Showing posts with label Air cargo industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air cargo industry. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2020

With new regional hub at Lakeland Linder Airport Amazon Air started its operations in Florida, USA. Its first flight from Sacramento airport successfully lands at Lakeland Linder Airport marking start of its daily service to & from the facility. The 285000 square ft facility is specifically designed to cater flight operations & sort out packages for different...

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Emirates Cargo has facilitated the movement of essential commodities & supplies around the world by operating more than 10000 flights in 3 months i.e between April to June. The airlines moved cargo across six continent with an average of 3800 flights per month.. Thus airlines traveled approx 37 million km in 3 months touching upto 100 destinations.. As per airlines...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

DB Schenker has opened a new logistics centre in South Dubai with an area of 33000qm which can offer space for 90000 euro pallets  This warehouse has capacity to handle temperature controlled, value added services, hazardous , & distribution / delivery services for both ocean & air freight movements.. Moreover it has direct connection for Jebel Ali &...

Monday, December 9, 2019

From 15 Jan, 2020 Delta Airlines will appoint LUG for ground handling services in Frankfurt, LUG has been handling ground services for Delta airlines in Munich for last 5 years . Delta airlines operating 3 flights a day daily from Frankfurt to Atlanta, Detroit & New York. After UK Germany is the biggest export market in Europe . USA is a big market for Germany...

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Hong kong Air Transport Licensing Authority(ATLA) has informed Hong Kong Airlines(HKA) to either improve there financial situation or loose license . Early this week ATLA has informed HKA to inject cash to improve there financial situation which is deteriorating day by day else face action & loose there license to operate. ATLA has provided deadline of 07-Dec to...

Monday, April 22, 2019

Jet Airways grounded all flights till further notice after they were not able to generate confidence with banks & lenders for interim funding . As per airlines spokesperson the emergency funds from lenders or bank is not forthcoming resulting into airlines disability to pay for fuel & other critical services to keep airlines operational. Jet airlines had...

Monday, November 26, 2018

China Post & Lufthansa cargo have come up with a strategic agreement of sharing Boeing 777 freighter cargo capacity on Shanghai - Frankfurt route. Lufthansa airlines (LH) will provide block space to China Post on its freighter & passenger aircraft on regular basis. Currently LH is operating 18 wide body aircrafts &10 weekly 777F weekly out of China . Both...

Monday, September 24, 2018

For high value, temperature control & time sensitive shipments Singapore Airlines (SIA) has introduced a Thrucool product specially for pharma & healthcare shipments. Thrucool offer variable cod chain services like cold room facilities, hermal blanket, covers for crucial isnulation & many more. SIA senior vice president cargo, Chin Yau Seng, in an...

Thursday, July 12, 2018

From July 17, Korean air is launching three times a week freighter service between Incheon & Delhi . Currently Korean air is operating passenger aircraft from Incheon to Delhi & Mumbai three to five times weekly. In a statement, Korean Air said: “The decision to introduce the cargo flight accompanies the South Korean government’s new diplomatic strategy to...

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Freight Investor Services (FIS), global leader in freight & commodity derivatives, has published airfreight future price curve, starting a new discussion in this $70bn market. In order to hep buyers & sellers in ascertaining seasonal price increase & tackling capacity issues , a new risk management tool is been designed by FIS. FIS along with index provider...

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Located on Pioneer view with an area of 3.5 football pitches Panalpina opens new logistics centre at Singapore. The warehouse is constructed six floor measuring 25,800m2 of which major space is already rented out . As per chief executive officer of Panalpina Singapore is very important location for Panalpina as 96 out of its 100 global customer are based out of Singapore. The...

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

With increasing demand DHL Global Forwarding is planning to expand its freighter services to meet customer expectation & demands. According to David Goldberg , Chief Executive, Global Forwarding , US , steady & predictable service along with steady rates to be provided to customer throughout the year. As per him last year there were many airlines who cancelled...

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Swiss WorldCargo and Lufthansa Cargo are to launch a two component pricing structure - a net rate plus airfreight surcharge – to reflect the "volatility of external cost factors". A joint letter to customers states: “The new airfreight surcharge will be significantly lower compared to the combined fuel and security surcharges, which will be eliminated...

Sunday, June 21, 2015

  DHL Global Forwarding, Kuehne+Nagel and DB Schenker have maintained their position as the world’s leading airfreight forwarders, while the top 25 forwarders recorded a total increase in airfreight demand of less than one percent. The latest top 25 Global Freight Forwarders List from consultant Armstrong & Associates, based on revenues and ocean and airfreight...

Friday, June 12, 2015

American Airlines Cargo has extended its reach in eastern Europe with the appointment of FlyUs as its general sales agent (GSA) in both Hungary and Poland.  Both countries are currently off-line destinations in the American Airlines network, with cargo being trucked from both Budapest and Warsaw to London, Frankfurt, Munich or Paris for direct entry into the...

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Improving airfreight yields have helped push logistics firm Agility to a 5 percent year-on-year improvement in profits during the first quarter of the year. During the first quarter, the Kuwait Stock Exchange-listed company recorded a 1 percent improvement in revenues on last year to KD318.1m ($1.06bn), while net profit increased by 5 percent to KD11.8m. Its Global...

Friday, March 20, 2015

If the air cargo community was under any illusion that its efforts to speed up door-to-door delivery and eliminate paper documents are winning over shippers, it may have to think again, writes Martin Roebuck. Two major shippers tore into the industry for its poor service quality and communication in a no-holds-barred session at the World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in...

Thursday, February 26, 2015

A ten per cent year on year increase in airfreight net revenues contributed to a strong 2014 fourth quarter for US forwarder and logistics company Expeditors. The Washington-based company said its net earnings had increased 19 per cent in the quarter, to almost $99.4m, compared with $83.5m in the same period of 2013. Ocean freight net revenue...

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continued to see upswings in freight in August. Cargo throughput grew by 8.8 percent to 366,000 tonnes. Flight movements had a 4 percent increase to 33,700, achieving a new monthly high for the second month in a row.  The growth in cargo throughput was driven mainly by transshipments, which were up 22 percent from a year ago. During...

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The freighter plane may become a thing of the past if airlines failed to devise strategies to make their cargo operations more efficient, an aviation industry specialist has warned. The industry needs a structural redesign, said Glyn Hughes, director of cargo industry management at International Air Transport Association (IATA). Air cargo volumes have remained flat since 2010, he said during IATA’s annual general meeting.IATA predicts cargo volumes will total about 52 million tons this year,...