Taking precautions before summer heat 
ULD management services provider Jettainer has extended its long-standing management partnership with Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, to manage the carrier’s cool containers. Exactly one month ago, Jettainer’s "cool&fly"... plus
Unmanned aviation partners in Ireland
Several partners from the UK and Ireland - Skyports, an air taxi and cargo drone vertiport provider, Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), drone training and certification body Avtrain, and Shannon Group’s international aviation services centre - have signed a MoU to establish... plus
Atran takes over two more B737-800BCF
Volga-Dnepr Group member, express cargo carrier Atran Airlines took delivery of two 737-800 Boeing converted freighter from GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) in May. They join the two B737-800BCF freighters both partners announced in October of 2018 and which entered... plus
Transporting an aircraft from Brazil to Florida
Antonov Airlines has transported parts for an aircraft in cooperation with DB Schenker Brazil from Viracopos, Brazil to Miami, USA, with one week’s notice for planning and executing the project. The unusual cargo was dismantled into consignments with dimensions that met the... plus
Not only flowers from Colombia to Amsterdam
L&L International de Colombia has reported a recent collaboration with Eastway Global Forwarding, its Irish partner in the UFO network, for the air shipment of two aircraft engines. Each engine had a gross weight of 13.1 t and dimensions of 4.9 x 3.2 x 2.98 m. The... plus
Passés sous le marteau 
Le processus a été relégué à l’arrière-plan vu la crise sanitaire, mais il atteint son point culminant depuis l’année dernière. Rien qu’en avril 2021, cinq terminaux portuaires, en partie fluviaux, ont été mis au concours. Des concessions pour 22 aéroports de taille moyenne et... plus
Milestones for A400M
Three and a half years after the handover of its 50th A400M, Airbus has reached 100 deliveries with MSN111, the tenth A400M for the Spanish air force. The ferry flight from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based, was performed on 24 May. In the same week,... plus
Five more A321P2Fs from Singapore
The Aviation Asset Management unit of ST Engineering has signed a LoI to lease up to five A321 passenger-to-freighter aircraft to Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX), a new carrier from Miami. As part of end-to-end asset management solutions, the Singapore-based company will also... plus
Handling fresh fish
Summer might officially have arrived recently, when the season's first wild Alaska Copper river salmon came in to Seattle WA from Cordova AK. For the second year in a row, however, Alaska Air Cargo staff handled the iconic fish with masks on their faces. Alaska Air Cargo flies... plus
Saudia Cargo's first commercial service to Denmark
Utilising Saudia Airlines B777-300 passenger planes with 140 t payload capacity per flight, Saudia Cargo kicked off its "preighter" flights to Copenhagen. Chief cargo officer Teddy Zebitz, who is from Denmark: "We believe that Copenhagen, as a central location... plus