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Exclusive - Conrady: Fraport Plans a New Push in Air Freight
Max Conrady (MC) heads the cargo division of Frankfurt operator Fraport AG since 1 November 2018. Ever since, the volumes are going south. What is going wrong and what needs to be changed to better...
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Amsterdam and Atlanta are Building Digital Corridor
Starting this September and throughout 2020 the airports of Amsterdam and Atlanta will be laying the foundations of a trade and logistics corridor. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at...
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IN BRIEF - THE LATEST AIR CARGO INDUSTRY NEWS Garuda fined in Australian cargo cartel issue The Australian Federal Court has fined Garuda Indonesia to pay the sum of just over USD 13 million as a...
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Belgian Customs Launch Tailor-Made e-Commerce Clearance Platform
The Belgian customs authorities inaugurated their e-commerce digital platform BE-GATE officially at Air Cargo Europe on 6 June. Also present were the airports of Brussels and Liege as well as the...
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MUC Chief Kerkloh Goes - Praises LH Cargo
Air Cargo Europe was Munich Airport’s President and CEO Michael Kerkloh’s last trade show he co-hosted in his role as airport boss. Sitting in MUC’s drivers’ seat since 2002, he will exit the operator...
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New Platform Facilitates Go-Now Charter Booking
Bringing together forwarders and air cargo charter airlines should become much easier thanks to the new platform CharterSync. It was designed by two airline pilots and presented at Air Cargo Europe in...
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Guido Bids Farewell to LATAM Cargo
Guido Henke, LATAM Cargo’s long time Director Europe-Middle/East-Africa (EMEA) has decided to leave the carrier. July 31th will be his last day in office after serving the airline group in different...
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Ukraine and Russia in Hefty Conflict Over AN-124 Freighters
It cannot be excluded that the Volga-Dnepr operated fleet of 12 Antonov 124-100s could be chained when landing in the EU, North America or elsewhere outside their Russian home turf. This is the...
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YTO Cargo Airlines Launch Freighter Service to KUL for Alibaba's Cainiao
Shanghai-based cargo carrier YTO Cargo Airlines will start a freighter service between Changsha (CSX) and Kuala Lumpur (KUL) next month on behalf of Cainiao, the logistics arm of Chinese e-commerce...
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BCUBE - Bringing New Air Cargo Handling Ideas to Europe
At this year’s Munich-held Air Cargo Europe (ACE), there was a new exhibitor on the scene who it seems has plans to expand in Europe and give airline customers a different set of services for the...
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Paris Airport Aspires first European CEIV Fresh Certification
Premiering at Munich-held Air Cargo Europe was the ‘Air Cargo France Association’ (ACFA), set up in 2017. Its aim is to promote the French airports, which are exposed to intense international...
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IN BRIEF - THE LATEST AIR CARGO INDUSTRY NEWS LH Cargo founds ‘heyworld’ “By establishing ‘heyworld’, we are creating a simple and reliable transport solution for the e-commerce sector” - this is how...
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China Post Inks Pact With Huawei
Just days after the Chinese government launched a probe into U.S. express operator FedEx for re-routing Huawei’s parcels to the U.S., the embattled Chinese technology company and China Post signed a...
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Châteauroux Develops E-commerce Appetite
Châteauroux Airport, practically in the centre of France, has ambitions to become an e-commerce hub with a direct China link. So far, the cargo traffic at the airport has been a charter business...
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Lenders Take Jet Airways to Bankruptcy
The lenders’ consortium, led by State Bank of India (SBI), which had been tasked with finding potential buyers or investors for India's debt-ridden Jet Airways, have given up on its rescue effort...
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Mission (almost) Completed: Beluga Whales Flown by Cargolux Land Safely in...
Two captive-held Belugas, named Little Grey and Little White, traveled 11,000 kilometers by air from Shanghai to Keflavik where they landed yesterday (19 June) in good shape. However, their journey...
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CFG Tops the 30,000 Subscriber Mark with Carina
It had been expected for weeks. Now it happened: as many as 30,000 regular readers now subscribe to our online News Mail service. This is confirmed by our Atlanta, Georgia-based email marketing...
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Exclusive – CargoLogic Germany Takes to the Air
Being granted an Air Operator’s Certificate by the German regulator LBA is a matter of weeks, not months, says Managing Director Ulrich Ogiermann of CLG. “I can confirm that we are well on track to...
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Delta Acts as 'White Knight' in Purchase of Hanjin-KAL Stake
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has acquired a 4.3% stake in Korean Air’s largest shareholder and said the investment in Hanjin-KAL demonstrates its commitment to its joint venture with KAL, which was...
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Volga-Dnepr Plans Further German Expansion
There have been a few rumours flying around the past weeks regarding various parts of the Volga-Dnepr Group’s present and future activities. Subjects such as whether CargoLogic Germany (see separate...
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