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
Greenhouse in the desert
Dava corporation is forecast to grow in the agricultural business since it has entered into a contract for a large-scale turn-key greenhouse project with the company Debets Schalke. Faisal Al Batal of Dava corporation and Wim van Weele of Debets Schalke confirmed the cooperation... 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
ACI calls for an end to trade disputes
According to the latest World Airport Traffic Report published by Airports Council International (ACI) World, the world’s airports accommodated 122.7 million t of cargo last year. Global year-over-year volume fell by -1.7% in December 2018 against the previous year, bringing... more
Five years of pharma and fish
Life-saving medication manufactured in Belgium and fresh salmon from Norway are just two of the commodities that are transported across the world by Emirates Skycargo via Dubai (UAE). Since the start of its services to Belgium and Norway in September 2014, the freight division... more
Saudia Cargo extends multi-station contract with WFS
The air cargo handling company Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has been awarded a substantial multi-station cargo handling contract by Saudia Cargo covering major airport gateways in Europe and the USA. The contract will see WFS handle in excess of 160,000 t of cargo per annum... more
More maindeck capacity for Middle Eastern carrier
Saudia Cargo added a second additional weekly freighter flight to operate on Tuesday and Thursday to New York JFK (USA) via Liege, Belgium, by a B747-400F aircraft. Moreover, Saudia Cargo has become the largest player in the Kenya-Europe market by adding four weekly... more
Trade tensions weigh heavily on air freight business
Iata's data for global air freight markets are showing that demand, measured in ftk, contracted by 3.2% in July 2019, compared to the same period in 2018. This marks the ninth consecutive month of year-on-year decline in freight volumes. Global trade volumes are 1.4% lower... more
Cooled and frozen in the desert
Emirates SkyCargo moved over 150,000 t of perishables and 27,000 t of pharmaceuticals through Dubai between the beginning of April and mid-August 2019. Since 2017, there has been an increase of 7% in the volume of pharma cargo transported during the summer months and an increase... more