Air Freight News
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Air Cargo Plummets 22.6% in December
IATA released international scheduled traffic results for both December 2008 and the full-year. In December global international cargo traffic fell 22.6% compared to December 2007. For the full-year 2008, international cargo traffic was down 4.0%. European air cargo declined 21.2% for the year. "The 22.6% free fall in global cargo is unprecedented and shocking." said Giovanni Bisignani. Air cargo carries 35% of the value of goods traded internationally. (IATA)
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Road Transport Industry backs a 3rd runway for Heathrow
Road transport bosses have come out in support of the government's decision to build a 3rd runway at Heathrow. The head of global supply chain policy at the Freight Transport Association, says: "Few people realise that around 90% of all air freight is moved by passenger plane and Heathrow accounts for over half of the UK's air freight by weight, so its operational efficiency has a huge impact on UK and international business." (RoadTransport)
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Retaining Share – Europe’s cargo airports
Europe's 4 prime cargo gateways are facing tougher times as the downturn in the global economy begins to bite into traffic throughput. These airports also have to overcome increasing capacity restraints on the ground. Frankfurt Airport had a continuous growth run of four years, and just beats Paris Charles De Gaulle International to process more cargo annually. Amsterdam (3rd) and Heathrow (4th) are the other two leading European gateways. Heathrow freight grew 3.9% in 2007. (Air Cargo World)
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Doncaster Airport hopes to lift restrictions on cargo
Robin Hood Airport has gone ahead with an official bid to lift restrictions on night-time cargo flights to create more jobs. But the move has sparked concerns from pressure group Finningley Airport Network which has set up a petition protesting against the plan. Since opening in April 2005 Robin Hood carried around 600 tonnes of cargo annually in its first 2 years. its current restrictions are from 11pm and 7am. (The Star)
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Robin Hood Airport applies for freight night flying
Robin Hood Airport has officially applied to Doncaster Council to lift restrictions on night-time freight flights in a bid to create more jobs. It has submitted plans to relax the limitations. It wants to overturn a ban on noisier aircraft like Boeing 747s - known as QC4s - operating at night because officials are concerned the current ruling is hampering efforts to attract a freight operator to set up base at Robin Hood. (Doncaster Free Press)
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Air Freight news during 2008
Air Freight news stories during 2008 - collected together
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Asian Air cargo drops sharply in November
Air cargo demand in Asia fell sharply in November, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. November was the 7th straight month of accelerating declines. As demand weakens, the airlines have been cutting capacity. International cargo volume declined 15.5% in November, from 5.1 billion freight ton kilometers in November 2007 to 4.3 billion FTK this year. Available freight ton kilometers dropped 8.9%. (Air Cargo World)
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Globalisation to go into reverse – air freight
Intercontinental volume growth rates may never return to the levels of the last 10 years. The CEO of DHL Express’s Emea region said the prospect of higher oil prices long-term meant shippers were seriously looking at bringing at least part of their manufacturing closer to consumer markets. "When the world’s economy starts to grow again, transport growth will begin again, but I think the growth spurt is gone. (IFW)
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Second Kalitta Air 747 Freighter Crashes
A Boeing 747 crashed in Madrid, near Bogota, on Monday, July 7th 2008. The cargo plane fell after taking off from Bogota's airport with a load of flowers on route to Miami. The 8 crew members survived but 2 people who lived on the ranch where the plane crashed were killed. Another Kalitta 747 cargo plane crashed at the end of a runway and split in two while trying to take off from Brussels airport on 25th May.
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Cargo plane breaks in two after crashing during take-off in Brussels
An American-owned Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed as it took off from Brussels airport yesterday but no injuries were reported. The jumbo jet broke in two in the crash as it came to rest at the end of the runway 500m from housing in the Brussels suburb of Zaventem. Some local residents have been campaigning to have this particular runway closed. (Irish Examiner)