Green light for dnata development 10


Aberdeen Standard Investment’s Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust (AIPUT) fund says it has secured planning permission for its 250,000sq ſt dnata City East development from Hounslow’s Planning Committee. Dnata UK chief executive Gary Morgan said: “dnata City East will help us to accommodate increased cargo handling demand from our


growing portfolio of clients at London Heathrow at the time when the airport is on the cusp of major expansion. Securing a state-of-the-art warehouse of this size in a prime location builds on our relationship and real estate work with AIPUT and puts us in a strong position to handle the airport’s cargo- handling requirements of the future.”


ABC deal propels Liege into the big time


Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines


has signed a ten-


year lease agreement with Belgian hub Liege Airport, following the memorandum of understanding announced at the Farnborough International Airshow in July. Under the new deal, AirBridgeCargo will lease 25,000sq m of warehousing and is expected to make Liege one of the top five cargo airports in Europe by 2020. The project will be divided into


two phases, the first to be launched in June 2019 with a 12,500sq m warehouse. The second will follow in early 2020. At the same time,


the Walloon Airports Company is building four new aircraſt stands to accommodate the AirBridgeCargo fleet. Liege Airport chief executive


Luc Partoune said the agreement would take the airport into a new dimension: “We welcomed the first flights in October 2017 because AirBridgeCargo had to reduce its presence in Amsterdam. Then we responded to their call for tenders launched earlier this year for the creation of their European hub... Thanks to AirBridgeCargo, we plan to reach one million tonnes by 2020 and become one of the top five cargo airports in Europe.”


Shippers welcome Maritime Single Window plan


The European Shippers Council has welcomed the European Commission’s new proposal for a Maritime Single Window. It said it would provide faster clearance and release of goods and reduced administrative burdens. However, ESC added that it and other stakeholders would welcome more detail on how different systems will interact and how harmonisation will take place. The proposal aims to establish a pan-European electronic environment for administrative formalities in cross-border


operations, and is now being scrutinised by the European Parliament. It will be built on existing IT


systems and databases and will involve harmonised national and EU systems and data sets based on common formats. The proposal was issued as part of the Third Mobility package and is closely linked with another proposal for a regulation on electronic freight transport information. The new regulation will


replace the existing Directive 2010/65.


Air Partner spearheads hurricane relief effort


Charter firm Air Partner swung into action on 9 September when


it was asked by


emergency response specialist Radiant Global Logistics to deliver supplies to the US Pacific island of Guam ahead of Typhoon Mangkhut. Antonov


Airlines’ AN-225 and AN-124 aircraft moved urgent relief supplies including water and ready to eat meals. Volga-Dnepr Airlines also


organised a delivery of critical aid relief cargo to Guam. Volga-Dnepr Airlines also


Palletways says it has added 36 new members over the past 12 months in 20 countries. At the start of 2017, Palletways had 320 members, but


today there are


over 350 – an all-time record for the network. As well as 11 new UK members,


25 have joined the European network. Palletways Italia has rapidly


increased its coverage, with 17 new members joining the


positioned one of its An-124- 100 ready to load a shipment of 64 tons of food supplies and bottled water - completed in just three hours, ensuring it was ready to depart to Guam as soon as the storm had passed the island. In late September, Volga-


Dnepr Airlines delivered generators and a water purification system to


network in the past 12 months. Palletways Germany has five


new members covering the north, west and south of the country. In several post codes, the new members will mean a reduction in pick-up times from 48 to 24 hours. Three new members have also


joined Palletways Iberia over the past 12 months with a total of seven new members since June 2015.


Indonesia in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi in Indonesia. The flight was performed by


one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ modernised IL-76TD-90VD freighters


Ministry of from Châlon Vatry


Airport in France to Balikpapan for the Crisis Centre of the French Affairs.


Foreign Turkish Cargo starts Stansted freighter flights


Turkish Cargo launched freighter flights to London Stansted on 4 October. They are operated by Airbus 330 type wide-body aircraſt on Wednesday, Friday, Sunday on five different routes, and are expected to feed routes to the Middle East, Africa and Asia via Turkey. Turkish Cargo also said that


it would continue to operate from Istanbul Atatürk Airport until 31 December, although the city’s new gateway, Istanbul New Airport, officially opens on 29 October. The carrier’s bellyhold cargo operations will switch aſter 31 December but freighter flights will continue to operate from Istanbul Atatürk Airport.


Three dozen more members for Palletways


Issue 7 2018 - Freight Business Journal


News Roundup Forwarding & Logistics


Dr Thomas Knecht is to hand over management of forwarder the Hellmann Group following the completion of a restructuring programme with Reiner Heiken taking over as chief executive on 1 December. He has held management positions at Kühne + Nagel and most recently at Schenker with more than 20 years of professional experience. A new management board includes chief financial officer Dr Michael Noth (formerly at Nordzucker) who was appointed on 1 August while Jost Hellmann will resign from the position at the end of the year due to retirement. It marks the end of management by members of the Hellmann family but shareholders Jost and Klaus Hellmann will still serve on the supervisory board.


Agility has received Wholesaler Distribution Authorisation for Medicines for Human Use from the UK Medicines Healthcare & Regulatory Agency. It authorises warehousing and cross-dock of a wide range of pharmaceuticals, including finished products and active pharmaceutical ingredients under ambient and cold chain conditions, covering the Agility-managed pharma storage facility at London Heathrow Airport and a pharma competence centre in Bristol. It allows Agility to provide additional services including pick-and-pack operations for the distribution of stored products to hospitals, pharmacies and other distributors, the re-packing into active and passive shipping configurations, and the distribution of clinical trial materials.


BIFA has appointed Claire Capaccioli as trainer – freight and customs procedures. She started her career in 1991 at Kintetsu World Express and then spent 20 years at Yusen Logistics. The trade association is anticipating a significant increase in the training requirements of its members.


E-commerce expert Tigers has opened an office in Suzhou, China, and a new fulfilment centre in Selangor, Malaysia. The latter is Tigers’ second Malaysian operation, after the automotive fulfilment centre in Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia. The new Suzhou office is located close to Shanghai, where Tigers has recently opened a new facility to meet growing e-customer demand in both the business-to-business and business-to-customer sectors.


FedEx is to acquire Australian-based forwarding and logistics company Manton Air-Sea. The acquisition is expected to close later this year and is subject to conditions. Headquartered in Sydney, Manton will operate as a subsidiary of the FedEx Trade Networks forwarding arm.


Kuehne + Nagel has opened legal entities and new offices in Baku (Azerbaijan) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). Both will cater for rising demand primarily in oil and gas, consumer goods and in integrated logistic projects.


Yusen Logistics UK has been awarded a contract with Spirit AeroSystems for warehousing, inbound freight and onward distribution to Airbus. Spirit is a key supplier of major wing structures to both Airbus and Boeing programs. Yusen is also enabling inbound ocean and air freight solutions to Spirit’s UK Hub for onwards delivery of key materials to Airbus’ final assembly lines in Broughton, Toulouse and Bremen.


UK-based Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG) has set up a new base in Dubai trading as Advanced Intelligent Supply Chain. It has also made two senior appointments in the Middle East - Russell Treadwell brings 15 years’ sea and airfreight experience and Manraj Ahdan has worked in the sector for nearly two decades. ASCG says the new operation will act as a strategic global hub for its retail, manufacturing and oil and gas clients. The company currently has seven UK sites and operations in the Czech Republic, Germany and China.


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