April 2024
Swiss International Air Lines head of cargo, Lorenzo Stoll, is to leave the company after 11 years. He will be taking on a new professional challenge as the chief executive of a Swiss-based healthcare company.
Stoll has guided Swiss’ airfreight division through highly challenging times over the past three years – during the COVID-19 crisis in particular.
He joined the carrier in 2013, initially as head of western Switzerland where he oversaw ...
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Qatar Airways has renewed its partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR for another two years, to 2025
Under the agreement, the carrier will support the shipment of relief items to vulnerable refugees and internally displaced people worldwide.
For the past two years, Qatar Airways Cargo has been working closely with UNHCR ...
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East Midlands Airport could create tens of thousands of new jobs and billions in economic value from growth in its cargo operation, according to a study by air travel consultants York Aviation -
The report said that EMA would be well placed to support increased demand for air freight in the ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has launched ‘Live Position’, its first dry container tracking tool. It follows the fitting of tracking devices to over two thirds of the fleet, with the remaining units expected to follow suit in summer. Users can search by container, booking number or in batches and the tool provides a ...
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UK freight forwarder AGI Global Logistics has gone into partnership with Sweden’s Scandinavian Shipping & Logistics. SSL is active in forwarding, customs clearance, project shipping, liner agency and logistics, including temperature-controlled pharma. It has 65 employees a headquarters in Gothenburg and offices in Norrköping, Jönköping, Malmö, Ystad, Helsinki and Vilnius.
AGI ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed global property consultancy Knight Frank as joint marketing agents for its five ports in South Wales. Knight Frank joins property agency Jenkins Best in promoting business opportunities and attracting investment and occupiers for Barry, Cardiff, Newport, Port Talbot and Swansea. Earlier this year Newport ...
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Brittany Ferries has added a third weekly return-sailing between Cherbourg and Rosslare. The company says the move will boost connectivity ahead of the arrival of its rail-ferry service in 2025 whereby Ferroutage will link Bayonne with Cherbourg by rail, carrying trailers for onward transport by ferry.
The additional will leave Cherbourg ...
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Lions Vasylyna and Nikola started a new life on 25 April thanks to French-Dutch carrier Air France KLM Martinair Cargo.
They boarded a Martinair 747 freighter aircraft at Schiphol en route to South Africa where they will go to the Lionsrock sanctuary for big cats run by the Four Paws animal ...
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Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has enlarged its logistics facility at Dunaharaszti near Budapest. The new complex covers 10,000sq ft including a high-bay warehouse. It will handle all home delivery services for the greater Budapest area with inbound storage, material flow and picking largely automated.
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Qatar Airways Cargo has opened a new Animal Centre and relaunched its Next Generation Live service. The Middle East carrier, which moves over 550,000 animals a year, including 10,000 horses has also reaffirmed its commitment to animal welfare.
The new 5,260sq m (56,600sq ft) Animal Centre has full temperature control for ...
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