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Etihad signs Astral pharma deal

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Etihad signs Astral pharma deal

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Cargo has signed a pharma interline agreement with Astral Aviation and Kenya Airways to provide pharma delivery solutions across Africa.

Eithad gains access to Astral’s fleet of 14 freighters out of its Nairobi and Johannesburg to  15 African destinations. Both carriers are members of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) and Pharma.Aero, whose joint Project Sunrays initiative offers cross-industry collaboration for pharma shippers managing complex vaccine distribution logistics.

The agreement ensures Etihad Cargo partners are fully compliant with latest GDP and IATA Pharma regulations and standards, and guarantees processes, from booking to handling of such sensitive goods, are standardised and performed to the highest quality. In September, Astral Aviation signed an interline agreement Airlink Cargo South Africa and to connect their networks through their hubs in Johannesburg and Nairobi.

An 83-ton boiler takes flight

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An 83-ton boiler takes flight

Volga-Dnepr Airlines and forwarder Fracht FWO orchestrated the delivery of an 83-tonne boiler from Milan, Italy to Lincoln, Nebraska, for a power plant in Sioux City, Iowa. The move took almost two months of planning by European and US teams at both companies and design and production of a special cradle.
The flight lasted two days with tech stops in Liege, Keflavik, Gander and Bangor, the latter being included for smooth customs procedures.  After landing at Nebraska, the equipment weighing over 93 tonnes was trucked to Iowa to be assembled.
To see a live stream of the operation: LIVE: An-124 93T load-and-go at Milan Malpensa – YouTube

DHL opens Paris super-hub

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DHL opens Paris super-hub

DHL Express has opened a new international hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. The €170 million investment has created a facility ten times larger than the previous site. It is the carrier’s largest investment in Europe in recent years and the biggest ever in France since its arrival in 1976. DHL has also made €80 million worth of other investments in its French infrastructure over the last six years.

DHL Express chief executive John Pearson said the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport is now the fourth largest hub in its European network, after Leipzig, East Midlands and Brussels. 

In France and the rest of the world, growth in parcel shipments linked to e-commerce has considerably accelerated due to Covid-19 and is continuing at a very sustained pace in 2021, with DHL Express France increasing its volume by about 8% compared to 2019.

The new facility’s 45 million sorting system can process 38,000 pieces an hour, 15 times more than the previous facility.

It also meets strict environmental criteria, including LED lighting with motion detectors, a sorting system with high-efficiency motors and energy-efficient air conditioning.

Temp packaging firm on the move

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Temp packaging firm on the move

Temperature controlled packaging solutions company Peli BioThermal is to relocate its Minnesota- corporate headquarters from Plymouth to Maple Grove, MN. The new space100,000sq ft adds 40% more square footage to meet increasing demand for thermal packaging used to transport blood supplies, tissues, biologics, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and vaccines during transit. The space will include additional production lines and will house Peli BioThermal’s 80 plus Minnesota-based employees, with room for future growth. 

Peli BioThermal president David Williams, said: “Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics created unprecedented demand for temperature controlled packaging. Fast-growing markets like cell and gene therapy will continue to increase demand and the need for product innovation.”

Handler signs up to Cargospot in EMEAA

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Handler signs up to Cargospot in EMEAA

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed a long-term agreement to move its core cargo management system in the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia (EMEAA) region to CHAMP’s Cargospot software-as-a-service (SaaS).

CHAMP is already a longstanding partner of cargo handler WFS. The implementation of CHAMP’s SaaS environment, and adoption of its Cargospot Mobile application using modern iOS or Android smart phone or tablet devices, will eliminated manual processes and paperwork and give faster access to real-time data.

WFS will switch over its EMEAA cargo management system to CHAMP’s Cargospot SaaS in October before commencing a phased introduction of Cargospot Mobile. The mobile application will initially go live at WFS cargo stations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden and Italy, and be followed by its operations in South Africa, Thailand and the UK in the second phase.

Carrier and forwarder take green fuel to the next level

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Carrier and forwarder take green fuel to the next level

Lufthansa Cargo and Kuehne+Nagel have signed a new partnership to promote CO2-neutral power-to-liquid aviation fuel. They have agreed to an annual purchase of 25,000 litres of synthetic crude oil agreed for at least five years, which will then be refined into finished Jet A1 fuel for aircraft at Atmosfair’s Heide refinery, north of Hamburg. Atmosfair says the pl;ant will go into regular operation in the first quarter of 2022.

Until now, Lufthansa Cargo and Kuehne+Nagel have used sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) of biogenic origin – that is, synthetic paraffin based on used cooking oils, for example. But to produce synthetic paraffin, also known as power-to-liquid fuel, the synthetic crude oil is produced from regeneratively generated electricity, water and CO2 and such fuel is considered CO2-neutral.

While still in the development stage, they are already considered a long-term alternative to conventional paraffin or biogenic SAF, as there are in theory no availability limits.

MASkargo goes live on CargoAi

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MASkargo goes live on CargoAi

Malaysian Aviation’s MASkargo arm has become the first Asia Pacific carrier to put all its global capacity on the CargoAi digital platform. Freight forwarders can now get e-Quote and e-Booking services across the carrier’s global network of more than 100 destinations.

Air Canada expands Toronto cold chain capability

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Air Canada expands Toronto cold chain capability

Air Canada has started work on a $16-million project to expand its cold chain handling at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Once completed, the upgraded facility will feature over 30,000sq ft of temperature-controlled areas and an expanded cooler to fully meet the requirements of cold chain shipments such as pharmaceuticals, fresh food and other perishables.

The extended cooler will accommodate more unit load devices (ULD) and loose shipments with +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C temperature requirements, provide additional racking, and an upgraded dedicated area for active temperature control units.

The carrier says they are the first step in a multi-year investment plan for the facility and are part of several planned infrastructure investment projects for Air Canada Cargo.

The project also includes the installation of equipment including temperature controllers that will constantly monitor the conditions inside the facility and only regulate the temperature as needed, so as to reducd energy consumption. Rapid roll-up doors will be installed to minimize energy loss when the cooler is accessed and LED lights will be installed throughout the facility.

Air Canada is CEIV Pharma certified by IATA, meeting the highest standards of safety, security, compliance and the enhancements were guided, in part, by its specifications.

Vice president, cargo, Jason Berry, said: “Our new temperature-controlled facility, which will be the only one of its kind for a Canadian airline, represents a significant addition to Air Canada’s on-site capabilities at Toronto Pearson and to Canadian cold chain logistics. It will also give Air Canada Cargo a strategic advantage at our main hub, which handles more than 60% of all our traffic, and will support the launch of routes to be served by our new freighter aircraft.”

Since March 2020, Air Canada has operated more than 11,000 all-cargo flights using its wide-body passenger aircraft as well as temporarily modified Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 aircraft with seats removed from the passenger cabin.

It is also converting eight Boeing 767-300ER aircraft into dedicated freighters, the first of which will enter service in the fourth quarter of this year, initially on key routes to provide additional capacity during the busy peak season.

From early 2022, the first freighter will fly primarily out of Toronto to Miami, Quito, Lima, Mexico City and Guadalajara, with additional cities like Madrid and Frankfurt, Halifax and St. John’s connecting to the freighter network when the second aircraft is delivered in 2022.

Three decades of helping the world

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Three decades of helping the world

Air Charter Service and Volga-Dnepr Group have celebrated 30 years of on humanitarian missions.

At the end of 1989 Alexey Isaikin  was working on the aviation plant in Ulyanovsk overseeing manufacturing of Antonov 124s and Chris Leach was unemployed but with a wealth of aircraft charter contacts. Shortly afterwards he began working as a broker from his basement in his house in Kingston-upon-Thames. As the Soviet Union collapsed around him, Alexey  Isaikin formed his company, Volga-Dnepr Airlines working with the Antonov 124s that he knew so well.
The entrepreneurs were among the pioneers in bringing in the Antonov 124s to the western charter market. The aircraft had unmatched capacity compared to anything at the time, of indeed since, and changed the face of the cargo charter industry.
Since then the two partners have completed more than 500 charters, a large number of them carrying relief and humanitarian aid and have collaborated in the aftermaths of virtually every natural disaster since the early 1990s.

The first recorded relief charter between the two companies was on an Antonov 124 from Luanda, Angola to Entebbe, Uganda in the early 1990s and since then they have flown boats to help the relief effort following the Asian Tsunami in 2004 or a mobile hospital to the Caribbean following Hurricane Irma in 2017. Following the earthquake in Port-au-Prince in 2010 the airport’s infrastructure was so damaged that only self-loading aircraft could land there with humanitarian aid and ACS and Volga-Dnepr worked together again.
The most recent humanitarian projects have been numerous charters transporting PPE on Ilyushin 76s and Antonov 124s.

Nigeria’s Aglow joins Cargo iQ

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Nigeria’s Aglow joins Cargo iQ

Nigerian aviation consultancy, flight operations, and logistics business Aglow Aviation Support Services has joined the Cargo iQ cross-stakeholder organization.

Aglow Aviation’s daughter company, Aglow Air, was recently incorporated as a dedicated cargo airline in Nigeria, operating as an unscheduled cargo carrier out of Lagos.

Aglow managing director, Tayo Ojuri (pictured), said: “Being in a community that includes members representing all players in the cargo value chain is an invaluable opportunity to access data that assists with the continuous measuring, monitoring, and improvement of our process.”

Air cargo demand is expected to increase in Nigeria and West and Central Africa as requirements for the international transportation of temperature-controlled goods and cross border e-commerce continue to grow.

The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Single African Air Transport Market could further promote growth in the market.

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