- Fifty invited guests from the corporate, politics and media sectors attended the opening of Magdeburg/Cochstedt International Airport’s (pictured above) first cargo and logistics center.
- Envirotainer’s Singapore service station has launched. Envirotainer has a global service network with contracted suppliers at more than 50 airports. The Singapore service station is the second in line, after Atlanta, to open as a fully Envirotainer-owned station.
- Chapman Freeborn Airchartering positioned two freighters in the Philippines to help agencies deliver aid to the heart of the typhoon disaster zone more effectively. The two aircraft, an Ilyushin IL-76 and an Antonov AN-12, are available for charter from Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Manila International Airport and Tacloban Airport. The freighters will be positioned in the Philippines for the next couple of weeks.
- AV Cargo Airlines Ltd. was appointed as the representative for Avient Aviation Ltd., a Zimbabwean-registered freighter airline, when Avient Ltd. entered administration. AV Cargo has worked in close cooperation with Portland, the administrators, in the successful process of reaching a financial resolution to the creditors of their predecessors.
- Boeing participated in a groundbreaking ceremony with Incheon and Korean Air for construction of Korea’s largest new aviation training facility to be located in Incheon’s Free Economic Zone. The new campus, which is slated to open in 2015, will allow Boeing to expand the scope of its training business in Korea and continue its long-standing training relationship with Korean Air.
- International forwarding group F.S. Mackenzie opened its sixth office in Russia, at Vladivostok. The new base will provide F.S. Mackenzie with a platform to develop import traffic from China, Japan, Korea, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, via the city’s deep-sea port and airport. Services will include airfreight, outsize and special cargo, warehousing and trucking. The new F.S. Mackenzie branch is led by Dmitriy Maslov, who has more than 25 years of experience with Russia’s largest transport provider, FESCO.
- Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. completed the Preliminary Design Review for the passenger-to-freighter conversion program for the CRJ200 SF aircraft. This milestone is significant because it establishes the basic design features of the freighter. The program was officially launched in February and is expected to be completed by mid-2015. The modification touch labor on the prototype will begin in June 2014 and will be performed at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center in Miami.
- Icelandair Cargo and Aeroscraft Corporation are working together to establish a strategic partnership that provides new airfreight service and intermodal standard container transportation services throughout Arctic Circle destinations. The partnership would establish Iceland as a hub and enhance air cargo distribution in areas lacking significant infrastructure such as Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada.
- At its Madrid-Barajas Airport hub, Iberia presented the first aircraft bearing its new livery and logo, an Airbus A330 – the airline’s fifth – christened Juan Carlos I.
- Fifty invited guests from the corporate, politics and media sectors attended the opening of Magdeburg/Cochstedt International Airport’s (pictured above) first cargo and logistics center.
- Envirotainer’s Singapore service station has launched. Envirotainer has a global service network with contracted suppliers at more than 50 airports. The Singapore service station is the second in line, after Atlanta, to open as a fully Envirotainer-owned station.
- Chapman Freeborn Airchartering positioned two freighters in the Philippines to help agencies deliver aid to the heart of the typhoon disaster zone more effectively. The two aircraft, an Ilyushin IL-76 and an Antonov AN-12, are available for charter from Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Manila International Airport and Tacloban Airport. The freighters will be positioned in the Philippines for the next couple of weeks.
- AV Cargo Airlines Ltd. was appointed as the representative for Avient Aviation Ltd., a Zimbabwean-registered freighter airline, when Avient Ltd. entered administration. AV Cargo has worked in close cooperation with Portland, the administrators, in the successful process of reaching a financial resolution to the creditors of their predecessors.
- Boeing participated in a groundbreaking ceremony with Incheon and Korean Air for construction of Korea’s largest new aviation training facility to be located in Incheon’s Free Economic Zone. The new campus, which is slated to open in 2015, will allow Boeing to expand the scope of its training business in Korea and continue its long-standing training relationship with Korean Air.
- International forwarding group F.S. Mackenzie opened its sixth office in Russia, at Vladivostok. The new base will provide F.S. Mackenzie with a platform to develop import traffic from China, Japan, Korea, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, via the city’s deep-sea port and airport. Services will include airfreight, outsize and special cargo, warehousing and trucking. The new F.S. Mackenzie branch is led by Dmitriy Maslov, who has more than 25 years of experience with Russia’s largest transport provider, FESCO.
- Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. completed the Preliminary Design Review for the passenger-to-freighter conversion program for the CRJ200 SF aircraft. This milestone is significant because it establishes the basic design features of the freighter. The program was officially launched in February and is expected to be completed by mid-2015. The modification touch labor on the prototype will begin in June 2014 and will be performed at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center in Miami.
- Icelandair Cargo and Aeroscraft Corporation are working together to establish a strategic partnership that provides new airfreight service and intermodal standard container transportation services throughout Arctic Circle destinations. The partnership would establish Iceland as a hub and enhance air cargo distribution in areas lacking significant infrastructure such as Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada.
- At its Madrid-Barajas Airport hub, Iberia presented the first aircraft bearing its new livery and logo, an Airbus A330 – the airline’s fifth – christened Juan Carlos I.