“Belly up” is a good thing over at Vienna International Airport. Thanks to an increase in long-haul passenger services, the airport closed the year on an absolute cargo high. Not many can boast 22% cargo growth on previous year,...
Global air charter specialist, Chapman Freeborn, has strengthened its presence in Saudi Arabia through a strategic partnership with AJEX Logistics Services. The agreement, signed on 15JAN25, expands Chapman Freeborn's cargo operations in the Kingdom, aligning with Saudi Arabia's Vision...
Today, 19JAN25, sees the start of a new, regular service between Casablanca (CMN) and Shanghai (PVG) via Marseille (MRS). The Moroccan ECS Group subsidiary, EFIS Maroc, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with China Eastern Airlines, and takes on...
Qatar Airways Cargo and Unilode announced a record-breaking partnership activity last week: talk is of the digitalization of the airline’s entire fleet of Unit Load Devices (ULDs). That means a total of more than 42,000 ULDs that Unilode Aviation...
03-07FEB25 sees ABU’s Khalifa University of Science and Technology open up for the first time to regional and international students, management trainees and junior professionals for a five-day immersion into pharmaceutical logistics. The ‘Pharma Logistics Winter University’ is a...
Etihad Cargo has significantly expanded its operations between Ezhou Huahu Airport, Asia's first dedicated freighter hub, and Abu Dhabi's Zayed International Airport. Since 18AUG23, the carrier has operated 329 flights on this route, transporting more than 18,700 tons in...
Exactly ten years ago, Ram Menen, Emirates SkyCargo's former visionary divisional senior vice president, exclaimed these words: “When I'm older, I want to be like Dieter.” The occasion was the 80th birthday of Dieter Haltmayer, the legendary founder of...
What is the world's least known air freight airline operating a fleet of more than 20 cargo aircraft? The answer is probably Leipzig-Halle-based AeroLogic. The cargo carrier is a joint venture of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo (each owns...
CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series inspects a different area of the air cargo industry every week. In the past 5-10 years, the industry has been pushed to change to accommodate the rapidly evolving world market. e-commerce is one of...
In our last CFG issue, we featured the groundbreaking Total Management Contract (TCM) which the Paris-based ECS Group recently signed with South America’s leading low-cost carrier group: JetSMART Airlines.*In a joint release, both companies stressed that the partnership will...
At least temporarily, because on the initiative of Ostend-Bruges International Airport, this year's World Cargo Summit will take place in the Belgian city from 27-29JAN25. A total of 110+ companies from the air cargo industry have registered, including world-famous...
170 million U.S. TikTok users – many of them small businesses - are facing a potentially life-changing situation, today, 19JAN25, given the Supreme Court’s rejection of the TikTok Ban appeal, this weekend - despite the U.S. being unable to...
The German, independent cargo sales agent, KUB Air Cargo GmbH, focused on air freight to Asia/China, founded in 2011 with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (and European offices in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam), has now also partnered with digital...
DB Schenker and Ford inaugurated a state-of-the-art 42,000 m² Parts Distribution Center (PDC) in Dubai South on 09JAN25. According to the press release, the facility “marks a significant advancement in automotive logistics for the Middle East and Africa region”....
The new year started with a new responsibility for ECS Group: 01JAN25 signaled that start of a ‘groundbreaking’, four-year Total Cargo Management (TCM) contract that it recently signed with South America’s leading low-cost carrier group: JetSMART Airlines. It is...
DB Schenker began the new year with a new air cargo route. On 07JAN25, an inaugural Boeing 777F flight, operated by Etihad Cargo, set off from Ezhou, China, destined for to Frankfurt, Germany. It kicked off the start of...
A ‘slewing ring’ or ‘turntable bearing’ is a rotational rolling-element bearing that typically supports a heavy but slow-turning load in combination (axial, radial and moment loads), and is often found in conventional crane, windmill, forklift attachments or welding turnover...
The world’s largest network of independent freight forwarders (numbering 12,451 member offices in 195 countries), announced management transitions at the start of the year, following the retirement of two of its long-standing managers at the end of 2024. Bruce...
The Airforwarders Association (AfA) has a new board member in the form of David O. King, Senior Vice President – Commercial, SEKO Logistic. His appointment was announced on 09JAN25, alongside the re-election of existing members: Aaron Ambrite, AIT Worldwide...
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 of Entry, inspectors seized multiple shipments of jewelry for trademark infringement. Over in Pennsylvania, CBP...
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 freighters. “We are talking about one B737-400F joining the fleet by the end of this...
CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different area of the air cargo industry to the fore each week. Usually, we focus on people, however every now and again – as in the real world of logistics – delivery...
What do DANX Carousel and logistics heavyweight, DSV, have in common? Both are based in Copenhagen, Denmark, are active in the transport sector, and are growing primarily through acquisitions, albeit at significantly different company sizes. As far as time-sensitive...
The Hungarian Civil Aviation Authority, as part of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM), has issued an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and operating license (OL) to Hungary Airlines KFT. This was published on the regulator’s website on 08JAN25....
On 05NOV24, Aviation Business published an article highlighting a growing optimism surrounding eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) technology and suggesting that 2025 could be a pivotal year for the industry's commercial debut. A couple of weeks’ prior, however,...
