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Cargo at Heathrow enjoyed its 21st consecutive record month in April with traffic by value increasing by 2.3%, compared to the same time last year. The US (+4.1%), India (+7.1%) and China (+10.9) were among the fastest growing countries for cargo.
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Congestion in the cargo area of the UK’s business airport is getting under control, Heathrow head of cargo Nick Platts told FBJ in an interview at Multimodal on 1 may. Measures were in hand to keep traffic at the busy ‘Horseshoe Road’ (Shoreham Road) area under control and had produced ...
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The UK is in a strong position, according to the first issue of Heathrow Airport’s quarterly Export Climate Index published on 7 March. Carried out by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), It tracks the health of the UK’s export economy using eight measures such as the number ...
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Heathrow Airport said that cargo capacity on key routes to Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Tokyo Haneda and Dubai – which account for 18% of the airport’s total cargo volume - are virtually full and unable to accommodate further growth.
It said that the data underscored the importance of expanding the ...
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British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general Robert Keen has called on Heathrow airport to follow up a congestion-busting plan unveiled earlier this month with “action not words”.
It follows October’s launch of a new plan by non-executive director Lord Deighton to minimise congestion and emissions from freight vehicles.
This included modernisation of ...
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The government says it is on track to publish final proposals for expansion at Heathrow in the first half of 2018 for a vote in Parliament. The public have until 19 December to consider and respond to new evidence in the revised draft Airports National Policy Statement. Once MPs approve ...
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Heathrow’s non-executive chairman Lord Deighton unveiled a Blueprint for Sustainable Freight to address the impacts of freight vehicles around the airport whilst continuing to increase cargo volumes to the British Chambers of Commerce International Trade Summit on 12 October.
It aims to ensure that even as Heathrow and freight volumes grow ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo has become the latest carrier to start full freighter services to London Heathow with a weekly A330F from its Doha hub from 3 June.
It already operates London-Stansted all-cargo services, started in May 2014, but said that said that direct calls at London’s main airport would cut trucking ...
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Hainan Airlines subsidiary Beijing Capital Airlines is to launch a three times a week service from Heathrow to Qingdao this summer – the first direct link from the airport to one of the fastest growing cities in China. It follows last year’s agreement between the UK and the Chinese Government ...
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Heathrow’s cargo traffic rose 13% in March to 148,000 tonnes – the largest monthly growth in over five years. The airport said long-haul emerging markets remain a driver of cargo performance, with key markets in March including Mexico (+28%), Brazil (+13%), India (+9%) and China (+5%) as well as 9000% ...
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