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Thai Cargo has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) a five-year cargo handling contract in the UK and Ireland. WFS will provide handling for the carrier’s double daily Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 flights from London Heathrow to Bangkok as well as regional cargo handling across its UK and Ireland stations and trucking network connecting each airport location. The Thai Cargo team in the UK and Ireland will also relocate to ...
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Handler Worldwide Flight Services has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sjømatterminalen to operate the Seafood Center at Oslo Airport. It will handle up to 250,000 tons a year and meet industry requirements for cool chain logistics. Construction of the terminal is expected to start in April 2019, with opening ...
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Investment firm Cerberus Capital Management is to acquire Worldwide Flight Services from Platinum Equity. Paris-headquartered WFS is the world’s largest air cargo handler with a presence in 198 airports in 22 countries.
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Singapore Airlines has renewed its cargo handling contracts with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in London and Paris. At Heathrow, WFS handles cargo on Singapore Airlines’ double daily A380-800 services and its twice-daily 777-300 operations to Singapore. This is in addition to twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter services, which depart Heathrow every ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has acquired a 100% shareholding in its former WFS Ireland joint venture after buying the minority shareholding of its partners, Gerry Jackson and Brendan Byrne.
Gerry Jackson retired from the company at the end of 2017 but Brendan Byrne will continue as president of WFS Ireland. The ...
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Airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed a 15-year lease on a new 346,000 sq ft cargo terminal, the first phase of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Vision Plan to enhance ageing facilities at the US gateway. WFS is already one of the largest handlers ...
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French-owned air cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) - the world’s largest - opened a new temperature-controlled facility in Copenhagen for pharmaceuticals in mid-December.
The investment would support WFS’ airline customers’ growing pharma volumes and WFS’ own IATA CEIV Pharma certification programme in Denmark, which it expects to complete in early ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is once again the official ground handler for the world’s largest aerospace event, the 52nd International Paris Air Show from 19 to 25 June.
WFS has been the official ground handling partner of the Air Show at the Le Bourget Parc des Expositions since 2001 and this ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won a three-year contract to provide cargo handling and trucking services for Pakistan International Airlines flights at London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester. WFS operations director, UK & Ireland, Cliff McKrell, said: “PIA has recognised the value of having a single cargo handler at all three ...
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Former Menzies Aviation chief executive Craig Smyth has been appointed CEO at airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) from 29 August. He takes over from Olivier Bijaoui, who resigned in July. In his 20 years at Menzies, Smyth is credited to building the business up into one of the world’s ...
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