From South America to the world 
The Latam Group’s history goes back to 1929, when its Chilean part LAN was founded. It was privatised in the 1990s and then merged with Brazil’s TAM in 2012. Today it is the largest freight carrier in Latin America. What are its prospects for the future? Chief executive officer... more
Cebu Pacific Air in the cargo cloud 
The Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific Air has renewed its contract with QuantumID Technologies to ramp up Smartkargo for CEB Cargo. The partnership, which CEB as the first Asian carrier commenced in 2013, will continue the cloud-based real-time management of the air cargo business... more
Smugglers' dreams evaporate
On 9 September 2019, immigration & checkpoints authority (ICA) officers at Singapore Changi Airfreight Centre detected a consignment of 31 parcels containing 27 sets of electronic vaporisers and 400 pieces of related accessories, which are prohibited in the Southeast Asian... more
Groupe ADP wins consulting contracts in USA
In cooperation with ADP Ingénierie, Merchant Aviation, a USA-based aviation strategic and design consulting firm, member of the French Groupe ADP, has just won a series of new contracts in the USA to provide various services in airports planning for airports authorities and... more
Qatar Airways to serve Luanda
Qatar Airways will launch a new service to Luanda, the capital and largest city of Angola, starting March 2020. The service, which will operate up to five times per week, will deploy a B787 aircraft with a bellyhold capacity of 8.5 t of cargo. Qatar Airways group chief... more
Airbus predicts 50% more freighters by 2038
In its global market forecast 2019-2038, Airbus sees the world’s freighter aircraft fleet set to more than double from today’s nearly 1,800 to just over 2,800 aircraft. A combination of 2,500 newly built and converted freighters will be needed with 60% for replacement and 40%... more
Swiss Worldcargo highlights "success stories"
Swiss Worldcargo, the airfreight division of Swiss International Air Lines, has launched a new marketing campaign. Each advertisement, continuing the previously launched "Success Stories", provides insight into the company’s shipment of care-intensive assets. The... more
Canberra airport shares freight opportunities
The preliminary draft 2020 master plan, which is available for public comment from today, 19 September 2019, presents the vision for Canberra airport (Australia) for the next 20 years. It outlines the opportunity for launching an overnight express freight hub in response to... more
Emirates Skycargo forms fresh partnership
The Dubai (UAE)-based start-up Seafood Souq, an online B2B marketplace application that helps seafood buyers procure products from all over the world, has entered into a partnership with Emirates Skycargo for transporting its seafood shipments rapidly from source markets to... more
Federal funds for Montreal Mirabel logistics business
Montreal Mirabel airport (YMX) will receive a major investment of CAD 50 million (EUR 34 million) to improve air freight and logistics at the Mirabel International Aerocity in order to help local businesses compete by exporting Canadian goods to international markets. The... more