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Arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the "merchant of death", has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by a US judge, the BBC reported. The 45 year old the ex-Soviet officer tuirned cargo airline boss was found guilty in November of attempting to sell arms to a supposed Colombian rebel group in 2008 who were in fact US informants.
Bout operated a fleet of ex-Soviet cargo planes and claimed to be ...
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Freight forwarder BDP International is offering a new t service from the US to Europe. BDP AirStar expedites shipments from Chicago,New York and Houston to Amsterdam for immediate transit to all major destinations in Europe. BDP has also entered into a partnership with KLM, AirFrance and Delta.
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Danish-owned logistics and forwarding specialist DSV Air & Sea Limited has launched a new daily air freight service from the Far East to the UK. DSV Everyday, offers daily flights from Hong Kong and South China to the UK.
Three service levels - Priority, Classic and Economy – offer, respectively, a ...
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Virgin Atlantic is continuing its tradition of catering to Hollywood celebrities but now the airline's Cargo department is taking a hand.
Uggie, the 10-year-old Jack Russell Terrier and star of the Oscar-winning silent movie, The Artist, climbed aboard a Virgin Atlantic plane in LA for a flying visit to London for ...
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All-cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines has launched a new route from Hannover Airport to Beijing via Moscow. The new weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter service will primarily transport engineering and automotive parts from the industrial region in North Germany to the Far East with Kühne + Nagel as the main customer.
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Lufthansa Cargo called for swifter implementation of the certified shipper approval process in Germany at its fifth Security Conference in Frankfurt on 5 March. Operations board member Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht said that with only 13 months to go until EU Directive 185 goes into force, fewer than one per cent ...
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The Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG) has called for a standard Consignment Security Declaration for air cargo shipments. It is recommending that international organizations such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), World Customs Organization (WCO) as well as national regulators adopt the declaration and include it in their ...
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A documentary produced in association with Volga-Dnepr Group charting the history of the unique Antonov AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighter aircraft is a finalist in this year’s New YorkFestivals International Television & Film Awards.
Of the thousands of films submitted for judging from all over the world, only 12 works from nine countries ...
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Jade Cargo, the Lufthansa Cargo- Shenzhen Airlines joint venture said on 29 February that it had signed a letter of intent with Shenzhen-based logistics company UniTop to rescue the troubled carrier. Jade Cargo said on 31 December that it had “temporarily suspended” its operations while it agreed on a restructuring ...
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Kuehne + Nagel says it is the first forwarder to introduce active wireless sensors for airfreight real-time temperature control. The equipment is being introduced as part of its KN PharmaChain product.
Generally, security rules prohibit the active use of mobile sensors during air transport. But together with a number of airline ...
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