Anchorage, Alaska-based cargo carrier Ryan Air has placed a deposit-backed order for Beta Charge Cubes to be placed across its network. The airline, which serves 70+ rural communities across Alaska, aims to expand its network of e-driven cargo aircraft...
Next Wednesday (22OCT25), Rhine-Main operator, Fraport AG, will commission 37,000 photovoltaic modules. They are prominently displayed in 2,800-meter-long rows along the Runway West. An eye-catcher for all passengers departing from Frankfurt Airport. This is because the panels are arranged...
The sixth International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) was observed on 29SEP25. The date was chosen on 19DEC19, when the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 74/209. Awareness is important as one-third of all food ends...
An “Alliance for New Flying” was founded last week at Stuttgart Airport, located in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. The aim is to scale up the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in...
The introduction of sustainable aviation fuel in air transport is progressing slowly. It lacks sufficient quantities and prices remain 4 to 5 times higher per liter than traditional Jet-A1 fuel. A campaign presented by Lufthansa Cargo at the ACCF...
Farnborough Airport-based i6Group and Liège Airport (LGG) have signed a landmark 15-year partnership agreement to pioneer integrated digital aviation fuel management solutions. The scheme will cover the full fueling lifecycle from livestock management and automated reconciliation to paperless into-plane...
This development comes as quite a surprise and has hardly been mentioned in the media so far. The Turkish Civil Aviation Authority (SHGM) wants to make the production and utilization of SAF mandatory. This affects not only passenger and...
Airbus employees no longer need to feel guilty about contributing to global warming through their aircraft’s CO2 emissions on business trips – provided they fly Air France on clearly defined routes and have booked the new ‘SAF Bundles’ product....
The logistics company and the automotive group have agreed to procure 13,000 tons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, which will reduce the carmaker’s CO₂e* emissions by 40,000 tons. The SAF biofuel is produced from waste and will be used to...
The presentation shows a lot of self-confidence: Swiss Airtainer intends to reinvent the pharma cold chain with its high-performance cool boxes. This is stated in a presentation by the Swiss company. The facts and data from the first 50...
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 middle of nowhere, a production plant for sustainable aviation fuel is to be built. The...
Well timed after Hamburg’s Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe in OCT24 which included a look at aviation and Airbus, Toulouse (Hamburg’s twin city from an Airbus perspective), hosted two parallel events that were clearly aerospace focused and contained hydrogen aspects....
The company wants to use the test series to gain clarity on several research objectives: The operational cost of the hydrogen truck, in comparison to Diesel and e-powered vehicles, its reliability in daily ops and if H2 is supplied...
You’ve seen them on refrigerators, televisions, washing machines and all kinds of household appliances – and soon they’ll be spotted on an AKE container near you… The Energy Label, alias: the first ever “ULD Climate Impact Label”. A significant...
Two weeks ago, CargoForwarder Global reported exclusively about plans presented by the communications agency, Lemon Queen, that its doing will be guided by sustainability criteria. We asked agency owner, Audrey Serdjebi (AS), what this means for day-to-day practice and...
Full halls, thousands of visitors, a record number of exhibitors: in a nutshell, that was the result of the Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe 2024 trade fair, which took place in Hamburg, a week and a half ago.From the dynamic...
Sustainability is a much-used word. Every transport company positions it prominently on its website. It stands on the agenda of most conferences initiated by players of the air freight and logistics industry, stimulates discussions, soothes the conscience of the...
Both enterprises have announced that they will jointly conduct a feasibility study aimed at co-developing a two-megawatt superconducting motor for future hydrogen-powered aircraft. Contractual partners are Airbus UpNext, a fully-owned subsidiary of the European aircraft manufacturer, and Toshiba Energy...
Last week, CargoForwarder Global took a look at the negative impacts of periods of intense heat on aircraft, shipments, and – last, but certainly not least – staff. This week, we examine the various measures that can and should...
This Sharkskin technology optimizes the aircraft’s aerodynamics, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 1%. Registration B-16786 is the first of the EVA Air B777 freighters to have already undergone this comprehensive modification at the airline’s homebase at Taipei...
CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series illustrates a different career aspect of the air cargo industry each week. As we are now in the midst of the summer holiday season and the industry’s workload is currently spread over fewer backs,...
A week ago, dramatic footage that could have been taken from any Hollywood action movie, made the rounds on global news media and LinkedIn. Unfortunately, it was not computer-generated imagery, but actual video material of a shipping container exploding...
Aviation should be net zero by 2050 at the latest, sending a strong signal to other industries against global warming. However, there are increasing signs that this target will be missed by a wide margin. The reasons are manifold...
The instruction issued by the outgoing Belgian federal Transport minister Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo / Greens) to ban the use of DHL’s B777Fs at Brussels Airport, has met with a tidal wave of disapproval in the economic community at and...
Greenhouse gas emissions should be taxed for an entire journey, from origin to destination, advocates J. Florian Pfaff (JFP), VP Asia Pacific of the German cargo carrier. This would enable a level playing field in aviation worldwide and concurrently...
