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Europa charters Antonov to beat Dubai storm

Europa’s Air & Sea forwarding arm chartered an Antonov 124 to move time-critical cargo from East Midlands Airport to the UAE following the rainstorms that shut down one of the Middle East’s busiest air cargo hubs in April.  Europa managed the cargo from pick up to delivery, for one of the UK's leading hydraulics manufacturers.  The Antonov touched down at 1.30am local time on 18 April.Due to the size of ... [+]

Carrier gives first class bear care

Three koala bears are settling into their new custom-built, dedicated ‘Koalia’ home in the Netherlands at Rhenen’s Ouwehands Zoo, thanks to Air France KLM Martinair Cargo. A keeper from Ouwehands travelled to California’s San Diego Zoo to pick up the koalas, arriving back from Los Angeles ... [+]

Norse Atlantic to add Cape Town to Gatwick network

Norse Atlantic Airways is to launch a service between London Gatwick and Cape Town International on 28 October. It will fly three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays using Boeing 787 aircraft. The Scaninavian low-cost carrier already operates services from Gatwick to Los ... [+]

DP World platform takes to the air

DP World is now offering an Air Tracking feature on its SeaRates visibility platform. It extends SeaRates' existing suite of tools, which includes freight tracking, Logistics Community Systems and ship scheduling. Chief operating officer for digital technology, Mike Bhaskaran said: “Our customers’ evolving needs are ... [+]

Without us, there would be no German economic miracle, says Lufthansa Cargo

Air freight remains essential for the German economy, said Lufthansa, marking Supply Chain Day, on 18 April. The carrier said that no other mode offers the necessary speed to transport time-critical, temperature-sensitive, and valuable goods, for urgent spare parts, vaccines, relief supplies or animals on their ... [+]

Hermes appoints tech chief

Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has appointed Andrew Knott as chief technology officer. He brings more than 25 years of experience in tech and software development, mostly in travel and aviation, including building cloud-native SaaS platforms for private aviation, as well as complex, large-scale travel platforms. ... [+]

Emirates and Schenker get together

Emirates SkyCargo has established an API connection with forwarder DB Schenker. The host-to-host connection with DB Schenker’s internal booking engine gives agents direct access to schedules, standard and contract tariff rates and available capacity, on its network of over 140 destinations. Launching first in Germany, Austria ... [+]

Etihad adds cool dollies in Abu Dhabi

Etihad Cargo has added cool dollies to its Abu Dhabi tarmac transportation fleet for pharma and perishable shipments. The specialised containers offer a closed, temperature-controlled system to ensure the reliable and seamless transport between aircraft and the cool chain warehouse. They can be set to between ... [+]

CMA CGM to launch North America/Asia route

CMA CGM Air Cargo will launch a transpacific route connecting Asia to North America in summer 2024, after it takes possession of two Boeing B777-200F aircraft. The first aircraft, scheduled for delivery in June, will enable operations to begin on the transpacific route during the ... [+]

Inspections would bring US air cargo to a halt, warns forwarders’ chief

Any moves towards 100% physical inspection of pharma packages in the US to tackle the fentanyl crisis would grind air cargo operations to a halt, warns executive director of the Airforwarders Association, Brandon Fried. Instead, government should use advanced data analysis and detection technologies to target ... [+]

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