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dnata enters Canada with investment in GTA’s cargo and ground handling operations

Dnata, one of the world’s leading air services providers, has reached an agreement with Canada’s GTA Aviation to purchase a 50% stake in its cargo and ground handling operations at Toronto Pearson International Airport. This investment marks dnata’s first step into the Canadian market and is a significant development in the company’s expansion into the Americas, less than a year after announcing investments in the USA and Brazil. GTA’s airport handling ... [+]

Etihad Cargo Records Biggest Monthly Uplift

It has been a month of milestones for Etihad Cargo. The freight division of Etihad Airways recorded its busiest month ever in October, uplifting 53,785 tonnes of cargo and surpassing its previous best, achieved in November 2014, by 501 tonnes. This reflected growth in perishables traffic ... [+]

Lufthansa Pilots Union Pushes for Second Week of Strikes

As printed in the November 29, 2016 edition of the Wall Street Journal: Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s principal pilots union is escalating the battle with Germany’s largest airline as it seeks to disrupt flights into a second week. Lufthansa last week had to cancel thousands of flights after ... [+]

Lufthansa Cargo repositions sales

Lufthansa Cargo is reorganizing their sales structure. In the future, the company will be divided into eight business units, instead of the previous four. By doing so, the company removes one management level. The previous business areas, namely Europe, Africa, America and Asia/Pacific will be ... [+]

Turkish Cargo Continues to Expand It’s Fleet

With the delivery of one Airbus A300-600F cargo aircraft, Turkish Cargo freighter fleet has reached 13 aircraft and the total fleet has reached 336 aircraft. [+]

Volga-Dnepr, Antonov End JV with An-124

Volga-Dnepr Group has confirmed that its Ruslan International An-124-100 joint venture with Antonov Airlines is to end on Dec. 31, 2016. The two companies created the joint venture in 2006 to jointly market their combined An-124-100 fleets, with the aim of improving availability of the unique ... [+]

Wildlife Trafficking Assessment Tool to Help Cut Illegal Wildlife Shipments

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the launch of an Airport Wildlife Trafficking Assessment Tool that will help defeat smugglers of endangered species. The Assessment Tool, developed in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO) with support from the USAID ROUTES Partnership, will be piloted ... [+]

2016 Another Record Year for AirBridgeCargo

2016 is already a record-breaking year for AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) following a further 30% year-on-year growth in tonnage in October to 57,608 tonnes. With two months of the year still to go, ABC has achieved its thirteenth consecutive year of growth. In the 10 months ended ... [+]

Emirates SkyCargo drives ahead with launch of Emirates SkyWheels

Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates airline, has launched Emirates SkyWheels - a specialised transportation product for high value automobiles. Through its latest offering Emirates SkyCargo will provide customers a complete transportation solution for vehicles such as classic, luxury and sports cars, across its ... [+]

Turkish Cargo strengthens its presence with the launch of freighter service to Chennai.

Along with its spectacular passenger growth, Turkish Airlines is also rapidly growing its cargo network and operations. In line with that growth, Turkish Cargo inaugurated its weekly freighter service to Chennai (MAA), beginning of November 9th, 2016. MAA (Chennai) and CMB (Colombo) cargo services will ... [+]

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