Seven Star-ISMS for Astral Aviation 
The Star Navigation Systems Group has signed a sales agreement with Astral Aviation of Kenya to purchase seven units of the Star-ISMS (in-flight safety monitoring system) for seven of its cargo fleet, with an option of a further three aircraft in the next twelve months. The... more
Big business with the Taliban?
Ariana Afghan Airlines, Afghanistan’s state-owned carrier, whose fleet currently comprises an A310 and three B737, is looking to add widebody aircraft. Further to tender documents, the Taliban-controlled airline is planning to buy three A330-200s including one dedicated... more
Oman know-how for Kilimanjaro airport
Christine Mwakatobe, acting MD of the Kilimanjaro Airport Development Company (KADC), and Abdul Nasser Abdullah al Yamani, VP business development, Oman Airports, have signed a MoU to develop the aviation infrastructure of the Tanzanian airport which has been in operation since... more
Brand refreshed by Champ Cargosystems
Champ Cargosystems has unveiled its new corporate brand. Like the air cargo industry, Champ has evolved over the last 17 years and established itself as a provider for all stakeholders, forwarders, GHAs, GSAs and carriers. Champ Cargosystems CEO Chris McDermott says that... more
Sensitive to tiny little car sensors
On 30 May 2022, CBP officers inspected a shipment of sensors arriving from Hong Kong. Based on intelligence gathering and experience, officers suspected that the sensors were counterfeit. Officers reached out to GM’s global brand protection investigator - global security, which... more
Declining volumes at world's biggest cargo hub
The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) has released Hong Kong International Airport’s (HKIA) traffic figures for May 2022. Cargo throughput and flight movements recorded 365,000 t and 10,440, respectively, representing decreases of 9.7% and 4.0% compared to the same month in... more
Fully automated in new Chinese airport
Lödige Industries has installed a new air cargo terminal at Chengdu Tianfu airport (TFU), which has become one of the largest in the world since it opened a year ago (1.3 million t of cargo and mail). The core of the new facility consists of two elevating transfer vehicles with... more
ECS Group offers four new Flyone destinations
The low-cost Moldovan airline Flyone, for which ECS Group provides total cargo management (TCM) services, recently added four new destinations to its network and now operates weekly A320 flights from Amsterdam (AMS) in The Netherlands, Barcelona (BCN) in Spain, Brussels (BRU) in... more
Lucky Aviation makes Angolans happy
Taag Angola Airlines has signed a commercial agreement with the Chinese aviation group Lucky Aviation, "valued at approximately USD 200 million." The operation is leveraged on a charter contract basis exclusively for the transport of cargo, mainly raw materials,... more
Air cargo security tolerates no mistakes
The German Federal Aviation Authority (Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, LBA) may ban inspectors from continuing to work if they have committed just one serious breach of due diligence in inspecting freight consignments, according to a recent ruling of the administrative court of... more