DoKaSch Signs Qatar Cargo For Their Opticooler
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has gained the Doha-based freight carrier as new customer for utilizing their fleet of active cool containers. The agreement covers a timespan of five years. The...
View ArticleBig Three on "Collision Course" With U.S. All-Cargo Industry: Report Says
The three largest carriers in the U.S., Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines (Big Three) are on a "collision course with the U.S. all-cargo industry" as they continue their...
View ArticleLUG Grows in FRA
The ground handler expands its freight facility at Rhine-Main Airport by adding capacity to its Health Care Center (HCC). With this step, the management is reacting to growing business and sets the...
View ArticleShanghai-based Cargo Handler PACTL Flies High
The handler’s unprecedented volume growth continues unabated. In the first half year of 2017 exactly 873,573 tons passed through the company’s large freight terminal at Shanghai Pudong Airport, up 12...
View ArticleDoKaSch Welcomes 500th Active Cool Container
ULD provider DoKaSch Temperature Solutions added transport box number 500 to its fleet of Opticoolers. However, that’s not the end of the line since more active cool containers will join the fleet,...
View ArticleHahn Cargo - Back on Track With China & South America
The 28th of August was it seems a deciding date for the future of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport’s cargo operations. The inaugural flight from China to Hahn on this day heralds a new era for the airport that...
View ArticleHong Kong Airlines Ups Competition With Cathay Pacific
Hong Kong Airlines, the subsidiary of mainland conglomerate HNA Group, has announced direct service to London, San Francisco and New York, creating a fresh challenge to Cathay Pacific, which in July...
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IN BRIEF, THE LATEST CARGO AIRLINE INDUSTRY NEWS. Cargolux adds two new Africa destinations The Luxembourg based all cargo carrier Cargolux, continues with its operational expansion into Africa. The...
View ArticleTransAVIAexport Airlines Has Lucky escape in Juba
The Minsk, Belarus-based all cargo carrier TransAVIAexport Airlines which for the past years has concentrated much of their operations on the African continent, was in the news during the past couple...
View ArticleBrussels E-AWB Programme Takes Off
On 1 October, Brussels Airport will officially switch to electronic Air Waybills. Last Monday Air Cargo Belgium organised an E-AWB engagement day to introduce the programme to the community. Stéphane...
View ArticleLATAM Suffers Heavily Under Cargo Decline
Despite a pick-up in June of this year for air cargo demand in South America, the first half-year results in the region are not convincing. South American countries still only contribute around 3...
View ArticleSF Express Invests Millions in New Fleet
Chinese passenger and all-cargo airlines have been growing at an amazing pace during the past few years. It’s almost impossible to count the actual number of Chinese carriers who fly domestically...
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IN BRIEF, THE LATEST CARGO AIRLINE INDUSTRY NEWS. Hainan Airlines cargo rises in JulyHainan Airlines which is part of the HNA Group of companies reports that their cargo volumes rose considerably in...
View ArticleRecruiting in China and Europe – Two Markets, Two Philosophies
The 2007 incepted HR consulting & recruiting company Facts & Skills, specialized in logistics and the supply chain, runs offices in Hamburg, Germany, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. F&S...
View ArticleTanzania on Way to Becoming Drone Champion
Drones delivering medicines, drugs or emergency supplies to remote areas will become a common sight in Tanzania. TZ’s government jointly with U.S. drone provider and operator Zipline aims to establish...
View ArticleBER Eyes Expansion, While its Launch Has Been Postponed Again
Have you ever been sandwiched in life, feeling like a tightly canned sardine? If not, take a flight to Berlin once the city’s trouble-ridden BER International is online – if ever. We bet you will...
View ArticleDHL Doubles Cargo Capacity for Norwegian Seafood
The Norwegian seafood industry which is next to oil and gas, Norway’s first address as far as exports from this Scandinavian country are concerned, has attracted many airlines offering cargo capacity...
View ArticleE-commerce Pushes Growth of Global Parcel Volumes
Parcel volume grew from 44 billion parcels in 2014 to 65 billion in 2016, and the increase in growth shows no sign of slowing down, continuing to rise at a rate of 17-28% each year between 2017 and...
View ArticleKern Exits Clasquin Germany
Thorsten Kern (50) has decided not to prolong his contract as Managing Director Germany of French Forwarding Agent Clasquin. Thorsten Voelker (45) who takes the position at the end of this month will...
View ArticlePang Bids for Air Berlin
Chinese forwarding agent Jonathan Pang his thrown his hat into the ring, bidding for insolvent carrier Air Berlin. His competitors are no less than Lufthansa, easyjet and Thomas Cook Group member...
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