AIT Worldwide opens Mexico City airport office
AIT Worldwide Logistics has extended its network in Mexico with an office based at Mexico City International Airport. The Mexico City office will provide an array of logistics products including transborder expertise, warehousing, customs brokerage and IMMEX services with a focus on airfreight, particularly in the automotive, food logistics, technology and life science sectors. It […]
Mexico City joins United Cargo TempControl network
United Cargo has extended its TempControl network for temperature-sensitive products to Mexico City through its interline agreement with AeroUnion. TempControl shipments destined for Mexico City International Airport via the interline service may be tendered at any certified handling location in United Cargo’s TempControl network. Shipments will be transported to Los Angeles International Airport then transferred […]
Peli BioThermal opens Mexico City service centre
Peli BioThermal has extended its network in the Americas with a station and service centre in Mexico City, Mexico. The network station in Mexico City will service, refurbish, repair and condition reusable Credo on Demand shippers. Mexican pharmaceutical exports have seen average growth of 2.6% per year and include prophylactic, therapeutic, antibiotic and hormonal products. […]
Lufthansa Cargo adds summer freighter connections
Lufthansa Cargo will be adding freighter connections for the summer, putting the two new Boeing 777 Freighters into service. Capacity will increase 10% with increased flights across Asia, the Americas Africa utilising Lufthansa Cargo and AeroLogic’s freighter capacity on the summer schedule starting on 31 March. In Asia, two flights a week will be added […]
Cargolux connects Hong Kong with Mexico
Cargolux Airlines International has opened a new transpacific route to connect Hong Kong with Mexico City twice a week. The flights were launched on 10 December, leaving Hong Kong on Saturdays and Mondays, arriving in Mexico City on Sundays and Tuesdays. The Monday flight will include a stopover in Guadalajara, the country’s second most populous […]
Turkish Cargo to add Mexico City to its network
Turkish Cargo will add Mexico City to its network, with the first Boeing 777 Freighter flight landing in Mexico on 3 October. The flights will operate on two different routes with first travelling on an Istanbul-Madrid-Mexico City-Bogota-Curacao-Maastricht-Istanbul route and the second going on an Istanbul-Madrid-Mexico City-Houston-Istanbul route. Exports from Mexico City include fresh flowers, perishable […]
Southwest Airlines starts international cargo services
Southwest Airlines Cargo has started its international shipping programme with services between the USA and Mexico City. It passed the milestone on Sunday 15 July and later this summer it intends to add the ability to ship between the USA and Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas/Los Cabos before adding other international destinations to […]
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 […]
CargoLogicAir to increase services to Atlanta, Dubai and Hong Kong
CargoLogicAir is continuing to increase services with additional flights from the UK to Atlanta, Dubai and Hong Kong. The third flight per week to Atlanta, which returns to London Stansted Airport, is in addition to existing services from Stansted to Mexico City via Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which were launched last August. The 2018 […]
SEKO Logistics expands into Mexico and plans further growth
SEKO Logistics is continuing to extend its global reach by announcing a substantial expansion in Mexico. It is investing significantly to establish logistics centres and infrastructure to meet growing client demand in the automotive, retail and aerospace industries, which includes the opening of the first facility of nearly 10,000 square metres in Ocoyoacac on 7 […]
Air Canada Cargo to end freighter partnership with Cargojet
Air Canada Cargo is to end its partnership with Cargojet, cancelling freighter services across Mexico, the USA, South America and Germany. The two airlines started their first flight on 10 June 2016, with flights to Bogota in Colombia and Lima in Peru using a Boeing 767-300 Freighter, providing 52 tonnes of cargo capacity. Services to […]
Oil & gas helps get CargoLogicAir services off to a flying start
CargoLogicAir’s (CLA) first scheduled route has got off to a flying start due to strong demand from the oil and gas industry from the USA to the Middle East. It launched twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 Freighter services in August with Europe-Mexico, Europe-Middle East and USA-Middle East connections, and has carried over 2,000 tonnes of cargo in […]
CargoLogicAir launches first scheduled cargo service
CargoLogicAir is to launch its first scheduled cargo route with flights to Mexico City from 19 August. The twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 route will depart from its London Stansted Airport base every Wednesday and Saturday, flying to Mexico City International Airport via Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The airline will offer over 200 tonnes of cargo capacity […]
Sweet success as ACS flies 100 tonnes of candy to Peru
Air Charter Service (ACS) arranged to fly 100 tonnes of sweets to restock a warehouse in Peru that suffered from fire damage and lost most of its supply. The company’s logistics provider called ACS saying the sweets needed to be flown from Mexico as soon as possible, so a Boeing 747-400 was positioned in Mexico […]
American Airlines picks G Force as new GSA for Mexico
American Airlines Cargo has picked G Force GSA Mexico as its general sales agent (GSA) for Mexico following the retirement of its current GSA. G Force will be responsible for selling American’s services in Mexico City as of 1 July, as well as establishing a local sales presence in Cancun, Guadalajara, Leon, Puerto Vallarta and […]
Bedek Aviation Group to establish facility in Mexico for P2F programme
The Bedek Aviation Group of Israel Aerospace Industries will open an aircraft conversion site in Mexico City for conversion of Boeing 767-300’s into freighters, to be run by Mexicana MRO Services as Bedek’s sub-contractor. The first aircraft for conversion is expected to be inducted by the end of June, with an order for number of […]
Emirates flies show jumping horses for Longines Global Champions Tour
Emirates SkyCargo has transported some of the world’s best show jumping horses across three continents in a month for the Longines Global Champions Tour. The airline transported 93 horses, which each weighed 600-650 kilogrammes, in two flights from Liege to Mexico City between 31 March and 1 April on Boeing 777 Freighters along with 11 […]
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 […]
VIDEO: Mexico’s AeroUnion starts freighter service from Miami
Mexican freighter carrier AeroUnion began service at Miami International Airport (MIA) on 2 December with two weekly round-trip flights that will serve a triangular route between Mexico City, Mérida and Miami. AeroUnion will operate an Airbus A300 Freighter or Boeing 767-200 Freighter aircraft on the new route. Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos A. Gimenez says: “We proudly welcome AeroUnion and […]
Air Canada Cargo to add second South American freighter service
Air Canada Cargo is to add a second weekly service to South America with an additional flight to Bogota and Lima. The Boeing 767-300ER Freighter services operated by Cargojet were launched in June with flights from Toronto to Lima via Atlanta and Bogota, as well as Toronto to Mexico City via Dallas Fort Worth. Air […]
SmartKargo to power Volaris cargo operations
SmartKargo has taken over the power of cargo operations of Mexico City-based Volaris Airlines, Mexico’s second largest airline. Volaris runs cargo services from 22 US markets throughout Mexico and Central America, and is SmartKargo’s Latin American customer. The company says the system ‘go live’ for Volaris was deployed in a record 27 days. Volaris chief commercial officer, Holger […]
Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet announce freighter from Dallas to Mexico City
Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet have announced new freighter service from Toronto to Mexico City via Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport will begin on 9 June, 2016. The route is a result of a co-operative arrangement between Air Canada Cargo and Cargojet and will be operated with Boeing 767-300ER Freighter aircraft. DFW Airport executive vice […]
IATA WCS: WCS 2017 to be held in Abu Dhabi
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that the 11th World Cargo Symposium (WCS) will be held in Abu Dhabi between 14 and 16 March 2017. The announcement was made by IATA global head of cargo, Glyn Hughes, at the closing of the 10th WCS in Berlin, which was held at the Intercontinental Hotel […]
