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Pacific Airlift opts for G-Air as Korean agent


This week’s edition of aircargoTV, produced by ACW publishers The A-Z Group, leads with the Farnborough International Air Show, the year’s biggest aviation event. As usual, numerous aircaft orders have been announced


as manufacturers – particularly Airbus and Boeing – vie for primacy in their field. Also featured this week in the programme is FedEx’s


purchase of its Brazilian logistics partner Rapidão Cometa, part of the integrator’s effort to boost its footprint in the rapidly developing South American nation. Plus, the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of


Disasters has said that there was a total of 332 disasters in 2011, less than the annual average of 384 that has been recorded over the past decade. However, 31,000 people died as a result, and 244.7 million individuals were affected right around the world. Air cargo was key to bringing relief to many of those people. Finally, a new UK Logistics Confidence Index produced


by Barclays and tax advisory company Grant Thornton has suggested that industry cost-cutting is restricting innova- tion in the country’s logistics sector. To catch up with all these stories and more, watch www.aircargoTV.com this week.


GSSA G-AIR has been cho- sen by broker Pacific Airlift to act as its general sales agent in South Korea. Founded in 2005, G-Air is


active in both the cargo and passenger markets, and as well as Singapore-based Pacific Airlift it represents a number of big carriers – Air China, Evergreen Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, Starlight Airlines and Transmile Air. Its CEO, Charles Yang,


observes: “Our company is fast-growing, and we continue to search for opportunities to diversify and add to our ser- vice offering.” Observing that Pacific Air-


lift is a partner and one of the co-founders of the Global Charter Alliance, a triumvirate of collaborating brokers, Yang pointed out: “Our appoint- ment as sales agent for Pacific Airlift means we now have direct access to a highly profes- sional global


charter


capability that is very relevant to our existing airline princi- pals and freight agent customers, and will also help us to attract new business.” Pacific Airlift director


Eastern gateways show positive cargo trend


ACCORDING to the latest traffic statistics published by Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific, gateways in the region enjoyed a continuing positive trend in May. Air freight throughput rose by 1.3 percent


year-on-year, building on the growth seen in the previous month. However, with the first quarter of the year


having shown negative figures, the January to May period registered a decline of 1.5 percent in comparison to the same five months of 2011. The results included airports in the Middle


East, whose traffic rose by 2 percent in May. Over the course of the first five months of the year, their throughput increased by 3.4 percent year-on-year. Hong Kong topped the list of Asia-Pacific


airports, processing over 330,000 tonnes of freight in May. Shanghai Pudong ranked sec- ond with 214,000 tonnes handled, followed by Seoul Incheon, Dubai and Tokyo Narita. ACI Asia-Pacific regional director Patti Chau


remarked on the region’s resilience to global eco- nomic uncertainties in terms of cargo traffic.


Yang: “we continue to search for opportunities”


Andrew Sim remarked: “The impressive experience of (G- Air’s) senior team provides an ideal complement to our own expertise in charter, and enables us to extend the Pacif- ic Airlift and Global Charter Alliance services to the very important South Korean mar- ket via a widely-respected intermediary.” Pacific Airlift was estab-


lished in 1999 and has offices located in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam and Shenzhen in China, as well as in Singapore.


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IN LINE WITH the European Union’s goal of fewer national airspaces in the region, Sweden’s LFV and Denmark’s Naviair began providing air navigation services in Swedish-Danish airspace through the jointly-owned mpany NUAC on 1 July.


FOR THE THIRD time in four years, Milan-based ALHA Group has been named Best Handling Agent in Italy at the annual Quality Award Gala held by Italian Freight For- warders Association, ANAMA.


CARGO THROUGHPUT at Brussels airport reached a total of 41,630 tonnes in June, up by 22.5 percent in com- parison to the same month of last year. The figure excludes transit cargo.


MASKARGO, the freight-carrying arm of Malaysia Airlines, has launched its first freighter flight to Colombo in Sri Lanka. The airline will use an A330-200F on the weekly service, which operates on a Kuala Lumpur - Chennai - Colombo - Kuala Lumpur routeing.


THE US ARM of trade-only air freight and express whole- saler Air Menzies International has launched Click2ship Imports, an import version of its fast-growing online door-to- door express wholesale product.


HANDLER Swissport has acquired the ground handling activities of Finland’s Inter Handling and sister company Inter Handling Turku.


KERRY LOGISTICS has bought 55,000m2 land for a 35,000m2


of land in Thai- automotives logistics centre. Bologna remains confident despite falling volumes


“DUE TO the general economic slowdown, in the first six months of 2012 we experienced a decrease of 6.8 percent volume compared to last year,” states Nazzarena Franco, cargo director at Bologna airport. In spite of this: “We’re quite confident in a


short-term recovery, because production in the local area is strong,” she said, observing that the region’s biomedical and machinery sectors are performing well. “Recently, both couriers and legacy carriers have been offering more frequencies and higher


capacity to the main European cargo destina- tions. New interesting routes are to Istanbul and London Heathrow,” Franco explained. “In general, all the legacy carriers have had


good and steady performance. The cargo busi- ness growth depends on new market development”, she noted, adding that the Mid- dle East and Far Eastern markets would be the primary targets for the Italian gateway. Franco also pointed out that Bologna airport


is working on a new cargo city, due for comple- tion in 2015.


16 July 2012


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