LOT Cargo has launched a New York – Warsaw – New York freight route
with a special all cargo Boeing 767-300 aircraft operated by a Canadian
company Cargojet Airways.
This year, flights are scheduled for January-April and October-December.
For
January and March, the company has planned weekly flights departing
from New York (JFK) on Saturdays and from Warsaw on Sundays.
For February, two flights per week have been scheduled with an additional flight from Warsaw on Thursdays.
The
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Lioness sisters Maggie and Sonja made an epic journey home to
Africa on the inaugural Kenya Airways Dreamliner flight from London
Heathrow via Nairobi to Johannesburg.
The two rescued circus cats were waved goodbye at the start of their
6,000 mile journey by singer celebrity and Born Free Patron, Peter
Andre.
Maggie and Sonj will begin...
Saturday, January 24, 2015
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has revealed the
winners of its Freight Service Awards 2014 at a ceremony in London.
Robert Keen, BIFA’s director general, commented: “In a neat twist to
celebrate the 26th staging of the awards, it was fitting that 26
different BIFA Member companies were in contention, plus our young
freight forwarder finalists.”
The air freight award – sponsored by IAG Cargo – went to DSV Air
& Sea. The judges thought this company stood out from...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Ethiopian Cargo has returned to Brussels airport with four B777 freighters per week to Addis Ababa.
The freighters will provide onward connections out of Africa, direct to Dubai, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The flights will carry mainly flowers, while exports will be general
freight. Kuehne & Nagel and DHL Starbroker have actively contributed
to bringing the...
Freight forwarder Panalpina has opened new bases in Morocco and Kenya
as part of a drive to expand its presence in Africa, a continent in
which it was once a dominant player in the oil and gas project sector.
Offices in Casablanca in Morocco and Nairobi, Kenya, and will spearhead a drive for energy and infrastructure business.
Regional chief executive for the Middle...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
FIATA has joined the air cargo industry chorus calling for the
elimination of fuel and security surcharges in airline freight rates.
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations said:
“The simplification of rate structures will be a significant benefit to
forwarders and shippers alike.
"Forwarders have for a very long time desired these surcharges be
removed as they are opaque and complex and thereby making it difficult
to quote a definite price for air cargo transportation,...
Asia’s Vietnam and Cambodia provided the fastest-growing airfreight trade lanes between emerging and developed markets.
US-Vietnam volumes surged 42.7 per cent by volume, and Cambodia-European Union airfreight increased by 41.9 per cent.
That was one finding from the comprehensive 2015 Agility Emerging
Markets Logistics Index, now in its sixth year, a data-driven...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
IAG Cargo has extended its Cargo Connector service to San Francisco, the tenth city for the local pick-up service.
It offers freight forwarders at or near the airport a free collection
for consignments up to 300 kilos and IAG Cargo estimates that 95 per
cent of its customers are based within a five-mile radius of the
airport. This means...
TNT is offering CO2-neutral delivery of all express domestic consignments in Germany at no additional charge.
The carrier measures how much CO2 is produced in transporting
consignments and then ‘neutralises’ them with an equivalent amount of
CO2 credits.
TNT uses CO2 credits only from renewable energy projects that meet
Gold Standard requirements. External auditor...
Shanghai Pudong International Airport has set a new cargo record,
handling a total of 1.5m tonnes of freight in 2014, with growth of 16.15
per cent year-on-year.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co Ltd. (PACTL) -
a joint venture handling operation between Shanghai Airport, Lufthansa
Cargo and JHJ Logistics Management – says its domestic cargo...
China will lift controls on prices of 24 commodities and services, said the National Development and Reform Commission on Sunday.
Market will decide the price of tobacco leaves, the last agricultural product to be freed from government price control, but a minimum price will be set to protect farmers, said a statement on the commission website.
Prices of railway bulk cargo, parcels and privately funded cargo and passenger transport will also be allowed to float. Railway passenger and cargo prices...
Monday, January 12, 2015
French freight forwarders have called on airlines to end separate fuel surcharges, which they argue are no longer relevant.
TLF Overseas, the French freight forwarders
organisation representing 95 per cent of general air cargo transactions,
expressed its “incomprehension” of a situation that requires “more
transparency and real positive economic signals from the carriers”.
The strongly worded statement comes after
Middle East airline Emirates SkyCargo last week confirmed that it is...
Customs regulations can be a minefield for the unwary shipper, be it
edible insects in Europe, chewing gum in Singapore and rubber gloves in
the US.
So parcels giant FedEx has come up with eight “surprising” Customs
rules for small businesses setting out to conquer the world of exports.
It was compiled by Harald Schoenfelder, managing director global trade services for FedEx Express Europe, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa.
Says Schoenfelder: “We decided to compile some of the...
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Ethiopian Air cargo plane skids off runway at Ghana's Kotoka Airport
ACCRA,
Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- An Ethiopian Airlines cargo aircraft on Saturday
skidded off the runway at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on
landing, Ghanaian airport officials said.
"All
three crew people on board the aircraft survived the accident and are
currently responding to treatment at the 37 Military Hospital," the
Ghana Airport Company (GAC) said in a statement.
The
Boeing 737, ET-AQV (Ethiopian Airline...
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