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 NEW Zealand is charging multinational freight forwarders for fixing surcharges and fees on airfreight to and from New Zealand from 2001.
 EUROPE has banned two Ghanaian cargo carriers from operating within its airspace.
 VOLGA-Dnepr Airlines of Russia has confirmed it will take delivery of its fourth and fifth new generation Il-76TD-90VD freighters in 2011 and 2012, as it continues to receive strong international demand for the aircraft.
 DALLAS/Fort Worth International Airport has been riding the wave of Asian imports into the US.
 DEPENDANT on final court approval at a sale hearing on 7 September, Centurion Air Cargo has bought the bankrupt Arrow Air Cargo.
 SPANISH logistics company Azkar has bought airport cargo handling company ACL (Cargo Aerospace Logistics).
 JAPAN’S All Nippon Airways (ANA) is increasing its regional freighter operations. From 31 October, the carrier will add new flights to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, thanks to Japan Airlines’ withdrawal from the cargo market.
 AIR Partner has made Clive Chalmers its UK freight manager. Chalmers will report to Richard Smith, group freight director, who will now concentrate solely on developing the company’s international airfreight strategy.
 AIR China has received approval to start an air cargo joint venture with Cathay Pacific Airways.
 SRI Lankan airline Aero Lanka is resuming operations, rebranding itself as Lankan Cargo.
 JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has filed additional plans for its future reorganisation.
 ESTONIA’S Tallinn Airport was closed last week after a freighter crashed during takeoff.
 A US judge has fined Northwest Airlines Cargo US$38 million for price-fixing air cargo charges.
LUCIO Tan Jr, via MRC Allied, has finalised the purchase of a 56 per cent stake in the Filipino-owned but US-based Johnny Air Cargo.
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 IMPROVING air cargo demand allowed Spain’s Iberia to post better-than-expected results for the first half of the year.
 BOEING has delayed delivery of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft again to the first quarter of 2011.
 CHINA Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its fifth 777-200 freighter. This is the second of the type the airline has received in two months.
.jpg) A CARGO test flight from China has flown to St. Louis (US) MidAmerica Airport from Shanghai.
 INDONESIA has reissued a business permit for Tri-MG, a cargo airline that had its business permit revoked by the government in 2008.
 BUCKING the trend for recovery Kansas City International Airport has reported a drop in air cargo traffic for the first half of the year, down 3.8 per cent from the same period last year.
 AIR China, one of China's big three airlines, recorded a 60 per cent rise in its first-half profit compared to last year.
 AIR India flew six cargo handlers from Mumbai to Aurangabad – 400 km away – and back every day during July due to staffing shortages.
 FINNAIR Cargo is planning to launch a freighter service between Helsinki (Finland) and Mumbai (India).
 EUROPE has approved the proposed merger between US carriers United Air Lines and Continental Airlines.
 DUBAI International reported its 10th consecutive month of double-digit air cargo traffic growth in July.
 RUSSIA’S notoriously challenging Customs service is set for a much-needed overhaul.
 THAILAND has agreed to extradite air cargo arms dealer, Viktor Bout, to the US but legal wranglings may still see him go free.
 FIGURES for July show continued strengthening of demand for cargo, with traffic rising 22.7 per cent from last year.
 ALASKA’S ongoing jet fuel shortage, which is causing consternation among transpacific freighter operators, looks like it will be abated, at least for a time.
 TAIWANESE investors have pulled out of the Chinese cargo airline, Yangtze River Express, blaming poor results.
 INVESTORS have thrown troubled Mexicana a lifeline to keep it operational.
 VIRGIN Atlantic is facing its first strike in its 26-year history.
 INDIA has cancelled its threatened ban of foreign airline pilots. However, the threat is only postponed and may resurface next year.
 THERE are still no signs of a double dip recession, and Emirates expects ultimately to deploy all the widebody freighters ordered on its behalf by Dubai Aerospace. Such is the bullish outlook from Ram Menen, divisional senior vice-president cargo at Emirates.
 MAXIMUS Air Cargo is ready for further fleet expansion, according to its president and chief executive officer, Fathi Buhazza, and is considering getting into B747-400Fs.
 Is the security surcharge being used as an excuse to increase prices and fleece the independent forwarder?
 ETIHAD’S two new A330-200Fs will be deployed to Hahn in Germany, Tripoli and Milan, Ndjamena and Nairobi
 TAIWAN airline EVA Airways posted NT$5.2 billion (US$163 million) in net profit in the first half of the year, compared with a net loss of NT$1.6 billion ($50 million) for the first half of 2009.
 FOR the three months ending 30 June Ceva Logistics’ revenue rose €1.7 billion (US$2.1 billion), up from €1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) in the same quarter last year.
 THAILAND is giving its final ruling on Friday whether to extradite infamous arms smuggler, Viktor Bout, to the US.
 WEST Atlantic, the Anglo-Swedish cargo airline, will operate a Bombardier Q400 freighter from October.
 HELLMANN Worldwide Logistics UK saw its 2010 airfreight rise 25 per cent over 2008’s figures and 59 per cent over last year’s.
 AIRBUS is delaying delivery of 12 A330-200 freighters to India’s Flyington Freighters.
 KOREAN Air Lines has flipped its operating loss of 127.3 billion won (US$107.9 million) for the second quarter last year in to an operating profit of 352.1 billion won ($299 million).
 DAMCO has appointed Serge Tripet its global head of sea-air product, a new role at Damco’s airfreight department. He will be based in Copenhagen.
 TALKS have narrowly avoided strikes that were expected to close the UK’s major airports over the busiest weekend of August.
 AGILITY’s net profits fell 53 per cent in the second quarter 2010 compared to the same period last year. Operating profit also fell by 50 per cent, but revenues rose three per cent.
 EVERGREEN International Airlines (EIA) crewmembers, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), have rejected a tentative pay offer by management.
 AIR Charter Service (ACS) has flown 14 12.5-metre-long oil pipes from France into Nigeria.
 DESPITE being in the middle of a fraud investigation that has seen the contract moved elsewhere, Agility has been given special dispensation to continue supplying US armed forces in Iraq until 4 December 2010.
 DRUG smugglers have once again infiltrated Miami International Airport’s cargo workers raising questions of how secure cargo really is at the airport.
 IN a surprise announcement, Brazil’s TAM Airlines and Chile’s LAN Airlines have announced the two will merge.
 QANTAS plans to merge the two joint freight ventures it operates with Australia Post – Australian Air Express (AAE) and Star Track Express.
 MEXICANA Airlines, which has filed for bankruptcy protection and cut 15 international routes, is now saying it needs US$150 million investment to keep flying.
 STRIKES are set to close the UK’s largest airports in the coming weeks. The strike will affect not only Heathrow, but also Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton and Stansted airports.
 UZBEKISTAN Airways (UA) has opened a cargo terminal at Navoi International Airport.
 AUSTRALIA’S Federal Court has given permission for a group lawsuit for cargo price fixing to proceed. The ruling overturns a lower court’s earlier dismissal of case.
 DB Schenker Logistics offers new sorting facility for shoe logistics.
 FRANKFURT Airport handled 188,244 metric tons of airfreight in July 2010, registered a new monthly record and a 20.4 per cent year-on-year increase.
 SAUDI Airlines Cargo has appointed Active Airline Representatives its sole GSA in the Netherlands where the airline previously handled its own sales.
 CARGOITALIA carried 18,717 tons of cargo in the first six months of the year, up from 6,800 tons over the last four months of last year.
 WITH Japan Airlines (JAL) distancing itself from air cargo, All Nippon Airways (ANA) is moving in to exploit the vacuum.
 AIR Menzies International (AMI) has appointed Mark Skinner its new vice-president of finance and commercial development.
 BRITISH Airways World Cargo (BAWC) reported commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) of £175 million for the first quarter of the financial year beginning April 2010.
 UPS reported a 71 per cent jump over the adjusted earnings of the prior-year period. Global revenue increased 13 per cent, generating a 57 per cent increase in operating profit to US$1.4 billion.
 DJIBOUTI has denied Ethiopian Airlines permits to operate flights into the tiny Horn of Africa country forcing Ethiopian to suspend operations there indefinitely.
 EXCLUDING US$24 million of merger-related costs and other special charges, Continental Airlines recorded second quarter net income of $257 million.
 UKRAINE International Airlines (UIA) reported a 20 per cent increase in cargo tonnage in June, transporting 779 tons during the month.
 EFFECTIVE 1 October 2010, Achim Martinka will take over from Klaus Holler as Lufthansa Cargo’s new area manager for the Americas.
 QATAR Airways Cargo has announced it will begin scheduled freighter services to Chicago (US), its first dedicated freighter operation to the US, from 18 August.
 DAMCO has appointed Lee Cartwright its new UK head of airfreight sales.
 ETIHAD Crystal Cargo has received the first widebody A330-200 freighter. The aircraft will enter service in September this year.
 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Cargo’s freight traffic (in load tonne-kilometres) for the first quarter was up 12.1 per cent year-on-year, against capacity growth (in capacity tonne-kilometres) of 4.5 per cent.
 CATHAY Pacific has ordered 30 Airbus A350-900 aircraft and announced its intention to exercise existing purchase rights of six Boeing 777-300ERs.
 INDIA’s civil aviation ministry has given its approval to import 375 aircraft into the country.
 DESPITE Boeing forecasting that the worldwide air cargo market will grow about 14 per cent this year, the manufacturer had more cancellations last week.
 NO group of forwarders suffered as much in the UK market in 2009 as the large Japanese logistic companies.
 VIRGIN Atlantic Cargo has reported annual revenues, for the 2009/10 financial year, of £161 million carrying 194,000 tons of airfreight on the Virgin Atlantic Airlines and V Australia networks.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo has sent out a letter to thousands of customers informing them of a 20 per cent rate rise around the globe from 1 October.
 AFTERSHOCKS of price fixing still wreaking havoc as forwarders start private lawsuits and more nations start their own prosecutions
 FEDEX Trade Networks, the freight-forwarding subsidiary of FedEx, has opened additional offices in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Hamburg and Frankfurt (Germany).
 AIRBUS’ parent company, EADS, has revealed that its first year net profit halved from the year before, but that it is optimistic for the rest of the year following a rush of orders.
 DESPITE the complaining and predictions of it being missed en masse, the aviation industry successfully met the US passenger cargo-screening deadline on 1 August.
 PANALPINA has agreed to pay US$375,000 to settle a bribery lawsuit in the US. The investigation alleged a former employee bribed employees of a US military subcontractor – KRB – over airfreight contracts in Iraq.
 THREE people were killed when a small freighter crashed in Alaska last week.
 A FORECAST released by Boeing suggests that the worldwide air cargo market will grow about 14 per cent this year, return to peak 2007 levels by end-2011 and then grow by five to six per cent annually over the next 20 years.
 HOT on the heels of news that a robo-freighter is in development comes the announcement that plans are afoot for a robo-pallet.
 AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo airline of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group, has taken delivery of its third Boeing 747-400 freighter in four months, increasing its total fleet of the model to 10.
 IATA denies that it had any part to play in the air cargo cartel that South Africa is currently investigating.
 CHINA Southern Airlines has increased its freighters services on the back of strengthening demand.
 PILOT Freight Services reports its second-quarter revenues jumped 27.5 per cent, to US$94.9 million, compared with the same quarter last year.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo made an operating profit of €144 million in the first half of the year, the best in its history.
 ATLAS Air has launched its Dreamlifter service for Boeing. This follows the previously announced nine-year agreement that abruptly took the contract away from Evergreen.
 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).
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Taliban Threatens to Launch Terror Attacks in US and Europe
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:28:19 +0000The Taliban yesterday threatened to launch terror attacks in the US and Europe “very soon” according to news reports. The warning by Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior leader and mentor of suicide bombers, came after a renewal of militant violence in the region this week. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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US Soldiers Quarantined In Turkey After Anthrax Scare
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:20:48 +0000Six U.S. soldiers and a Turk were quarantined in a Turkish hospital after a suspicious powder was found in a parcel at Istanbul’s main airport according to Fox news in new York. Laboratory experts are underway analyze the substance on suspicion that it might be anthrax. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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US Officers Posted At Paris Airport In Counter Terrorism Role
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Report of 2 Mexican Helicopter Incursions In Texas
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:24:31 +0000Local law enforcement officials in Texas were put on alert after a Mexican military helicopter was spotted near Hidalgo County. Federal officials confirmed two Mexican military helicopter incursions took place but are asking the public not to be alarmed. Rio Grande Valley residents have reported at least four Mexican helicopter incursions since March in communities [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Four Miami International Airport Concourses Evacuated
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Pakistan Military Abandons US Trips After Being Mistaken for Terrorists
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:16:51 +0000Earlier this week, we posted on a news report about an incident aboard a United Airlines flight to Tampa that resulted in nine foreign born passengers being removed from the airplane. Several passengers reportedly left shaken up after witnessing the incident. Here’s the rest of the story… A delegation of Pakistani military officers has abandoned a [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Taliban Leader Hakimullah Mehsud Charged In CIA Killings
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:07:54 +0000United States prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December. Mehsud, believed to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan and head of the group known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Discovery Channel Building – Man With Explosive Takes Hostage
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Questions Linger Over Two Men Arrested on United Flight
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:21:09 +0000Questions linger, however American law enforcement officials say their initial concerns about a possible terror “dry run” involving two men on a United Airlines flight to Amsterdam have eased, in part because they have learned the men’s abrupt change in flights resulted from them missing their original flight. Read More This story comes to us [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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International Passenger Jets Still Carry Unscreened Cargo
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:17:28 +0000From the New York Times – To prevent attacks like the Lockerbie bombing, caused by a suitcase containing a bomb loaded onto a plane without the passenger who checked it also on being on board, airlines are supposed to remove the bags of any passengers who check luggage onto flights they do not board.In an [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Passengers React After Men Removed from Tampa Flight
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:57:30 +0000WTSP news reports an incident aboard a United Airlines flight to Tampa resulted in nine foreign born passengers being removed from the airplane and several passengers left shaken up after witnessing the incident. According to the article, several thought the incident was serious enough that they asked to be booked on another flight. One passenger [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Mexican Authorities Nab U.S. Born Drug Lord – La Barbie
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:42:40 +0000Mexican authorities have captured a legendary Texan accused of a bloody climb to the top echelon of one of the hemisphere’s most powerful drug cartels. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La Barbie” faces numerous charges in Mexico, but also is wanted in the United States, where he has been indicted for smuggling thousands of pounds [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Two Suspects on United Airlines Flight Arrested on Terror Charges
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Arson Suspected in Islamic Center Fire – Tennessee
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:16:37 +0000The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating a fire early Saturday morning at the construction site of a new Islamic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee Fire officials have said that the incident is not yet being ruled arson, although there are several reports that is suspected. Investigators are said to be “in the [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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