March 2024
Sri Lanka-based Fits Cargo, which combines physical airline operations with interline agreements with over 160 carriers is now available on the Freightos WebCargo online booking and payment platform.
Fits Cargo flies over 4 million kilograms of air freight a year and operates its own aircraft in Dubai, India, Hong Kong and the Maldives. Elsewhere it offers general sales agencies and in over 70 countries.
Fits Cargo says it is already offering capacity ...
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Munich Airport was the only German major air hub to increase freight traffic in 2023 with an increase of 6.6% year on year, said the Bavarian gateway. Total airfreight volume in Germany as a whole fell by 7.1%, according to German Airports Association figures.
Munich’s freight totalled 284,000 tons, much of ...
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Multimodal services including rail are providing an alternative to disrupted air and sea freight between Asia and Europe, says Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner.
It says that its container rail options can offer a rapid, cost-efficient, and green alternative between Europe and Asia.
Cargo-partner says it hasy seen a surge in demand for rail ...
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Cargo handler, Solent Stevedores has appointed Mark Hooper as director of rail and containers for the ports of Southampton and London Gateway. He was previously business development director for DP World and brings 35-year port experience including 15 years at Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and two years on the Rail ...
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IATA has partnered with climate action non-profit organization, Smart Freight Centre (SFC), to provide better emissions calculations for air cargo.
They will develop the cargo component of IATA’s CO2 Connect emission calculation platform, already launched for passengers in 2022.
CO2 Connect uses airline specific fuel burn figures for full freighter and passenger ...
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Emirates SkyCargo is now live on the Cargo.one digital airfreight platform. Customers can access schedules, tariff and contract rates, and gain real-time access to available capacity. During the initial launch phase, the partnership will roll out in select countries in Europe before expanding across the Americas, Africa, the Far East ...
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Marie Seco-Köppen is to take over from Lothar Moehle as Executive Director of the Cargo iQ. The airfreight quality organisation has also launched a new membership engagement scheme including a tiered membership program and scorecard for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Seco-Köppen brings over 20 years’ experience in delivering process improvements and ...
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Lufthansa Cargo will launch twice-weekly B777F freighter service between Brussels and Chicago O'Hare on 3 April, a service aimed mainly at exporters of pharma productions in one of Europe’s leading manufacturing countries.
The flights originate from Frankfurt’s main Frankfurt hub on Mondays and Wednesdays and will return directly there from Chicago.
Lufthansa ...
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Global forwarder Rhenus has opened a temperature-controlled perishable handling facility at London Heathrow that will allow it to store and build airfreight containers and pallets within a temperature-controlled environment.
It has 2,195sq m of floor space and two racking layers, giving a volume of 1,209 cubic metres of produce, all at ...
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Geopolitics has had little effect on the trend towards globalisation, except in a few specific cases says DHL in the 2024 edition of its Global Connectedness Report, due to be published on 15 March.
It claimed that in 2023 globalisation remained at close to the record of 2022, despite a wars, ...
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