Monthly Newsletter
Jan-Feb 2017
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Ethiopian Cargo Breaking New Grounds

Honly African nation to defeat the European colonial power in the 19th century, Ethiopia, the continent's oldest independent nation where coffee beans were first grown, continues to break new grounds, defying stereotype notions about the region and its people.

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Outsourcing Operations 3PLS

The UAE ranks high on the list of promising emerging markets and its domestic logistics market shows no less potential.

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Security, Safety & Fire Protection..

The UAE ranks high on the list of promising emerging markets and its domestic logistics market shows no less potential.

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Mumbai gets new export heavy..

By 2025, India will rank third in the world, displacing the UK, in terms of air passenger movement, transporting nearly 1.1 billion

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Messe München aims for more in 2017

Messe München holds about 40 trade fairs annually for industrial goods, consumer goods and new technologies. Separately, it holds 14 international trade fairs in various countries and cities.

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AI-powered Mercedes-Benz Actros

This truck has safety features designed for extreme weather conditions and difficult situations like a near collision with another vehicle, an animal, a human or any object on the road that...

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The Lounge - Enquanhone Minyashal

Enquanhone Minyashal is a proud African and an even prouder Ethiopian. And there are good reasons to be one. Ethiopia which is known the world over as the birth place of coffee is now one of the leading nations in the continent as far as economy and innovations in education and other industries are concerned...

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Quotes

The passenger jet was, and still is, one of the wonders of the world, a world whose other wonders the jet made accessible. Along with the personal computer, it ranks as the greatest technological innovation of the second half of the twentieth century. The computer turned your lowly desk into a cross between Harvard and Hollywood. The jet turned you into an adventurer. It freed you from the shackles of that desk and set you free to roam the world, to become a Lindbergh, an Earhart, a James Bond, and, if you had enough money and time, a jet-setter.

- Willian Stadiem : The People, The Planes, The Glamour and The Romance in Aviation's Glory Years. 2014.

Airports and Airlines

Etihad Airways launches Abu Dhabi – Bengaluru route

Etihad Airways is launching a third daily flight on the Abu Dhabi – Bengaluru route, effective 26 March 2017. The triple daily schedule will provide greater choice to local passengers travelling between the two cities, and improved connectivity to destinations across the GCC...

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Emirates to introduce third daily flight to Nairobi

Emirates recently announced that it will introduce a third daily flight between Dubai and Kenya’s capital Nairobi from 1st June 2017. The additional flight will increase the number of scheduled Emirates flights between the two cities to 21 a week and give customers greater ...

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Qatar Airways Group announces the establishment of new company to manage and operate HIA

The Executive Board of Directors of Qatar Airways Group recently announced in its meeting the establishment of a new company to manage and operate Hamad International Airport (HIA), as an independent entity owned by Qatar Airways Group.

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Brussels Airport and Mumbai International Airport partner in Pharma.Aero initiative

Brussels Airport (BRU) and Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) recently announce their partnership in the recently launched Pharma. Aero initiative focused on improving pharma handling and quality in the air cargo industry. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was formally inked during the first...

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Gulf Air unveils stopover package to boost visitors

Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier and strategic partner of the third edition of ‘Shop Bahrain’, has launched a stopover package to promote the shopping festival and boost visitors to the Kingdom. Gulf Air passengers traveling across the airline’s network anytime before 20th February and transiting through...

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Logistics

Canadian International Freight Forwarders’ Association to partner with TIACA and ACF

The Canadian International Freight Forwarders’ Association (CIFFA) will partner with TIACA and Multimodal Americas at the Air Cargo Forum (ACF) in Toronto in October 2018. The announcement comes as Vladimir Zubkov formally takes the helm as TIACA’s new Secretary General...

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Kerry Logistics acquires film and media logistics provider Multi Logistics GmbH

Kerry Logistics Network Limited, Asia’s leading logistics service provider, has continued to expand its European operations through acquiring Multi Logistics GmbH, a specialist film and media logistics provider that has been in the market for over 30 years...

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New website TEAM-UP offers easy access to pharma-logistics collaboration program

The new TEAM-UP website at www.team-up.global offers quick and easy access to essential information about the ground-breaking TEAM-UP pharma-logistics collaboration program. Packed with valuable content, the website provides the business case for more integrated supply ...

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WCA partners with Alibaba.com for cross-border e-commerce shipments

Logistics network WCA Ltd and global wholesale trading platform Alibaba.com, recently announced they have concluded a co-operation agreement that will see approved WCA member companies integrated into the Alibaba.com logistics platform for cross-border eCommerce shipments...

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RSA Logistics expands operations in Dubai Investment Park

Third party logistics (3PL) provider, RSA Logistics, recently announced that it has expanded its operations to Dubai Investments Park (DIP) with a new warehousing facility strategically located within the DIP complex to serve customers with faster distribution in the local markets...

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EC delegation visits ACC test site for new generation air traffic control system

Delegates from the European Commission (EC) and the Innovation and Network Executive Agency (INEA) have visited the Marseille Air Traffic Control Centre (ACC) in France, one of two sites testing the new generation air traffic control (ATC) system, 4-FLIGHT...

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Schneider Electric officially sponsors Airport Solutions Mexico 2017

The inaugural Airport Solutions Mexico 2017, part of the Airport Solutions Global Series of events, is being officially sponsored by Schneider Electric, a software solutions provider. The two-day Airport Solutions Mexico exhibition and conference...

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Mercator, Accelya partner for creating global technology-enabled solutions

Accelya, a leading provider of financial and commercial solutions to the airline industry, and Mercator, a global provider of product-enabled solutions to the travel and transportation industry, recently announced their intention to combine,

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Kalitta Air takes off with CHAMP’s
Weight &
Balance

CHAMP Cargosystems has successfully completed US-based cargo carrier Kalitta Air’s implementation of its Weight & Balance application used to manage its load planning more effectively. With its fleet of sixteen Boeing 747 freighters, Kalitta Air is one of the leading ...

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Boeing and US Air Force sign GPS sustainment agreement to ensure

Boeing and the US Air Force recently signed a Global Positioning System (GPS) sustainment agreement that will ensure the navigation capabilities relied upon by millions of military and commercial users remain robust for years to come...

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Recruitments and Retirements

MEBAA Founding Chairman Ali Ahmed Alnaqbi elected as IBAC

Ali Ahmed Alnaqbi, Founding Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA), has been elected Vice Chairman of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) Governing Board.

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GE announces major appointments

Visal Leng is President and CEO, Asia Pacific, GE Oil & Gas. With more than 20 years of Industrial experience at GE, Visal has held roles of increasing responsibility in Sales, Finance and Quality across the Plastics, Infrastructure, Water and Oil & Gas businesses

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Pedro Garcia joints WFS as Chief Information Officer

Pedro Garcia has joined Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as Chief Information Officer, based in Paris. Prior to joining WFS, Pedro spent 10 years with Swissport, including the last five years in the role of Vice President, Cargo Information Syst

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DB Chief Executive Rüdiger Grube resigns, Richard Lutz to serve as interim

Deutsche Bahn (DB) chief executive Rüdiger Grube has resigned after almost eight years at the helm. His request was unanimously accepted by DB’s supervisory board, and work is underway to terminate his contract, with terms to be arran

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David Clark joins WFS as Global Head of Safety & Security

David, who will report directly to WFS’ CEO Craig Smyth, will take up his new post on 27th February 2017, based in Paris. He joins WFS after spending more than 17 years with British Airways where he has held various senior management roles in Engi

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Global News

ATA grants CEIV Pharma certification to SIA Cargo
ANA cargo volume surges by 119% in 2016
dnata's steady growth in 2016
ABC celebrates 1000 flights milestone in Amsterdam and Frankfurt
Air China Cargo bans Shark Fin Cargo
CAL and Japan Airlines expand strategic partnership
Smartworld records 15% growth in revenues
TAPA calls for greater sharing of incident as EMEA cargo thefts rises in Q3
Turkish Airlines awards cargo handling contract to AFS
Rhenus opens new business site in South Korea
Airport Solutions Indonesia to be co-located with Cyber Security event
Cathay Pacific Cargo relocates to Lufthansa Cargo terminal as part of cooperation agreement
Parcel International launches same-day intra-European air cargo delivery service
Volga-Dnepr sees upturn in oil and gas business
DB Schenker buys 'cargo supermarket' for maintenance work