Of all the different kinds of cargo that take to the air, flying animals is a particularly special operation – more so, when they are rescue animals being offered a better life either in their native region, or in...
The relationship between the Turkish carrier and the Viennese airport dates back to 1961. 65 years on, and good things are still happening. The two have just signed a comprehensive ground handling contract covering everything from passenger care to...
Impressive 2025 results that Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) published earlier this week – and ones that other airports likely can only dream of. After all, how many can claim a 40% increase in air freight volumes in one year?...
Korean Air has partnered with Lödige Industries to carry out a major modernization of its cargo terminal at New York JFK. The project aims to boost service quality, operational efficiency, and sustainability at the airline’s U.S. East Coast hub...
It isn’t all that long ago that KLM retired its well-known Boeing 747 passenger-cargo-combi-aircraft, and now a similar version on a smaller scale has taken to the skies. The inaugural flight of the world’s first Boeing 737-800NG combi was...
The new year kicked off with Oman Air announcing its expansion into East Africa. The airline will commence direct flight operations between Oman’s city of Muscat and Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. The 5.5-hour passenger service will begin in JUN26, connecting...
Frankfurt-based IT specialist, allivate GmbH, has appointed Matthias Hupka and Niklas Petri as Joint Managing Directors. The two previously senior consultants at allivate, assumed their new positions on 01JAN26, taking over from Denis de Farias Duarte who had led...
Liège Airport has announced the start of a new regular cargo service operated by Suparna Airlines, linking Liège directly with Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. The first flight took off on 05JAN26, launching a regular schedule of flights connecting the...
Royal Air Maroc Cargo has introduced a new all-cargo route connecting Casablanca with Dakar (CMN-DSS). The weekly Friday service, operated by a Boeing 767 freighter with a 45-ton payload capacity, further strengthens the carrier’s position as a key logistics...
Global GSA Group’s Spanish subsidiary, Mondial Airline Services Spain, has been appointed as general sales and service agent (GSSA) for China Southern Airlines Cargo in Spain. The company secured the tender and coordinated the successful launch of China Southern’s...
Challenge Group has extended its GSSA partnership with ECS Group, adding seven Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine – to an existing network that already includes Germany, France, Scandinavia, Singapore and Vietnam....
Trans Global Projects has opened a dedicated air freight department in Bremen, operating under its own IATA license to handle time-critical and complex cargo with full operational control. On the personnel front, Tobias Teichmann has taken on the role...
China Eastern Air Logistics has introduced six new high-capacity automated guided vehicles from Lödige Industries at Cargo Terminal 4 in Shanghai Pudong to automate ULD transport and create a next-generation smart cargo facility. Each 10-foot AGV can carry up...
This time, last year, the uncertainty of the pending U.S. tariffs were the main topic of discussion. As the year 2025 panned out, air cargo proved its ongoing resilience in navigating around those ever-changing obstacles – and much of...
Few seasonal shipments get a cargo person’s heart beating quite as much as the elite Beaujolais Nouveau logistic Olympics? Why? Because to ensure that meanwhile more than 110 countries can enjoy the new wine when it is officially released...
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and its airfreight arm, Swiss WorldCargo, have entered a partnership with logistics giant, Kuehne+Nagel, to advance more sustainable air transportation. The collaboration focuses on supporting Swiss clean-tech company, Synhelion, which produces synthetic aviation fuel...
Italy is known for fast cars – so fast cargo isn’t such a surprise, really. That said, to scale up from just 9 tons a day to 100, within a space of just 5 months – that is a...
Royal Air Maroc announced this week that Yassine Berrada’s successor as Vice President Cargo, would be Rita Chraibi. She joined the airline in 2006 and has grown with its development, having held various key leadership positions during that time....
Transport Management System (TMS) provider, Logistaas, has partnered with Seattle-based Trade Tech, a global logistics and customs compliance technology firm. The integration enables Logistaas’ freight forwarder customers to automatically transfer shipment data to Trade Tech’s Syrinx Trade Security platform,...
Karl Eduard Guenther Gasthuber, long-time managing director of the Frankfurt-based air freight consolidation group, IGLU Air Cargo GmbH, lost his battle with cancer last Thursday (18DEC25). He headed the association, which consists of 25 member companies, from June 2008...
Air Charter Service recently moved to a much larger office in Florida – leaving its Downtown Miami, South Florida office for Florida’s Hollywood in the north. In doing so, it has trebled its available office space, in preparation for...
I couldn’t resist the pun, but what a fantastic piece of cargo to be transporting, don’t you think? I mean the fossilized skull of a Triceratops that Rhenus helped return home to the U.S., on behalf of Europe’s leading...
Three Menzies press releases this week: On 09DEC25, Menzies Aviation become the first international ground handler to be granted a ground handling operator certificate by Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC). This confirms that Menzies abides by all regulatory...
In its drive to expand EFIS Maroc’s leading role and further emphasize Morocco’s position as a strategic cargo gateway linking Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, ECS Group has announced the appointment of Yousra Khalihamou as EFIS Maroc’s new...
“Fake medicines kill almost 500,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year,” was the shocking statistic presented at TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum in Abu Dhabi in NOV25, when Glyn Hughes and Frank van Gelder talked about The Food and Farm for Health...
