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CATHAY PACIFIC CARGO INVESTS US$6.4M FOR NEW PHARMA FACILITY
28 February 2022Cathay Pacific Cargo announced that it is investing HK$50 million (US$6.4 million) for the development of a large new pharma facility. The announcement came as the carrier recently rolled out MobiFresh, a solution to help keep shipments cool betw...
TELEPORT ADDS MORE ROUTES TO ITS CARGO-ONLY NETWORK CITING DEMAND
28 February 2022Teleport, the logistics venture of Capital A (formerly AirAsia Group), announced that it is resuming more of its scheduled cargo flights through the use of four Airbus A330 aircraft beginning March 2022. With initially four A330s assigned to be u...
PORT OF HAMBURG'S SEABORNE CARGO RECOVERS IN 2022
28 February 2022After the previous year's downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Port of Hamburg announced that in 2021, the seaborne cargo throughput trend was "more positive than expected." In a statement, it said throughput totalled 128.7 million tons, or...
AAPA: APAC AIRLINES SAW GROWTH IN JANUARY CARGO VOLUMES BOOSTED BY LUNAR NEW YEAR SHIPMENTS
28 February 2022Asia Pacific airlines saw cargo demand continue to show resilience in January, despite "depressed" passenger volumes boosted by shipments for the Lunar New Year festivities. The Kuala Lumpur-based Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said...
EASA DECLARES UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, MOLDOVAN, BELARUSIAN AREAS AN 'ACTIVE CONFLICT ZONE'
25 February 2022The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) updated its recommendation to outline that no operations should be conducted within the airspaces of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus, including landing and departures from airports located in the...
DHL LAUNCHES SERVICE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS IN AIR FREIGHT
25 February 2022DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight unit of Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced the expansion of its GoGreen Plus Service to air cargo to provide real emissions reductions through carbon insetting.
UKRAINE, WESTERN RUSSIA CLOSES AIRSPACE
24 February 2022The Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE) announced on February 24 the closure of Ukraine's airspace to civilian airspace users as tensions with Russia continue to escalate. In a notice, UkSATSE said the suspension takes effe...
CMA CGM AIR CARGO APPLIES FOR US FOREIGN AIR CARRIER PERMIT
24 February 2022CMA CGM Air Cargo, the newly-established air freight division of shipping and logistics company CMA CGM, has applied for a foreign air carrier permit in the United States as the carrier looks set to operate its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC) airl...
HONG KONG EXTENDS FLIGHT BAN FROM SELECT COUNTRIES UNTIL APRIL 20
24 February 2022Hong Kong has extended the earlier flight ban it implemented from select countries amid efforts to curb the latest Covid-19 outbreak in the city. "The Government announced today (February 23) that the place-specific flight suspension mechanism fo...
Lufthansa Cargo announced that it will begin offering space on its converted A321 medium-haul freighters from March citing continued demand in e-commerce deliveries. In a statement, it said with the start of operations on March 15, Lufthansa Carg...
DHL EXPRESS BOOSTS VIETNAM-US CAPACITY AS TRADE INCREASES
22 February 2022DHL Express has announced the introduction of a new route between Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and the United States citing increase in bilateral trade between the two countries. In a statement, DHL said the new service will be operated by Kalitta...
LUFTHANSA CARGO, RÖHLIG LOGISTICS PARTNER TO CUT EMISSIONS
22 February 2022Lufthansa Cargo and Röhlig Logistics are joining forces to offer customers a sustainable transport service by aiming to decarbonise selected routes immediately. In a statement, Lufthansa said Röhlig Logistics relies on investments in certified cl...
Hong Kong's Government recently welcomed the city's Air Transport Licensing Authority's decision to grant a license to Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), a few months after it received its Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) from the Hong Kong Civil Aviation D...
QATAR AIRWAYS CARGO OKS LATEST RELEYE CONTAINER
21 February 2022Qatar Airways Cargo has approved the Envirotainer Releye® RAP for temperature controlled container after it was launched earlier this year. Releye® RAP is the largest and most technically advanced product in Envirotainer’s new generation contain...