Atlas Air has announced that it has added three new hubs to its international cargo transportation network. The new hubs are Liege in eastern Belgium, Anchorage in Alaska, and Miami in the southeastern US state of Florida.
Read MoreFedEx Corp. Chairman Frederick Smith says his company is engaged in one of the most significant transformations in corporate history. His plan, which he hatched a decade ago, is for FedEx to expand from its original business -shipping documents by overnight plane – to shipping packages of all sizes and shapes, with trucks as well as planes and at speeds selected by customers.
Read MoreAéroports de Paris (ADP) is confident that freighter operators, including FedEx and La Poste, will be able to stay at Paris Charles de Gaulle despite French government plans to curtail night ifights.
Prime minister Leone! Jospin said the government would “hold a wide consultation in order to limit the number of movements at night, particularly of air freight… and to that end, will look at how to organise the movement of cargo operations to Vatry”.
ADP marketing development director Claude Elbaz said none of the operators concerned was interested in moving to Vatry, a cargoonly airport some 130km east of Paris. “It is not realistic to move to a place in the middle of nowhere,” he said.
“If they wanted to be based there, they would have set up their operations there. Integrators need access to passenger networks to transfer cargo for destinations not served by their own fleets.”
Emery has won major forwarding contract with Magnetic Corp, a manufacturer of linear drive systems.The deal involves air and ocean shipments from Magnetic’s factories in Liestal, Switzerland to various customers throughout the US and Canada.
Read MoreDisillusioned with the fixed quota of mail delivery given by Indian airlines, the West Bengal postal circle will depend more and more upon private airlines for its mail delivery. said post master general (mail management) S.K. Das while speaking to TNN.
The decision relates mainly to the express segment like express parcel, business mail and speedpost that are heavier and carry more weight.
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