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High-Tech And
Supply Chain Partners
 Timed to coincide with the ongoing resurgence in this vibrant industry sector a major conference was held in San Francisco titled “Hi-Tech & Electronics Logistics Conference."
     The Eyefortransport gathering featured a lot of new players and “futurists” willing to take on more risk. More Click Here

Ralf Delivers
Early Christmas
    Saint Nikolaus may have filtered into Germany from fourth century Turkey by way of Italy and onto Holland, and after that to the New World, but today the spirit of giving is everywhere. More Click Here

New Acting Vice President For Etihad Crystal Cargo

 

 

 

Quote Of The Week

Maurice Flanagan, Emirates Group Chairman

  "Alliances mean you have to compromise systems and services to the alliance.
  You need to establish a clear business case to join an alliance.
  We have no business case to join one, and we don't need to."

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Lufthansa Cargo Munich Security Base
   Pictured here is one of those “instant” computer-generated pictures that airplane manufacturers like to send out every time they get an order.
   As reported here (first) last Friday (December 8) DLH brings back the nearly 40-year-old . . . More Click Here

New Cargo Landmark At FRA
    If romance is your thing, here is probably the last romantic place left in busy Cargo City South at Frankfurt
Airport.
   The first of all investors "Cargo Immobilien" an outfit that began to construct cargo facilities here almost as fast as Rhein-Main Airbase was returned to Germany in . . . More Click Here.

Breaking News
TNT Express adds Economy Express

Virgin Atlantic having deferred delivery

Although a glut of new low-cost airlines of India



Lufthansa Cargo Strong
Lufthansa Cargo continued its long held traditional end of the year “Chimney Talk” as Dr. Andreas Otto held the attention of More Click Here
Leisure Cargo Advances 2006

Alliances, the operative go-to tool these days for expanding and in many cases improving coverage of markets have found comfortable More Click Here

Olympic China Lifts Fuwa

In terms of what’s next, China flag carrier China Southern is wasting no time spreading the excitement many people all over the world feel for the More Click Here
Atlanta Cargo Club 2007 Officers
The ballots are in, the votes counted, the results are entered and one of the best air cargo clubs on the planet Atlanta Air Cargo Association More Click Here
 		Boeing & Nakash Group Deal

 More Click Here		 SWISS New A-330
SWISS fleet got its eleventh Airbus A330 and twentieth long-haul aircraft. HB-IQR, the A330 More Click Here


Roessler Out At Etihad Cargo
     Ingo Roessler, Vice President Cargo left his chair at Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways Cargo on December 1.      
     Air Cargo News learned the step was taken due to "personal reasons."
     Roessler is one of several top executives leaving the UAE airline after former CEO Robert Strodel had quit his position last May.
     Etihad, struggling with massive investment and reportedly some weak load factors across some segments, is starting to resemble Qatar Airways in its inability to hire and retain western managers.
     At 42 years of age Hamburg, Germany-born Roessler can already be considered a veteran of the cargo industry.
He started his career in 1987 and held responsible positions at Lufthansa Cargo, British charter broker Chapman
Freeborn and Frankfurt-based General Sales Agent Capitol, prior to his Etihad Cargo engagement.
     There, he first was responsible for strategy, marketing and sales at Etihad's freight division Crystal Cargo, becoming Vice President Cargo in mid-2005.
     Roessler successfully implemented the integrated Cargo IT-platform for booking air freight electronically.
     He also developed Crystal Cargo's international brand, and he pushed yearly freight revenues from $20 Million USD in the first year forward to more than 200 million USD in 2006.

 

Growing U.S.-China
Aviation Partnership

Sometimes Going Bats Works
That November 2006 agreement between Frankfurt-Hahn Airport(FFHG) and the German environmental organization, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND). . . More Click Here
   

Lufthansa Charter Steel Shipments
When 261 tons of equipment was transported from Venice, Italy, to Chicago, Illinois on behalf of an Indiana-based steel corporation, some people used to moving heavy stuff were more than impressed.
 The deadline demanded that huge machines had to arrive at the consignee's place . . . More Click Here.

Cargo Explosive Screen At Sea-Tac
 Having been successfully piloted at San Francisco International Airport, a new security initiative spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security will get underway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport next.
Known as the Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Program, the effort will be conducted at . . . More Click Here

Zhuhai Airport Emerges
 China has just concluded its sixth aviation exposition called Air Show China in Zhuhai.
  No western countries had any military hardware for display, although
  Russia displayed an entire squadron of fighters, missiles, airliners, and cargo aircraft.
     People’s Daily reports that about $3 billion in aircraft business was transacted at the event. More Click Here.
New Cargo Complex At Querétaro

The new (2004) Querétaro International Airport (QRO) had its first stone ceremony for its new air cargo center a few weeks ago that was attended by Minister of Sustainable Development Renato López . . . More Click Here.

 

 

Accompanying Cargo On An AN124-100

While flying is a routine event for everyone in the airline industry, going as a passenger on a freighter aircraft becomes something special, but being the 17th crew member on an AN124-100 Russian freighter aircraft turns out to be an adventure and a life-long memory. . . More Click Here.
 

Give 'Em A Hahn
 

 

 

 


“Give ’em a Hahn,” as the new Bucher Cargo Center in the North Cargo Area of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport opened on Monday November 27. . . More Click Here

Lufthansa Cargo New CEO
The Supervisory Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG appointed Carsten Spohr (left) as CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board for a three-year term at its meeting in Frankfurt . . . More Click Here.

Frankfurt Airport Announces Financials
 Pictured at recent Fraport press gag, Chairman of the Board Dr. Wilhelm Bender - second from left turns attention and business to Dr. Stefan Schulte, left, incoming Deputy Chairman in charge of “finance & construction”. Next in line is retiring Prof. Dr. Schoelch, “father” of Cargo City South and Fraport board member Herbert Mai. . . More Click Here.

Air Canada Cargo New Look Europe
Air Canada Cargo realigns Team Europe and FlyingTypers has first picture!
 Here is the new European side of the Air Canada Cargo Transatlantic connection.
 With Martin Bittner departed Germany to lead the cargo effort . . . More Click Here.

 

ACAAI Thai Week Has A World View
 The Air Cargo Agents Association of India (ACAAI) is set for its 34th Annual Convention, that begins in three days (November 30) for three days in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
     This time around, the convention has an ambitious agenda to move the member organization even further . . . More Click Here.

Malaysia Star reports US$12.7mil (RM47mil) worth of microchips were hijacked from the Second Air Cargo

 Northwest Airlines retires the last dozen DC-10 airplanes in the U.S. that fly passengers, replacing them with A330s and