Pakistan – carriers step in to help  The whole operation in aid of the country's flood victims has involved national governments, the UN, numerous charitable organisations and many global logistics companies – including freight carriers, integrators and air cargo charter brokers.Click to read more... Belgium market forecast According to a report from market analyst Business Monitor International, Belgium's air freight volumes fell by 21.9 percent year-on-year in 2009 and are expected to improve by just 1.6 percent this year, with growth in demand potentially slowed by delays to fiscal policy decisions as the country tries to form a coalition government. » See next week's ACW for the full Benelux Review HACTL gains new business Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd has taken on Midex Airlines as a customer for its freight handling services at Hong Kong International airport. Click to read more... Azkar acquires ACL Spanish logistics services provider Azkar has acquired ACL (Cargo Aerospace Logistics). The company said that the move represented a continuation of its "strategy of growth through selective acquisitions". Azkar has 73 facilities across Spain and Portugal. Frankfurt offers space for freight  Frankfurt-Main operator Fraport is offering up to 27 hectares of land for development in the gateway's CargoCity South area.Click to read more... Volga-Dnepr flies in relief  The Russian all-cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines has added its weight to the aid effort in Pakistan.Click to read more... Qantas Freight rebrands courier business Qantas Freight is now offering courier and baggage delivery services to both its parent carrier and third-party customers under a new brand name: Qantas Courier. Click to read more... Qatar Airways expands Indian ops The carrier is to undertake a 20 percent increase in frequencies across its Indian operations. Click to read more... Success as B747-8 freighter goes for a one million lb lift-off One of the three B747-8 freighters undergoing the aircraft type's flight proving programme lifted a 140-tonne cargo payload last week on take-off from a desert airfield. Click to read more... AeroLogic - here come the girls  An AeroLogic B777 freighter with three women on the flight deck took off from Germany's Leipzig/Halle airport in the early morning hours of 21 August.Click to read more... Good result as Toll grows globally  Toll, one of the Asian region's leading providers of transport and logistics services, reports improved second half trading for the year ending 30 June 2010, with a 7 percent increase seen in full-year revenue to A$6.9 billion (US$6.13 billion).Click to read more... Transaero freight takes off strongly Moscow-based Transaero Airlines carried 19,048 tonnes of cargo during the seven-month January - July period. Click to read more... Grand Power recovers well  Grand Power Logistics Group, which operates primarily through its Hong Kong subsidiary Grand Power Express that offers air and sea freight forwarding services, saw its gross profit increase by 22 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year.Click to read more... Dubai: double-digit growth again  Dubai International airport started the second half of this year on a positive note, as its monthly passenger count for July eclipsed the elusive four-million mark for the first time ever.Click to read more... Garuda Indonesia Garuda Indonesia is to start daily widebody A330-200 services between Jakarta and Tokyo on 31 August. Garuda currently flies from Denpasar to Tokyo daily, Nagoya three times a week and to Osaka five times a week. Düsseldorf handles freight boom  A surge in the level of international trade during the second quarter of the year has provided a strong boost to cargo traffic at north-western Germany's Düsseldorf International airport.Click to read more... Jomo Kenyatta International airport Kenyan authorities last week found two tonnes of raw elephant ivory and five rhino horns concealed in an air freight shipment of avocados bound for Malaysia. The illegal cargo was detected by sniffer dogs at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International airport. Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the seizure. Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines carried 152,000 tonnes of cargo and mail in the first six months of this year, a huge 49.6 percent increase on its volume for the same period of 2009. ANA adds cargo services  Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has announced that its winter schedule will see an increase in the number of B767-300 freighter flights it operates on services to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Click to read more... IBS Software India's IBS Software Services says US-based low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways has implemented its iCargo solution.
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