Dubai’s dnata has said air cargo volumes have grown substantially during the last financial year at its newest terminal, FreightGate-8, located at the new Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International Airport. The dnata-operated air cargo terminal, which opened in June 2010, currently handles local and sea-air export and import cargo as well as transit cargo at DWC. In 2011-2012 the dnata team handled a total of 127,665 tonnes of air cargo, while the total number of active cargo … [Read more...] about Dnata’s FreightGate-8 volumes continue growth
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Dubai Int’l reports marginal rise in March
March was a good month for Dubai International, the fourth busiest hub for passengers and freight in the world. According to the monthly traffic report for March issued by Dubai Airports, the airport saw double-digit growth for the third consecutive month. The airport handled 186,417 tonnes of cargo in March 2012 compared to 185,921 tonnes in March 2011, a rise of 0.3 per cent. Cargo volumes saw a small rise with volumes reaching 517,440 tonnes, an increase of 1.1 per cent compared to … [Read more...] about Dubai Int’l reports marginal rise in March
New Cargolux B747-8F simulator world’s first FFS
Cargolux has announced that the world’s first full-flight simulator (FFS) for the new Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft is ready for training at the company’s training centre in Luxembourg. Built by Canada-based CAE, the FFS received Interim Level C qualification from the ‘Direction de l’Aviation Civile’ (DAC) on 30 April 2012, Luxembourg’s national aviation authority, after the successful evaluation by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), the German counterpart of … [Read more...] about New Cargolux B747-8F simulator world’s first FFS
Life’s a Beach!
Life’s a Beach! The Belly Ache department of Payload Asia would like to apologise for being a bit tardy in getting these Belly Ache items off our overworked chests. Considering the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) – Ooops, we mean the World Cargo Symposium since IATA has boldly stripped its name off the trademark event in an act of industry warm fuzziness à la GACAG (something that is hopefully more convincing than that other rather lame attempt to de-brand the IATA … [Read more...] about Life’s a Beach!
Garuda steps up its cargo game
Speaking at a press briefing in Singapore, Garuda Indonesia president and CEO, Emirsyah Satar, said the carrier plans to add three A330-200 freighters – “we are very conservative,” he says – from end-2013 as part of its expansion plan which will see its overall fleet grow from 92 aircraft currently to 194, although 50 of those aircraft will be operated by its low cost subsidiary Citilink. Citilink was established in 2001 as the low-cost subsidiary of Garuda running … [Read more...] about Garuda steps up its cargo game
‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
According to the plan, the entire deal is set to be accomplished by the end of September this year, should regulators give the green light. If so, it will be a completely new ball game for the industry with the global express business dominated by only three competitors – DHL, UPS and FedEx. By adding Dutch TNT Express to its portfolio, ‘Big Brown’ not only inherits a massive European road network and some 480,000 staff, but also gets a significant air cargo capacity boost by … [Read more...] about ‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
