Busy Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands is taking a large stake in Maastricht airport, which could become a feeder port as Amsterdam deals with overcrowding.
Instead of carrying dead weight to help balance its empty freighters, Alaska Air Cargo is taking waste that will go to a recycling center.
Lufthansa Cargo’s planned investment in Italy’s ITA Airways will allow the airlines to harmonize cargo operations.
FedEx flight reductions reflect a significant drop in parcel traffic, throwing a wrench into management’s earnings expectations in the just-completed fourth quarter.
Shippers will be able to place lots of freight on widebody jets British Airways will start flying to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport from London.
U.S. and EU antitrust authorities are worried about reduced cargo competition from a merger between South Korea’s top airlines.
FedEx Express is quadrupling throughput at one of its airport gateways in Australia.
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth airport is building a 53,000-square-foot airside transfer center for freight company Kuehne+Nagel.
Freightos, an online reservation portal for freight shippers, is adding users, but heavy development costs and a weak shipping market make it difficult for the startup to reduce losses.
More signs are surfacing that the second half of the year won’t be a panacea to the international freight recession. Seko Logistics says there won’t be a surge in orders that fuels transportation spending.
The outsourced logistics arm of FedEx is opening up the way it shares data on electronic bookings for air cargo with a major customer.
There’s plenty of cargo news in Canada with WestJet avoiding a pilots strike and Air Canada expanding its freighter network to Costa Rica.
DHL Air Austria will operate a mixed fleet of Boeing freighters in the fall and is seeking permission to fly new 767s to the U.S. so it has that option in the future.
FedEx pilots say they are willing to go on strike, if necessary.
WestJet Cargo finally got airborne last month after nearly a year of unexpected delays and now faces a shutdown by week’s end because of a labor dispute.
If you’ve never heard of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, you’re not alone. But for DSV, a large logistics company, it could prove a diamond in the rough for air cargo purposes.
Nippon Express has signed a deal with Austria’s Cargo-Partner that expands its geographic reach and logistics service capabilities.
All airlines are experiencing lower cargo revenue, but Air Canada lagged most competitors during the first quarter for reasons both unique to the airline and common for the industry.
Japan Airlines is joining a group of passenger airlines that are starting all-cargo operations.
Amazon air cargo partner ATSG has its eye on long-term growth, but investors with a shorter horizon are wary of big expenditures for cargo jets as shipping demand wanes.
