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Getting ready to fly to the Olympics. Image: CFG, courtesy LGG Tokyo Olympics gives another boost to Liege’s flying horses business Over the last few weeks, Liege Airport’s Horse Inn has once again...
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Freighter high noon between Boeing and Airbus
For years, U.S. manufacturer Boeing has had a quasi-monopoly in freighter aircraft with a transport capacity of around 100 tons. This is likely to change by 2025 at the latest, as Airbus wants to have...
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The world’s oldest aircraft manufacturer and its plans for a sustainable future
Boeing’s first commercial aircraft was launched in 1916. Its first Sustainability Report was published last week: 26JUL21. For a commercial aircraft manufacturer that, together with Airbus, dominates...
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Volga-Dnepr eyes freighter version of Irkut-built MS-21 jetliner
At the International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) held from 20JUL21-25JUL21 at Zhukovsky Airport near Moscow, Volga-Dnepr boss, Alexey Isaykin expressed his airline Group’s strong interest in...
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What does the W in W-Cargo Airlines stand for?
Astral Aviation, Ethiopian, Etihad, AirFrance/KLM/Martinair will be having to make space on the cargo stage come SEP21, as a new cargo airline is planning to take off from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:...
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QCS enlarges its network and expands the management team
Family-owned logistics company, Quick Cargo Service (QCS), has established a new station at Leipzig/Halle Airport, its 19th branch office in Europe. Simultaneously, QCS announced a new management...
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MAKS loses international significance
The 15th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021 was held at Zhukovsky Airport near Moscow from 20JUL21-25JUL21. As many as 831 companies from 56 countries participated. The organizers...
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SHORT SHOTS
Electric truck for electronic goods There’s an orange truck making its way across Central and Eastern Europe, full of HP goods. Gebrüder Weiss and HP Inc., whose business partnership dates back to...
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Breaking News – DHL Express orders 12 all-electric freighter aircraft
The integrator will be the first to commercially operate zero-emission cargo aircraft, aiming to set up an all-electric express network to lower Deutsche Post-DHL’s CO2 footprint. Newcomer Eviation, a...
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Hapag-Lloyd is dropping anchor in Dakar
Shipping line Hapag-Lloyd has opened a new office in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. It is its 6th representation in Africa, following branches in Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya....
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Exclusive - James and his stardust conveyor mission
As General Manager of aviation consulting firm “aeroconcept”, based in Leipzig, Germany, James Wyatt is extremely familiar with the air freight industry. But he has never experienced a transport like...
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cargo.one widens its reach
As of last Wednesday (04AUG21), freight forwarders based in the U.S. and Canada have the opportunity to contract transport capacity on cargo.one’s multi-airline booking platform. This applies to...
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Lufthansa Cargo Floats on Cloud Nine
The logistics arm of the Lufthansa passenger airline remains by far the most profitable member of the Lufthansa Group. This has been affirmed by the operating results now presented for the 1st half of...
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CargoAi: Where Business, Tech, and Culture meet
Digitalization has gone from being a buzzword to crucial for business survival – something that the air cargo industry was beginning to grasp pre-Covid-19, and which has been neon-highlighted by the...
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Exclusive - SASI and TRB team up to modernize cargo infrastructure at U.S....
“This is a Third World airport,” said a former U.S. president, referring to New York's JFK. And there are a lot of JFKs throughout the States, with delipidated infrastructure and technical systems...
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Antonov and Quebec are in Talks Regarding the Construction of a Modernized...
The Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer is currently in negotiations with officials of Canada’s Quebec province on the subject of jointly constructing a multi-purpose aircraft for transporting cargo...
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SHORT SHOTS
QR Grounds A350s Qatar Airways announces the grounding of 13 of its Airbus A350 jetliners. The step comes after technical checks had revealed that the fuselage surface below the paint is degrading at...
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Wingcopter and Air Methods Partner
Not very long ago, drones were still smiled at as toys. Now, however, the commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles (uav) within supply chains is going through the roof. This is evidenced by the...
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Cargo-Partner Grows in Down Under
The logistics company, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, has acquired the Australian agent Associated Customs & Forwarding (ACF), furthering its rapid international expansion. Thanks to the...
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Exclusive – 100 bn US$ Are Needed to Upgrade U.S. Airport Infrastructure…
… claims Brandon Fried, Executive Director of the Washington-based Airforwarders Association. This statement is in response to the U.S. Senate's approval of a bill aimed at improving infrastructure,...
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