Air

Virgin Atlantic Cargo stays positive

Carrier reports good performance in 'challenging market', with 2012/13 revenue on a par with best-ever results

Volga-Dnepr takes off for Papua New Guinea

First freighter flights in major contract for new gas field

Action needed to avert UK air freight capacity crisis

'Boris Island' airport would be too late and in the wrong place, warns cargo carrier CEO

New high for SriLankan

Asian air cargo carrier achieves highest tonnage and annual revenue in its history

Emirates notches up 25 years of profit

Carrier group’s latest figures show continuing growth, with SkyCargo bucking industry trend to pass two million tonne barrier for the first time

Etihad shapes up for summer

Cargo carrier invests to add frequencies and new destinations for the new season

New transport strike threat to Sweden

Latest dispute centres on security staff pay and could see airports shut on Monday

IAG Cargo announces online booking

MD hails milestone in air freight carrier group history

Debenhams deal for Uniserve

Logistics operator extends partnership with retail giant with export air freight contract

IAG opts for A350

Carrier group places order for 18 new ‘cargo-friendly’ aircraft to boost its widebody fleet

Afghan air horror kills seven

Florida carrier's B747 crashes on take-off from coalition airbase

KLM says it with flowers

Carrier celebrates 80 years of scheduled flights to Singapore with special shipment of tonnes of tulips

Norwegian Cargo set for take-off

Low-fare carrier to break into air cargo market as part of massive growth building strategy which includes $21bn order for 200+ aircraft

LC eyes greener air freight

Cargo carrier says it will leave no stone unturned to meet environmental targets

Hunt for Cargolux investor goes on

Finding a buyer for the share in the Luxembourg-based air cargo carrier seems to have stalled, despite claims of a list of 'candidates'

Advice and Insight

Juggling capacity

Marcia MacLeod reports on how air cargo carriers are coping with capacity challenges

Full of eastern promise

IAG Cargo MD Steve Gunning finds some bright spots in the operator's 2012 performance and tells Isabel Lesto that the integration of BA with Iberia is proving positive, despite the current dispute

China eyes more European air cargo

As part of our focus on China this week, Stuart Todd asks what makes a stake in Cargolux attractive to HNA?

Speculating to accumulate

Stuart Todd talks to Lufthansa Cargo Chairman CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt about company performance and its development plans

People

New GM at SBS

Forwarder appoints 40-year veteran at Manchester

Gateway searches for talent

UK's newest container port launches apprenticeship scheme to find engineers of the future

DHB CEO to quit

Port of Dover's Bob Goldfield to stand down after 11 years

Fame for Widdows

Rickmers CEO is inducted into International Maritime Hall of Fame

Have Your Say

Time to review the situation?

Reopening the debate on liner conferences would be welcomed by shippers yearning for an end to rate volatility, says Martin Etheridge

Conferences can offer stablity

Liner conferences can bring a stability to the market which far outweighs any accusations of price fixing, argues Rob Lewis

Co-operation and conferences

Is reviving the liner conference system the way to achieve more stable Asia-Europe rates?

Smoother waters

Andy Cliff says it's refreshing to see the return of a real market on Asia-Europe with more sensible rates