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Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) said that its Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) subsidiary has committed to purchase three Boeing 767-300-series extended-range aircraft from Qantas Airways and anticipates to take delivery in the third quarter. ATSG announced on May 10 that CAM had executed a letter of intent for the purchase of the passenger-configure...
The Ministry of Transportation in Indonesia will extend the application of less than container load (LCL) goods service tariffs for line two warehouses and local forwarder cost component at Tanjung Priok port. Bisnis Indonesia reported. Secretary to the Director General of Sea Transportation Bobby Mamahit stated the tariff formulation would be extended ...
The British International Freight Association (BIFA), the trade association for UK forwarders, has welcomed the confirmation in yesterday's budget of the scrapping of backdated port rates demands. "The move signals a welcome break for Britain's hard-pressed international freight sector and leaves businesses at Britain's ports free to concentrate on f...
When it comes to freight forwarding, mainland Chinese airlines are their own worst enemies, and over the years they have acquired a reputation for being unreliable and unethical which has resulted in foreign carriers securing a lion's share of the mainland's international air cargo market, the South China Morning Post reported. In an attempt to redres...
KENYA will soon open the largest cold-chain air cargo handling facility in Africa at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, reports American Shipper. The airport, served by 40 scheduled airlines, has the second-highest cargo volume in Africa after Johannesburg, up five per cent year on year to 290,500 tons in 2009. The new US$16.3 million T...
A RECORD-breaking journey ended after the world's largest aircraft, a Russian 175-ton Antonov 225 freighter, flew two prototype wind turbine blades from Tianjin in China to Denmark covering 7,480 kilometres. LM Wind Power's new GloBlades are 42 metres long and were destined for the company's technology centre at Lunderskov, on the main Jutland penins...
United Airlines (UAL) has launched its first-ever service to Africa with Saturday's the 10:10pm departure of United 990 from Washington and Accra, the Shipping Gazette reports. The Boeing 767 aircraft, arrived at Kotoka International Airport in Accra the next day at 12:40pm with US-bound service from Accra took off 11pm, arriving Washington the next da...
China Southern Airlines' 400th aircraft, an Airbus A330-200, arrived in Guangzhou late last week, making the air carrier the world's sixth largest by fleet size and Asia's only one with a 400-jet fleet, China Daily Information reported. The fleet of China Southern Airlines consists of 400 Airbus and Boeing jetliners. Five Airbus A380 jumbo jets are t...
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