 per cent uplift in December on the same month […]

Consolidation for Cargolux Italia

Cargolux Italia is the largest Italian all-cargo carrier and has steadily grown its presence and network in recent years, which has helped it through a tough year writes Justin Burns. 2016 has been a difficult with negative market headwinds impacting performance, especially on certain Asian routes such as Hong Kong and other Chinese destinations. Cargolux […]

BCUBE focusing on specialist cargo sectors

Despite challenging economic conditions Italian air cargo handler BCUBE air cargo continues to invest – notably in assets and high-specialised personnel, which it says has helped it deliver positive results this year writes Justin Burns. Following interest of some airlines to increase freighter frequencies to Milan Malpensa Airport, BCUBE expects to improve its performance especially […]

Malpensa introduces ‘second line’ warehouses as it upgrades infrastructure

Milan Malpensa Cargo is now offering ‘second line’ warehouses at Milan Malpensa Airport as part of a programme to upgrade and develop cargo infrastructure. These will be offered alongside ‘first line’ warehouses, a complementary type of warehouse, already existing in some major European airports, but quite new in Italy, which it says will bring the airport in […]

Hactl handles new SW Italia freighter for Sto Express

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (Hactl) has been appointed to handle a new weekly Boeing 747-8 Freighter service for SW Italia. The new flight – which routes from Hong Kong to Prague – is for the exclusive use of Sto Express, one of the major Chinese express operators. The aircraft is operating in Sto […]

Malpensa breaks monthly record with October surge

Following strong growth in September, Milan Malpensa Airport’s cargo volumes surged by 15 per cent in October to 53,000 tonnes, a monthly record. The airport, which handles 56 per cent of Italy’s air cargo, saw imports shoot up 22 per cent while exports grew 13 per cent compared to October 2015, which it says was […]

CEVA reacts to market movements with new strategy

CEVA Logistics has drawn up new strategies for the European market as it targets further growth, reports Mike Bryant. Chief operating officer for air and ocean at supply chain services, Helmut Kaspers explains: “Our main focus in Europe is on growing outbound volumes to increase our market share. “Especially in Europe, we have significantly increased […]

American to connect Dallas with Amsterdam and Rome

American Airlines will connect Dallas Fort Worth International Airport with daily seasonal flights to Rome and Amsterdam from May to September 2017. The airline will use a Boeing 777-200 for flights to Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci – Fiumicino Airport and a Boeing 767-300 for the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol services. DFW chief executive officer, Sean Donohue […]

CAL adds Puerto Rico – Rome service to network

CAL Cargo Airlines has added Puerto Rico and Italy to its network with services to San Juan and Rome from 15 September. The service will operate on a Tel Aviv – Liege – New York John F. Kennedy – San Juan – Rome – Liege – Tel Aviv route with trucking connections to other European […]

Market picks up after slow summer for NeWay

The charter market is picking up again as the slow summer period is coming to an end, NeWay Logistics general manager Erwin Burger tells Air Cargo Week. He says 2016 started well but fixed flights declined in the first quarter, though charter requests have remained steady: “Reason for this could be that shippers are shopping […]

ASL aircraft overshoots runway in Bergamo

An ASL Airlines Hungary Boeing 737 owned freighter overshot a runway and crash-landed on a road just outside the Orio al Serio International Airport in Italy this morning. The aircraft was arriving in Bergamo at around 4am local time from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. No passengers or crew were injured in the accident. The 737 freighter […]

Milan Malpensa on target to continue strong expansion path

Business is rosy at Milan Malpensa Airport and Italy’s principle air cargo gateway goes from strength to strength and growth looks a given. Malpensa saw a nine per cent uplift in tonnage in both 2014 and 2015, reaching 500,000 tonnes last year and has a 55 per cent market share of Italian air cargo, while […]

Milan boosting Cargolux bottom line

Cargolux Italia is planning on increasing freighter frequencies between Milan and its new hub in Zhengzhou (China). The Luxembourg carrier is targeting more services into the city where it launched its new venture – Cargolux China. Asia is where its sees growth and Cargolux Italia sees the ripest opportunities to be picked in Japan and […]

Etihad to develop cargo services from Parma Airport

Etihad Airways and Parma Airport have signed an agreement to develop cargo traffic at the airport of the central Italian city. The exclusive agreement initially includes the establishment of a cargo transit centre at Parma Airport to receive cargo for forwarding to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward transport. The project will be developed in conjunction […]

ACS stops Paris Fashion Week dresses being late

Air Charter Service (ACS) has stopped over 200 designer dresses being more than fashionably late by flying them from Milan to Paris for the Paris Fashion Week. The dresses were flown for a major design label before a change in the order meant an additional 72 pairs of shoes, 40 pairs of trousers, and 11 […]

Qatar announces 14 new routes for 2016 and 2017

Qatar Airways has announced 14 new routes across Europe, Africa and Asia, including Doha – Auckland, which it says will be the world’s longest flight when launched. The network expansion was announced at the ITB Berlin international travel fair, where Qatar unveiled services to Bosnia, Cameroon, Finland, France, Gabon, Italy, Macedonia, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, […]

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