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Berlin gets set for its big opening day IN BRIEF


KOREAN AIRCargo has flown approximately 400 tonnes of UN humanitarian supplies to help the UN relief effort in the Horn of Africa, flying aid into Mombasa, Kenya.


SINGAPORE’S Tiger airways has taken delivery of two more A320s as it approaches its December 2015 fleet target of 68 aircraft. It now boasts 20 aircraft, and this latest expansion is expected to allow the airline to fly new routes to destinations such as to Bangalore, Cebu and Davao.


ROYAL JORDANIANCargo has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 quality management accreditation for its freight sales and services. Airline vice president cargo Muath Majali said that certification “will definitely have a positive impact on the cargo performance”.


OVER THE NINEmonths of 2011 up to 30 September, cargo throughput at Dubai International airport totalled 1,610,398 tonnes, a drop of 1.7 percent on the amount handled in the same period last year.


BOEING’Slong-awaited B787 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft completed its first commercial service on 23 October. The All Nippon Airways charter flight between Tokyo and Hong Kong International airport was completed in slightly over four hours.


THE NEW Berlin International airport, which will open for business on 3 June next year, will be a complete change for Germany’s capital. The city needs the new


airport and there is much there to stimulate air freight development, says Torsten Jueling, team manager business development and air cargo at Berlin Airports. Industry in and around the


the expanding reach of the intercontinental passenger services operating through Berlin. airberlin is the airport’s


Jueling notes the importance of air freight


city includes biotechnology and pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, manufacturers of clean technology and big engine manufacturers like MAN, Siemens and Rolls-Royce. In terms of connectivity, there are


excellent road and rail links, while there is a dense network of air routes offered out of the current Schoenefeld and Tegel gateways. Perhaps as a result, air cargo volumes are on the rise, with the primary driver being


biggest cargo carrier on these routes. While having financial problems that are forcing it to scale back on some routes, the carrier is adding another A330 to its Berlin fleet to boost its long-haul capability. Although 31 percent of


Berlin’s freight traffic is carried in the bellyhold space of passenger aircraft, supported by a 20 percent share carried on integrator aircraft – those of TNT, FedEx and UPS – the 49 percent balance is moved by a wide-ranging trucking network primarily to the big cargo gateways of Amsterdam and Frankfurt-Main. In terms of freight destinations, 51


percent of Berlin cargo flies to the huge Asian market, while next in importance is North America.


UPS offers new container for pharmaceuticals


UPS is to employ a new air cargo container designed for the movement of pharmaceutical products called the PharmaPort 360. UPS said that it will provide “an unparalleled level of shipment monitoring and product protection” for pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biologics. “The stakes are high when there’s a


patient at the end of the supply chain, and UPS strongly believes that the PharmaPort 360 will ensure better protection of potentially life-saving therapies,” advised Mark Davis, product manager at UPS Healthcare Logistics. Manufactured by Cool Containers of


the US, PharmaPort 360 utilises both heating and cooling storage technology to keep its contents at a steady temperature between +2 and +8°C. Cool Containers said the new product


can sustain the protective temperature range for more than 100 hours during


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the transportation cycle. The container uses built-in sensors that


monitor the condition of the shipment and its GPS location, and that data is transmitted to UPS via GSM. If an alert is sent, UPS can then react to the situation with contingency measures. The container has been approved by


the US Federal Aviation Administration for use on narrowbody and widebody aircraft.


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