Virgin Atlantic Cargo adds capacity for summer 2020

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has announced its summer 2020 programme, which will feature extra flights to India, Africa and the USA. India will benefit from a second daily flight between London Heathrow and Delhi Indira Gandhi airports from 29 March. The Boeing 787 service to Delhi will depart Heathrow in the morning, and offer up to […]

New handler for Virgin Atlantic Cargo in Lagos

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has awarded a five-year handling contract to Sifax SAHCOL in Lagos to improve its services for customers in Nigeria. From 10 April, Virgin’s import and export cargo will be handled in Sifax SAHCOL’s 22,000 sqm warehouse at Murtala Muhammed International Airport. It incorporates special features including a cold room for perishables and […]

Nigerian politician commended for compensating landowners affected by new cargo airport

Reports in the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard state that Ogun state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has been commended for compensating landowners in the area earmarked for the proposed Ogun cargo airport. A frontline leader in Wasinmi, Ewekoro local government area, Bolaji Akinola, gave the commendation in Wasinmi. He noted that the proposed cargo airport will make […]

Network growth set to continue at Turkish Cargo

Turkish Cargo has added new freighter routes this year, but is not finished yet and is eyeing more connections. In the last six months, it has started services to Sao Paulo, Paris, Johannesburg, Kano in Nigeria, Oslo and Antananarivo in Madagascar. Turkish Cargo sales vice president (Turkey), Omer Kilic (pictured) says all the new routes […]

Revenue and tonnage growth for Turkish Cargo

Turkish Cargo’s cargo revenue has grown 24.4 per cent and tonnage is up 26.1 per cent on a year-on-year (YOY) basis in the first half of 2017 to the end of June, as it continues to expand its services. The carrier says it has also grown YOY by 46.8 per cent in the Chinese market during the […]

Turkish adds a second Nigeria freighter route to its network

Turkish Cargo continues to grow its African freighter network and has added a route to Kano – its second connection in Nigeria and adding to a service already run to Lagos. The Airbus A330 Freighter service will start tomorrow (4 July) and operate on an Istanbul – Kano – Dakar – Istanbul routing. The carrier […]

Strong growth at Heathrow, Gatwick plans more Chinese services

Heathrow Airport’s cargo volumes have continued strong growth in October while Gatwick Airport’s double-digit recovery continues as it plans more Chinese routes. Heathrow’s volumes shot up 6.7 per cent to 141,444 tonnes with particularly strong growth from markets in Latin America and East Asia. It says Mexico was up 28 per cent, followed by China […]

More flights to Angola as Liege Airport and NAS strengthen partnership

Network Airline Services (NAS) has signed a new partnership with Liege Airport making the Belgian airport its hub for Africa and increase flights to Angola. NAS has transported over 90,000 tonnes of freight using Liege Airport since May 2014 with its worldwide network linking the USA, Malaysia and Hong Kong to Europe. There are direct […]

Volga-Dnepr puts wing lift to good use to reduce loading times

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has put its new ‘wing lift’ system for reducing load times of large containers to good use by transporting two power generators to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. The ‘wing lift’ system reduces loading times for large containers from four hours to less than 30 minutes, and was put to good use transporting a […]

Virgin awards GSA contract to VN Cargo in Nigeria

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed VN Cargo Connect as its new general sales agency (GSA) partner in Lagos, Nigeria. The airline operates daily Airbus A330 flights to and from Nigeria’s largest city. In support of the new Virgin Atlantic contract, VN Cargo Connect has increased the size of its sales team in Nigeria from seven […]

Cargo airport to be built in northern Nigeria

The first ever cargo airport will be built in northern Nigeria as the Yobe State government will soon award a contract for construction, according to media reports. Nigerian media report the state’s commissioner for works, transport and energy, Sirajo Wakil as explaining the move on Sunday. The say the airport, which would be for ticketing as well as for […]

Gatwick’s cargo falls again in February

Gatwick Airport has had another difficult month with cargo volumes falling by 12.2 per cent to 5,628 tonnes in February. The double digit fall in February follows from January, when volumes were down 9.7 per cent to 5,231 tonnes. On a 12 month basis from March 2015 to February 2016, cargo volumes are down 18.1 […]

Latin America sends Heathrow’s volumes skywards

Heathrow Airport has seen cargo volumes increase by 2.7 per cent in February to 121,424 tonnes, with exports to Latin America growing most strongly. The region grew by five per cent helped by increased frequencies from Avianca and Aeromexico. Trade with Mexico saw the biggest surge, up 40 per cent. This was followed by 34 […]

Med-View starts Nigeria to UK bellyhold cargo route

Med-View Airline started services from Lagos (Nigeria) to Gatwick Airport on 20 November offering cargo capacity for both UK and Nigerian freight forwarders. The carrier has started services from Murtala Muhammed International Airport and will operate four flights per week to Gatwick and return at 22.00h for Lagos arriving in early the following morning. Med-View […]