Air Cargo

A U.S. startup promising to revolutionize the air cargo industry by reducing the cost of flight operations by 65% has secured $10 million in seed funding.

The European Commission launched an in-depth investigation of the Korean Air-Asiana proposal in February over competition concerns.

“We are looking forward to supporting SF Airlines to expand their cross-border product in Southeast Asia,” Teleport CEO Pete Chareonwongsak says.

While Canada’s largest airline ordered two 777Fs in August 2022 as it expanded its cargo business during and after the pandemic, the cargo market has cooled.

The new cargo terminal at Tokyo Narita Airport will be leased to All Nippon Airways.

The Mexican government has decreed that freighter operations move out of Mexico City International Airport with the aim of reducing congestion at the hub.

The new processing center at Istanbul Airport will give FedEx subsidiary FedEx Express Europe a handling capacity of 3,000 pieces per hour.

Avflight, a fixed-base operator, announced the acquisition of the Nomads Building at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) for airfield cargo operations.

The technology is now being gradually applied on Lufthansa’s eleven 777F freighters.

The carrier says it is using a 777-200 freighter on the route.

Cargojet is focused on optimizing costs, as it rides out a period of softened cargo demand.

Lufthansa Cargo noted it has been serving short- and medium-haul destinations with A321F aircraft for more than a year.

The dismantling facility will be capable of handling six medium to large-sized aircraft annually; the freight facility will handle 5,000 pieces of cargo/hour.

International air cargo data in June 2023 show the smallest year-on-year contraction in demand since February 2022.

This moves forward the logistic company’s expansion in the air cargo market.

Leisure travel continues to defy expectations, but demand is likely to tail off, according to London Heathrow Airport’s CEO.

One Air, which is the only UK Boeing 747 operator, says it plans to add a second 747 freighter to its fleet in the fourth quarter of this year.

A decline from the big numbers of the COVID-19 pandemic is attributable to geopolitical tensions and other disruptions to global trade and supply chains.

French company Flying Whales plans to develop and operate the LCA60T, a 200-m-long (660-ft.) rigid airship with a payload capacity of 60 metric tons.

Etihad launched 2X-weekly freighter flights between Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH) and Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (WUH) in April.

Israel Aerospace Industries VP Yaacov Berkovitz speaks to ShowNews at the Paris Air Show about the company's capacity-building and expansion ambitions.

Qatar Airways has launched a freighter service between Doha and Rwanda's capital Kigali.

The company said May 3 that “the industrial planning for this variant is being slightly adjusted with the entry-into-service now slipping into 2026.”

Japan Airlines aims to convert three of its Boeing 767-300ERs to freighters and begin operations within 12 months.

The warehouses are part of a wider redevelopment of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ’s cargo facilities.