Pearson to lead B&H Worldwide’s American growth
B&H Worldwide has appointed Michael Pearson to the newly created role of general manager – Americas to drive growth plans in the region. Pearson has gained knowledge and skills in time-critical logistics and leadership by holding executive positions in both operations and sales. In his role at the Los Angeles office, he will provide additional […]
Sustainability Matters to the Cool Chain Association
Shippers will offer insights into challenges facing the temperature-controlled supply chain at the Cool Chain Association’s Americas Conference, Sustainability Matters. The Produce Marketing Association and California-based berry shipper Driscoll’s will join speakers from companies including Air France KLM, Cargolux and Able Freight for a two-day event focusing on a sustainable cool chain. Thought leaders and […]
Chapman Freeborn delivers OBC team to LA
Chapman Freeborn has expanded the presence of its on board courier (OBC) service to Los Angeles, California to provide dedicated support for US customers. The OBC team delivers time-critical consignments of manufacturing components, prototypes and product samples with hand-carry couriers accompanying the shipment from pick-up to final delivery. Since launching the service in Germany in […]
Cargolux adds third weekly flight to Xiamen
Cargolux Airlines International added a third weekly flight to Xiamen, China on 1 July to meet growing customer demand. The new service CV9721 operates on Mondays, leaving Luxembourg at 08.10h and arriving in Xiamen on Tuesday at 04.40h. The return flight, CV9731 leaves Xiamen at 06.15h and heads to Los Angeles, USA before landing in […]
Menzies Aviation brings telematics to Los Angeles
Menzies Aviation is investing in state-of-the-art telematics equipment at Los Angeles Airport as it celebrates 35 years of operations at the airport. The rollout of vehicle and GSE telematics in the second quarter of 2019 will drive higher safety standards and allow greatly improved levels of equipment utilisation. With real-time rostering and resourcing application Workbridge […]
New team players for American Airlines Cargo
American Airlines has made several new additions and promotions to its Cargo team. Lorraine Chin (pictured) joins as general manager, cargo operations at Los Angeles International Airport, taking on the new role after overseeing ramp operations and various other operational roles. On the east coast, Brian Cooley has been promoted to general manager, cargo operations […]
Menzies renews Los Angeles contract with Air China
Menzies Aviation has renewed its cargo contract with Air China at Los Angeles International for another three years. China’s national carrier will receive a full suite of cargo handling services at its largest North American station including cargo warehousing, freighter handling, and passenger ramp services handled by a team of over 200 staff. Menzies will […]
MSA Security to open three training facilities in 2019
MSA Security has expanded rapidly in 2018 and plans to open three more regional training centres in 2019 to keep up with market demand for Explosive Detection Canine Teams. Four new offices and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) licenced canine training facilities were opened in Hong Kong; San Diego, California; Memphis, Tennessee […]
Peli BioThermal comes to Los Angeles
Peli BioThermal has opened a network station and service centre in Los Angeles to service, refurbish, repair and condition Credo on Demand shippers. The Los Angeles station is located near two of the world’s busiest international seaports and airports – the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles International Airport. The Port of Long Beach […]
IAG Cargo prevents lettuce shortage in the UK
IAG Cargo has prevented a national shortage of lettuce in the UK with one shipment alone carrying over 30,000 of the vegetables from Los Angeles. As the UK swelters in its heatwave, lettuces were disappearing fast from supermarket shelves, but IAG Cargo has plugged the gap with a shipment of over 30,000 heads of iceberg […]
Strong freight performance for Air Partner
Air Partner’s statutory profits before tax increased by 20.4 per cent for the year ending 31 January 2018, with the freight division performing well. Statutory profits before tax were up from £4 million to £4.8 million while the freight sector had a record year with gross profits up 202.4 per cent and client numbers at […]
WFS earns new contracts with five airlines in the US
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed up five airlines for passenger, ramp and cargo handling services across the US. WOW Air has picked WFS to provide ramp, passenger and cargo services for its three Airbus A330-300 flights a week from Dallas Fort Worth to Keflavik International Airport, serving Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik. The three-year contract […]
AFKLMP adds new routes to its summer schedule
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) will operate new routes for the summer providing connections to locations including Taipei, Fortaleza and Seattle. It will provide capacity from both hubs at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where the airline offers 1,115 weekly services to 116 unique destinations around the world. From Paris […]
Peli BioThermal adds eight US return points for Credo on Demand
Pelican BioThermal is expanding the reach of its growing Credo on Demand rental programme by providing additional points of return for reusable shipping assets to eight more US destinations. The temperature controlled packaging company has established new drop off points in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington. It says […]
Western Global and Flexport to fly between Los Angeles and Hong Kong
Western Global Airlines has signed a three year agreement with Flexport to provide scheduled Boeing 747-400 Freighter services between Hong Kong and Los Angeles from 5 April. The initial service from April will be a round trip twice per week between Hong Kong and Los Angeles growing to three times a week in September. Western […]
DHL Global Forwarding receives IATA CEIV at seven US airports
DHL Global Forwarding has certified seven of its airfreight stations in the USA to International Air Transport Association (IATA) Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) in Pharmaceutical Logistics standards. DHL began the certification process of its global stations to IATA CEIV Pharma standard in the third quarter of 2016. Following independent audits by third […]
UPS returns to SBD International Airport for some seasonal joy
San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) has entered into an agreement with UPS to support growing seasonal demand for air cargo flights. In 2016, UPS operated four weekly flights through SBD during the holiday season. This year UPS will operate up to 18 flights each week during the holidays. The flight segments will include SBD – […]
Delta Cargo expands coverage of DASH Critical & Medical
Delta Cargo has expanded the coverage of its DASH Critical & Medical service to 15 US locations, with further expansion planned next year. DASH Critical & Medical is the first fully GPS-enabled, same-day product offered by a US freight and passenger carrier, providing real-time tracking and monitoring of any eligible shipment, and customers can ship […]
Cargo growth slows at Changi but still up five per cent
The growth in cargo volumes at Changi Airport has slowed in October but was still up five per cent year-on-year. The airport in Singapore handled 185,800 tonnes of cargo in October 2017 compared to 177,000 tonnes in the same month of 2016. Year-on-year growth in October was lower than the previous three months; July had […]
Flexport to charter own weekly freighter from HK to LAX
The growth in e-commerce and lack of capacity out of Hong Kong (HK) has led to Flexport to charter its own freighter flights from HK to Los Angeles. The growing freight forwarder say to ease the air cargo capacity shortages, the first of the these flights is a Boeing 747-400 departing on Sunday, 19 November. […]
American Airlines flies Summer Palace treasures to the US
American Airlines Cargo has transported six tonnes of treasures from China’s Summer Palace to be exhibited in the US for the first time. The airline worked in conjunction with curators from the Bowers Museum of Orange County to bring important items from the life of Empress Dowager Cixi for the exhibition starting on 12 November. […]
American Airlines starts daily Los Angeles – Beijing services
American Airlines has launched daily nonstop flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport, its third route to the Chinese capital. The Boeing 787-8 service departs Los Angeles at 10.55h and arrives in Beijing at 16.20h the next day, and the return flight departing Beijing at 18.30h, arriving back in Los Angeles […]
Flexport looking to grow its footprint
Flexport is evolving fast and the rapidly growing freight forwarder has no plans to slow down. 2017 has been quite a year and in August the US-based forwarder opened its first warehouses in Hong Kong (HK) and Los Angeles (LAX). Speaking at TIACA’s Executive Summit in Miami on 18 October, Flexport’s global head of airfreight, […]
Hurricane relief flights keeping ACS busy in the US
Air Charter Service (ACS) has had a busy last few weeks arranging humanitarian relief charters to hurricane-ravaged islands in the Caribbean. ACS president for the Americas, Richard Thompson (pictured below) says the charter broker has been involved with relief flights for Hurricane Irma charters. He explains: “We have been arranging lots of relief charter flights […]
WFS targeting even more US growth as volumes rise 17%
Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) total volumes across its near 60 cargo stations across the US rose by more than 17 per cent in the first seven months of 2017. WFS won a further 37 new airline contracts in the period as well as 10 contract renewals from existing customers. In 2016, it handled over 1.8 […]
ACI: stronger global economy drives May growth of 11.1%
The strengthening global economy fuelled growth of 11.1 per cent in airfreight in May, according to the Airports Council International (ACI). ACI says after a period of economic uncertainty regarding US trade policy and risks related to the UK’s vote to withdraw from the European Union, global commerce is “no longer sidelined”. The association says […]
Gebruder Weiss USA starts operations in five locations
Gebruder Weiss has formed a country organisation in the USA in five locations following expansion projects in Germany, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. The brand commenced operations in the USA on 3 July, taking over Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles from a former US joint venture and opening two further locations in New York and […]
Delta and Aeromexico sign cargo agreement for US – Mexico services
Delta Cargo and Grupo Aeromexico Cargo have signed a cargo joint cooperation agreement to improve cargo operations between the US and Mexico. The agreement will allow customers to work with either carrier to transport cargo across a broad network of flights and joint trucking operations, and developments are underway to integrate technologies and create a […]
Virgin Australia to launch Melbourne – Hong Kong flights
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to increase capacity to Australia with Melbourne – Hong Kong flights by its partner, Virgin Australia from 5 July. The five Airbus A330-200 flights a week will offer 14 tonnes of capacity, and Virgin Atlantic Cargo will be responsible for selling all of the capacity on these flights, extending its long-haul […]
Flexport opens its first warehouses in Hong Kong and Los Angeles
Flexport is opening its first warehouses in Hong Kong and Los Angeles to serve as “fast-paced consolidation and deconsolidation points”. The freight forwarder says it ships more freight between Hong Kong and Los Angeles than any other city pair, so they are a natural starting point for its network of physical logistics centres. It says centres will […]