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....
Showing posts with label air cargo news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air cargo news. Show all posts
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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, April 28, 2020
With the surging demand for Corona virus related items Virgin Atlantic Airlines is planning to operate 90 cargo flights per week starting May .
With four A 350 freighter capable of carrying 49 tonnes of goods Virgin Atlantic Airlines has overall 14 aircrafts available for cargo only operations.
The airlines is planning to target US, Hong kong , China, India, Israel...
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...
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Danish logistics giant DSV offered Swiss logistics giant Panalpina an unrefusable offer of
Swis franc195 / share in a deal worth approx $4.6 bn in order to become world leading freight forwarding company .
DSV & Panalpina both were in negotiation for last 2 months with deal starting at
Swiss Franc 170/ share in January which seems to be finally closing at Swiss Franc...
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...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Dnata has made changes in its warehouse at Zurich airport with significant changes in its facility management & quality systems in order to meet GDP (Good Distribution Practice) criteria.
Warehouses & distribution centres handling medical or pharmaceutical products comes under scrutiny of GDP in order to ensure that quality management system...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
With new technologies & fast pace movements Oman has now replaced paper document with e-AWB .
This facility will help freight forwarders & traders to communicate with 10 airline operators present around the world to manage there shipments.
Mohammed Ali Al Musafir, senior VP, Oman Air Cargo said: “The digital advancement is changing the way industries operate....
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...
Friday, September 21, 2018
From Oct 1, Etihad Cargo will refresh its route network to focus more on core sectors & maximise freighter network.
By deploying its 777 ferighter capacity , Middle East carrier Etihad Airways will connect its Abu Dhabi hub to Asia, Europe & US market.
For some destinations flight frequency will be increased while for some network there will be weekly freighter...
Monday, August 13, 2018
With fleet expansion Ethiopian airlines is experiencing rapid increase in volumes close to 400,339 tonnes for last fiscal yr. with an approx increase of 18% YOY.
Ethiopian airlines added 14 new aircraft to its fleet & routed to 8 new international destination namely Geneva, Chicago, Bahrain, Kaduna, Buenos Aires, Kisangani, Mbuji-Mayi & Nosy-Be.
The airlines...
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Air freight rates are increasing since July this year irrespective of market slowdown.
Generally with market slowdown the air freight rates also show decline but not this year as it seems that major cargo hubs are under pressure based on available cargo handling.
As per below TAC index the prices on Hong Kong to North America increased by 16% in July.
Similarly for...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Based on current list prices worth $4.7bn DHL orders 14 Boeing 777 Freighters with purchase rights for additional 7 freighters.
After this order DHL fleet of B777 will be double in size.
This order was announced at Farnborough International Airshow, is in response to increasing express demand & also to replace ageing aircrafts.
Ken Allen, chief executive,...
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...
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Effective May 1, UPS has appointed George Willis as president of US operations.
Willis will succeed Myron Gray who chose to retire after serving for 40yrs at UPS . Willis will report to Jim Barber & will join most senior leadership group of the company.
Willis began his career with UPS in 1984 as part time package handler in the Georgia district & many other part time supervisory roles while attending Morehouse college. He received his bachelor degree from Trinity college...
Monday, August 10, 2015
Freight forwarder DHL Global Forwarding's decision to turn away airfreight business to protect profits in the first half of this year resulted in a decline in volumes.
The Bonn-headquartered forwarder recorded a 7.2% year-on-year decline
in airfreight exports during the second quarter to 530,000 tonnes,
while the half-year result was down by 3.6% to 1m tonnes.
Second-quarter...
Thursday, August 6, 2015
European airports just managed to drag cargo volumes into
positive growth for the first half of the year thanks to improved
performance in June.
Figures from the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe show that freight volumes for the first half of the year increased by 0.5% against a year earlier.
The organisation was not too optimistic for...
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, August 2, 2015
A large section of the logistics sector is losing the battle to
implement planned price increases, coupled with an extremely low success
rate when introducing new products and services.
These are the results of the most recent Global Pricing Study*, based on responses from approximately 1,600 managers, conducted by the global strategy consulting firm Simon-Kucher...
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