IAI completes first B777-300ER conversion test flight
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- Monday, 27 March 2023
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says it has successfully completed the first test flight of a B777-300ER passenger-to-freight aircraft conversion.
Swissport and Düsseldorf Airport buying Flughafen Düsseldorf Cargo
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- Monday, 27 March 2023
Swissport and Germany's Düsseldorf Airport are to buy 74.9 per cent of Düsseldorf Airport’s cargo handling unit, Flughafen Düsseldorf Cargo and merge their existing air cargo handling businesses at Düsseldorf airport.
Swissport, Lufthansa expand Nairobi agreement
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- Saturday, 25 March 2023
Swissport International and Lufthansa Group have expanded their long-standing Kenya partnership at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi to include the current ramp handling, check-in and gate services - and to add cargo handling and warehousing for Lufthansa Cargo.
Hong Kong drops vape export ban
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- Friday, 24 March 2023
Hong Kong has reversed a ban on the transshipment of e-cigarettes and vapes, worth an estimated 330,000 tons a year or CNY120 billion to Hong Kong’s annual air export volumes.
Swissport wins Sky contract
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- Thursday, 23 March 2023
Airport ground services and cargo handling company Swissport has secured a major contract with Sky Airline, the first low-cost carrier in the Chilean market.
Starting April 2023, Swissport will provide ground services and cargo handling at all 15 airports Sky flies to in Chile.
Smart tech 'the forwarders' friend'
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- Thursday, 23 March 2023
Smart technology, enabling operations automation and better data sharing, will support forwarders to build more efficient, sustainable supply chains, according to James Coombes, chief executive and co-founder of freight platform Raft.
Maersk adds Billund-Hangzhou flights
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- Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Maersk Air Cargo has begun scheduled flights to Hangzhou, China from its hub at Denmark's Billund Airport, which will be home to a Maersk Air Cargo team with pilots and aircraft maintenance staff.
Latest DHL Global Connectedness Index says flows may rise again this year
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- Tuesday, 21 March 2023
DHL and New York University’s Stern School of Business have released the new DHL Global Connectedness Index 2022, an in-depth report on the state of globalisation and its prospects. Analysing data from 171 countries and territories, it reveals how flows of trade, people, capital, and information move around the world.
IAG opens two more routes
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- Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Europe's IAG Cargo has opened two new routes from the UK to Aruba and Guyana.
