air cargo

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is part of a new breed of ocean carriers trying their hand as cargo airlines.

American and United airlines enjoyed highly profitable second quarters, but their cargo businesses were a downer.

Maersk Air Cargo is growing its small U.S. footprint with a cargo facility near the Atlanta airport.

Amazon is dialing back flights for its European cargo airline. The third party operating those flights has let go nearly 30 pilots.

Delta Air Lines has seen cargo revenue slide by more than a third in the past year.

The Cargo Airline Association has a new president for the first time in 40 years.

Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, caters to cargo. It is targeting the medicine, vaccine and biologics business with a new temperature-controlled facility.

A major air cargo terminal in Hong Kong is deploying robots to monitor security and damaged shipments.

Cargo pilots at Western Global Airlines are in the difficult position of negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement as questions mount about the company’s ability to stay in business.

Amazon’s private airline that outsources cargo flying to third parties has ended its partnership with Silver Airways, a small regional carrier that operated five small ATR72-500 turboprop planes on small feeder routes, FreightWaves has confirmed. Silver Airways, a privately held regional airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that operates passenger service in the Southeast, the […]

Western Global Airlines has hit hard times, losing Amazon as a primary customer, piling up debt and facing at least two lawsuits.

Mexico is kicking out freighter aircraft from the country’s busy international airport to address overcrowding. The move to another airport is creating headaches for airlines.

Amid waning revenue, Amerijet is laying off 15 workers after signing an expensive contract with its pilots.

Western Global Airlines appears to be winding down operations for a potential bankruptcy.

A developer has completed a sophisticated cargo terminal at Chicago O’Hare airport. The tenant has moved in. But cargo planes can’t pull up to load and unload because of construction delays for a new taxiway.

ASL Airlines United Kingdom has two cargo planes in its fleet after receiving a Boeing 737-800 converted freighter.

FedEx is downsizing its fleet again during the next 12 months to match weak international and domestic package shipping demand, and save money.

A bad pilot decision at the outset of an emergency on a Transair freighter cascaded into more mistakes that resulted in a crash landing at sea off Hawaii two years ago, investigators said.

U.S. law protects American carriers from foreign competition on domestic routes. Two carriers want the government to give them first crack at contracts to fly disaster relief to Guam.

Alliance Ground International is on an acquisition spree that aims to take it from a midsize domestic ground handler to a global service provider at airports around the world.