Increasing efficiency and connectivity 
Royal Air Maroc Cargo, Morocco national airfreight operator, has strengthened its 15-year partnership with Champ Cargosystems by implementing the latter’s ‘Cargospot Mobile’ and ‘Cargospot Handling’ solutions. With these recent additions, RAM Cargo continues to expand its... plus
Asian air cargo rates remain high
Despite the usual drop in global air cargo spot rate prices in January, an analysis of market data conducted by World ACD shows that they are 20% up compared to the second week of last year. Although average global spot rates decreased by 3% to USD 2.76/kg compared to week one... plus
Not yet automatic
From January to June 2024 CBP stopped 155 shipments carrying 354 ‘Glock switches’, which are used to modify weapons to make them fully automatic. In the months of July, August and September officers seized 241 shipments containing 948 switches. Most of these seizures were... plus
Higher freight volumes in Brazil and Spain
In 2024 the airports in the Aena Group (46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London Luton airport and 17 airports in Brazil) handled more than 1,42 million t of freight, 18% more than in the year before. The airports in Aena’s network in Spain handled 1.28 million t of... plus
Hong Kong GSSA happy to expand in Latin America
Two weeks after becoming China Cargo Airlines’s GSSA in the Philippines, the Tam Group opened a new office in Mexico City on 15 January. The expansion supports growing demand for air cargo services in Latin America, complementing the company’s operations in Brazil, Chile and... plus
Efis Maroc partners China Eastern Airlines
Efis Maroc, a subsidiary of the ECS Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with China Eastern Airlines, further solidifying its leadership in African cargo logistics. The agreement introduces three weekly flights between Casablanca (CMN) and Shanghai (PVG) via Marseille... plus
MSC lands in Maastricht
Today, 16 January, Atlas Air will conduct the second flight in a service scheduled for every Thursday on behalf of MSC Air Cargo from Maastricht Aachen airport (MST) to Asia (including China). The aircraft deployed is a one-year-old Boeing B777F. Dean Boljuncic, head of... plus
Digitalising 42,000 ULDs
Unilode, which owns and manages the world’s largest digitised fleet of ULDs (more than 170,000), and Qatar Airways Cargo have entered into a partnership to digitalise the airline’s fleet of more than 42,000 ULDs. The move represents the largest ULD digitalisation programme ever... plus
AF-KLM expands a strategic partnership
AF-KLM has signed an extension to a ‘power-by-the-hour contract’ (engine-change programme; PBHC) with Air China Cargo (ACC), through the former company’s unit called Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M). The unit has already supported ACC... plus
An excellent year for Liège airport
Liège airport had an excellent year in 2024, with total throughput coming to lose to 1,2 million t. In terms of movements, the trend was also upward, with 37,029 aircraft movements recorded in 2024, compared to 33,652 movements in 2023. The vast majority of these concerned cargo... plus