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BLR Airport Cargo in India Sets a New Record

Cargo volumes at the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB/ BLR Airport) in India continue to see impressive growth, achieving its highest monthly throughput since commencement of operations. Under challenging circumstances due to the pandemic, BLR Airport has processed 37,319 Metric Tonnes (MT) of cargo in August —the highest ever since the Airport commenced operations in 2008. International cargo (both imports and exports) continued to be growth drivers, accounting for 24,304 MT, ... [+]

cargo-partner renews for CHAMP’s Traxon cargoHUB

cargo-partner has renewed its contract with CHAMP for its Traxon cargoHUB community. The forwarder has benefitted from access to the largest air cargo community, with digital access to thousands of stakeholders throughout the supply chain, enabling doing business with all community players via a single ... [+]

ABC extends global partnership with WFS

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has awarded a 10-year cargo handling contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Liege, further extending the all-cargo airline’s global strategic partnership with WFS, the world’s largest air cargo handler. Under the terms of the new contract, as well as handling import and ... [+]

Capacity crunch elevates air cargo rates

Resilient international demand for air cargo capacity in August versus a shortfall in supply pushed average global air cargo rates up 112% to their pre-Covid level as a local lockdown in Vietnam and the closure of cargo handling terminals at Shanghai Pudong International Airport after ... [+]

Emirates to receive final A380 in November

Emirates will receive three more A380 aircraft from Airbus this year with its last unit on order scheduled to join its fleet in November, bringing forward the original deliverytimeline from June 2022. These deliveries will bring Emirates’ total fleet of A380s to 118 units in November. As ... [+]

Vietnam Airlines selects WFS

Vietnam Airlines has selected Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its new cargo handling partner at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.The multi-year contract will see WFS providing full cargo handling services for the airline’s twice-weekly Airbus A350-900 passenger freighter aircraft flights directly connecting freight forwarders, importers and exporters ... [+]

Delta celebrates 75 years of leading the air cargo industry

Seventy-five years ago, Delta made its official but humble entry into the cargo business: 200 pounds of freshly picked mushrooms loaded aboard a DC-3 destined for Atlanta, making farm-to-table a possibility decades before it became a culinary hashtag.That first week of operation in 1946, the ... [+]

New Kale Logistics Solutions study at Atlanta Airport

A study by Kale Info Solutions Inc, the North America division of Kale Logistics Solutions (Kale), on the impact of digitisation at Atlanta Airport, Georgia, USA, has demonstrated CO2 and fuel savings, as well as reduced labor costs, and close to 2,000 man-hours saved.The study ... [+]

AGI opens new off-airport facility at EWR

Cargo handling services provider Alliance Ground International (AGI) has opened a new 76,000-square-foot off-airport air cargo facility five minutes from Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, to process import freight. The handler is also relocating from existing facilities at Newark (EWR) to a 24,000-square-foot facility on ... [+]

Gulf Air renews for CHAMP Cargospot Suite

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed a multi-year agreement to renew for CHAMP’s flagship Cargospot suite – which includes Cargospot Airline, Handling, and Revenue Accounting. The carrier - and customer of over two decades - will also implement the ... [+]

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