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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) says the independent Cole Commission on Exports report released on 24 June echoes its own findings that Heathrow must increase capacity to be competitive in air freight. The report says sufficient export capacity is “critical” if the UK is to win the race for jobs and growth. Current constraints on Heathrow could see Schiphol handling twice as much freight by 2030.
FTA commissioned its own report ...
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London Heathrow’s new head of cargo, Nick Platts – the first appointee to such a role for about two decades – has been tasked with squeezing more business through an airport that is, essentially, full up.
Platts, who was previously head of ground handling, will be expected to come up with ...
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Heathrow airport promised to double its existing cargo capacity as part of its plans to expand the UK's largest airport published on 13 May, and due to be submitted to the Government's Airports Commission on 14 May. As part of a scheme to create “a world-class global gateway to make ...
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The value air freight to the UK economy is overlooked, says the Freight Transport Association in a commissioned report, ‘Sky-high value – The importance of air freight to the UK economy’ published on 20 March.
It says that continued investment in airport capacity is essential to its growth and success.
In it, ...
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Australian carrier Qantas is moving its UK freight handling and offices to the new dnata City centre at London Heathrow under a long-term agreement to manage freight handling on its twice-daily A380 services to Heathrow.
The dnata City project comprises a 20-acre cargo complex based on five warehouses, a transport facility ...
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The Davies Commission on airport capacity in the south-east of England has shortlisted a third runway for Heathrow and a second for Gatwick as possible options, but has not come out decisevly in favour of a scheme for a new island airport in the Thames Estuary. It says that further ...
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Middle East-owned air handling company dnata is to open three new facilities at Gatwick, Birmingham, and Glasgow, in addition to its soon to be unveiled new dnata City, cargo hub at Heathrow. The move brings to five the number of UK airports served by the Dubai-based operator, including that at ...
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Supply chain services and solutions company UTi has officially opened its new London operation at West Drayton near Heathrow. The 33,000 sq. ft. building has HD standard CCTV and security access controls, X-ray screening, bonded storage, including refrigerated capabilities. Dangerous goods safety advisors are on staff. The warehouse also has ...
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Procrastination and “ludicrous alternatives” are delaying the inevitable decision to expand Heathrow as the country's main hub airport, says Peter MacSwiney, chairman of freight industry software, ASM.
Expansion of the country's largest airport has become a fraught political issue and Heathrow is living on the reputation of ‘what it once was’ ...
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The CBI urged the Government to maintain night flights at London's three main airports - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted – in its response to a Department for Transport consultation which closed on 21 April. It said that night flights play a key role in aviation and generate millions of pounds ...
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