Nearly a year after forming a cooperation agreement to launch freighter service between Luxembourg and Chennai, India, Oman Air and all-cargo carrier Cargolux are expanding their partnership with twice-weekly service to Mumbai, beginning March 8. Under the new agreement, the first weekly 747 service, operated by Cargolux, will use a Luxembourg-Bahrain-Mumbai-Muscat-Luxembourg route, leaving on Tuesdays.[…]
In the next 15 years, the air cargo industry in India is expected to grow by more than 180 percent, while manufacturing will rise 14 percent by 2022, according to the latest estimates by government officials speaking at the Air Cargo India event that kicked off today in Mumbai. Speaker Renu Singh Parmar, senior adviser[…]
Against the wishes of the International Air Transport Association, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed yesterday to temporarily ban the shipment of lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft, which will go into effect on April 1 of this year. According to ICAO Council President Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, the ban will only be in place until[…]
It’s been a long, hard climb back to overall profitability for Air France-KLM, which reported a 2015 net income of €118 million, compared to its €225 million loss in the strike-plagued 2014 – its first annual net profit since March of 2011. However, cargo figures continued to show declines, with revenue tonne kilometers (RTKs) dropping[…]
Remember how hoverboards were such a popular gift this past Christmas, even though they were catching on fire? Now, Reuters has reported that nearly 1,400 of the two-wheeled, self-balancing electric scooters were seized at New York’s JFK Airport during the month of December 2015, because the devices were powered with counterfeit lithium-ion batteries that were[…]
Alex Veitch, FTA’s head of global policy. With increasing concern over airport capacity in southeastern England, the Freight Transportation Association (FTA) is launching a new Air Freight Working Group to help shape the future of the U.K. logistics sector. Airfreight being a crucial part of the U.K.’s logistic plan, as well as the wider economy,[…]
