Carriers
ABC’s digital bookings soar 270 per cent in 2021
Volga-Dnepr Group’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has seen a 274 per cent increase in digital bookings in 2021 compared with 2020. ➤
Europe & CIS
Airports
Frankfurt racks up record cargo volumes in 2021
Frankfurt Airport (FRA) handled record volumes of cargo last year despite the ongoing reduction in bellyhold capacity across the industry. ➤
Carriers
Silk Way West offers freighter capacity on WebCargo
Silk Way West Airlines is set to enable Digital Air Cargo real-time pricing and eBooking for thousands of forwarders on air cargo booking platform WebCargo. ➤
Chartering
Chapman Freeborn taps Russian market with new Moscow office
Chapman Freeborn, part of the Avia Solutions Group, opens a Moscow office to support growth and expansion plans in response to fast-developing Russian market. ➤
Aircraft Manufacturers
A.P. Moller-Maersk acquires air forwarder, leases and buys freighters
A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest shipping line announced today it intends to acquire Germany-based air freight forwarding company Senator International, as well as acquire air cargo freighters. ➤
Airports
AA Cargo ramps up transatlantic winter schedules
American Airlines (AA) Cargo is furthering enhancing its transatlantic services for cargo customers this winter with direct service from London Heathrow (LHR) to nine key US cities starting in November. ➤
Asia Pacific
Heavy demand for Antonov Airlines’ AN-225 on capacity crunch
Outsized and super-heavy air cargo transporter, Antonov Airlines, has delivered 110 tonnes of Covid-19 testing kits from Tianjin, China, to Linz, Austria, on the unique AN-225 ‘Mriya’ for use in Austrian pharmacies. ➤
Airports
Cainiao set to double parcel sorting in Europe
Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of the Alibaba Group is launching parcel sorting centres in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy, in order to boost e-commerce parcel delivery in these countries. ➤
Carriers
Jettainer, Swiss extend ULD cooperation for 5 more years
Jettainer, a global unit load device (ULD) management provider will sib provide global ULD management and maintenance services for Swiss International Air Lines, including its air cargo division Swiss WorldCargo and affiliate Edelweiss Air, for another five years. ➤
Airports
Skyport handles aircraft engine for Ural Airlines
Czech ground handling specialist Skyport recently handled a complete aircraft engine at Prague Vaclav Havel Airport for transportation to Yekaterinburg, Russia, on board a Ural Airlines aircraft. ➤