Looking at serious aspects as well as the lighter side of air cargo, the human interest stories and some ideas on what people are thinking


Manston gets on the scent of new business opportunities


MANSTON, Kent’s interna- tional airport in the south-east of England, has received offi- cial clearance to carry out Remote Explosive Scent Trac- ing (REST) procedures for cargo. The airport has a dedicated facility within the Manston


Airport Cargo Centre to carry out the required REST proce- dures, which has now been inspected and approved by the UK Department for Transport (DfT). According to Allan


McQuarrie, group manager freight development at


Manston, REST is used for large cargo that cannot be hand searched or will not fit through an X-ray machine. He said: “It has taken a


number of months to ensure the dedicated area was pre- pared to the requirements of the DfT, so we were delighted


when the news came through that we had been successful. “Now that we are able to


offer this service to our cus- tomers, there is very little the airport is not able to do. “We have all the services


and facilities required by air- lines and shippers to move or


handle almost any type of cargo, and we hope that this will attract customers old and new to the airport.” Samples will be collected


and tested by Surrey-based Airworld Security, which has DfT-approved operations going on throughout the UK. Tom Wrigley, director at


Manston customer Magma Aviation, said the airport’s


geographical location and competitive pricing make it a natural gateway for exports. McQuarrie concluded: “By


being able to offer REST, we feel that Manston is the per- fect choice for customers to have their aircraft and freight handled, due to the amount of space we have available and also the fact that we are not congested.”


Atlas Air flies B767Fs for DHL


ATLAS AIR has begun flying B767 freighters operating on DHL services under the terms of a CMI (crew, maintenance and insurance) deal. Atlas Air crews are expected


to be flying five DHL-owned B767-200Fs out of the inte- grator’s Cincinnati hub across DHL’s North American net- work. The first of the freighters


went into service during March and Atlas Air crews are expected to be flying all five for DHL by the third quarter of this year. William Flynn, president


and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide, commented: “By growing our CMI operations, we continue to diversify our


IAG CARGOhas begun han- dling Iberia Cargo shipments out of the British Airways World Cargo facilities at Lon- don Heathrow airport. Freight customers now


have a single drop-off and pick-up point on services for both carriers.


DAMCO, part of the AP Moller - Maersk Group, has joined the Cargo 2000 quality management system. Over 80 members represent-


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Flynn: “we continue to diversify our business mix”


business mix while at the same time strengthening our long- term relationship with DHL Express.”


BA and Iberia move closer at Heathrow IAG Cargo global head of


sales David Shepherd noted that the two carriers want to provide “a seamless, one-air- line approach”. He said the highly comple-


mentary networks of BA and Iberia cover 103 of the world’s 120 top cargo airports.


Damco enrols in Cargo 2000 initiative


ing the airline, freight forward- ing, ground handling, road transport, IT and airport sec- tors have signed up to Cargo 2000’s Master Operating Plan.


9 April 2012


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