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LOS ANGELES International airport handled 483,565 tons of freight in the third quarter of this year, up by 13.3 percent on the same period of 2009. The gateway’s January - September throughputwas up by 21.3 percent year-on- year at 1.43million tons.
AIR INDIA inaugurated a B777- 300ER service fromHyderabad to Chicago viaDelhi on 31 October. The start of services fromHyderabad to San Francisco is being reviewed.
CHINA AVIATIONSupplies Holding Company has signed a dealwith Airbus for 102 aircraft, ofwhich 66 are new orders for 50 A320s, six A330s and 10 A350 XWBs.
SOUTH America’s LAN Airlines reported“a strongrecovery”in its cargoandpassenger business for the third quarter of the year,witha 49.4percent year-on-year increase inits cargorevenues, accountingfor 28percentof airline revenues.
TAREK Sultan, chairman of Kuwait-basedAgility says that 2011 is expected to be a difficult year as it seeks tomove away frommilitary to commercial business.He noted thatAgility sees "tremendous" growth opportunities in emergingmarkets such as India, China, Brazil and Egypt.
Industryagrees topull together
THE FINALdayofThe InternationalAirCargoAssociation(TIACA)AirCargoForumin Amsterdamlastmonthbeganwithapress conferencetoannouncetheformationof a new industry advisory group comprising TIACA, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) andtheGlobal Shippers’Forum(GSF) representativebody. MichaelSteen(picturedcentre),vicechairmanofTIACA;DesVertannes (left),global
head of cargo at IATA; and Jean-Claude Delen, president of FIATA, signed a letter of intent “committing to work towards the formation of an industry advisory group facilitated by TIACA to ensure the air cargo industry has a strong, unified voice in dealing with worldwide regulatory authorities and other bodies whose decisions directly impactonair cargo”. Freight security, Customs reform, e-commerce and the environment were all
singledout asparticular issuesof concernfor thenewgrouping. Steenconfirmedthat eachof the independentbodieswouldcontinue tooperate
as theydoinorder torepresent
theirownmemberships.Vertannes saidthathehoped the intention towork together nowdispels any idea that the industry is disjointed andbelieves that the coalitionwillhelptomove the“key industry agenda”forward.
ANAadopts iCargofromIBS Software
ALLNIPPONAirways (ANA), the largest domestic carrier in Japan and among the top 10 carriers in the world by International Air Transport Association(IATA) rankings,has moved over to the iCargo system developed by IBS Software tomanage its entire cargo operations. This includes all the airline’s
Takanori Yukishige, senior
vicepresident ITservicesatANA, commented: “Our decision ... to choose iCargo was prompted by our need for a system that would help us address the growing air cargo business around theworld.” V KMathews, chairman and
international cargo operations and the import ground handling operations at fivemajor airports in Japan.
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Mathews remarks on “great achievement”
CEO of IBS Group, noted: “The successful cut-over at ANA is a great achievement that
underscores the capability and values our iCargo solution suite offers.”
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