Damian Brett is an Editor at FlightGlobal. He specializes in aviation and aerospace, covering a range of topics including airlines, logistics, and supply chain management, with a particular focus on cold chain logistics and logistics technology. Damian's insights and expertise have been featured in FlightGlobal, Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International magazine, and Air Cargo News.
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By: Damian Brett
Europe's largest cargo hub saw cargo volumes increase by 1% in the first half of the year as the Middle East conflict and strikes at Lufthansa affected performance. The German airport saw volumes reach 1m tonnes over the first six months of the year, but several trends had a negative impact of performance. Airport operator
By: Damian Brett
Delays to the Boeing 777-8F programme were behind Cargolux's recent decision to purchase four Boeing 747-400 freighters from China Airlines. China Airlines initially announced in November of last year that it would sell two of the freighters to Cargolux, but in June the deal was expanded to four aircraft. Speaking to Air Cargo News at
Chapman Freeborn has helped move 121 Mongolian horses between Ulaanbaatar and Hanoi in a 38-hour time window. The operation involved three back-to-back Boeing 757 freighter charter flights, moving 51 horses outbound, 20 horses home and a further 50 horses outbound as part of a single coordinated rotation. Chapman Freeborn said the project required detailed planning,
By: Damian Brett
Shippers based in the Asia Pacific region are expecting cargo demand to grow this year, but also expect supply chain disruption to continue. A survey of 180 Asia Pacific shippers carried out by freight forwarder Dimerco showed that 71% are expecting air and ocean cargo demand to increase in the coming six months, fuelled by
Turkish Cargo has selected Lödige Industries to provide automation and digital technology for its Istanbul terminal expansion. Earlier this year, the Istanbul-hubbed airline announced plans for the second phase of its SMARTIST air cargo terminal that will see capacity more than double from 2m tons per year to 4.5m tons. And it was today revealed
Cargolux has put plans to restart freighter services to Dubai World Central (DWC) on hold. In a short statement on the freighter operator's website, Cargolux said that the planned restart of flights to DWC was on hold until further notice. It appears that the airline had been hoping to restart the flights in July, based
By: Damian Brett
Taiwan-based China Airlines saw cargo revenues and volumes soar in the second quarter of the year as high-tech cargo demand boosted performance. The cargo division saw second quarter cargo revenues increase by 43.9% year on year to T$23.6bn, while freight tonne kms (FTK) were up 8.6% to 1.5bn and capacity increased by 2.6% to 2.1bn
Freighter operator Kalitta Air has renewed its partnership with ULD firm ACL Airshop for a further five years. Under the renewed agreement, ACL Airshop will provide ULD supply and management solution covering the lifecycle of Kalitta Air's ULD fleet. Services include fleet control, repair and maintenance, net replacement, global logistics, digital tracking, analytics, customer support
IAG Cargo is hoping to capitalise on the addition of a third daily flight between Heathrow and Delhi and the new trade deal between India and the UK. IAG member airline British Airways will operate the additional year-round flight using one of its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. The airline will also increase frequencies to Bengaluru,
By: Damian Brett
Cathay Cargo has joined Cargolux in cancelling its plans to restart freighter operations to the Middle East region following renewed fighting between the US and Iran. In a statement issued today, the Hong Kong-hubbed carrier said that in view of the latest developments in the Middle East, it had taken the decision to postpone the
