Air Cargo

Coverage of air cargo related news including freight forwarders, freighters, belly cargo, airports and more

Double honors for Hactl’s green achievements

AJOT Newsroom | February 21, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airports | Green Shipping

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) – Hong Kong’s largest independent air cargo handler – has received both the Transport and Logistics - Gold Award in the Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE), and Hong Kong Green Organisation Certification (HKGOC).

Chapman Freeborn expands its Africa team

The aircraft charter specialist has tripled the size of its Africa team and moved its regional operations to a larger office in Johannesburg this month

ANA Holdings and Joby Aviation selected to operate electric air taxi flights at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan

AJOT Newsroom | February 21, 2023 | Air Cargo | Technology

• The companies, who announced a partnership in Feb. 2022 to establish aerial ridesharing in Japan, plan to operate demonstration electric air taxi flights in and around the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan site in 2025. • Joby's quiet, all-electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft is designed to carry four passengers and a pilot at speeds of up to 200 mph. • Joby recently became the first foreign company to apply for type certification of an electric air taxi in Japan. • ANA's 70 years of operational experience in the aviation industry serves as a key pillar to introducing the technology in Japan and to the world.

Singapore Air’s third-straight profit puts Covid firmly in past

Bloomberg | February 21, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airlines

DACHSER Turkey organizes charter flight to Ivory Coast

DACHSER | February 21, 2023 | Air Cargo | Charters

At the end of last year, the DACHSER Turkey Air & Sea Logistics team operated a charter flight from Turkey to West Africa. For the customer, the focus was on the high urgency of the shipment and DACHSER's solution-oriented approach.

Qantas spends $70 million on new lounges in Hong Kong, Heathrow

Bloomberg | February 20, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airports

Covid cap forces United Airlines to delay extra China-US services for six months

Bloomberg | February 20, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Hong Kong Airport’s passenger volume surges as China reopens

Bloomberg | February 19, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airports

Korean Air’s Asiana bid faces in-depth EU merger probe

Bloomberg | February 18, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Next-generation Japanese rocket aborts before launch

Bloomberg | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Technology

WorldACD air cargo trends for the past 5 weeks (wk 6):

AJOT Newsroom | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Air cargo tonnages stabilize after quick Lunar New Year recovery

SunExpress, DPD, FIEGE, time:matters and Lufthansa Cargo launch air bridge between Germany and Türkiye

AJOT Newsroom | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters

• Airlift to transport more than 1,000 tons of relief supplies to the crisis region in the coming weeks • Aid packages from private donors can be dropped off in all DPD parcel stores across Germany

Atlas Air and Turkish Airlines team up to provide humanitarian supplies for earthquake victims

AJOT Newsroom | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Atlas Air, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., today announced an Atlas Air 747-8F departed from Washington Dulles International Airport carrying tons of humanitarian and relief supplies for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.

Today’s warning strikes have massive consequences for air cargo and lead to significant challenges for humanitarian aid flights

AJOT Newsroom | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Passengers take 16-hour flight to nowhere after Auckland to New York U-turn

Bloomberg | February 17, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Passengers boarding a trans-Pacific flight from Auckland to New York on Thursday evening had no idea of the rude awakening that awaited them: a 16-hour ordeal that saw them back at square one.