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Alaska Volcano Eruption

Ash clouds from an Alaska volcano that has erupted 36 times since mid-December, 2016 are now threatening jets flying between Asia and North America. Bogoslof Volcano’s biggest eruption occurred on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, producing ash clouds rising above 20,000 feet. Warnings have been issued to airlines and a major U.S. fishing port in the Aleutian Islands. The Bogoslof Island volcano is located 850 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The volcano ... [+]

Flower Power

AIR FRANCE KLM MARTINAIR Cargo has once again successfully met seasonal peak flower demand for Valentine’s Day and International Women’s Day. Over a five-week period spanning February/March, around 5,000 tonnes of flowers originating from leading production and export countries like Kenya, Ecuador and Colombia were ... [+]

AACargo Continues to Break Records at LHR

As the cargo industry continues to grow, American Airlines Cargo also continues to set new records. Just this week, its London Heathrow (LHR) team broke its fourth daily record since August of 2016. The team moved nearly 1.1 million of freight into and out of ... [+]

China Airlines Extends Partnership with WFS in N America with New Cargo Contract in Chicago

China Airlines has extended its 19-year working relationship with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in North America with a new cargo handling contract at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The new contract takes to five the number of locations in the U.S. where WFS provides services for the ... [+]

Delta Cargo Launches Real-Time GPS Tracking for DASH Critical & Medical Same Day Shipments

Delta Cargo is introducing DASH Critical & Medical, the first fully GPS-enabled, same-day product offered by a U.S. freight carrier. The new service provides real-time tracking and monitoring of any eligible shipment, and customers can ship items up until 45 minutes prior to scheduled flight ... [+]

UKAS accreditation recognizes Verifavia

Verifavia, the world’s leading emissions verification company for the transport sector (aviation and shipping), today announced March 1 that it has been fully accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) as a global EU monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) verifier. This accreditation enables Verifavia ... [+]

Boeing Opening Factory in UK

Boeing announced that it is investing $24.98 million to open its first production facility in Europe to make components for certain aircraft. The 25,000 square feet facility in Sheffield, UK will make actuators for Boeing's next-generation 737, 737 MAX and 777 aircraft, the company said. Actuation ... [+]

More Lobster Lift at Halifax Stanfield

Just when it looked like Halifax Stanfield was set to close the books on a highly successful lobster export season, HIAA announced that a new cargo carrier, Yangtze River Express Airlines, would serve Halifax beginning Jan. 7, 2017. That Saturday a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft departed ... [+]

Greener transport

DHL Global Forwarding has evaluated the environmental performance of Lufthansa Cargo and other airlines. Lufthansa Cargo was the only airline to score full points, achieving top marks in all four of the GoGreen Carrier Rating categories and receiving four “green aircraft” for its efforts. It was rated according ... [+]

Virgin gives customers more choice to the U.S. in 2017

Virgin Atlantic Cargo is giving customers in the UK a wider choice of services in 2017 with the launch of a new daily service from London to Seattle and extra flights from Manchester to the U.S. Seattle joins the airline’s network on 26 March ex Heathrow ... [+]

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