Chris Lewis
With Colorado State’s forecasting team predicting nine hurricanes, including four major ones,air charterer Chapman Freeborn is gearing up for the coming season, which officially began on June 1.
The specialist, Part of Avia Solutions Group, recently formed an Aviation Emergency Service (AES), division.
Senior vice president of cargo for the Americas, Jack Burt (pictured, below), says that CF is typically required to transport power generation equipment, along with supplies like water and ...
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Swissport has officially started operations at its new Auckland Cargo Centre. The new facility offers 8,500sq m of handling space, including weather-protected receipt and dispatch areas. It is the first cargo terminal in Auckland with direct access to the airfield.
Swissport has invested in advanced equipment and digital systems including the ...
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Pontegadea Inversiones – an investment fund owned by founder of the Zara clothing chain Amancio Ortega – is to buy a 49% stake in PD Ports from Canadian pension fund Brookfield Asset Management. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Brookfield will however remain a shareholder, PD Ports said.
PD Ports ...
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WEC Lines has launched a weekly container service between Zeebrugge, Dublin and Le Havre. It will be operated by a 612-TEU owned vessel in a fixed seven-day rotation, departing Zeebrugge on Thursdays, arriving in Dublin on Sundays. On the return leg the service also calls in Le Havre.
WEC now calls ...
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Start-up rail parcels company Varamis Rail is to cease all operations until mid-September, according to press reports. Staff are reported to have been put on unpaid furlough, although the firm denied reports that it had gone into administration.
It said that it hoped to resume services in September when the run-up ...
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CMA CGM Group - owner of American President Lines (APL) - officially reflagged its CMA CGM Phoenix in Charleston, South Carolina on 24 July as a US vessel.
It makes the 9,300TEU Phoenix the largest container vessel ever to sail under the U.S. flag.
The Phoenix employs 42 American mariners (21 onboard ...
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Maastricht Aachen Airport has partnered with accreditation consultancy FlowerWatch to improve the quality and lifespan of sensitive cargo passing through the Netherlands gateway. The collaboration will address the challenge of temperature fluctuations, which can lead to a waste rate of up to 20%. By making fluctuations transparent and actionable through ...
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Employees at aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide have come together to collect essential food and toiletry items to support families facing hardship during the summer holidays. They ran a collection from 9 to 21 July, culminating in a delivery to the Yiewsley and West Drayton Foodbank on 22 July
Employees generously ...
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Logistics UK has welcomed plans by the Treasury of £66 million spending on transport announced on 24 July that will include extra funding to explore upgrades to the A75 to the port of Cairnryan. Head of infrastructure policy, Jonathan Walker, said that strengthened the transport links between Great Britain and ...
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The Airforwarders Association (AfA) has welcomed a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which raises concerns over the nation's airport air cargo infrastructure that it has raised repeatedly with legislators, it says.
AfA says that the “pivotal document”, directly mandated by the FAA Reauthorization Law, validates long-standing industry concerns and follows ...
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