- Ruslan International (pictured above) carried a shipment of airport cargo handling equipment from Amsterdam to Cebu, Philippines. The equipment is assisting in the ongoing processing of international relief cargo, following the devastating Typhoon Haiyan. The largest item of the 85-tonne load was a dual-platform main-deck loader. The equipment was purchased largely with funds raised by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee. The flight was operated for Air Partner.
- SPARX logistics, an international transportation and logistics company based in Hong Kong, and Aqua & Air Cargo Company, a supply chain management firm operating in Shanghai and across China, have merged.
- Turkish Cargo is operating four flights per week to Shanghai during December. The airline usually operates three flights per week.
- A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124-100 Ruslan freighter landed in Salekhard, Russia, for the first time, delivering a 26-tonne turbine for the local power plant. To operate the flight, Volga-Dnepr Airlines and its customer UTair Cargo JSC had to obtain special permission to land at Salekhard Airport. The turbine for the Salekhard electric power station was moved by ground transport from the Ukraine to Ulyanovsk, Russia. In Ulyanovsk, the outsize cargo completed the necessary customs clearance procedures before Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ technical crew loaded it onboard the An-124-100 using special equipment.
- The Airbus Corporate Foundation and Aviation Sans Frontières transported clothing and school supplies donated by Office Depot to Thailand from Toulouse, France, aboard the delivery flight of Thai Airways’ most recently delivered A380. The aircraft was loaded with 10 tonnes of goods destined for the Royal Project for Education, which helps build schools in rural areas all over Thailand.
- Lufthansa Cargo flew 24 boxes containing 2,000-year-old ice from Antarctica from Breman Airport in Germany to the U.S. for scientific investigations. The consignor was the Alfred Wegener Institut’s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. Its glaciologists had drilled into a thick ice sheet in Antarctica at the end of 2012. The ice’s composition means it is possible for “environmental conditions to be characterized over thousands of years and the prevailing temperatures at the time to be reconstructed,” ice specialist Sepp Kipfstuhl says.
- Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. selected AIROD Aerospace Technology in Malaysia as its fifth authorized AEI Conversion Center. It has a seven-hangar MRO facility and will begin providing AEI B737-300SF and B737-400SF passenger-to-freighter conversions in the first quarter of 2014.
- Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited has been appointed by Jin Air, a low-cost carrier based in Korea, to provide documentation, general cargo and ramp handling services.
- The first Qatar Airways Cargo shipment was received at the new Hamad International Airport. The shipment for Qatar Petroleum was transferred from Europe to Doha. The new cargo terminal, which is one of the largest in the world, has the capacity to move 5,700 shipments simultaneously and to handle 1.4 million tonnes of cargo per year by 2015, representing a 75-percent increase from the current airport.
- Finnair Cargo has received a Cargo 2000 Quality Management certificate and is now a full member of the CK2 group. C2K quality management system ensures transparency of actual freight movements for the customer by measuring certain milestones such as acceptance from forwarding agent, departure time, transport on booked flight, receipt at destination airport and notification for delivery.
- IAG Cargo introduced Constant Climate, its time- and temperature-controlled product, to the Prague market. The Constant Climate product can now offer both Active and Passive services to 87 destinations across the IAG Cargo network.
- Dubai World Central announced that DB Schenker, the logistics arm of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG, has commenced construction work on its upcoming facility in DWC’s Logistics District. The facility will primarily be used for general cargo warehousing, distribution and value-added services, in addition to office space. The facility, which will be completed in May 2014, will be used to bundle, temporarily store and process onward carriage cargo shipments for industrial and trade customers.
- Changi Airport Group welcomed the arrival of Ethiopian Airlines, the latest addition to the family of airlines operating at Singapore Changi Airport. The East African carrier will operate a service three times a week between Singapore and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, via Bangkok, using a Boeing 767-300 aircraft.
- Emirates began its newest service to Kabul, Afghanistan, with an A340-500.
- A new office in St. Petersburg, Fla., is the most recent North American facility to join AIT Worldwide Logistics’ global network. The facility has 11,000 sq. feet (1,022 sq. meters) of warehouse space.
- Chapman Freeborn’s Australia team performed a time-critical air charter flight to move a gas turbine from Dallas to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. A power generation fault was risking shortage of power supply to the town of Port Moresby, and a gas turbine had to be transported urgently to avert blackouts. The 11-tonne cargo was transported on a full charter flight using a B747 freighter from Atlas Air.
- IAG Cargo is celebrating its 80th year of flying to Singapore this month, with the first regular service having landed Dec. 9, 1933. This revolution in cargo vastly reduced the time taken to send important documents and cargo between countries.
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited has been appointed by Jin Air to provide documentation, general cargo and ramp handling services.
- Ruslan International (pictured above) carried a shipment of airport cargo handling equipment from Amsterdam to Cebu, Philippines. The equipment is assisting in the ongoing processing of international relief cargo, following the devastating Typhoon Haiyan. The largest item of the 85-tonne load was a dual-platform main-deck loader. The equipment was purchased largely with funds raised by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee. The flight was operated for Air Partner.
- SPARX logistics, an international transportation and logistics company based in Hong Kong, and Aqua & Air Cargo Company, a supply chain management firm operating in Shanghai and across China, have merged.
- Turkish Cargo is operating four flights per week to Shanghai during December. The airline usually operates three flights per week.
- A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124-100 Ruslan freighter landed in Salekhard, Russia, for the first time, delivering a 26-tonne turbine for the local power plant. To operate the flight, Volga-Dnepr Airlines and its customer UTair Cargo JSC had to obtain special permission to land at Salekhard Airport. The turbine for the Salekhard electric power station was moved by ground transport from the Ukraine to Ulyanovsk, Russia. In Ulyanovsk, the outsize cargo completed the necessary customs clearance procedures before Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ technical crew loaded it onboard the An-124-100 using special equipment.
- The Airbus Corporate Foundation and Aviation Sans Frontières transported clothing and school supplies donated by Office Depot to Thailand from Toulouse, France, aboard the delivery flight of Thai Airways’ most recently delivered A380. The aircraft was loaded with 10 tonnes of goods destined for the Royal Project for Education, which helps build schools in rural areas all over Thailand.
- Lufthansa Cargo flew 24 boxes containing 2,000-year-old ice from Antarctica from Breman Airport in Germany to the U.S. for scientific investigations. The consignor was the Alfred Wegener Institut’s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. Its glaciologists had drilled into a thick ice sheet in Antarctica at the end of 2012. The ice’s composition means it is possible for “environmental conditions to be characterized over thousands of years and the prevailing temperatures at the time to be reconstructed,” ice specialist Sepp Kipfstuhl says.
- Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. selected AIROD Aerospace Technology in Malaysia as its fifth authorized AEI Conversion Center. It has a seven-hangar MRO facility and will begin providing AEI B737-300SF and B737-400SF passenger-to-freighter conversions in the first quarter of 2014.
- Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited has been appointed by Jin Air, a low-cost carrier based in Korea, to provide documentation, general cargo and ramp handling services.
- The first Qatar Airways Cargo shipment was received at the new Hamad International Airport. The shipment for Qatar Petroleum was transferred from Europe to Doha. The new cargo terminal, which is one of the largest in the world, has the capacity to move 5,700 shipments simultaneously and to handle 1.4 million tonnes of cargo per year by 2015, representing a 75-percent increase from the current airport.
- Finnair Cargo has received a Cargo 2000 Quality Management certificate and is now a full member of the CK2 group. C2K quality management system ensures transparency of actual freight movements for the customer by measuring certain milestones such as acceptance from forwarding agent, departure time, transport on booked flight, receipt at destination airport and notification for delivery.
- IAG Cargo introduced Constant Climate, its time- and temperature-controlled product, to the Prague market. The Constant Climate product can now offer both Active and Passive services to 87 destinations across the IAG Cargo network.
- Dubai World Central announced that DB Schenker, the logistics arm of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG, has commenced construction work on its upcoming facility in DWC’s Logistics District. The facility will primarily be used for general cargo warehousing, distribution and value-added services, in addition to office space. The facility, which will be completed in May 2014, will be used to bundle, temporarily store and process onward carriage cargo shipments for industrial and trade customers.
- Changi Airport Group welcomed the arrival of Ethiopian Airlines, the latest addition to the family of airlines operating at Singapore Changi Airport. The East African carrier will operate a service three times a week between Singapore and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, via Bangkok, using a Boeing 767-300 aircraft.
- Emirates began its newest service to Kabul, Afghanistan, with an A340-500.
- A new office in St. Petersburg, Fla., is the most recent North American facility to join AIT Worldwide Logistics’ global network. The facility has 11,000 sq. feet (1,022 sq. meters) of warehouse space.
- Chapman Freeborn’s Australia team performed a time-critical air charter flight to move a gas turbine from Dallas to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. A power generation fault was risking shortage of power supply to the town of Port Moresby, and a gas turbine had to be transported urgently to avert blackouts. The 11-tonne cargo was transported on a full charter flight using a B747 freighter from Atlas Air.
- IAG Cargo is celebrating its 80th year of flying to Singapore this month, with the first regular service having landed Dec. 9, 1933. This revolution in cargo vastly reduced the time taken to send important documents and cargo between countries.
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited has been appointed by Jin Air to provide documentation, general cargo and ramp handling services.