Royal Jordanian has chosen Cargospot, the cargo-IT platform of CHAMP Cargosystems to replace its existing in-house cargo system. The investment in a new environment is part of the carrier’s initiatives to enhance the air cargo infrastructure since its recent privatisation. The airline will fully implement Cargospot in October this year. RJ operates the cargo terminal at Queen Alia International Airport serving almost 30 airline clients. With Cargospot, an end-to-end air cargo system … [Read more...] about Jordanian opts for Cargospot platform
Air Forwarding
Abu Dhabi extends contract with proveo
Swiss international forwarder and logistics provider Panalpina has recently started a new weekly air freight service to link its worldwide network with Latin America. Called Palmair, the service is being operated via Miami, Florida as its gateway to offer direct transhipment for destinations in Latin America in cooperation with longstanding partner Centurion Air Cargo. "Miami serves as Centurion’s base as well as Panalpina’s gateway to Latin America for freight originating from … [Read more...] about Abu Dhabi extends contract with proveo
New Siemens handling systems for TACT
Siemens Mobility has been selected by Taiwan Air Cargo Terminal Ltd (TACT) as it moves to expand its cargo facilities at Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Siemens was awarded a contract to equip the existing cargo centre at Taipei Airport with a modern material handling system and to construct a new handling system for the air cargo terminal at Kaohsiung Airport. The total value of the contract is estimated at nearly €29 million. The projects are scheduled for completion March 2010 (Taipei) … [Read more...] about New Siemens handling systems for TACT
Lufthansa Cargo~ On track again
With time definite services, a wide range of differentiated products, a global partnership programme which the carrier signed with leading forwarding agents, the creation of subsidiaries to move into niche markets – just to name a few very remarkable points – the carrier was clearly the undisputed benchmark for the industry. It was Lufthansa (LH) Cargo that delivered the big news and defined most of the standards. A certain attitude of “we are setting the pace” was … [Read more...] about Lufthansa Cargo~ On track again
Swissport wins global Virgin contract
Swissport UK is to provide a new Central Load Planning service to Virgin Atlantic worldwide, under a new contract between the two businesses. The service will be operated by Swissport from mid-May for all of Virgin Atlantic's fleet on all services globally.Although Swissport has provided a full ground handling service for Virgin Atlantic at Gatwick since 2004, as well as Manchester Airports, the contract covers Virgin Atlantic flights at other UK airports and for aircraft down route in other … [Read more...] about Swissport wins global Virgin contract
Aviapartner continues growth path
European ground handler, Aviapartner Handling, has announced a series of new ground handling contracts with KLM in Marseilles, Nice and Toulouse and Air One in Milan-Malpensa. In Toulouse, Aviapartner will be handling three daily KLM flights from 3 June 2008. In Nice, KLM will switch to Aviapartner Handling as of 17 June for their four daily flights and in Marseilles as of 30 September for their three daily flights. All these flights are operated with Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 aircraft. In … [Read more...] about Aviapartner continues growth path
