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 WORLD Airways, a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings, has entered into an agreement to add two leased Boeing 747-400 freighters to its fleet.
 INTERNATIONAL airfreight showed continued strong demand growth in June as the industry recovers from the impact of the global financial crisis.
 SOUTH Africa’s Competition Tribunal is considering the prosecution of eight airlines for their part in a global airfreight cartel that started in 1996 and ran for 10 years.
 AGILITY’S woes have lessen just a little with news that the US is planning on dropping the charges for fraud against one of Agility’s subsidiaries.
 ARAMEX has reported second-quarter, for the three months ending 30 June, net profits of AED55 million (US$14.9 million), a 10 per cent increase over the corresponding period of 2009.
 BRITISH Airways (BA) has issued legal proceedings against 24 other airlines to make them equally responsible for any fines that the court gives it.
 A LUFTHANSA Cargo MD-11 freighter crashed this morning at 11.38 am (local time) in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
 DHL Global Forwarding is expecting the recent volatility in the logistics market to continue well into 2011.
 THERE must have been many in the air cargo industry who reckoned it would not survive the year, but 12 months after its first flight on 28 July 2009, Air Cargo Germany insists that it is developing according to plan.
 AIR Cargo News has learned that Carsten Spohr is likely to be announced as the new head of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines in September – as a major change in the executive management of the airline is revealed.
 Middle East carriers showcase new orders and deliveries at Farnborough, but can the air cargo industry absorb this extra capacity without destroying yields?
 THE Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its official public debut at the Farnborough Airshow in July as the type edges nearer to entering commercial service.
 BAHRAIN’S government has instructed all of its officials to only use the national carrier, Gulf Air, when sending air cargo and for travelling.
 JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has agreed to a US$12 million settlement for price-fixing cargo surcharges in and to the US.
 AMERICAN Airlines, British Airways (BA) and Iberia have finally been given all the final regulatory approvals for joint transatlantic operations. The announcement comes after final approval for the merger between BA and Iberia.
 HELLMANN Worldwide Logistics has expanded its warehouse capacity in Beylikdüzü, Istanbul.
 FRAPORT’S half-year results show a strong recovery from the first half of the disastrous 2009. At more than one million metric tons, airfreight tonnage rose 32.2 per cent.
 ETIHAD Crystal Cargo formally took delivery of its first Airbus A330-200 freighter at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow today.
 AVIATION Capital Group (ACG) has ordered two 737-400SF 11-pallet configuration passenger-to-freighter conversions from Aeronautical Engineers.
 UNDER a seven-year agreement, Amerijet International will lease a second 767 medium widebody freighter from Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), the leasing subsidiary of the Air Transport Services Group (ATSG).
 SEATTLE’S Expeditor's International has posted encouraging results for the second quarter of 2010.
 EMIRATES, the Dubai-based carrier, today placed an order with Boeing for an additional 30 777-300ERs, worth approximately US$9.1 billion in list prices.
 BOEING and Lan Cargo have announced the Latin American carrier will join Boeing's component services programme (CSP).
 CANADIAN cargo operator, Cargojet, has sold its 55 per cent stake in the Cargojet Regional Partnership to Skylink Express.
 BOEING forecasts a US$3.6 trillion market for new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years as world economies rebound and strong demand for new and replacement aircraft spurs growth.
 FOLLOWING its recent damning report by government auditors, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims that it does not need a contingency plan if, or when, it fails to meet its mandate to screen 100 per cent of domestic air cargo by August 2010.
 PANALPINA has made Chris Kent the new global head of Panprojects, a wholly owned Panalpina subsidiary.
 KUEHNE & Nagel has won an Algerian oil and gas contract worth €785 million (US$1 billion).
 THE logistics industry faces four new realities that will have a long-term impact on supply chain management, according to Schenker.
 PANALPINA has appointed Barrie Sears its area head of healthcare for northwest Europe.
 NATIONAL Airlines – formerly Murray Air and wholly owned by the National Air Cargo Group – is preparing to operate a 747-428 freighter.
 EUROPE’S government, the European Commission (EC), has approved the proposed merger between British Airways (BA) and Iberia.
 DUAL cargo operations between Lufthansa Cargo and the Austrian Airlines have launched.
 AIRBUS’ plans to have Russia convert its A320 passenger aircraft into freighters will still take some time, according to Airbus head, Tom Enders.
 FREIGHT forwarder Bellville Rodair Global has appointed Terry Walpole as its group chief executive officer.
 DESPITE Air France-KLM arranging an out-of-court settlement of US$87 million to the US for alleged pricefixing of airfreight, scavengers have started to circle the wounded Franco-Dutch carrier group in Europe.
 IATA has standardised cargo liability limits. With regulatory approval and with effect from 1 July, the Air Waybill (AWB) Conditions of Contract (IATA Resolution 600b) have been brought into alignment with the application of the Montreal Convention liability limit for all air cargo across all routes.
 DB Schenker is to bundle its management functions in Frankfurt. The management teams of the corporate units currently located in Berlin, Essen and Mainz will now be concentrated at the new locatio
 Kuala Lumpa International Airport (KLIA) is to convert its low-cost carrier terminal (LCCT) into an airfreight terminal.
 CROATIA Airlines has appointed ATC Aviation Services as its GSSA for Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland effective 1 August
 AUSTRALIAN airfreight fell 9.2 per cent in 2008/9 compared with 2007/8, down to 709,374 tonnes.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo carried 830,000 tonnes of freight and mail in the first six months of 2010, nearly 20 per cent more than in the first half of 2009.
 AIR France-KLM Cargo is increasing capacity to Tokyo following the recent recovery in demand for airfreight.
 CHENNAI airport handled 24 per cent more cargo in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year.
 SPAIN’S Vueling Airlines has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) cargo handling agent at London Heathrow and Edinburgh.
 A FAULTY cargo scanner at Air India’s Chennai warehouse brought the clearance of airfreight to a standstill last week.
 JAPAN’S airfreight levels have recovered with the rest of the global industry, but recovered gains are starting to slip, for some more than others.
 TRANSGLOBAL Cargo Centre – the new on-airport perishables handler at Kenya’s Nairobi Airport – has appointed Mark Carroll its general manager, sales and marketing.
 AIR France-KLM has agreed to pay US87, million to have its price-fixing charges dropped in the US.
 A LARGE fire has broken out in a warehouse at London Heathrow Airport. Dozens of firefighters are tackling the blaze at the Servisair Building 521.
 THE troubled and often painfully slow e-freight project received a boost in early July when Emirates SkyCargo announced that total shipments of e-freight reached the one million kilos per month milestone. The airline also passed the 16 million kilo mark in total e-freight shipments.
 TURKISH Cargo is gearing itself up for the introduction of major new freighter capacity much earlier than expected, when it receives its first Airbus A330 freighter later this year.
 Again, a bankrupt carrier leaves creditors fuming, as Arrow Cargo announces liquidation after takeover talks fail
 NEW IATA statistics have shown that Korean Air maintained its position at the top of the international scheduled air cargo operators rankings for 2009, despite the global challenges that have been affecting the industry.
 AUSTRALIA’S Toll Group becomes one of the largest freight forwarders in the UK after it announced the acquisition of Genesis Forwarding Group and WT Sea Air Group.
 HONG Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) handled a total of 245,352 tonnes in June, up 30.5 per cent year-on-year.
 BOEING has announced the firm configuration for the new stretch version 787-9 Dreamliner.
 JOHANNESBURG-based GSSA The Cargo Connection has won the contract to represent Hellenic Imperial Airways throughout South Africa.
BDP International has completed its phased acquisition of Euromodal, taking 100 per cent ownership of the Spanish logistics firm.
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 NIGERIAN clearing and forwarding agents have criticised the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for the lack of cargo facilities at Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
 SOUTH Korean forwarders are preparing lawsuits against the airlines recently exposed for price fixing.
 DUTCH logistics group TNT is raising airfreight capacity to China thanks to strong demand. According to the Chinese General Administration of Customs, Chinese exports to Europe have increased by 50 per cent in the first five months of the year since 2009.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo has achieved full compliance of the new, tougher cargo screening requirements imposed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) a full month ahead of the scheduled implementation date.
 DEMAND for airfreight into and out of Afghanistan is growing, despite the ongoing conflicts.
 TAN Jr Group is expected to finalise its purchase of Johnny Air Cargo this summer.
 THE British Airways (BA) cabin crew dispute grinds on and it seems that everyone, bar senior management and the union representatives, is eager for some sort of resolution.
 JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has cut its international cargo fuel surcharge on exports.
 DELL has threatened to ship its computers by ocean rather than airfreight in future to maximise profits.
 WITH jet fuel projected to pass US$300 per barrel by 2020, support for lighter-than-air freighters is growing.
 AN Air Charter Service (ACS) Il-96 freighter has become the first of its type to fly to Australia.
 FLORIDA’S proposed international cargo airport is caught up in a lawsuit between its developers.
 A MALAYSIAN freighter – carrier unknown – made an emergency landing at Karachi Airport (Pakistan) at the weekend.
 ALASKA’S ongoing fuel problems are forcing freighters to overfly Anchorage for refuelling.
 PETER Pasman is the new managing director of Rhenus Air at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
 THERE is fresh doubt over whether the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and aviation industry will manage to meet the August deadline to screen all cargo on passenger jets.
 THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has fined two Indian companies US$422,500 for illegally sending depleted uranium in the bellyhold of a passenger jet.
 CHINA Eastern Airlines and its subsidiary Shanghai Airlines are busy merging their cargo units.
 SO-called ‘zombie’ companies – those that exist merely to pay off their debts to survive – are on the increase in the aviation industry.
 THE EU and US have made permanent their open skies agreement.
 A SENIOR civil aviation official has committed suicide due to ongoing investigations into corruption of civil aviation officials.
 ARROW Air has ceased operations, effective immediately.
 BOEING has praised the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling that declared some of the EU’s subsidies to Airbus illegal.
 NICK Fadugba, the new secretary general of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), has unexpectedly quit his position.
 MAXIMUS Air Cargo is looking to buy more freighters and to expand out of Abu Dhabi.
 AUSTRIA is the latest country to implement the International Air Transport Association (IATA) e-freight programme.
 AN investigation has revealed how fraud committed by the ‘nephew’ of the former president allegedly led to the demise of Ghana Airways.
 INDONESIA’S national airline, Garuda Indonesia, has resumed daily services from Jakarta to Amsterdam via Dubai.
 MALAYSIA Airlines is threatening to cancel its orders for six A380s due to long delivery delays.
 GLOBAL airfreight traffic grew 34.3 per cent in May compared to the same month last year, up from the 26 per cent recorded in April.
 JOAQUIN Almunia, the European Union’s (EU) new competition commissioner, has said that he may be willing to negotiate more lenient fines to airlines convicted of airfreight price fixing.
 WORLD Airways has leased a second MD-11 freighter to Allied Air Cargo until December 2011.
 ALOHA Air Cargo has appointed Lee Steele – former vice-president of operations at Aloha Airlines – its president.
 JOHANNESBURG-based GSSA The Cargo Connection has won the contract to represent Hellenic Imperial Airways throughout South Africa.
 BRUSSELS Airlines Cargo is launching operations to four more destinations in West Africa in conjunction with its global GSA partner, European Cargo Services (ECS).
 Dubai opened its second airport on 27 July after the new airport passed a series of operational tests conducted during its first ‘live’ flight.
 NIGERIA’S anti-corruption agency has launched an investigation into the country’s domestic airlines over their unpaid debts.
 ENRIQUE Cueto, LAN Airlines' chief executive officer, says the airline will increase cargo traffic by 30 per cent this year.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo and a group of German logistics associations have launched the ‘Cargo needs the night’ initiative to promote the need for changes to night-flight restrictions.
 AIR Charter Service (ACS) has opened its second Russian office – its 11th worldwide – at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo International airport, to support Russia and the CIS’ growing charter market.
 AIR Transport Services Group (ATSG) has reported that its Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) subsidiary has committed to buy three 767-300ERs from Qantas Airways, with delivery in the third quarter.
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Man Questioned After Airplane Incident at Reagan National Airport
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:59:32 +0000Law enforcement officials are questioning a man they say claimed to be a terrorist as US Airways Flight 2032 was preparing to depart for Boston in what might have been an attempt to get off a plane stuck on a tarmac at Reagan National Airport. Government sources, who declined to be quoted, said the passenger [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Black Hat – U.S. Infrastructure Vulnerable To Cyber Attack
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:09:17 +0000Cyber terrorists have a number of ways to mount a major cyber attack on U.S. Internet infrastructure due to the general instability of its base, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) “With decades of IT infrastructure built to support changing technologies, there is little ability to baseline the entire infrastructure [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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ACLU Seeks Records on FBI Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:03:47 +0000The American Civil Liberties Union today is asking the FBI field offices in 29 states and Washington, D.C. to turn over records related to the agency’s collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities. According to an FBI operations guide, FBI agents have the authority to collect information about and create maps [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Undercover Feds Able to Easily Obtain Fraudulent Passports
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:59:36 +0000Nearly 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks brought to light the dangers of fake IDs, federal undercover agents are still able to easily obtain genuine U.S. e-Passports using clearly fraudulent information that should have raised red flags at the State Department according to this ABC News report. Gregory Kutz, an investigator for [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez Close For Security Review
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:52:40 +0000The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement that the Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to “review its security posture,”. The facility, on the border with Texas, will be closed Friday and will remain closed until the security review is completed, according to the embassy statement. No reason for the [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Travelers Board Flight After Positive Explosives Tests
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:00:04 +0000Was it a coincidence that agents reportedly found small trace amounts of explosives on the arm casts of two people in two different terminals at DFW airport? Lets hope so. NBC Dallas Ft. Worth reports sources within the TSA and DFW Airport Police said agents discovered the small traces of explosives on the arm casts [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Homeland Security Takes Hard Questions at Black Hat Event
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:46:16 +0000The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent its highest-ranking official ever to speak at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this week, and its Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute ended up fielding a few tough questions from skeptical computer security professionals in attendance. Read Full Article Related articles DHS Exec Takes Hard Questions on [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Self Boarding Tests By Continental Begin at Houston Airport
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:40:01 +0000Continental Airlines is testing a new self-service boarding procedure at a gate at its hub in the Houston Intercontinental airport. It’s said to be the first experiment at what’s called “self-boarding” in the country. Similar to passengers on a subway, airline passengers will swipe their boarding passes at a kiosk reader at the gate. That [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Google, CIA Invest in Real Time Monitoring To Predict Future Events
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:32:57 +0000A company that monitors the web in real time and says it uses that information to predict the future is receiving backing from the investment arms of the CIA and Google. Recorded Future (the company) scours tens of thousands of Internet websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to uncover relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Proposal Would Ease FBI Access To Online Activity Records
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:22:54 +0000According to this article in the Washington Post, the Obama administration is looking to make it easier for the FBI to access records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if it is deemed the information is relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The White House is looking to include just four [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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al Zawahiri – al Qaeda Number 2 Threatens More Attacks
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:34:07 +0000Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qeada’s second in command is back, once again threatening more terror attacks against the US and the West. In an audio eulogy for Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Zawahiri mentions the Times Square Attack and promises more to come. According to a transcript provided by the “MEMRI”, the Middle East Media Research Institute, based [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Counter-Terrorism – Israel Identifies The Perfect Terrorist
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:52:22 +0000Israel and the US have collected a great deal of information about how Islamic terrorists operate. Much of this data will continue to be secret for quite a while, but new pieces of information are made public once in awhile. The latest revelation is in fact confirmation of several older items of information. Suicide bombers [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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See Something Say Something Campaign for General Aviation Launched
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:38:51 +0000Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole today launched two major enhancements to general aviation security – the general aviation component of DHS’s nationwide “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign, and a streamlined system for vetting passengers and crew on general aviation aircraft entering [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Mexican Police Investigate Possible Emergence of New Drug Gang
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:31:48 +0000Six men were discovered bound in a car car near Chilpancingo, Guerrero Mexico next to a not that read “This will happen to all rapists, extortionists and kidnappers. Attentively, the New Cartel of the Sierra”. Although the killings in Mexico do not come as a surprise, Mexican authorities are investigating the possible emergence of a [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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