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Exclusive - Dutch flight tax means market disruption and it will not enhance...
Benelux Special – Part 1 The flight tax that the Dutch government is planning to introduce will not improve the environmental impact of flying, both the Dutch logistic stakeholders and TIACA claim. It...
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Double-figure productivity boost at Europe’s seventh busiest cargo hub: Liège...
Benelux Special – Part 2 Nallian’s Slot Booking application launched successfully in the second half of 2019, increased ground handler LACHS’ productivity by 33% already within the first 6 months of...
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Social unrest contributed to Brussels Airport’s volume decline
Benelux Special – Part 3 Apart from the global decline of air cargo volumes, Brussels Airport was also hit by social unrest in 2019. Last year also brought a further roll-out of Air Cargo Belgium-led...
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For Liège Airport, 2020 will be the year of Alibaba
Benelux Special – Part 4 Looking back on another good year, Liège Airport is preparing for the Alibaba operation to take off. It fits perfectly into the business model the airport has set, says VP...
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Cargo carriers in the Gulf region suffer under the U.S.-Iran conflict Ongoing or even escalating tensions in the Gulf region will threaten the performance of Middle East-based airlines, leading to...
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InstaFreight secures funding, accelerates growth
Shell Ventures, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's leading and controversially disputed enterprises in the oil, gas, and petrochemicals industry, has invested in InstaFreight, a...
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Guarulhos becomes Latam Cargo’s main hub…
… for perishables. A stunning 85% of all shipments connecting to other destinations from Guarulhos consists of temperature sensitive goods. A new cooler costing US$3.5 million and encompassing...
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Virtually the safest way to build experience
The AirportCollege is right at the forefront of what digitization and Virtual Reality have to offer and spent 2019 designing the training of the future with the launch of The Next Generation Training...
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Atlas Air B747-400 is the first aircraft to pull into the new hangar. Image: @LaurenMinorWXIX on Twitter First ever Cargo Hangar opens at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)...
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Freighter policy at AMS needs big change, industry says
Air Cargo Netherlands (ACN) pleads for a new freighter initiative at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the months to come, its chairman Ivo Aris said at the organization’s New Year’s reception last week....
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New Year, New Faces
The German Aircargo Club (ACD) elected a new executive committee and honored long-standing members at its Annual General Assembly. In his presentation to the ACD members, leading economist, Norbert...
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No mass exodus of pilots at ABC
Russian media claimed that Moscow-based freight carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) lost many pilots last year to domestic and international airlines, due to salary irregularities and a drop in...
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Etihad: A Fresh Start to a Cool Future
The year has hardly begun, and Etihad Cargo is already reaping rewards. In addition to being awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Perishable Logistics (CEIV Fresh) last week, this week it became...
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Exclusive: Choose your DaViD wisely!
dnata City East at London Heathrow, UK, has done just that. At just 1.25 m in height and weighing in at 60 kgs, DaViD might be small, but he has a big future ahead of him. dnata UK’s latest employee...
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Will SAA bite the dust?
The future of financially troubled South African Airways, including its freight division SAA Cargo, is at stake. Last week, the government failed to bail out the cash-stripped carrier that had entered...
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Wings For Aid spreads wings and word on world tour
After years of planning, testing and developing, the Wings For Aid Foundation, founded by Barry Koperberg in 2014, is really starting to take off – right on schedule for its plan to become fully...
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Air Tanzania and Swissport ink service pact
The national Tanzanian carrier has chosen handling agent Swissport as its service provider at the carrier’s Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro Airport hubs. The support includes the entire package...
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Fifi flies First Class across the USA in Delta’s Industry First Pet Solution
Just weeks after it was presented at the CES2020, Delta Cargo officially launches CarePod: its innovative pet travel solution offering real-time updates en route, and “heralding a new standard of...
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First test-flight of new B777X / B779 / Image - courtesy of Boeing website Third time lucky: Boeing’s 777X maiden flight finally took place on 25 JAN 20 Claimed to be the world’s “largest and most...
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Viva Aerobus says “Viva Cargo”
The Mexican low-cost carrier Viva Aerobus has decided to open up the lower deck compartments of its passenger fleet for freight consignments. Aerocharter, the Mexican agent running stations at all...
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