NewsWeek ANA benefits from rising cargo volumes


DANISH NO-FRILLS AIRLINE Cimber Sterling cancelled all its flights and declared bankruptcy on 3 May, blaming lack of financial support. The carrier was based at Copenhagen, Billund and Aalborg airports.


CEVA LOGISTICS has opened a Control Tower facility near Madrid. The company uses the term to describe an integrated information hub that offers a single point of control over all logistics services within a region. CEVA opened a Control Tower in Milan in 2010.


LOGISTICS SERVICES provider Weiss-Röhlig has opened a new project forwarding division in Taiwan in what it describes as part of its strategy to expand the company’s footprint across Asia.


JAPAN’S ALL Nippon Air- ways (ANA) carried 570,000 tons of freight on interna- tional routes during its 2011/12 financial year (the 12 months ending March 2012), 2.4 percent more than during the 2010/11 fiscal period. International cargo traffic,


as measured in ton-km, rose by 8.2 percent year-on-year, while the revenue earned by the carrier from these opera- tions rose by 1.9 percent over the previous financial year. With domestic cargo vol-


umes rising by 3 percent to 467,0000 tons over the year, domestic traffic up by 3.1 per- cent and revenue from cargo


operations within Japan rising by 2.6 percent year-on-year, the results were good for the Tokyo-based airline’s freight business. ANA said that demand


had risen on domestic routes in the wake of the terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit the country, as cargo could then travel less easily overland. The introduction of the


carrier’s first new B787 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft


in


November meant an increase in capacity, while shipments of new mobile devices out of China in February also stimu- lated ANA cargo volumes. The only downsides, the


airline said, have been the effects of those natural disas- ters on regional supply chains and the strength of the yen that has forced some domestic production offshore.


The favourable results of


its cargo business helped ANA to achieve record operating income and recurring profit levels for its 2011/12 financial year.


AAPA reports continuing slump


THE ASSOCIATION of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) says that international cargo traffic on its member carriers fell by 4.5 percent year-on- year in March, in what it said was “a reflection of lacklustre markets”. Freight capacity in the


month was down by 4.1 per- cent and the international cargo load factor fell by 0.2 points to 69.3 percent. Reviewing the statistics for


the first three months of this year, Andrew Herdman, AAPA director general, noted: “International air cargo traffic for the first quarter fell by 4.1 percent year-on-year, reflect- ing a soft market and lingering concerns over weakening con- sumer demand, particularly in Europe.” He went on: “The global


macro-economic outlook is still overshadowed by the potentially dampening effects of stubbornly high oil prices


DELTA Air Lines made US$244 million from its cargo operations in the first quarter of this year, down by 2 percent (or $6 million) on the cargo operating revenue made in the initial three months of 2011. Lower cargo yields were


reported to have been partially offset by higher volumes of freight. The year-on-year decline in cargo revenue did not reflect


Herdman: “lingering concerns”


and poor growth prospects in Europe, but Asia economies are still delivering robust growth. “Nevertheless, airline mar-


gins remain under pressure from high fuel costs, focusing attention on further efforts to tightly control costs and care- fully match capacity to market demand,” Herdman warned.


Delta enjoys ‘building momentum’


the fact that the carrier increased its operating revenue over the period, although costs also rose significantly com- pared to the January - March months of 2011. Consequently, the Atlanta-


headquartered carrier’s CEO Richard Anderson said: “Our March quarter improvement in results and operations is further evidence of the build- ing momentum at Delta.”


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