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Robert Van De Weg rejoins Volga-Dnepr Group to Strengthen Global Commercial Activities

Robert van de Weg, one of the air cargo industry’s leading commercial executives, has rejoined Volga-Dnepr Group as Vice President for Sales and Marketing. In his new role, he will embrace the commercial activities of all the Group’s airlines, namely AirBridgeCargo Airlines, Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Atran Airlines, with responsibility to strengthen and develop the Group’s ‘cargo supermarket’ strategy, which is based on using the synergies of its scheduled and charter businesses ... [+]

AirBridgeCargo Airlines delivers pharma

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), one of the leading transporters of pharmaceuticals by air, has carried a record 19 va-Q-tainers XLx onboard a single flight, delivering products for its European customer, BIOTECH & PHARMA LOGISTICS GmbH (B.P.L. GmbH). The 19 high-performance passive containers, weighing around 15 tonnes in ... [+]

Lufthansa Cargo starts eDGD

Lufthansa Cargo has entered into the IATA Proof of Concept phase for eDGD, the digital approach to manage the IATA Dangerous Goods Declaration (DGD), with implementations in Frankfurt, Paris and Zürich.. The cargo carrier is doing this together with the Dakosy community collaboration platform. Digitizing ... [+]

Port Houston Cargo Tonnage Up 7% in 2018

The amount of cargo handled at Port Houston was up 7% through the first two months of 2018, signaling another strong year, reported Executive Director Roger Guenther. Through February, Port Houston terminals handled 6.1 million tons of cargo, which Guenther called an encouraging start for ... [+]

New Marine Terminal for Port of Corpus Christi

Port of Corpus Christi Approves Lease Agreement with Castleton Commodities International for a New Marine Terminal Port Corpus Christi commissioners have approved a lease agreement with CCI Corpus Christi Infrastructure LLC (CCI) for approximately 55 acres of land on the north side of the Corpus Christi ... [+]

NOAA StormReady Hero

NOAA presented the StormReady Community Hero Award to Danielle Hale, Port of Corpus Christi Emergency Manager, on Thursday April 5, 2018.  The award was be presented by Louis W. Uccellini, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s National Weather Service. The StormReady Community Hero award formally recognizes people ... [+]

Port of Rotterdam Authority starts construction of Container Exchange Route

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has started constructing the infrastructure for the Container Exchange Route (CER). The CER will link the deep sea container terminals, empty depots, rail terminals and distribution companies at Maasvlakte. The goal of this project is to reduce exchange costs between ... [+]

Saia to relocate New Jersey terminal

Saia, Inc. announced on April 5 that Saia LTL Freight will move its New Jersey terminal, currently located in New Bergen, to a new location in Newark. The bigger facility will consist of a warehouse/dock with over 100 doors, as well as an office and ... [+]

State-of-the-art helicopters worth $12 million move through JAXPORT

Highly trained master riggers moved two specially upgraded AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters through JAXPORT's heavy lift and specialty cargo berth at Blount Island Marine Terminal, one of the nation’s highest capacity weight-bearing docks. The aircraft are part of a group of helicopters that first moved through ... [+]

ABC introduces scheduled service at Rickenbacker International Airport

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) will become the fifth world-class freighter operator to provide scheduled service at Columbus, Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport (LCK). ABC's inaugural flight landed on April 5, and weekly scheduled flights will continue on Thursdays, carrying freight inbound from the airline's global hub in Moscow ... [+]

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