NewsWeek Brandenburg date still to be confirmed


SCANDINAVIAN Airlines is to launch new six times a week flights between Copenhagen and San Francisco on 8 April, and three times a week services from the Danish city to New York on 1 April.


TURKEY’S MYCARGO Airlines and Liège airport have signed a memorandum of understanding that makes the Bel- gian gateway MyCargo’s airport of choice for its European cargo charter operations.


UK-BASED THIRD PARTY logistics provider Torque is extending its services to include ocean, road and air freight forwarding as of this month (July).


TEST CARGO flights have begun in Russia as the country pilots the implementation of e-freight there.


US-BASED Implant Sciences Corporation, a supplier of high- tech systems for homeland security that are used in air cargo screening, has joined the US Airforwarders Association (AfA).


ACCORDING TO THE Association of European Airlines (AEA), member carriers flew 4.9 percent less scheduled inter- national freight tonne-km during the first half of this year than they did in the same period of 2011.


US-BASED INTREPID Aviation is to lease two A330-200s to Air Namibia. The aircraft will be delivered in the second half of next year.


Ethiopian launches to Toronto


ETHIOPIAN Airlines inau- gurated a new service linking its home base of Addis Ababa with the Canadian city of Toronto last week. The first direct connection


between Toronto and Africa, Ethiopian is operating a B777-200LR on the route. Currently flown on a


twice-weekly frequency, the airline has already said that it hopes to add further flights “once the bilateral agreement between the two countries is enhanced. “We have long envisioned


Canada as an integral part of our growing network,” Tewolde Gebremariam, the carrier’s CEO, added. “Canada is home to a


thriving business community and a large African diaspora. Our flight to Canada will play an instrumental role in serving both communities and in enhancing trade and economic ties between Africa and Canada.” Ethiopian is expecting to


launch services to five new destinations this year, includ- ing São Paulo.


“THE supervisory board will decide at the end of August when the opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg airport will be possible,” confirms Torsten Jüling, senior consul- tant aircargo at the gateway. With the opening date of


Berlin Brandenburg post- poned – currently it is set for 17 March 2013 – Jüling said that customers are finding it tough to handle the increased volumes of passenger traffic passing through Berlin’s existing Tegel and Schönefeld airports. For example, Lufthansa


has stationed six more A320s at Tegel for intra-European


flights; airberlin has increased its long-haul operations to New York, Miami, Abu Dhabi and Windhoek; and Hainan Airlines has increased the frequency of its services to Beijing to four times a week. However, the current fore-


cast is that Berlin will handle 4 percent less cargo this year than during 2011. In terms of express cargo,


Jüling said: “TNT has moved from Tegel to Schönefeld so that all integrators are, as planned for Berlin, in our dedicated freighter area.” In addition: “At Schöne-


feld North, we have renamed the existing cargo warehouse


Jüling notes changes at Berlin’s gateways


as Express Center to differen- tiate it from the new Berlin


Midfield Cargo Center, which is especially for han- dling belly freight in transit from long-haul flights.” The first module of the


Express Center can also han- dle cargo charter flights, such as those operated by the Ger- man Red Cross. It measures 4,000m2


and has an annual


capacity of 30,000 tonnes. As for the Berlin Midfield


Cargo Center, its first mod- ule has a handling area of 12,000m2


; with direct access


to the apron, the facility can handle around 100,000


tonnes of cargo per year. n Germany Review, pages 12-14


New combine enjoys traffic growth


IN ITS preliminary statistics for June, LATAM – the airline group made up of LAN Air- lines and TAM Linhas Aéreas – has reported that cargo traffic for LAN grew 1.3 percent year-on-year. The car- rier’s freight capacity increased by 0.3 percent due to greater available bellyhold space. As a result, the cargo load


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factor rose by 0.7 percentage points to 69.5 percent for the month. LATAM said: “Cargo traf-


fic growth was driven by strong demand for commodi- ties from South America, partially offset by weaker


imports into Latin America.” n Latin America Report, pages 8-9


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