Nallian and Luxembourg Airport implement new Cargo Community System

Belgium-based Nallian, a specialist of collaborative solutions in logistics and air cargo, have joined with Luxembourg Airport to implement a cargo community system (CCS) at the airport. With 893.090 tonnes of cargo in 2019, Luxembourg Airport is one of the most important cargo airports in Europe. To meet business needs and customer expectation, the CCS […]

Cargolux proves it is a heavy duty cargo airline

Cargolux Airlines International has transported a 10-metre long shaft weighing 43 tonnes from Luxembourg to Zhengzhou, the largest piece moved to its Chinese hub. The move was organised on behalf of the newly founded HNCA Logistics (Luxembourg) in cooperation with local partner European Logistics Partners. The shipment was the first of its kind to transit […]

Cargolux flies into digital booking era

Cargolux Airlines International has launched a new online booking tool, connecting through a platform “you book it, we fly it”, echoing its motto. The digital tool offers users a faster, frictionless and more personalised buying experience, and is powered by PRO’s solutions to streamline and accelerate the customer quoting and booking process. Domenico Ceci, executive […]

Full throttle for DSV Panalpina’s combined network

DSV Panalpina’s engine is warming up, having moved the first shipment through the combined network on Thursday 29 August. The aircraft parts were flown by DSV’s US Aerospace team on the Spirit of Panalpina from Huntsville to Luxembourg. From there, the engine parts were trucked to Airbus’ production plant in Toulouse, France, marking the first […]

Cargolux extends Asia Pacific network to Jakarta

Cargolux Airlines International has extended its presence in Asia Pacific with weekly flights to Jakarta, Indonesia touching down on 23 June. An official ceremony welcomed the arrival of LX-ECV to celebrate the introduction of the weekly Luxembourg – Jakarta flight. The flights leave Luxembourg on Sunday and arrive in Jakarta on Monday before continuing to […]

Cargolux profits grow despite weaker global demand

Cargolux Airlines International has managed to increase post-tax profits for the second year running despite a backdrop of global softening in market demand. Net profit after tax reached $211.2 million in 2018, up from $122.3 million in 2017 despite demand falling in the second half of 2018, a shorter peak period compared to 2017, trade […]

Full speed ahead for Wallenborn

Across the Benelux region, business grew by 7.2% for Wallenborn with Belgium leading the way as airlines increasingly fly into Liege due to slot reductions in Amsterdam. Frantz Wallenborn, president and CEO of the Luxembourg-headquartered transportation company, which provides extensive road feeder services to the air cargo industry tells Air Cargo Week that Belgium grew […]

Record cargo volumes for Luxembourg Airport

Luxembourg Airport posted its best results ever in 2018, with pharmaceuticals and live animals pushing up cargo volumes 2% compared to 2017. A total of 957,000 tonnes was handled by LuxairCARGO in 2018, with pharma increasing 22% to 36,830 tonnes, 2,524 horses passing through, up 58% and imports rising by 5% representing a surplus of […]

Unitop Airlines connects Wuhan and Luxembourg

Unitop Airlines has opened its second cargo route to Europe with Boeing 747-400 Freighter flights between Wuhan and Luxembourg starting on 13 January. The first flight from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport touched down at 02.46h, with Zhang Younan, chairman and president of Unitop Group, Chen Ying, executive vice president of Unitop Airlines and relevant leaders […]

Panalpina’s “Speedy” charter loop is ready for Brexit

Panalpina says its “Speedy” loop connecting Mexico, the US and the UK is ready for Brexit, regardless of the outcome. Queretaro International Airport was added to the loop of its Charter Network in May, which also connects Mexico City and Guadalajara with Panalpina’s airfreight gateway in Huntsville. Matthias Frey, global head of the Charter Network […]

Cargolux flies Chinese artefacts to Luxembourg

Cargolux Airlines International has transported invaluable historic artefacts from China to support a cultural exchange between Henan Museum and Luxembourg’s Musee National d’Histoire et d’Art. Three tonnes of cargo comprising of 145 artefacts were loaded onto flight CV975 from Zhengzhou, arriving in Luxembourg today (8 November) after a 10 hour flight. The collection will be […]

Cargolux flies race horses to Asian Games in Jakarta

Cargolux Airlines International has flown race horses from Luxembourg to Indonesia for the Asian Games, which is being held in Jakarta from 18 August to 2 September. The part-charter operation in conjunction with JIT-EX required careful preparation and planning to avoid causing the animals distress during the journey. Cargolux used its HMC horse stalls and […]

Lucky escape for Cargolux as fuel leaks from helicopter shipment

The crew of a Cargolux flight had a luck escape when a helicopter it was transporting from Houston leaked 322 litres of fuel during the flight. The Bell 412EP helicopter was being shipped on the main deck of the Boeing 747-8 Freighter on 30 March 2017 from Houston, USA to Luxembourg via Glasgow Prestwick Airport. […]

Air cargo community must drive own standards for perishables

The air cargo community should drive its own standards for perishables and not wait for other groups and agencies to supply them, says Cool Chain Association (CCA) chairman, Stavros Evangelakakis. A lack of accountability is contributing to 1.3 billion tonnes of food being wasted along the supply chain every year, about one third of all […]

Luxembourg’s IT-friendly outlook profits CHAMP

One of the hidden strengths of Luxembourg is it is indirectly helping push the air cargo industry towards fuller digitisation, writes Michael MacKey. “They do encourage innovation in the IT sector. It’s a very IT-friendly country to be in,” said CHAMP Cargosystems, VP global sales and marketing, Nicholas Xenocostas. CHAMP is a 51/49 joint venture […]

Panalpina adds Queretaro to the Speedy loop of its charter network

Panalpina has added Queretaro International Airport in Mexico to the “Speedy” loop of its charter network, also connecting Mexico City and Guadalajara with its airfreight gateway in Huntsville, Alabama. Queretaro is located in the Bajio region, Mexico’s fastest growing economic area with key industries such as automotive and manufacturing, and one of the largest aerospace […]

Cargolux profits hit the sky as volumes pass one million tonnes

Cargolux Airlines International has had its best year on record with a significant increase in profits and handling over one million chargeable tonnes for the first time. Profits increased from $5.5 million in 2016 to $122.3 million in 2017 with market demand remaining high resulting in the airline generating a record 131,212 block hours and […]

Cargolux validates GDP certificate for another year

Cargolux Airlines International has validated its GDP certification for another year by passing its GDP Surveillance Audit. The certificate shows that company management systems fulfil requirements of the EU directive ‘Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use’ and of WHO guidelines. The Luxembourg based airline became the world’s first GDP certified […]

Cargolux says konnichiwa to Tokyo with weekly flights to Narita

Cargolux Airlines International has inaugurated weekly flights to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport in the scope of its cooperation agreement with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA). The weekly service operated in a codeshare leaves Luxembourg on Tuesday evening and arrives in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon at 16.25h. The return flight is routed via Seoul’s Incheon International Airport […]

Nippon Cargo Airlines enter into codeshare with Cargolux

Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) is continuing to enter into business partnerships by agreeing to start codeshares of cargo flights with Luxembourg based Cargolux Airlines International. Subject to government approval, the two airlines will start the codeshare on 27 March 2018 from Luxembourg to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, which operates on Tuesdays. The flight, which will […]

Continued investments help LuxairCARGO have an exceptional year

LuxairCARGO had an exceptional year in 2017, handling record volumes while continuing to invest in staff and infrastructure. The Luxembourg Airport based cargo handling agent handled 938,000 tonnes in 2017, partly helped by air cargo picking up globally but also by investing in its own services. Investments included a new outsized goods hanger being commissioned, […]

Cargolux flies measuring buoys for wind farms in China

Cargolux has flown two shipments of outsized and highly sensitive measuring buoys from Luxembourg to China for offshore wind farms off the coast of Fujian province. The airline worked with Globaltrans Internationale Logistik to transport the two high-tech buoys to Xiamen, to be used in the planned Zhangpu and Changle wind farms. The buoys measure […]

Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines pen cooperation agreement

Cargolux has signed a cooperation agreement with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) today that allows both partners access to each other’s capacity through code-share and space swap agreements. Cargolux now has access to NCA’s flights from Frankfurt Hahn to Tokyo Narita while NCA has access to its flights from Luxembourg to Narita. The carrier says it […]

Cargolux links up with SkyCell for temperature controlled containers

Cargolux Airlines International and SkyCell have teamed up in a global container rental partnership to offer pharma customers an enhanced service with SkyCell’s temperature controlled containers. The transport containers can safely transport pharma products in the 2-8C and 15-25C ranges in outside temperatures between -35C and +65C over multiple days. The containers boost Cargolux’s cool […]

Qatar Boeing 777F touches down in Pittsburgh for 1st time

Qatar Airways Cargo’s new Boeing 777 Freighter service touched down at Pittsburgh International Airport last Thursday – its 13th freighter destination in the Americas. The twice-weekly freighter flight takes off from Doha on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with stops at Luxembourg and Atlanta, Georgia before arriving in Pittsburgh. On the return from Pittsburgh on Thursdays and […]

Frankfurt-Hahn sets up task force as it looks to boost business

A new task force has been set up at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport led by chief operation officer, Christoph Goetzmann as it looks to promote the gateway as an alternative hub for airfreight in the Frankfurt region of Germany. Goetzmann says in the upcoming months, the airport will introduce its improved service in a road show to all international […]

Cargolux and Emirates SkyCargo enter into codeshare partnership

Cargolux Airlines International and Emirates SkyCargo are to enter into a codeshare partnership, using cargo capacity on each other’s flights and offering services under their own air waybills and flight numbers. Earlier this year the two airlines announced the start of a strategic operational partnership working closely on a number of areas including block space […]

Cargolux flies horses to Ashgabat for Asian Indoor Games

Cargolux Airlines International has flown high-value horses from Luxembourg to Turkmenistan to participate in the Equestrian Jumping competition at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games. The airline worked in cooperation with Peden Bloodstock, which specialises in horse transport, to move the animals to Ashgabat in mid-September. After the completion of the games on […]

Cargolux moves Dubai handling to Emirates SkyCargo

Cargolux has moved all of its cargo handling on flights to and from Dubai World Central (DWC) over to Emirates SkyCargo. The move follows the cooperation agreement that the Luxembourg-based carrier signed with Emirates in May 2017 at Air Cargo Europe. Cargo flights to Luxembourg are already handled by Cargolux’s partner Luxair Cargo. Emirates SkyCargo […]

Qatar becomes 1st carrier to launch Pittsburgh freighter service

Qatar Airways Cargo has become the first carrier to launch a freighter service to Pittsburgh in the US – bringing its Americas all-cargo network to 13. The fast-growing Qatari airline will start a twice-weekly Boeing 777 Freighter service on the route from 11 October. Pittsburgh is the 5th freighter destination in the Americas it has […]