With 225 tonnes, Beaujolais Nouveau is big in Japan

ECS Group subsidiary Aero Cargo France joined forces with DHL Aviation and Nippon Express to fly 225 tonnes of Beaujolais Nouveau to Japan. The partners starting working together on the project earlier in the year with a contract signed in July and the first development in September. To move the wine from Paris Charles de […]

Stockholm Arlanda to gain direct link to Tokyo

Stockholm will receive its first direct route to Tokyo in over 30 years when All Nippon Airways (ANA) launches services in the summer of 2020. The Stockholm Arlanda – Tokyo Haneda will provide faster links to one of Sweden’s most important export markets in Asia. As a major export market, about 150 Swedish companies have […]

UPS and HerdX serve beef with blockchain

UPS has collaborated with HerdX to deliver blockchain-verified traced beef from a US farm to Japan. The shipment left a Kansas farm on 4 November wrapped in UPS Temperature True packaging, which contains sensors monitoring and recording the airfreight shipment’s temperature from origin to destination. Data sourced via UPS Temperature True monitoring devices was uploaded […]

Virgin Australia to add Tokyo Haneda to network

Japan will join Virgin Australia’s cargo network with daily services between Brisbane and Tokyo Haneda from March. Daily flights will be launched on 29 March 2020, with cargo space being marketed by Virgin Atlantic Cargo using an Airbus A330 offering 15-20 tonnes of cargo capacity. The route, Virgin Australia’s first service to Tokyo is expected […]

Swiss WorldCargo adds Asian flights for winter

Swiss WorldCargo will increase capacity to Japan as it operates extra flights to Asia for its winter timetable. From 1 February, a Boeing 777-300ER will be used on daily flights to Tokyo, and Osaka services will receive an Airbus A340-300 from 1 March. Other routes will return to the network, with A340-300 flights to Colombo, […]

time:matters Sameday Air spreads across Asia

time:matters has extended its Sameday Air network across Asia, bringing the service to Tokyo Narita, Singapore and Bangkok. The stations in Japan, Singapore and Thailand are connected to the European hubs of Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna with 84 flights a week. The new locations join services to the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Shenyang, Beijing, Nanjing, […]

Swiss WorldCargo to upgrade USA and Japan flights

Swiss WorldCargo will increase capacity to the USA and Japan with new flights to Osaka and Washington DC, and upgrades to Tokyo and Miami services. The freight division of Swiss International Air Lines will launch the Osaka and Washington flights in March 2020, using an Airbus A340-300 on the former and an Airbus A330-300 on […]

Japan Airlines launches codeshare with Kalitta Air

Japan Airlines has launched a freighter codeshare with Kalitta Air, operating three times a week between Tokyo and Chicago. The flights between Tokyo Narita and Chicago O’Hare started on 1 August and are operated by one of Kalitta Air’s Boeing 747-400 Freighters. The services leave Chicago on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving in Tokyo the […]

All Nippon Airways’ first 777F enters service

All Nippon Airways’ first Boeing 777 Freighter has started operations with flights from Tokyo to Shanghai via Kansai. The 777F, nicknamed Blue Jay arrived on 24 May at Tokyo Haneda International Airport, making All Nippon Airways the first airline in Japan to operate the aircraft type. From today (2 July) until 25 August, it is […]

Lufthansa Cargo’s new 777F says Konnichiwa Japan

Lufthansa Cargo’s newest Boeing 777 Freighter, D-ALFF was officially named at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, taking the name Konnichiwa Japan. The aircraft was named in a joint ceremony by Peter Gerber, CEO and chairman of the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo; Dr Hans Carl von Werthern, the German ambassador to Japan; Yasuo Ishii, administrator of Narita […]

AirBridgeCargo increases Asian capacity

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has strengthened its Asian footprint with extra flights to online destinations in China, Japan and Vietnam. As of the end of March, ABC’s schedule now includes six flights a week to Shenzhen, eight to Tokyo Narita, and two to Ho Chi Minh City to facilitate imports and exports. All the destinations are […]

Antonov earns a reputation on tour with Taylor Swift

Antonov Airlines transported stage and concert equipment for Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour from Australia to New Zealand then onto Japan. Two Antonov AN-124-100s were used to ferry the singer’s light-show system and equipment from Brisbane to Auckland to Tokyo for the final leg of her global tour. Rock-It Cargo was the freight forwarder for […]

The land of rising air cargo volumes

An improving Japanese economy as well as rising global demand for electronics, automotive parts and even salmon is helping the airfreight market leap forward, writes David Craik. Lufthansa has recorded a 27 per cent increase in capacity to Japan in the last 12 to 18 months both in freighter and belly to destinations including Tokyo […]

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 […]

Nippon Cargo Airlines remain grounded for at least another week

Nippon Cargo Airlines has extended the grounding of its fleet, with operations not expected to restart for at least another week. Operations were suspended on 17 June to verify all maintenance records were accurate and complete. At the time the Japanese airline anticipated operations would be suspended for about one week but verifying records has […]

Nippon Cargo Airlines suspends operations due to maintenance issues

Nippon Cargo Airlines has suspended all operations while it investigates maintenance records for one of its aircraft that has been described as “inappropriate”. The Japanese airline says it found one inappropriate record concerning the lubricating oil supply to the aircraft parts at Tokyo’s Narita Airport on 3 April 2018. As a precautionary measure it has […]

Pelican BioThermal to open service centre in Tokyo

Pelican BioThermal will open a service centre in Tokyo, serving the Credo Cube and Credo on Demand rental services. A grand opening will be held on 11 May to mark the official launch, which is one of 12 new Credo on Demand network stations scheduled to open in 2018. The Tokyo service centre will serve […]

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 […]

ANA becomes first Japanese carrier to achieve CEIV Pharma

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first airline in Japan to be awarded the IATA CEIV Pharma certification. The airline has achieved the accreditation at ANA’s largest cargo operation, at Narita International Airport in Tokyo. ANA says to provide a higher quality in handling and transporting pharmaceutical products, it implemented numerous enhancements in various areas, […]

AirBridgeCargo delivers 28 Maserati Gran Turismos to Tokyo

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has delivered 28 Maserati Gran Turismos from Milan to Tokyo on a charter flight for Agility Logistics. The Boeing 747 Freighter flew from Milan Malpensa Airport to Narita International Airport, with a stop at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport in compliance with all standard operational procedures. The high valued cars were carefully handled […]

Sheremetyevo posts 39.4% tonnage growth in first nine months

Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport handled more than 200,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2017 – an uplift of 39.4 per cent on the same period last year. The airport says the increase in traffic volume was due to a significant increase in cargo turnover on international airlines, but domestic carriers saw a fall […]

Delta picks Anderson as director cargo sales for Asia Pacific

Delta Cargo has picked Eric Anderson as director – cargo sales for the Asia Pacific region, taking over from Eric Wilson on 1 August. Anderson will be based in Tokyo, and will lead the cargo sales team across Asia Pacific, continuing Delta Cargo’s transformation throughout the region with specific focus on the customer experience, operational […]

Volga-Dnepr moves 197t of auto parts to the USA for Nippon Express

Volga-Dnepr Airlines was on hand to help Nippon Express when it urgently needed to move 197 tonnes of sensitive automotive machinery from Japan to the USA. Hanoi-based load planning experts were on hand to assesse the cargo and prepare the most efficient plan for its delivery from Tokyo to San Francisco, with the outsize shipments […]

ECS Group wins major Asian contract with Finnair

ECS Group has been chosen as Finnair’s general sales and service agent across six important air cargo markets in Asia. Under the contract, ECS Group will market, promote and sell cargo products on behalf of Finnair in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia, and extending the main deal in Singapore. ECS Group chief executive […]

ACI: strong volumes growth of 6.6% in October

The Airports Council International (ACI) says freight volumes grew by 6.6 per cent October at the globe’s gateways – well above the 2.1 per cent 12 month average growth rate. ACI says it was driven by the 9.9 per cent growth rate in international freight, which was accompanied by a 0.5 per cent decline in […]

Daytime USA – Tokyo Haneda flights cleared for take-off

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has finalised the decision to allow daytime services from the US to Tokyo Haneda Airport. Under the agreement, American Airlines has been given permission to connect Los Angeles with Tokyo Haneda, Delta Air Lines from Los Angeles and Minneapolis St. Paul, Hawaiian Airlines from Honolulu and United Airlines from […]

DHL Express opens new gateway in Tokyo

DHL Express has upgraded its facilities in Tokyo with a new nine billion yen ($81 million) gateway located in Shin-Kiba. The 20,000 square metre facility contains more than double the operating area of the previous Tokyo Distribution Centre. It offers bonded warehousing services, and will house the Minato Service Centre, a dedicated service centre for […]

Finnair Cargo to start Fukuoka services

Finnair Cargo is to increase Japanese services with three flights a week to Fukuoka from 7 May. Fukuoka will be Finnair Cargo’s fourth destination in Japan after Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya and will be served by an Airbus A330. A number of Japan’s famous companies including Sony, Toshiba, Matsushita, Toyota and Mitsubishi have a strong […]

IAG Cargo to start Madrid to Shanghai and Tokyo services

IAG Cargo is to start Madrid – Shanghai in late 2016 and Madrid – Tokyo services from 18 October. The flights will be operated by Iberia, and will be served by Airbus A330-200s with 13 tonnes of cargo capacity. The Tokyo flights will leave Madrid on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays while the Shanghai services are […]