Plans for intercontinental capacity clarified 
PSI Air 2007, a Philippine airlines that began flying in 2020, has acquired its first widebody jet, a B777F, to be used in launching in-house intercontinental cargo flights. In its application to the US department of transportation for exemption authority and a foreign air... more
Vallair acquires A321 for part-out in France
Mature asset specialist Vallair has purchased an Airbus A321 (MSN 1008) for imminent part-out. The 1999 vintage aircraft was previously operated by Atlas Global and managed by True Aero. The airframe will be fully disassembled at Vallair’s facility in Montpellier, under the... more
Large quantities of grain transported from Ukraine
From the outbreak of the war until the end of August, the Austrian Rail Cargo Group transported 580,000 t of grain from Ukraine, with over 145,000 t in August alone. A large part of the deliveries in August went to grain processing companies in Hungary, followed by companies... more
More capacity for Safran service
The carrier CMA CGM is planning to improve the schedule reliability of its Safran service connecting North Europe with East Coast South America by deploying a ninth vessel with effect from 15 November 2022. The unit will start its journey from Antwerp. At the same time, the... more
Cool chain close to Stockholm
The Swedish grocer ICA Sweden is building an automated fulfilment centre 100 km from Stockholm to be completed by 2026. Once opened, the new facility is intended to significantly speed up the company’s deliveries to the retailers. A 30 m high frozen pallet warehouse will be... more
Henry Lamotte Food picks Florian Friedemann
Florian Friedemann (left) has taken over as head of purchasing supply chain at Bremen (Germany)-based food supplier Henry Lamotte Food. Friedemann joins managing director Sebastian Drewes (centre), who was appointed in October 2021, and long-serving head of sales Frank... more
Faster, safer and closer trailer services
The multi-brand, full-service workshop concept 'Alltrucks Truck & Trailer Service' and BPW Bergische Achsen have inked an international cooperation agreement. With his partnership, BPW will enhance its service networks with Alltrucks workshops in Germany, the... more
What crisis? It’s an opportunity! 
In conversation with Nurgül Karabaki, LAM’s airfreight business development manager. Turkey’s skies are full of airfreight activities. Might the Iata World Cargo Symposium, which was scheduled to take place in Istanbul in 2020, return to the Bosphorus again next year? The... more
1,400 exhibitors to present innovations
The IAA Transportation 2022 exhibition will open in Hanover (Germany) tomorrow, 20 September. Formerly known as IAA Commercial Vehicles, which focused on light and heavy commercial vehicles, the new concept covers the entire transport and logistics spectrum. Over five days,... more
111 years of Hamburg airport
Hamburg airport is celebrating its 111th birthday. But you wouldn’t be in Germany’s largest port city if the airport hadn’t initially been built with reference to airship travel. Thus the “LZ-10 Schwaben”, a zeppelin carrying large quantities of airmail for the first time, made... more