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A new global digital platform to bring the logistics industry together Given that COVID-19 led to the cancellation of all transport logistic exhibitions’ physical events this year, it has announced...
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FRA Cargo gives Rhine-Main Airport tailwind
Rhine-Main Airport operator, Fraport AG is developing a digital platform for cargo imports in cooperation with industrial partners. The tool is called FRA-OS and, once operational, it will be...
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DoKaSch-TS gains Delta Cargo as new customer
Assume the worst and do the utmost against it. True to this slogan of Mao Tse-tong, Delta Cargo, which otherwise has nothing to do with the former head of China's KP, is acting. This they do by...
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Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Cargo: CargoAi
"The only artificial intelligence-enabled airfreight platform that connects freight forwarders and airlines" is how CargoAi markets itself and refers to its SaaS-based platform that goes beyond merely...
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LH Cargo becomes Lufthansa’s Uncle $crooge
Lufthansa Cargo generated earnings of €446 million in the first 9 months of this year, contrasting incurred losses of €33 million in a y-o-y comparison. The freight subsidiary thus proved to be one of...
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Cargonaut now belonging to Schiphol, embarks on modernization
On 02NOV20, it was announced that the Royal Schiphol Group had assumed full ownership of 1986-incepted Cargonaut B.V., having acquired additional shares in the port community system serving the...
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EXCLUSIVE – Creating Cargo Pheromones
Attracting cargo to regional airports is subject to creating the right conditions. They can very well develop into premier cargo hubs provided they create the right system for the longer term. In a...
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GSA landscape is facing transformation
The GSA landscape is taking on new contours as COVID-19 disrupts traditional business models that were successful until now. At risk are those sales agents whose mandate airlines only operate...
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The colorful “Save the Coral Reefs” message will soon disappear from the skies. Image: HiFly Another A380 goes into retirement… but this one’s a preighter In the midst of a growing move towards...
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The Line-Up for TIACA’s Sustainability Awards
It seems like only yesterday, that CFG witnessed the winners of the first ever TIACA Sustainability Awards receive their trophies aboard a ship on the Danube in Budapest in NOV19, and yet here we are,...
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Prime Air on way to stirring up the European market
Amazon Air, better known under its brand Prime Air, is penetrating Europe by establishing a tightly knit network. This is done in close cooperation with Irish capacity provider ASL who operates the...
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MVD Free Airport: High-Fliers with a Difference
When Uruguay became not only the first Latin-American country, but also the first country worldwide to legalize the use of cannabis (both medicinal and recreational) just seven years ago, in DEC13, it...
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Breaking News - Successful COVID-19 vaccine study electrifies the aviation...
BioNTech and partner Pfizer have announced encouraging early results from their joint coronavirus vaccine phase 3 trial, claiming a more than 90% effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 infection. Once...
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My Life with COVID-19 – Angie Morales reports from Ecuador
With its roughly 17 million inhabitants, Ecuador is one of the less populous countries in South America. To date, roughly 166,000 people in Ecuador have been infected with COVID-19, and 13,000 of them...
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Urgent News - TIACA catches a big fish: Glyn Hughes
The air freight veteran, still in charge of IATA Cargo until JAN21, will become Director General of The International Air Cargo Association, taking up his new role on 01FEB21. The position of Director...
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My Life with COVID-19 – Soniya Mokal reports from India
With its roughly 1.32 billion inhabitants, India is the most populous country of the world. To date, 6.6 million people in India have been infected with COVID-19 and 100,000 of them have died. How is...
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LH Cargo speeds up eBooking
As of yesterday (10NOV20) the carrier offers the market a simplified scheme for booking cargo shipments online via its eBooking platform. Although this version has only been in existence for 24 hours,...
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V-D operated AN-124-100 narrowly escaped a catastrophe
Today (13NOV20), a Volga Dnepr Airlines AN-124-100 freighter aircraft skidded off the runway of Siberian Novosibirsk Tolmachevo International Airport, following an uncontained engine failure. 14...
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Santa’s Season of Stress…
With just 40 days to go until Christmas, the Festive Project Management Team over at the North Pole is facing extra challenges in this very unusual – dare we say it – “unprecedented*” year. 2020 – the...
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Leipzig Airport gives stones a face (and body)
Stones are generally not considered particularly sexy, anywhere in the world... Except for Leipzig in the East German state of Saxony. There, a PR campaign of a stone supplier has attracted enormous...
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