NEWS\\\ News Roundup


IAG Cargo has completed an upgrade programme


for its Premia London


Heathrow premium freight handling facility. Key enhancements include a 50%-plus improvement in loose handling capability, new export/import offices to accelerate pick-up and delivery of small express freight and enhanced operational procedures.


East Midlands-based HAE group has been appointed to represent 2Excel Aviation UK’s commercial B727-2S2F freighter operations, based at Robin Hood Airport. Two commercial freighter aircraſt are based at the airport for oil and gas emergency response work and are also available for commercial cargo. The planes have a global operator’s licence and full aircraſt and cargo handling are available.


Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group has set up a Phoenix Aviation Malta subsidiary and will station two of its aircraſt on the island. They will offer specialist cargo and passenger services across North Africa and to much of West Africa.


FedEx is expanding its ‘International First’ service to an additional 31 origin points, bringing the total to 97 countries. It offers arrivals as early as the start of the next business day. The additions include nine additional European origins, nine in Latin America, plus China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.


Alitalia and Etihad Airways have received merger clearance from the European Commission. The carriers are now free to proceed with the proposed strategic partnership announced in August.


Emirates is to restart passenger flights to Erbil, Iraq from 16 November. The Dubai-based carrier will resume with two weekly flights with an A330-200 aircraſt, increasing to four from 4 December. It already serves Baghdad and Basra.


Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo has revamped its cool facilities at Cairo airport. A 124cu m room is now available for pharmaceutical products between 15°C and 25°C and the capacity of the 2°C-8°C cold room has been doubled to 420cu m to cope with large pharmaceutical shipments. At its central cargo hub in Paris- CDG, the carrier can now offer three additional cool rooms for pharmaceutical loose shipments between 2°C and 8°C.


TNT is building a new international depot in Eindhoven, Netherlands and starting air services between there and Hanover in Germany. The 6,350sq m Eindhoven site will replace the existing, rented facility, which has become too small, and completion is expected in June 2015. It will feature state-of-the- art sorting and loading equipment, and 99 loading docks for vans and trucks and there will be daily road line-hauls to Northampton, Liege, Arnhem, Paris and Zurich.


Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo and Kenya Airways Cargo are expanding their interline cargo network in Africa to Lubumbashi (Congo), Pemba (Mozambique) and Lusaka (Zambia). All destinations will be served with a Boeing 737 Freighter out of Nairobi.


AirBridgeCargo Airlines has taken delivery of its sixth new 747-8 freighter. With this addition AirBridgeCargo - part of Volga-Dnepr Group and Russia’s largest cargo airline - has a fleet consisting of 13 Boeing 747s, including six Boeing 747-8 Freighters, four Boeing 747-400ERFs (Extended Range Freighters) and three Boeing 747- 400 Freighters.


Parcels company DPD has invested £10.2m in six new UK depots in Dartford, Feltham, Radlett, Reading, Liverpool and Lincoln. The facilities in Dartford, Feltham and Reading are replacements for existing DPD depots while Lincoln, Liverpool and Radlett are new locations.


CEVA Logistics airliſted more than 70 tonnes of urgent supplies to Monrovia, Liberia on 10 October to help combat the West Africa Ebola outbreak. The airliſt was chartered by the US Agency for International Development and included infrared thermometers,


disinfectant backpack sprayers, tents, and plastic fencing to be used in the construction of Ebola treatment units. The supplies were delivered to CEVA Charter Services at Liege Airport in Belgium and loaded onto a Global Africa Cargo MD-11 freighter.


FedEx delivers for the homeless


FedEx delivered supplies to volunteers sleeping out in aid of homeless young people on 3 October, as part of the national event ‘Byte Night’ as part of its partnership with Action for Children. It raised vital cash to support over 80,000 young people a year who find themselves without somewhere to stay. FedEx travelled over 1,378 miles, delivering over 20 boxes to eight locations around the UK.


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Ruslan International and German charter broker Karpeles Flight Services - part of DB Schenker - have moved a British-built AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter from the UK to Nigeria. It flew under its own power from AgustaWestland’s Yeovil factory to London Stansted Airport, where technicians dismantled it ready for loading. The AN-124 was positioned partially inside the hangar to protect the helicopter from the weather, and then flew it to destination.


IJS signs aerospace deal


IJS Global has signed a global strategic partnership agreement with CTi – Control Towers International - to operate its worldwide Time Critical network. IJS Global is launching time critical solution services to the aerospace industry. CTi – headquartered in Amsterdam in The Netherlands - will manage the process through its international network. CTi aims to be the first choice partner


service for aerospace


or airline companies, offering a reliable partner through which


parts can be inspected and shipped quickly to any location of their choice and all the while full transparency and traceability is maintained through its CTiX computer system. It also offers a Wings on-board courier network with highly trained, screened, multi-lingual professionals who carry the right visas at all times to ensure their constant availability. IJS Global’s Time Critical


services are also being extended into other vertical markets as a result of the partnership.


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