Nippon Cargo Airlines joins forces with cargo.one
Japan’s Nippon Cargo Airlines has entered a partnership with air cargo e-booking platform cargo.one, allowing freight forwarders to book capacity with instant confirmation. The partnership will allow NCA to expand its reach in Europe by gaining access to cargo.one’s fast-growing user base of more than 300 freight forwarding companies, and reduce manual distribution work. cargo.one […]
Nippon Cargo Airlines upgrades winter network
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) is upgrading its network for the winter schedule, with all eight Boeing 747-8 Freighters back in operation. The winter schedule will start on Sunday 27 October with the Japanese airline saying the network has been optimised to better match customer requirements and enhance services. In the USA, departures from Tokyo Narita […]
National Crime Agency strikes gold at Heathrow
The National Crime Agency has seized gold worth £4 million as part of an international investigation into a suspected South American drugs cartel. The shipment was detained at Heathrow Airport on 1 June by officers from Border Force, acting on intelligence from the NCA. It arrived in the Cayman Islands on a private jet from […]
NCA submits measures to stop maintenance issues happening again
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has submitted the preventive measures for the Business Improvement Order to make sure maintenance and airworthiness issues do not happen again. The Japanese government’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism (MLIT) after maintenance issues were discovered along with problems with record keeping. When NCA received the order, it says internal […]
Nippon Cargo Airlines to restart operations
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) will resume operations tomorrow (5 July) after suspending flights due to maintenance issues. The Japanese airline, which has a fleet of five Boeing 747-400Fs and eight Boeing 747-8Fs, suspended operations on 16 June following the discovery of inappropriate maintenance records concerning the lubricating oil supply to aircraft parts. The fleet was […]
NCA quiet on aircraft damage
Japanese media outlet NHK World is reporting that a Japanese air cargo operator has been found to be negligent in reporting serious damages to its planes on multiple occasions. The country’s transport ministry is examining these incidents. Nippon Cargo Airlines is alleged to have sustained heavy damage to its freighters in the United States twice, […]
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 […]
NCA and ANA sign strategic business partnership
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a strategic partnership between the two Japanese airlines. The partnership will consist of three key elements: code share, block space and maintenance support. Within the first half of the 2018 fiscal year, NCA and ANA plan to […]
NCA and SIA Cargo build on block space agreement with new MoU
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) and Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop strategic partnership, building on existing block space agreements. In the first phase, the two airlines have agreed to introduce codeshare services on routes between Tokyo and Singapore after 1 April 2018, subject to regulatory approval, which will […]
11 arrested in Heathrow drug smuggling investigation
National Crime Agency (NCA) officers have arrested 11 people in connection with a major investigation into airport workers suspected of smuggling drugs through Heathrow Airport. 10 men and one woman aged between 24 and 60, including three airport baggage handlers, were detained following a series of raids by 125 NCA investigators assisted by officers from […]