When sending goods overseas, you’ll often have a choice between air freight or using a courier service. Both are fast and reliable, but each has its own advantages depending on what you’re sending. Here’s ho...

The FTA has stressed the need for the UK government to make a decision regarding the development of Heathrow airport. Chris Welsh, the FTA’s Director of Global and European Policy, told delegates at a Heathrow conferen...

New York based company, Alfa Chemistry, has reportedly been given a potential $325,000 fine. This has come as a result of the company having sent two shipments of toxic, flammable cargo via air freight. Requesting the civil ...

Manston Airport, branded as Kent’s International Airport, has recently announced its closure. The closure comes as a result of the airport having not made a profit as of late; it is thought to be losing up to £10,...

Hamburg Airport has begun works on the building of its new Hamburg Airport Cargo Centre (HACC). Due to begin servicing mid-2015, the HACC will provide efficient and modernised systems in regards to freight handling, with the ...

Swissport International has released figures showing their total revenue for last year as being 2.1 billion Swiss francs, an increase of an impressive 11% increase compared to 2012. Swissport has said the successful increase...

LE West, a UK medical supplier, has been charged for breaching international dangerous goods regulations for attempting to ship improperly packaged lithium batteries. A fine of over £3000 from Chelmsford Magistrates Co...

Turkish Airlines has recently been offered the use of the Airbus A380 from several unknown leasing companies. This offer is to be decided by both Turkish Airlines, and its cargo company, Turkish Cargo, which is growing in cap...

IATA, the International Air Transport Association, recently placed Emirates as its highest ranking carrier in operating eAWB shipments. This has recently come to light as per the results of their top 10 league table. The rece...

In less than twenty years, the current number of aircraft operating air cargo services in the Asia Pacific region is set to triple according to manufacturers Airbus and Boeing. Boeing estimates a much increasd  freighte...

The air and ocean freight branch of DHL, DHL Global Forwarding has recently announced the launch of  a new temperature-controlled air freight service between Brussels and Cincinatti, Ohio. The new service is intended to ...

Air Cargo markets have never fully recovered from the global economic downturn that commenced five years ago. Nevertheless, trade press, industry organisations and individual air freight carriers continue to report moderate g...

From today, Emirates SkyCargo, the freight branch of UAE airline Emirates, has adopted a new onboard shipment monitoring and tracking device across its entire fleet. The new technology, supplied by OnAsset intelligence, wil...

IATA has recently published data relating to global air freight performance from November 2013. Results were promising, with the sector as a whole seeing a 6.1% year-on-year increase in FTK (freight tonne kilometres), an impr...

 IAG has launched a new flgiht route from London Heathrow to Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province in south-west China, creating increased air freight capacity to the area.  Flights are available three times...

Thomas Cook Airlines - the passenger airline and well-known provider of package holiday deals in Europe and beyond - has recently launched several new routes. As ever, the new passenger routes means new air cargo services. If...

In a recent survey of India's aviation commissioned by the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry), over two thirds of respondents identified cargo and ground handling as areas of growth. But the study...

Ground handler Swissport International has suffered another setback in its attempt to reclaim control of Ukrainian handling firm Interavia (previously Swissport Ukraine). Ukraine’s Highest Economic Court recently postp...

Etihad Airways, the flagship airline of the UAE recently reported a surge in the year-on-year tonnage of its cargo division for the month of July. The carrier reported a volume of 45,000 tonnes compared to 32,876 the previou...

AAPA, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, has recorded a fall in air freight tonne kilometres (FTK) for the month of July. FTK -the equivalent of transporting one metric tonne of freight a distance of one kilometre - f...

Ethiopian Cargo, Africa's largest cargo operator, will open a second cargo hub in Lomé, Togo this September. The expansion project is undertaken in parternship with Togo national carrier ASKY Airlines and will bring a...

DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight branch of German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL, launched a new mobile app last month. The app, named “DGF Cargo Mobile Tracking”, is available for customers us...

IATA - the International Air Transport Association released figures last week that showed a 1.2% year-on-year increase in air freight demand in June. While a seemingly modest improvement, the figures are likely to be well re...