AIR Cargo Germany (ACG) has started flying to Shanghai and Hong Kong.
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) looks to be pulling itself out of an early grave, with a little help.
MORE airfreight was shipped through Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in November than ever before. At 21,660 tonnes, the month's cargo traffic was 30 per cent above the amount shipped in October.
CARGO carrier, Southern Air, has named Daniel McHugh (right) its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective 1 January, 2010.
UTI Worldwide reported a 42 per cent decrease in operating income for the third quarter, down to US$31.4 million, from $53.8 million. There was a 20 per cent drop in revenues down from $1,210.1 million to $967.2 million. Net revenues were $361.5 million, a decrease of 11 per cent from $408.2 million.
ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) Cargo expects to post its first profit in 2011, according to its head Kiyoshi Tonomoto.
SUDDENLY the first flickers of smiles are appearing on the faces of cargo airline executives as the peak season out of Asia provides a bonanza of bookings and a rate escalation that has at least helped partially stem the haemorrhaging of cash.
WITH the implementation deadline for 100 per cent screening of bellyhold cargo looming, carrier executives are warning of screening bottlenecks next summer unless large numbers of forwarders get certified under the US administration¡¯s air cargo security programme.
IRAQI Airways is slowly getting back on its feet, according to operations director, Captain Guy Moss (right). After years of embargo by the United Nations, following Saddam Hussein's attack of Kuwait in 1990, the once formidable Arabian carrier is undergoing a process of renaissance, according to Moss.
AN Air West Georgia Il-76 was detained in Bangkok on Saturday for smuggling arms out of North Korea.
AER Lingus has chosen Swissport to be its cargo handler at 10 Aer Lingus stations in Europe. These include Brussels, Frankfurt, London and Paris.
LUFTHANSA Cargo's Corporate Works Council is staging a works meeting today that will, in effect, stop operations for two hours. The stoppage is to protest the threatened ban on night flights at Frankfurt Airport.
FRAPORT Cargo Services GmbH revokes warehouse management service of Kuehne + Nagel Airlift airfreight warehouse at Frankfurt airport.
A six-metre panel from an Atlas Air freighter fell into a shopping mall car park in Miami on Friday.
UK retailer Dobbies Garden Centres has appointed NYK Logistics to support its seasonal operations and its growing e-commerce business.
JF Hillebrand has signed new contracts with two UK retailers.
DSV Road has been awarded a two-year trucking contract by Marks & Spencer.
US logistics group YRC Worldwide stayed in the red last year, but improved on 2008 and has entered 2010 on "a solid financial base".
Logistics operators in India are stepping-up efforts to enhance international connections before the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) is introduced this year, which is expected to revolutionise domestic and international trade.
Contract logistics activity slowed last year during the downturn and players are now turning to Asia to help lift bottom lines, reports Correspondent Phil Hastings.