15th Air Cargo Americas - Business as usual?
The last two editions of Air Cargo Americas, when compared, seem to reflect the current situation in the industry very aptly. What else did we take home with us from the meetings, other than the bare figures? Will the best come after the end this time? more
China Airlines Cargo to launch Indian maindeck destination
Starting tomorrow, 16 November 2019, Taiwan's China Airlines is to launch a freighter service from Mumbai (India) operating four flights a week, two per week coming from Taipei (Taiwan) to Mumbai and going forward to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and two per week coming from... more
Partners achieve active pharma shipment record
Moscow-based AirBridgeCargo airlines (ABC) has recently completed a record transportation of 27 RKN Envirotainer containers on board a single flight, delivering an important and urgent vaccine product from Milan (Italy) to Beijing (China) for one of their global partners,... more
Thai Airways celebrates and expands
Thai Airways is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its arrival in Switzerland. On 4 November 1984 the Southeast Asian airline landed at Zurich airport for the first time, a milestone that was remembered at the airport a few days ago. Together with its customers, Thai Airways... more
ECS Group deepens footprint in Southeast Asia
Thai LCC Nok Air, represented by CEO Wutthiphum Jurangkool and Pravej Ongartsittigul, chairman of the executive committee (2nd and 1st from right), has concluded a total cargo management (TCM) agreement with AVS GSA Thailand, a subsidiary of ECS Group. The subsidiary,... more
Busiest day ever at Hactl
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has broken its all-time record for the number of freighters handled in a 24-hour period. On 3 November, Hong Kong’s largest independent cargo handler took care of 104 freighter aircraft – beating its previous record of 102, set on 5... more
Golden October in east Belgium
In these challenging times with air cargo volumes being down all over the world, Liege airport is going against the trend. It has the best month in its history - almost 84,000 t in October 2019 - bringing the volume up to 730,000 t for the first ten months of 2019 with two peak... more
Bundled into Dubai
Dubai is also pursuing its own ‘Silk Road’ strategy. Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of the Emirati airline, has developed a product as a partner for transporting goods by air that is aimed at Emirati customers buying from US online sales platforms. more
Etihad Cargo enhances control performance
Etihad Cargo has taken its data-driven digitalisation journey another step forward with the launch of its cargo control centre (CCC) at its head office in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Launching a year after the airline embarked on a far-reaching digital transformation strategy, the CCC... more
Testing "Dumbo"
Russia has taken another step towards developing its own successor to the AN-124. Specialists of the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute (Tsagi) in Moscow have now presented an aerodynamic model of the "Slon" (elephant), a high capacity freighter whose properties are... more