Air Canada Cargo to end freighter partnership with Cargojet
Air Canada Cargo is to end its partnership with Cargojet, cancelling freighter services across Mexico, the USA, South America and Germany. The two airlines started their first flight on 10 June 2016, with flights to Bogota in Colombia and Lima in Peru using a Boeing 767-300 Freighter, providing 52 tonnes of cargo capacity. Services to […]
First station outside Europe opened by time:matters
Time:matters has further extended its network for sameday transport of cargo by opening its first station outside of Europe in Tel Aviv, Israel. The station is now open for time-critical shipments and export shipments with direct flights and there will be access to 90 direct connections a week to and from Tel Aviv. Time:matters says the […]
Swissport Cargo Services Frankfurt awarded CEIV Pharma
Swissport Cargo Services Frankfurt – a subsidiary of Swissport International – has been awarded IATA CEIV Pharma certification at Frankfurt Airport. This certification Swissport says reflects its continued dedication to offer “excellent” life science & healthcare shipment handling services and will increase its contribution to the Pharma Gateway Frankfurt. Swissport says with the increasing flow […]
Lufthansa Cargo and Fraport Ground Services extend contract
Lufthansa Cargo and Fraport Ground Services have signed a contract to extend their ground handling partnership at Frankfurt Airport. The agreement has been signed for a term of eight years and runs from January 2018 to December 2025. Freeport member of the executive board and executive director of labour relations, Michael Müller says: “We are very […]
Air Cargo Global chooses ATC Aviation as GSA for Germany
ATC Aviation Services has been appointed as general sales agent for Air Cargo Global in Germany, starting 6 November. Air Cargo Global operates scheduled direct flights from Brussels Airport and Prague Airport to Hong Kong International Airport with a Boeing 747-400 Freighter. The airline was founded in 2013 and is a Slovakian limited liability company, […]
Munich and Moscow Domodedovo sign sister airport agreement
Munich Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport have forged closer ties after signing a sister airport agreement. Moscow Domodedovo Airport Group chairman of the board Dmitriy Kamenshchik, and Munich Airport president and chief executive officer, Michael Kerkloh signed the agreement (pictured above). The aim of the partnership is a knowledge transfer for employees and managers on both […]
Chinese belly traffic boosts Brisbane’s cargo volumes
Belly traffic to and from China is driving cargo at Brisbane Airport (BNE) and more will follow as new services are operated, writes Justin Burns. In the first half of 2017, the gateway handled more than 54,000 tonnes, an 11 per cent uplift on the same period last year with 24 per cent growth in imports […]
Volga-Dnepr delivers 30 ‘Mercs’ to Angola for president’s inauguration
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has used the special two-tier car racking system developed for its An-124-100 freighter fleet to deliver 30 Mercedes vehicles to Luanda in Angola for the inauguration ceremony of newly-elected president, Joao Lourenco. The 90-tonne payload was transported from Leipzig/Halle Airport on behalf of the Angolan Embassy in Germany. It consisted of a fleet […]
RAM Cargo to start B737F Frankfurt – Casablanca service
General sales agent (GSA) ATC Aviation says its long-standing partner Royal Air Maroc (RAM) Cargo will start operating its Boeing 737 Freighter twice weekly from Frankfurt to Casablanca as of today (2 November). The freighter is set to benefit customers from RAM’s extensive network within North and West Africa, as well as South America. In the […]
Lufthansa Cargo is Jettainer’s first cool management customer
Unit load device (ULD) company Jettainer has welcomed Lufthansa Cargo as its first custumer for its ‘Cool Management’ service. From now on, the ULD firm is not only managing the temperature-controlled ULDs for its parent company, but also units leased by Lufthansa Cargo. Additionally, Jettainer is also upscaling its services at Abu Dhabi International Airport […]
Singapore Changi’s tonnage continues to climb in September
Singapore Changi Airport registered a year-on-year (YOY) increase of 9.8 per cent in airfreight throughput in September to 183,560 tonnes. In the first nine months of the year, the gateway has handled 1.56 million tonnes, a YOY rise of 8.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2016. Among Changi’s top 10 cargo markets, […]
Leipzig/Halle continues to grow for the 13th consecutive year
Leipzig/Halle Airport has grown for the 13th consecutive year with volumes increasing by 7.7 per cent in the first nine months of 2017. Germany’s second largest cargo airport has handled 828,163 tonnes between January and September, meaning growth at Europe’s fifth busiest freight airport is continuing for the 13th year in succession. The airport passed […]
Jettainer launches cool service to improve efficiency
Temperature deviations in cool chain shipments is something every air cargo carrier wants to avoid and unit load device (ULD) company Jettainer has launched a new service to help its customers. ‘COOL Management’ was launched in September and is a service for temperature-controlled ULDs. It includes the leasing, management and positioning of ULDs as well […]
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec sign container agreement
Lufthansa Cargo and va-Q-tec are to cooperate in the passive temperature-controlled container market after signing an agreement. As part of the partnership, containers from va-Q-tec are now available worldwide at numerous stations of the German carrier. Customers shipping pharmaceutical goods will benefit from the partnership of Lufthansa Cargo and the advanced container rental service from va-Q-tec. […]
Lufthansa Cargo recovers from the challenges of 2016
Lufthansa Cargo is recovering from the challenges of 2016 with the Logistics business segment posting an EBITDA profit of €167 million ($196 million) between January and September. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) improved by 16,600 per cent from €1 million between January and September 2016, and the third quarter also recovered, growing […]
Lufthansa makes offer for loss-making Italian carrier Alitalia
The Lufthansa Group says it submitted a “concept for establishing a re-structured” Italian carrier Alitalia. Lufthansa said in a statement it has sent an offer letter today, expressing its interest in establishing a “NewAlitalia” – which comes as it is negotiations for parts of Air Berlin. Earlier today, a report in the Italian newspaper Corriere della […]
Frankfurt-Hahn sets up task force as it looks to boost business
A new task force has been set up at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport led by chief operation officer, Christoph Goetzmann as it looks to promote the gateway as an alternative hub for airfreight in the Frankfurt region of Germany. Goetzmann says in the upcoming months, the airport will introduce its improved service in a road show to all international […]
EFW launches first Airbus P2F conversion flight tests
EFW (Elbe Flugzeugwerke) has successfully launched the first A330-300P2F test flights at Dresden Airport after months of preparation. Facing unfavorable weather conditions during storm Xavier the first flight only took a few minutes. The second lasted for over six hours, followed by several other flight tests to achieve the supplemental type certificate (STC) in 2017. The […]
Frankfurt continues to grow with strongest September since 2010
Frankfurt Airport continues to grow in September with cargo increasing 4.1 per cent year-on-year to 187,708 tonnes, its strongest September since 2010. Airport operator Fraport says this was the highest amount for a September month since 2010, and was only 4,300 tonnes off a new monthly record, helped by one additional Saturday and one fewer […]
Lufthansa and pilot union sign collective labour agreement
Lufthansa and the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilot union have signed a collective labour agreement (CLA) covering issues including pensions and payments until at least June 2022. The parties have agreed on a framework collective agreement and a new remuneration agreement as well as agreements on pension and transitional payments. They have reached a long-term collective […]
Zodiac to launch new main deck container
Zodiac AirCargo Equipment will launch its first Herculight S main deck containers during the Inter Airport Europe Expo that will be held from 10 -14 October in Munich, Germany. After the successful introduction of the lower deck Herculight S container and pallet range, the firm has expanded its product range with cargo containers for the […]
Lufthansa Cargo to restart MD-11 freighter to Kansai
Lufthansa Cargo is to resume a direct 80-tonne MD-11 Freighter service from Frankfurt Airport to Osaka’s Kansai International Airport from 18 January next year. The German cargo carrier last flew the route in March 2014 and will service Kansai twice a week stopping in Osaka on a Thursday and Saturday. The MD-11 has a capacity of […]
AirBridgeCargo starts third weekly service to Munich
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is increasing services to Germany with a third weekly flight to Munich Airport, operating a Boeing 747 Freighter with over 100 tonnes of cargo capacity for exports. Customers in Munich will receive connections to 12 destinations in six Asian countries within a 48-hour cargo delivery time including cargo handling via ABC’s hub […]
Gebruder Weiss opens air & sea freight office at Munich Airport
Gebruder Weiss has continued expanding in Germany with an air and sea freight office in Munich, located at the airport. Staffed by five employees, the branch at Munich Airport also offers local rail transport, e-commerce and logistics solutions, and customs clearance, in addition to air and sea freight. The logistics company opened branches in Hamburg, […]
Antonov Airlines’ AN−124 Ruslan makes round-the-world trip
An Antonov Airlines’ AN-124−100 Ruslan aircraft has flown one and a half times around the globe performing a series of commercial flights. The aircraft flew from Mary International Airport, Turkmenistan to Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday 18 September 2017, where it took on board commercial cargo consisting of industrial heat exchangers, weighing 54 tonnes. The following […]
Lufthansa flies aid to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria
Lufthansa Cargo has flown one of its MD-11 Freighter aircraft from Frankfurt Airport to Puerto Rico to deliver 80 tonnes of aid to those affected by Hurricane Maria. The aircraft flew to Aguadilla on the West coast, where a Lufthansa Technical Site is situated with 400 colleagues residing in the local community reside, and is […]
Second perishables acquisition for Panalpina in 24 hours
Panalpina has made another acquisition in the shape of German perishables firm Cool Chain Group (CCG) – only 24 hours after it announced it was taking over Dutch perishables handler Interfresh Airfreight Handling. The move is part of the freight forwarder’s strategy to strengthen its Perishables Network as it puts a focus on the vertical after […]
Leisure Cargo makes step towards independence from Air Berlin
Leisure Cargo says it has made an “important leap” towards complete independence from beleaguered Air Berlin as it has appointed 881 AWB of Condor as their new airway bill (AWB), which replaces the 745 paper of Air Berlin. The change will take affect from 1 October and Leisure Cargo says it customers and partners can “still rely […]
DoKaSch starts free delivery of Opticooler across the US
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has started free delivery in the US of the Opticooler – its ‘flying warehouse’ for temperature-sensitive air cargo. It will now be available to more than 20 air cargo carriers across the East Coast and Midwest from Boston to Minneapolis and D.C. to St. Louis, as well as on the West Coast from Los […]
Hamburg Air Cargo Handling Company taken over by Dettmer Group
Bremen-based Dettmer Group which owns LUG air cargo handling – has taken over the largest air cargo handling company at Hamburg Airport – Hamburg Air Cargo Handling Company (LHU). Due to the insolvency of its former owner, the Carl Tiedemann Group, LHU was facing financial difficulties, but with the change in ownership and continuation of the company […]