Schiphol’s slot dilemma – and no end in sight

Leading airports focus strategically and economically on growth rather than contraction. An exception is Schiphol. There, the municipality of Amsterdam demands that the number...

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Hybrid eVTOLs on the Horizon

On 05NOV24, Aviation Business published an article highlighting a growing optimism surrounding eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) technology...

Newcomer Hungary Airlines receives AOC

The Hungarian Civil Aviation Authority, as part of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM), has issued an Air...

Time-critical logistics consolidation accelerates

What do DANX Carousel and logistics heavyweight, DSV, have in common? Both are based in Copenhagen, Denmark, are active...

Spotlight on… ULDs across the world

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different area of the air cargo industry to the fore each week....
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Astral Aviation sticks to Boeing, intends to grow its fleet

After plans of operating Embraer 190 P2F converted freighter aircraft went to ashes, Nairobi-based Astral Aviation intends to grow its fleet by adding Boeing...

CBP Agents confiscate counterfeit goods

For the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) watchdogs, 2025 began with two success stories. At the cargo warehouse in New York’s Champlain Port...
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Six trends shaping patient-centric pharmaceutical logistics in 2025

Around 4% of all air cargo tonnage transported globally each year is made up of temperature-controlled pharmaceutical shipments. This highly valuable and sensitive air...

Airframers: once a duel, now a three-way battle

Until now, Boeing and Airbus have dominated the global market for passenger aircraft with 100 or more seats, and freighter versions. But the era...
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Air traffic rights: EU Commission goes all in

Who has the final say on air traffic matters: the EU Commission in Brussels or the block’s 27 member states? The Luxembourg-based Court of...

Spotlight on… Parveen Raja, Publisher & Owner, EVA International Media Ltd.

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different area of the air cargo industry to the fore each week, showcasing the vast sea of...
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BER develops against the odds

Berlin (BER) Airport and long-haul traffic? According to most aviation experts, this was a hopeless venture. Regional pan-European operations yes, but intercontinental flights? Most...

Flying wings usher in new freighter aircraft era

For years, blended wing-body aircraft (BWB) were a keen topic for aviation aficionados at specialist seminars, but were practically non-existent in the real world....
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Here’s to a promising 2025

The LinkedIn Jury was out in a recent mini-poll regarding 2025’s eventual air cargo revenue results – almost 40% were certain that it will...

Change is in the air

This week, cargo veteran, Andrey Andreev joins CargoForwarder Global as a guest author, with his impressions gathered during a recent trip through Germany, Belgium,...

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Ethiopian on the way to becoming a pan-African carrier

Air Congo is the latest partner of Africa's leading airline. The Congolese state holds 51% of the shares in the newcomer based in the...

CBP intercepts insect pests at Dulles International

Whether raccoons, nutria, Chinese king crabs or American bullfrogs: what all these creatures have in common is that they have managed to spread across...

The future’s coming – like it or not!

That was the message driven home by Germany’s best-known futurologist and director of Europe’s largest trend research institute, 2b AHEAD, Sven Gábor Jánszky, at...

Argentina to build South America’s first SAF plant

The province of Chubut in Patagonia is large in area (224,686 km²), but very sparsely populated, with only around 600,000 inhabitants. There, in the...

Achievements in Air Cargo Handling Logistics

The panel bearing the same title at the ACHL/Aviation Connect event in OCT24, covered a record number of topics in the brief half-hour accorded...

Spotlight on… Jamelene Jeffries, Export Cargo Agent, Swissport

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different role in the air cargo industry to the fore each week, by showcasing individuals in their...

Revitalizing Supply Chain Dynamics

That was the title of a panel at the Aviation Connect in Istanbul at the end of OCT24. A vast subject, given the scope...

Hapag-Lloyd eyes African landlocked countries

The shipping line has just opened an office in Kampala, Uganda - its first in a landlocked country on the African continent. More are...

Aviation in the Baltic Sea region opts for Hydrogen

A total of 16 airports and aviation companies are involved in the H2 initiative, which was launched shortly before the turn of the year...

Drones are on the rise