Since 01JUL26, a €3 flat tax fee has to be paid on e-commerce consignments with a value up to €150 entering the European Union. Its impact was assessed during a panel as part of the EU CBEC two-day conference...
The Cherry’s Logistics Group is an owner-managed newcomer, launched in early SEP26. Its headquarters are in Hamburg, and it runs a branch near Frankfurt Airport. The mastermind is Tim-Oliver Kirschbaum (75.1%), well known in the industry as the former...
Roughly a year-and-a-half after announcing their Global Cargo Joint Business (CFG reported: https://cargoforwarder.eu/2025/06/09/iag-cargo-maskargo-and-qr-cargo-to-join-businesses/ and https://cargoforwarder.eu/2025/06/09/iag-cargo-maskargo-and-qr-cargo-to-join-businesses/) IAG Cargo, MASkargo and Qatar Airways Cargo have now successfully transported their first trilateral customer shipment. The route quite literally went ‘half-way across the...
The Gulf carrier and the Swiss ground handling and cargo services provider signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Arabian Travel Market, last week, that significantly expands their partnership – and they have hinted that this may not be...
Working in an air cargo warehouse is a highly physical job that can strain the body, as breaking down pallets involves a lot of lifting and repetitive movements. Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has put a great deal of...
Six months after starting to offer the capacity of its flights across its 145+ destinations on WebCargo by Freightos in MAR26, Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services has now decided to expand to a second booking marketplace and also join...
50 Shades of Fast over at Lufthansa Cargo, these days. Three years ago, its original premium express product for very time-critical cargo, td.Flash, (premiered in 1998), was joined by td.Zoom, which was sold as the fastest time-definite speed, along...
Just one year on from celebrating its 30th anniversary, Latvian flag carrier, airBaltic has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. The airline is seeking to restructure a heavy debt burden amid soaring fuel costs, engine...
Almost a year on, and CargoForwarder Global’s original title “Glasgow Airport’s China Services are growing at a pace” (See https://cargoforwarder.eu/2025/11/30/glasgow-airports-china-services-growing-at-a-pace/) is still very much relevant. Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport (PIK) celebrated the debut of yet another direct China connection on...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global shifts it ‘Spotlight On…’ to a specific segment of the air cargo industry, illustrating just how varied, interesting, and – in this particular case – lively it is. Airports are where air cargo truly ‘happens’...
… urges cargo veteran, Larry Coyne, CEO of Coyne Airways and its parent, Coyne Aviation. An uneven regulatory approach causes cargo to migrate between EU airports, driven by differences in national implementation of customs regimes after the EU abolished...
What’s the main reason for naming a building, creating a statue or using a person’s image? Aside from a show of power in certain cases, it is to honor that person for their contribution to society. They remain visible,...
Four years ago, U.S. investor, Apollo Global Management acquired cargo carrier, Atlas Air, for US$ 5.2 billion. Meanwhile, negotiations are underway for a takeover by L’Imad Holding, a sovereign wealth fund based in Abu Dhabi.
However, the price tag for...
flydubai is diversifying its business mission and starting dedicated freighter operations next month. From 01OCT26, three Boeing 737-800 freighters will be joining its fleet through a wet-lease agreement with SolitAir, complementing its own passenger fleet of 98 Boeing 737...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has successfully completed the first flight of its converted Airbus A330-300 P2F (passenger-to-freighter) aircraft, a key step in the certification process for its new A330-300BDSF (Bedek Special Freighter) program. This maiden flight, during which the...
There’s a new freighter-friendly kid on the cargo airport block, over in Chicago. In addition to O’Hare (ORD) and Rockford (RFD), Gary (GYY) has joined the throng. It celebrated the official completion of phase one of its US$ 24...
Awery Aviation Software is continuing the expansion of its management team. Last week, CargoForwarder Global reported that Gianluca Marcangelo had been appointed Executive Vice President of Global Sales. This week, the air cargo sales and technology company has announced...
“In the 100th anniversary year since the founding of the first Lufthansa, its freight subsidiary, Lufthansa Cargo, is setting the course for sustainable growth in the coming decades and positioning the company for a successful future,” the press...
Cathay Pacific and Google have launched a partnership to study contrails and their role in aviation’s climate impact. Cathay is the first Asian-Pacific airline to collaborate with Google in trialing its AI-powered contrail mitigation technology, and indeed the first...
Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group are the two active bidders competing to acquire up to a 49.9% strategic stake in TAP Air Portugal (TAP) as part of the Portuguese government’s ongoing privatization process. International Airlines Group (IAG), a third...
Four months after he left Etihad to take on a leadership role at the ground handling company, Frankfurt Cargo Services, a subsidiary of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), Thomas Schürmann, sees his new role from an unusual dual perspective. Having...
Do performance indicators tell the whole story? Can it be that an organization reports the truth, yet leadership only sees a segment of reality? CargoForwarder Global’s guest author, Irma van Buuren, Executive Advisor and Founder of Executive Control, explores...
Automation in air cargo is moving beyond conveyors, storage systems and ULD handling. Increasingly, software is deciding where cargo should go, when it should move and which process should come next. Yet the physical reality of air freight –...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global shifts the ‘Spotlight On…’ to a specific segment of the air cargo industry, giving the mic to an individual working there. This is to illustrate just how varied its career opportunities are. In such a...
The recent EU Cross-Border Forum (EU CBEC) in Liège, attracted roughly 900 cargo professionals – a record-breaking number of participants. A key reason for this was that, since JUN26, the EU has been imposing a fee of EUR 3...
