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Dubai launches e-freight

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

Dubai-based Emirates airline and Dubai Customs are co-ordinating the introduction of the IATA e-freight program to Dubai, the first city in the Middle East to do so and only the 14th e-freight location worldwide to deliver paper-free cargo. The initiative went “live” earlier this week on the trade lanes between Dubai and Singapore, Hong Kong and London.

Air China adds converts

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

Air China Cargo will add three 747-400 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs) (from Air China) to its cargo fleet.

19 years of air cargo growth tipped

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

US aircraft manufacturer Boeing says world air cargo growth will expand at 5.8 per cent annually over the next two decades and worldwide air freight traffic will triple through 2027.

Hedging goes wrong

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

As airlines rejig their pricing and cost-recovery strategies in the light of falling avgas prices, stories are emerging of carrier losses due to hedging strategies that have backfired.

Hmm. Should we investigate or not?

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

Don't you wish you could have been a fly on the wall at the TSB meeting? The Canadian Press reports that country's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is assessing an airsafety incident but has not decided yet whether to investigate after a cargo and a passenger aircraft clipped each other in the air as they were landing in clear daylight in a remote northern Labrador community.

Select renamed

: Latest News; Thursday, 06 November 2008

The Select Carrier Group of the USA has been renamed CEVA Ground - a sub-brand of CEVA Logistics based in the Netherlands - to ensure consistency of service delivery with similar service offerings globally.

Logistics firms told to get ready for competition

: Latest News; Wednesday, 05 November 2008

Malaysia's International Trade and Industry minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called on the country's logistics providers to improve their service quality ahead of moves by Asean member states to undertake equity liberalisation and allow up to 49 per cent of foreign equity by this year.

Bayside buys Flight Express

: Latest News; Wednesday, 05 November 2008

Bayside, the owner of USA cargo shipper AirNet Systems, has purchased Florida-based cargo airline Flight Express.

MASKargo holding its own

: Latest News; Wednesday, 05 November 2008

Malaysia Airlines’ MASkargo, its freighter arm, says it expects a marginal increase in revenue this year. Revenue forecast for 2008 is US$800 million, compared with last year's $785 million, contributing 22 per cent of total group revenue, said MASkargo's managing director Shahari Sulaiman.