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E-FREIGHT internet portals for the US cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle could be created by Sirius Business Solutions CgoXchange and Fourth Seacoast Publishing by January 2014. Users will be able to connect wth airlines, customs, and shippers, to conclude the agreements needed for air cargo.


AIRFREIGHT and express wholesaler AMI is now ready to serve Miami with its airport-to-airport, airport-to-door and door-to-door services. AMI Miami provides a local cargo reception and handout point for agents and the city’s freight agents can gain access to AMI’s online service click2ship.


Russian market sees small overall rise R


ussian carriers achieved small gains of up to 3.8 per cent in internatonal cargo tonnage, comparing January to July 2013 with the first seven months of 2012, while July itself saw a 8.6 per


cent increase compared with the same period 12 months earlier. The figures, released by Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency,


show that the largest


increase was in domestic cargo. Comparing January to July 2012 and 2013, there was a rise of 20.4 per cent. Tonnage jumped from 10,055 tonnes to more than 12,000. While carriers moved 395,791 tonnes internationally in the first seven months of the year, domestic trans- portation shifted 12,104 tonnes. The only negative figure for the Russian mar-


ket was domestic cargo in July, with a 2.5 per cent dip compared with the same month in 2012. Many Russian carriers saw tonnage fall in both the domestic and international markets,


but there were a number of airlines that had substantial improvements in both. Comparing the first seven months of 2012 and 2013, Ang- ara more then doubled its tonnage with a rise of 135 per cent; Polar Airlines had an increase of over 100 per cent; Atran achieved more than 70 per cent; Donavia around 50 per cent; Balloon Company also 50 per cent; Muscovy saw growth of 45 per cent; while AirBridgeCargo, Orenburg Airlines and Yamal Aviation Transport Com- pany, saw increases of 16 to 23 per cent. The losers in the Russian cargo market were


Aviacon Zitotrans, which transported in 2013 just 39.6 per cent of the tonnage it moved in 2012; Yakutia and Flight could only move in 2013 about 67 per cent of the cargo they


moved in 2012;and many others saw 10, 15 or 20 per cent falls in their tonnage, including Vol- ga-Dnepr, Aviastar, Alrosa, Vladivostok Avia and Krasavia. Aeroflot managed to achieve January to July 2013 tonnage levels that were only two per cent below its airfreight levels, but it has now stopped using its pure freighter Boeing MD-11s. Between Russia and its former Soviet states in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) airfreight tonnage was static with no change, while Russian cargo to non-CIS coun- tries rose three per cent. The July domestic figures were healthier with a rise of almost nine per cent compared to 2012 - freight increased from 77,682 tonnes to 84,350.


UPS expands its footprint in Costa Rica


UPS HAS announced that it will purchase the assets and operations of Union Pak de Costa Rica and SEISA Brokerage. The US-based company’s decision to buy the two Costa Rican firms follows a long-standing relationship between the par- ties involved.


President of UPS Americas region, Ro- maine Seguin,


says: “UPS has enjoyed


a successful relationship with these two companies.” Small package delivery firm, Union Pak


de Costa Rica, serves a number of indus- tries but has an emphasis on high-tech and medical device manufacturers. While SEISA Brokerage provides same-day customs clearance and delivery of package ship- ments within the Costa Rican Trade zone. UPS has had a growing presence in Costa Rica since entering the market in 1990. The local market’s import and export sector is forecast for seven per cent growth over the next five years, according to the Interna- tional Monetary Fund.


NEWROUTES


ETIHAD AIRWAYS is now flying from Abu Dhabi to Rehaba International Airport in Sana’a (Yemen). Etihad will operate a service four times a week using Airbus A320s. Yemen, United Arab Emirates trade is worth more than $2 billion a year .


ICELANDAIR HAS announced that from May 2014 it will fly to more than 20 Euro- pean destinations from Vancouver (Canada). The twice-weekly services are set to continue operating until October 2015. Icelandair’s 2014 schedule is expected to increase 18 per cent year-on-year.


IAG CARGO will fly direct to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Texas (US) from London Heathrow as of March 2014. The new service will start off running five-days a week before expanding to daily flights as of May 2014.


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