In the first quarter of 2016, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) saw cargo (airfreight and airmail) volumes decrease slightly by 1.0 per cent to 506,434 tonnes during the first three months of 2016, partly reflecting the slowdown in global trade. In the month of March 2016, cargo volumes decreased by 1.3 per cent to 187,063 tonnes in March 2016, due to the production slowdown in connection with different timing of the Easter holidays. … [Read more...] about Frankfurt sees flat cargo volumes in 1Q, down 1%
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Qatar Airways adds QR Express to its specialty product portfolio
Qatar Airways Cargo has today announced the launch of QR Express, a solution to deliver airport-to-airport air freight service for time critical shipments. QR Express is the latest addition to the cargo airline’s expanding portfolio of specialised services and products. QR Express provides customers with the opportunity to book time-sensitive shipments via a quick and simple system that offers high boarding priority and rapid handling, ensuring speedy delivery of their cargo, the carrier … [Read more...] about Qatar Airways adds QR Express to its specialty product portfolio
Korean Air Cargo heads to Tehran with Uzbekistan Air
Korean Air Cargo and Uzbekistan Airways have reached an agreement on moving cargo from Korean's network to Tehran via Uzbekistan Air’s Navoi hub by tapping the Tashkent-based airline’s twice weekly 767-300F service to the Iranian capital. The deal extends a partnership already in place between the two carriers to feed cargo into Frankfurt from the Navoi hub. The move comes after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) reached a deal on 14 July 2015, … [Read more...] about Korean Air Cargo heads to Tehran with Uzbekistan Air
Global FTKs grew by 2.7% in January, but momentum flat: ICAO
According to the latest update from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) freight traffic - expressed in freight-tonne-kilometres (FTKs) - grew by +2.7 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in January 2016, +1.9 percentage points higher than the growth in December 2015. This is the highest growth observed since May 2015. Major freight markets continued to grow modestly, with Asia/Pacific growing by +1.3 per cent. Africa and Latin America/Caribbean contracted by - 1.4 per cent and - 3.6 … [Read more...] about Global FTKs grew by 2.7% in January, but momentum flat: ICAO
Korean Air launches daily Incheon-Okinawa pax service
Korean Air has announced that it will launch new daily services from Incheon International Airport in Seoul to Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, from 5 May utilising B777-200 aircraft. The addition of Okinawa to the route network brings to 16 the number of Japanese destinations served by the airline. … [Read more...] about Korean Air launches daily Incheon-Okinawa pax service
Zhengzhou’s Xinzheng Int’l growing fast on the cargo front
China’s Zhengzhou's Xinzheng International Airport is now the country’s ninth-largest cargo airport in China, handling 370,000 tonnes of cargo in 2014. This volume has grown from only 85,800 in 2010 on the back of 40 per cent annual growth. Over half of Xinzheng's air cargo flies internationally on more than 20 routes to other Asian countries, Europe, the US and Australia. Much of this growth has been as a result of the rapidly developing Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone (ZAEZ) - a massive … [Read more...] about Zhengzhou’s Xinzheng Int’l growing fast on the cargo front