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CHILE-headquartered LAN Airlines saw its cargo traffic increase by 16 percent year- on-year inAugust. It attributed the improvement to rising imports into LatinAmerica – especially into Brazil – and the positive effect of using the B777 freighter on operations into Europe. Cargo capacity rose by 17 percent over the samemonth of 2009, so the load factor fell by 0.6 percentage points to 68.4 percent.
THISMONTH (October), the new SpiritAir Cargo Handling terminal at Stockholm- Arlanda airport will be inaugurated.Measuring 11,000m2
, it is the last
terminal tomove to the gateway’s Cargo City area, which brings together all freight-related activities in one secure location.
PANALPINAWorld Transport has opened a logistics facility in Singapore dedicated to the region’s vibrant oil and gas industry. Inaugurated in August, the new complex offers 7,000m2
warehouse, 14,000m2 open yard and 1,100m2
of covered of
of
office space, increasing Panalpina’s warehousing capacity in Singapore to a total area ofmore than 30,000m2
.
Asiana adds Atlanta B747-400F
THEINAUGURALflightof anewAsianaCargoB747freighter servicelandedatAtlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International airport lastmonth (September). AsianaAirlines is flyingdedicatedB747-400 cargooperations fromSeoul intothe
Georgia gateway four times a week. It is one of 14 freighter operators currently serving Hartsfield-Jackson, adding to the other traffic at the world’s busiest passenger airport. The new operation is estimated by Atlanta to be worth an estimated US$24
million each year to the city and South-East region of theUS. Thenewlaunchwaswelcomedby a traditionalwater cannonsalute.Alsopresent
wereairport interimgeneralmanagerRobertKennedy andtheCityofAtlantamayor KasimReed. According to Reed: “The decision by (Asiana’s) executives to begin scheduled
cargo service to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport reflects the city’s position as a leading transportation and logistics hub in the South-East.” Kennedy addedthathewas lookingforwardtoworkingwiththeIncheon-based
airlineand“buildinguponour reputationasoneof theworld’s leadingcargoairports”. Air cargo through the hub increased year-on-year by 22 percent over the first sevenmonthsof2010comparedwith2009.Theinternational freight componentof the total rose by 35 percent over the January - July period of 2009.
ACCORDING to Stephen Cleary, executive manager Qantas Freight: “The China - US route has made an impressive recovery this year. The strategicallyimportantTasmanmarket is also performingwell. “InJune,weinauguratedservices to
Qantas Freight keeps pushing ahead “Qantas Freight is also halfway
through the roll-out of its Freight Futures programme. This replaces the business
legacy
andfromKorea (Incheon),”Cleary said. “These services operate Sydney - Incheon-Chicago-Shanghai -Sydney. We see great potential in thismarket and are looking at opportunities.
further 6 AIR LOGISTICSCHINA information
technology systems and will revolutionise our work processes,”he observed. “All global sales and reservations
staff are now using the iCargo applicationthat forms thebackboneof this programme,with our operational areas scheduled to cut over to iCargo inmid-2011,”Cleary concluded.
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