Malpensa passes the 500,000 tonne mark for 1st time
Milan Malpensa Airport passed the 500,000 tonnes mark for the first time in its history last year, with two years of strong growth. SEA Milano, the operator of Malpensa, says the gateway increased its share of the Italian market from 53 per cent to 55 per cent in 2015 helped by traffic that would have […]
DHL to spend 90m euros expanding at Milan Malpensa
DHL Express is to invest 90 million euros ($100 million) constructing a new logistics hub at Milan Malpensa Airport, to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2018. The 46,000 square metre hub within Malpensa’s Cargo City will become DHL Express’ main gateway into Italy for international goods. DHL plans to invest […]
CargoLogicAir operates its first charters
CargoLogicAir has operated its first charter flights, sending automotive parts to Italy and fresh flowers from Kenya to the UK. Its launch customer was Chapman Freeborn Italia, which it organised two Boeing 747-400 Freighter charters to Bari, Italy, via Frankfurt (Germany). The Bari flight carried a total of 113 tonnes of automotive parts, including engine […]
Volga-Dnepr aids mission to find life on Mars
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has operated three Antonov AN-124-100 flights from Italy to Kazakhstan carrying equipment and materials for the ExoMars space exploration programme to see if there is life on Mars. The flights for logistics company, Bollore Logistics, departed Turin on 18, 20 and 22 December for consignor, Alenia Space Italy, for Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome via […]
ECS fits the bill for Meridiana
ECS Group is now representing Italian carrier Meridiana as its worldwide general sales and service agent (GSSA). From 1 November, ECS says it started servicing the airline through its Total Cargo Management throughout the whole supply chain. It explains it will offer the complete Meridiana product from its stations around the globe through capacity via its scheduled services […]
Specialist cargo types is BCUBE’s Italian job
Competition in the Italian airfreight market is high and the general air cargo market turbulence is affecting volumes at BCUBE air cargo. However, the operator’s general manager, Mauro Grisafi says airfreight is performing well, despite the challenges: “Competition is high and the general crisis obviously has affected the growth of volumes, but we are living […]
