DRONAMICS signs MoU with Sofia Airport before upcoming Black Swan unveil

 The UK and Bulgaria-based unmanned aircraft developer and operator DRONAMICS and SOF connect, the operator of Sofia Airport today has announced a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on collaborating on innovation initiatives at the airport.SOF Connect’s CEO Jesus Caballero and COO Henning...

DB Schenker breaks ground for Incheon global distribution, logistics center

 DB Schenker announced the ground-breaking of a unique eight-story warehouse named Korea Global Distribution and Logistics Center, in short KLC2, positioned in Seoul, South Korea. KLC2, to be built near Incheon Airport, within the IFEZ (Incheon Free Economic Zone) utilizes space and special...

Air Century implements CHAMP’s Traxon Global Security solution

 Air Century implements CHAMP Cargosystems’ Traxon Global Security (TGS) solution to meet the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ACAS security requirements. TGS is a regulatory compliance service and platform that operates like its cousin Traxon Global Customs (TGC), which allows airlines,...

WFS signs new contract with Copenhagen Airport for new cargo centre

 WFS signs a contract for a new Terminal 3 cargo centre. The 3,700m² warehouse facility will open in Q4 2022. Copenhagen Airport has acknowledged Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) latest investment to expand its cargo handling facilities as enabling ‘future airfreight growth’ for the airport and...

JAS APAC appoints new Pharma and Healthcare Sales VP

 JAS Worldwide APAC announces Derek Lee as the new VP, Pharma and Healthcare, APAC. With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare supply chain and logistics management, Derek has a wide breadth of pharma and medical device experience in the region. During his previous endeavours at various...

MMI Asia announces Transport Logistics and Air Cargo Trade Fair venue

 The Southeast Asian edition of Transport Logistics and Air Cargo will take place in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from 13 to 15 September, 2023. MMI Asia, the regional subsidiary of Messe Muenchen (MMG), announced the dates together with key industry stakeholders Changi Airport Group, SATS Ltd and...

Brussels Airport shipped more than 750 million vaccines in a year

 Brussels Airport has been delivering vaccines since 27 November  2020 and has shipped almost 750 million vaccines now. “I'm very proud that we can yet again live up to our role as the most important pharmaceutical hub in Europe and that we can make an important contribution to this pandemic....

FedEx Express expand rewards program in India

 FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp has expanded the My FedEx Rewards (MFR) program in India, a point-based loyalty program designed to reward customers for choosing FedEx. FedEx Express is the largest express transportation company, providing fast and reliable delivery to more than...

Emirates SkyCargo transport premium oysters from UAE to Moscow

 Over the last one year, the cargo division of Emirates SkyCargo has been transporting premium oysters from the UAE to some of the restaurants in Moscow.Dibba Bay Oysters, a UAE start-up based in the emirate of Fujairah, has been growing premium oysters since 2016, currently harvesting around 200,000...

First test flight for EU project on drone movements underway in Poland

 As a part of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) large-scale demonstration, the first series of test flights with drones began in November in Rzeszów, Poland. The project is co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme within the framework of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, an EU public-private partnership...

Drone Delivery Canada awarded Sixth patent for drone delivery solutions

Drone Delivery Canada Corp. (DDC) is pleased to announce that on November 23, 2021, the United States Patent Office granted a patent 11,181,933 for DDC’s patent application titled ‘Location for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing and Taking Off’.  This patent is related to DDC’s previously granted...

Air Charter Service record almost 1500 cargo in August to October

 Air Charter Service announces the quarter numbers and the result has recorded its busiest ever quarter for its cargo division, with 1,445 cargo charters in the period August to October, 2021. This, combined with its other divisions, resulted in the highest ever revenue for the company in one quarter...

Skyports announces to develop Europe’s first test vertiport in France

 Skyports, the leading designer, developer, and operator of vertiports (landing sites for eVTOL aircraft) is developing Europe’s first test vertiport in France, as a significant step towards launching commercial Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) services in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics.This is the...

Swissport partners with Speedcargo to improve logistics and cargo capacity

 Swissport has signed a proof-of-concept agreement with Speedcargo for its artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions Cargo Eye and Cargo Mind to support Swissport's digitization drive, help improve overall logistics efficiency and increase cargo capacity in warehouses and on flights.Swissport...

Brussels Airport launches Stargate project for greener aviation

 Brussels Airport officially launches Stargate project, which has received a grant within the European Green deal. In the next five years, Brussels Airport will be working with a consortium of 21 partners on some 30 concrete projects to make aviation and airports greener and more sustainable. Stargate...

MENA Cargo collaborates with Awery Aviation Software

 MENA Cargo, Bahrain-headquartered air cargo airline, partners with Awery Aviation Software to streamline operations across its scheduled and charter services. Awery ERP is a web-based, customisable platform, which MENA Cargo will initially use for flight and crew operations, and charter sales...

GEODIS expands its footprints with new center and office in Belgium

 GEODIS, a France-headquartered global transport and logistics services provider announces a new sorting center in Schoten, near Antwerp, as well as a new office within the airport of Liege. The first will facilitate the expansion of one of its largest international e-commerce customers into the...

dnata expands into Africa with major investment in Zanzibar aviation industry

 dnata, a leading global air and travel services provider, has signed a concession agreement with The Government of Zanzibar, along with Emirates Leisure Retail and SEGAP, a joint venture between airport infrastructure and operations specialists Egis, and private equity fund manager AIIM.Under...

Data-driven sales approach positions ECS as more than just a GSSA

 Cédric Millet, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer of ECS Group, speaks to The STAT Trade Times about how digital technologies rolled out under “Cargo Digital Factory” are deployed to meet the changing needs of customers.What are the strategic changes you are making to make ECS ever...

Wiremind enhances its Skypallet ULD and flight optimisation system

 SkyPallet introduces three services that are of particular interest and help to bridge the gap in knowledge and experience within an airline’s air cargo teams, resulting in greater process conformity, higher revenues and improved flight safety are given that applicable regulations and restrictions...

Air Canada adds 45 per cent extra cargo capacity into and out of Vancouver

 Air Canada has increased cargo capacity into and out of Vancouver between November 21 and 30 from its hubs in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary as it works to ensure that the vital economic supply chain links in British Columbia are maintained following the impacts of last week's flooding. In...

Harald Gloy to leave the Lufthansa Cargo Executive Board

 Harald Gloy, chief operations and human resources officer at Lufthansa Cargo, resigns from the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG, effective from 28 February 2022 for personal reasons and will devote himself to new professional challenges outside the Lufthansa Group. A decision on a successor...

“Sales are part of our DNA, but clients are the air we breathe”

 In the rapidly changing world of commerce and trade aided by modern, easy-to-use digital tools, general sales and service agents for cargo carriers are modernising their customer interaction to help them improve revenue and reduce cost. Some of the GSSAs are ahead of the others and one of them...

American Airlines Cargo offers new resources for animal shippers

 American Airlines Cargo introduces American PetEmbark, to further enhance its pet program that now offers customers last-mile solutions, new tools and resources and will soon include a more seamless booking process – making pet travel on American easier than ever.Part of the PetEmbark program...

flypop partners with Hi Fly to meet cargo demand

 flypop announces the partnership with Hi Fly airline to commence its zero Layout of Passenger Accommodations (LOPA) cargo operations.flypop is focused on serving the Indian and South Asian diaspora communities living in the UK and their visiting friends and relatives. flypop believes the...

SpiceJet’s Boeing 737 MAX resume operations after more than two years

 Spicejet’s Boeing 737 MAX aircraft returns to operations after around two-and-a-half years. The return of these aircraft aims to be sustainable and play a major role in expanding the network. The airline will be deploying these aircraft on both domestic as well as international routes.SpiceJet...

Logistics, SCM moves up the MBA, Masters value chain

 Moving things along the world efficiently and in a timely manner, has never been more critical than it is today. From being just another business function, supply chain and logistics management have slowly moved up to the top of the pile of systems that enable a company to operate successfully...

Stefan Paul to be Kuehne+Nagel CEO, Dr Tregzger to step down

 Kuehne + Nagel International AG, Board of Directors, initiated top management changes with the appointment of Stefan Paul as the CEO of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, effective August 1, 2022.At the same time, the current CEO, Dr. Detlef Trefzger, will step down for private reasons. It is planned...

Count us for digitalisation, sustainability: Benelux air cargo industry

 Benelux is one of the most logistically connected and established markets in the world and specifically Europe. The heavily interconnected region offers huge capacity for business in the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg through some of the most important European airports it...

Chapman Freeborn appoints Malcolm Dsouza as director, India

 Chapman Freeborn, the global air charter specialist and part of Avia Solutions Group, has appointed Malcolm Dsouza as its new director, India.Malcolm joins the business following over 10 years at Jeena & Company, India’s freight forwarder in the global market. He also has over 18 years of...

CHAMP MarketAnalysis interests 26 airlines and forwarders for air cargo insights

 CHAMP Cargosystems new service called MarketAnalytics has attracted 26 airlines and forwarders that have been working with CHAMP to review the company’s new air cargo insights service.Rather than using monthly accounting updates or files, MarketAnalytics uses systems integration to get daily updates...

DHL Global Forwarding Europe appoints Tobias Schmidt as new CEO

 DHL Global Forwarding announces that Tobias Schmidt took over as CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Europe, effective November 1, 2021. He succeeds Thomas George, who has successfully managed the European organization since 2016. Schmidt will report to Tim Scharwath, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding,...

2022 will be the year of digitalisation and sustainability: Global Pharma Logistics Summit 2021

The Global Pharma Logistics Summit 2021 in Mumbai concluded on an enthusiastic note with some positive messages, encouraging the air freight and the logistics companies to work harder and rise to a new challenge each day.The one-day industry conference was presented by Cargo Service Center with FedEx,...

CMA CGM Air Cargo agrees to purchase 4 new A350 freighter aircraft

CMA CGM Air Cargo, a part of CMA CGM and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the purchase of four A350F freighter aircraft. The order will be finalised in the coming weeks and will lift CMA CGM’s total Airbus fleet to nine aircraft, including five A330-200F."I am proud to announce...