Finnair Cargo chooses CargoAi platform 
The worldwide offering of Finnair Cargo is now live on CargoAi. Digital booking services - e-quotes and e-booking - of the Nordic and Baltic region’s largest air cargo carrier are available to forwarders directly via the SaaS platform. CargoAi CEO Matthieu Petot: "We’re... mehr
Asunción and Miami airports become "sisters"
The Miami-Dade aviation department and Paraguay’s civil aviation authority have signed a sister airports agreement between Miami International Airport (MIA) and Asunción Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU), establishing their commitment to assist each other in... mehr
Fake luxury watches, not "plastic cards"
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Louisville recently halted a shipment, manifested as plastic cards, which was arriving from Hong Kong and heading to Miami. They found a total of 20 Rolex watches deemed to be counterfeit by CBP’s trade experts. All of the watches... mehr
50 preighter flights for Egetrans
A year ago, Lufthansa Cargo started offering its customers transport options in so-called preighters - passenger aircraft used for transporting cargo only. Since March 2020, the cargo airline has operated about 1,500 such services globally. Recently, the 50th preighter... mehr
Strategic partnership for air cargo data
Spire Global, a space-based Earth data analytics company headquartered in San Francisco, and TAC Index, a specialist publisher of air cargo data for both industry users and the financial markets from Hong Kong, have announced a strategic partnership to support the launch of TAC... mehr
Teleport injects cargo capacity to Southeast Asia
With the operation of its very first freighter, a dedicated B737-800F, and the use of two Air Asia A320 "preighters", Teleport, the logistics venture of Air Asia Digital, is further reinforcing its position as a regional air logistics player. The freighter will begin... mehr
From Miami and New York to Israel
American Airlines Cargo is launching transatlantic services from New York JFK (daily) and Miami (thrice-weekly) to Tel Aviv (Israel). Both are operated with B77-200 equipment and will initially carry around 15 t of freight per flight, depending on passenger load factors. Tim... mehr
Securing transatlantic capacity
The GSSA Aviacargo, headquartered in New York and founded in 2001, has performed a series of record-breaking flights between Bournemouth (BOH) in the UK and New York JFK. Operating the bellies of European Cargo’s A340-600 freighters, the company carried 55 t on a series of... mehr
Third Swiss humanitarian flight to South Asia
After supplying aid to India and Nepal during May, Switzerland is also helping Sri Lanka to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. On Monday 7 June 2021 Swiss Humanitarian Aid dispatched medical supplies weighing 16 t and worth CHF 3.5 million (EUR 3.2 million) to Colombo, including half... mehr
Further cooling down in Dubai
Emirates Skycargo is strengthening its temperature sensitive pharma and vaccine handling capabilities at its Dubai hub with the extension of its fully automated cool room with 94 airline pallet positions at its EU GDP certified dedicated pharma facility at DXB. This will... mehr