Billund airport signs with Champ 
Billund airport in southern Denmark has signed up for Champ's "Cargospot" handling solution, to further digitalise and accelerate its operations. The solution will be used by the airport's handling agent Cargo Centre Billund (CCB), as a step to promote paperless... more
Air Malta banks on cargo business
Air Malta has extended its total cargo management (TCM) agreement with Network Airline Services (NAS) for a further two years in order to strengthen its strategic position and retain its global cargo footprint and presence through the GSA's network. Providing TCM services... more
Geodis adds air route between Europe and Asia
Geodis is extending its "AirDirect" service by adding a twice weekly flight routed London Stansted (STN)/Amsterdam (AMS)/ Hong Kong (HKG)/STN/AMS. The global transport and logistics provider will in part use its new A330-300 full freighter aircraft to operate this... more
Drones could save lives
5,000–10,000 people in Finland die from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year. Drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of emergency situations could save lives. A trial run is now underway in Helsinki to test the delivery of an AED.... more
First flight to Libya seven years later
Medavia - Mediterranean Aviation from Malta, a joint venture of the Spanish airline Air Nostrum and the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company, is the first European Union airline to resume scheduled flights to and from Libya. A B737-300 chartered by Greece's Lumiwings, with... more
US cargo airlines continue upswing
Totalling 1,709,000 t, US airlines carried 4% more cargo by weight in July 2021 (preliminary figures) than in July 2020 and 4.2% more than in June 2021. The rise was fuelled by gains of 1.1% in domestic cargo (1,249,000 t) and 12.9% in international cargo (461,0000 t),... more
Self-controlled cargo flights from Riga
Venipak Group, an international parcel delivery company headquartered in the Netherlands, is expanding its services to help meet the surging demand for freighter cargo shipments in eastern Europe. Launched last Saturday, 18 September 2021, the weekly direct cargo flight... more
Cause of plane crash still unknown
A week ago today, on 15 September 2021, a DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, which the Indonesian cargo airline Rimbun Air, a subsidiary of PT Menara Grand Papua, had taken over only in February this year, crashed near the airport at Intan Jaya in Indonesia. The causes of the accident are... more
EUR 33 million freight terminal at Bologna airport
DHL Express Italy has inaugurated a new gateway at Bologna airport. Among the dignitaries present at the ceremony were regional and municipal councillors for mobility as well as Romano Prodi (2nd from right), former prime minister and president of the European commission.... more
JD lands in Europe
JD launched an all-cargo charter flight between China and UK on 8 September 2021, the Chinese e-commerce giant’s first regular cargo flight to Europe. The route further expands JD’s international transport logistics network, in addition to the cargo flights to USA (Los Angeles,... more