Vienna Airport is now regularly served by Qatar Airways Cargo

 

At Vienna Airport, Qatar Airways Cargo's first regularly scheduled cargo flight touched down. With immediate effect, the new cargo connection will operate once a week and represents a significant improvement for Vienna Airport as a location for air freight.

"Air cargo is a significant market for Vienna Airport, and we are consistently investing in a cutting-edge, high-performing infrastructure. Vienna Airport not only provides top-notch cargo services, but also vast expertise in this field. Julian Jäger, Joint CEO and COO of Vienna Airport, says, "We are glad that airlines recognise our competence and with Qatar Airways Cargo's decision to now offer a regular cargo aircraft connection to Vienna.

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BIFA campaign to entice hiring from other industry areas

 

A Freight Development Pathway programme has been started by the British International Freight Association (BIFA) to find, recruit, and train qualified people from outside the freight forwarding and logistics industry.

One of the top workforce solutions providers in the world, Manpower, collaborates with trade association BIFA.

The programme is a part of a larger effort to solve the well-documented recruitment challenges facing freight forwarding, according to Carl Hobbis, an executive director of BIFA who also oversees the trade association's training initiatives.

Career possibilities with BIFA member freight forwarding and logistics firms will be made available to candidates.

Participants in the Freight Development Pathway will get a three-week employability programme from BIFA's team of qualified trainers, as well as an introductory freight and customs training course.

The programme will be run by Manpower and will involve employability training to make each participant ready for interviews and potential jobs, weekly one-on-one meetings, and group sessions.

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Opening of New Incheon Gateway by Fedex Express

 

FedEx Express (FedEx), an auxiliary of FedEx Corp. what's more, one of the world's biggest express transportation organizations, is reinforcing support for cross-line exchange and web based business development in Korea with the send off of its new FedEx Incheon Gateway situated at Incheon Global Air terminal, South Korea. The new office offers upgraded capacities that will help neighborhood organizations hoping to get to global business sectors and backing the developing interest for e-commerce business and cold-chain shipments.

The new Incheon Gateway ranges 23,395 sq m, over two times the size of the previous infrastructure, and is outfitted with 78 transport lines and a high level robotized sortation framework that can sort up to 12,000 packages each hour, multiplying the past arranging limit. It likewise incorporates a 15,207 sq m distribution center that can securely stockpile to 40,000 bundles. With 31 week after week flights, the new office associates Korea to 220 nations and domains through the FedEx worldwide organization. The new Door upholds merchants and exporters including little and medium-endeavors (SMEs) and bulk transporters with more prominent and more solid admittance to and from worldwide business sectors.

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Govt. announces proposal of new logistics park in Kochi

With investment of more than 500 crore & single window clearance system the govt is planning to launch new logistics park in Kochi.

The govt has done a series of meeting with several investors with information that private corporation has already acquired the property for construction & soon they will disclose the exact location as project is in initial stage of construction.

The new logistics park will give employment to atleast 2000 people & will alliance with well-known brands which will have a huge effect on industry & economy.

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Check Carbon Emissions On Qatar Airways Cargo flights

 

Qatar Airways has now developed an online tool where customer can check CO2 emissions directly for there cargo shipments.

The carbon emissions can be checked on below link :

https://www.qrcargo.com/calculate-emissions

Customer has to put some information in this link like cargo weight , origin, destination, flight date, etc. to determine the total carbon emission for particular shipment. The customer has also choice of determining results in kilo or pounds as per choice.

Qatar Airways fleet include 26 Boeing 777-freighter, 2 Boeing 747-4 freighters, 1 Airbus a310 freighter, 2 B777-300ER mini freighter.

As per Qatar spokesperson this tool is specially developed to check carbon footprints & invent fully integrated carbon offset solution.

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