Animals can also be sent alone as air cargo, and air cargo usually (but not always) accepts a broader range of animal breeds and sizes.
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The ban extended to shipping the phones as air cargo.
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Carriers must submit advance air cargo data to U.S. authorities.
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The big picture: Air cargo shipments also are solidly negative.
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Air Cargo has converted its Short 330s into cargo planes.
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Air cargo and ocean freight are exempt from the rules.
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Air cargo disrupted It's not just shipping that's been affected.
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Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, a major hub for air cargo.
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The company's foray into air cargo has come with some bumps.
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Sluggishness in the air cargo market drove the decision, Boeing said.
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Despite the negative trends in air cargo, passenger demands are holding steady.
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But air cargo is as vital—perhaps more—to the global economy.
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Last month, it bought WebCargoNet, a Spanish network of air cargo rates.
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And UPS is only continuing to invest in fast air cargo delivery.
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Enter Prime Air — the air cargo service Amazon officially introduced last summer.
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Southern Air is an air cargo company that Atlas acquired in early 2016.
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And, for sure, 2020 will be another challenging year for the air cargo business.
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In Spain, one business wants to use drones to make air cargo more efficient.
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There are two big problems with the air-cargo network right now, analysts say.
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That makes it the only American retailer with its own dedicated air cargo service.
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Amazon's foray into controlling more of its air cargo shipments continues to be rocky.
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Without FedEx, Amazon will likely have to rely more on its own air cargo services.
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Baloo from The Jungle Book was reenvisioned as an air cargo pilot who battled pirates.
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High-grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey.
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The tanking of ship-based freight rates has spurred a switch from more expensive air cargo.
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But half of air cargo still travels with paper "bills of lading" rather than e-tickets.
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The Amazon One is a Boeing 2271-270, operated by Amazon's air cargo provider Atlas Air.
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In December the EU's General Court overturned nearly €800m of air-cargo fines against 11 airlines.
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The "Amazon One" is a Boeing 767-300, operated by Amazon's air cargo provider Atlas Air.
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"Much of the capacity for air cargo is at the bottom of passenger flights," he said.
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Amazon has contracted with multiple air cargo outfits to operate the aircraft, including this Boeing 767-300.
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International air cargo volumes from the Asia-Pacific region fell more than twice as much at 8.1%.
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Yet the mood at the World Air Cargo Symposium in March in Abu Dhabi was cautiously optimistic.
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The news comes months after FedEx announced that it would no longer move Amazon's air cargo packages.
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With airports closed to international flights and limiting crew access, air cargo deliveries could become increasingly unreliable.
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Second thing, the merger and acquisition of destination-management companies and, third, to establish air-cargo corridors.
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Hong Kong, the world's largest international air cargo airport, handled 21990 millions tonnes of air cargo last year according to the Airport Authority, and the China Civil Airports Association predicts annual cargo throughput in the region, presently about 22000 million tonnes, will top 21 million tonnes by 19903.
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Amazon One, a Boeing 767-300, will be operated by Atlas Air, which already runs Amazon's air cargo.
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This shortage impacts air travel and air cargo service nationwide, but especially threatens rural access to air service.
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The potential for gridlock has forced companies to use alternative ports, reserve air cargo capacity and stockpile parts.
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Air cargo, which moves 35% of global trade by value, contributes to 2% of the world's carbon emissions.
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One of those employers is Atlas Air, which acquired another air cargo company called Southern Air in 2016.
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The pallets to load into a truck, and the containers for air cargo, are not the same shape.
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The government encourages air cargo companies and logistics firms to jointly conduct restructurings, it said on its website.
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Another airport which is under development, Al Maktoum International, now handles a significant amount of Dubai's air cargo.
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Amtrak is replacing its current CEO, a former airline executive, with a veteran of the air cargo industry.
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Amazon announced days before Christmas that it would add another 10 cargo jets to its air cargo network.
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A swift expansion in air cargo, challenging FedEx and U.P.S. The neighborhood spread of video and audio surveillance.
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Meanwhile, air cargo traffic is rising, but a sustained gain could arrive too late to rescue Boeing's 747 aircraft.
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All cargo originating from those airports will have to be screened and secured under Air Cargo Advance Screening protocols.
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Tariffs and trade tensions are biting the air cargo industry and some carriers are warning things could get worse.
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Only part of Dubai's air cargo goes through Dubai International; another facility, Dubai World Central, handles pure cargo operations.
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Most freight is hauled by equipment that uses diesel engines, or jet turbines in the case of air cargo.
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The pilots are in two company departments owned by Atlas Air Worldwide: Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo Worldwide.
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Catching up to that sortation and air-cargo muscle would cost Amazon some $15 billion and years of construction.
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Its air cargo sector has also started to gobble up market share in the next-day air delivery industry.
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Cathay said it was cautiously optimistic about the air cargo market, where rates have risen sharply in recent weeks.
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Cathay said it was cautiously optimistic about the air cargo market, where rates have risen sharply in recent weeks.
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Another "watch item" for Boeing that could become a long-term problem is the softening of air cargo demand.
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The aircraft will fly out of 20 different US airports as part of Amazon Air, the company's air cargo operation.
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Around half of air cargo is carried in the bellies of passenger jets, with the remainder flown on dedicated freighters.
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This faster-than-the-speed-of-sound travel, it was thought, would not impact on the expanding air cargo market.
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The 747 charge of $814 million after tax, or $1.28 a share, reflects anticipated weak demand for air cargo shipments.
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In the immediate future, however, air cargo is lining up to be one of Amazon's primary avenues of delivery operations.
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He adds that air cargo sometimes arrives by Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the largest military transport plane in the world.
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Emirates will continue to operate its international air cargo network to transport "essential goods including medical supplies" around the world.
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Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is a major corridor for air cargo, and a crucial transit point for the Dutch flower industry.
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Com Inc * Amazon to create 2,000 jobs at New Air Cargo Hub in Kentucky Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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O'Daniel receives his goods by air cargo from a screen-printer in Phoenix, who designs and produces a constantly changing selection.
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Pilots for Amazon Air, the company's air cargo operation, also said they "stand in solidarity with the warehouse workers" in Shakopee.
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The size and term of the deal has convinced McGraw that Amazon's air cargo business is more than a trial service.
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In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters on Monday managed to shut down the city's airport, the world's busiest air cargo hub.
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The plane is a a Boeing 767-300 operated by Atlas Air, an existing provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com.
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A search of an air cargo consignment that had arrived at a Sydney freight depot from the United States on Oct.
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About half of the air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters.
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Passenger planes normally carry about half the world's air cargo in their bellies, with the remainder hauled in dedicated freighter planes.
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About half of the air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters.
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In the Atlanta region, transportation firms said canceled flights to China had reduced air cargo capacity significantly, threatening first-quarter revenues.
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In the Atlanta region, transportation firms said canceled flights to China had reduced air cargo capacity significantly, threatening first-quarter revenues.
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On December 262, a local commission in the city of San Bernardino, California unanimously approved a $21 million air cargo facility.
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SIA cautioned that the outlook remains cautious for air cargo amid China's economic slowdown and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the global economy.
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Motherboard first reported in November that Amazon was rumored to have launched a secretive air cargo operation to ship its own goods.
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The market for fresh food, in contrast, is a thriving one for air-cargo companies thanks to the globalisation of eating habits.
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Air cargo demand, measured by freight-ton kilometers, fell 3.3% in the first five months of 2019 from the year-earlier period.
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But after dark, when the last passengers have departed, it begins to buzz with activity as Britain's second-biggest air-cargo hub.
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"It's our first air cargo consignment to Shanghai, but soon we will be sending Afghan products to Beijing and Quanzhou," he added.
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Hong Kong is the world's busiest air cargo port and the 8th busiest by passenger traffic, handling 73 million passengers a year.
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FedEx also outright dumped Amazon as an air-cargo customer after months of insisting that the retailer really isn't a big customer.
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To help prevent this from happening, private express carriers submit advance electronic security data through the Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) system.
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Trade tensions between the United States and China had so far not had a significant impact on air cargo flows, he said.
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"As we fight a global health war ... governments must take urgent action to facilitate air cargo," IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac said.
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Business Insider spoke with 13 pilots who work at Atlas Air and ATSG, Amazon&aposs other air cargo partner, earlier this year.
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TSA The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out a stricter screening program for air cargo into the US from five Mideast countries.
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Electronics giants HP and Foxconn both ship goods through the dry port, which is faster than sea freight but cheaper than air cargo.
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The air cargo market has had a weak start to 2019, but Boeing has forecast it will double over the next 20 years.
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GROUNDED Hong Kong is the world's busiest air cargo port and the 8th busiest by passenger traffic, handling 73 million passengers a year.
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"The air cargo industry continues to face challenges from the evolving world trade tensions," Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong said on Tuesday.
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Emily: Now Hong Kong stands for a second year running as the world's busiest air cargo airport- Emily: Five years, excuse me. Congratulations.
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The location choice stemmed from the city's standing as the largest air cargo hub in the world and its relatively low shipping costs.
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And that doesn&apost even total in the hundreds of billions that the trucking, rail, ocean freight, and air cargo industries are worth.
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IATA said air cargo demand was expected to grow by "a modest 4.0 percent" in 2018, less than the 4.5 percent foreseen in December.
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Rising passenger revenue and lower fuel costs helped to offset a decline in the air cargo market linked to the U.S.-China trade war.
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There also are four dedicated air cargo terminals, including UPS and FedEx locations, according to JobsOhio, a private, not-for-profit economic development company.
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Washington (CNN)Any air cargo coming to the United States from Turkey must now go through a screening, the Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday.
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Amazon met with government officials to discuss net neutrality, drone air cargo, drone privacy, and the flow of data across borders, among other issues.
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The long-running probe into price fixing in the air cargo industry led to charges against 22 airlines and 21 executives, the department said.
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The long-running probe into price fixing in the air cargo industry led to charges against 22 airlines and 21 executives, the department said.
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Amazon in 2016 said it was starting its own air cargo network, under agreements with Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings and Air Transport Services Group.
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Hong Kong International Airport, for example, boasts to be the largest air cargo hub, while the deepwater seaport ranks seventh busiest in the world.
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Six months after the world learned Amazon was piloting an air cargo service, the megaretailer signed on a new partner — and 20 more planes.
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The demand for global delivery, or air cargo shipping, is also falling as the trade war weighs on the sector and global growth slows.
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Swissport provides airport ground services for 265 million passengers annually and handles approximately 4.7 million tonnes of air cargo at 133 warehouses world-wide.
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Global air cargo rose 3.93 percent in 2018 compared with 9.7 percent in 2017, according to the latest data from the International Air Transport Association.
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MEDICAL DEMAND Air cargo represents less than 1% of global trade by tonnage but 35% by value, or about $6 trillion a year, Boeing says.
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Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), an air cargo transportation provider, said that Amazon has agreed to lease twenty of its planes for 5-313 years.
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"Developments in the political climate are not going in our favor," IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac said at an air cargo conference in Singapore.
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In 2018, air cargo traffic grew by 3.5 percent, which was well below the extraordinary 9.7 percent growth during a re-stocking cycle in 2017.
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An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane operated by Atlas Air Worldwide nosedived into a bay outside Houston as it approached Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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At Hong Kong's International Airport, the busiest air cargo hub in the world, reported volumes shrank by 8% in the second quarter compared with 2018.
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WebCargoNet's air cargo rate management will remain as an independent brand alongside Hong Kong-headquartered Freightos' own freight rate management solution and the Freightos market.
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"We are here waiting for the stars to fall, the children are very impatient," said Eliran Feinberg, 42, who works for an air cargo company.
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Now a smaller announcement is getting attention: Amazon says it will build an air cargo hub in Kentucky that will create more than 2,000 jobs.
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Ruben Hernandez Martinez, a Mexican customs officer, arrives for work every day at SkyBridge Arizona, an international air cargo hub at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
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An air cargo terminal at the main airport in Kabul would allow for modern facilities and security checks to make it easier to consolidate exports.
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That has so far translated into three deliveries of air cargo to a border town in Colombia, where it is poised to enter the country.
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Air cargo is a tiny but growing part of U.S. airlines' overall revenue, thanks to e-commerce and picky eaters who want more fresh food.
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Another effort would have allowed landlocked countries to ship goods far more cheaply using a rocket-like air cargo ship that could land without a runway.
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The company is investing $1.5 billion to build an air cargo hub in northern Kentucky, setting it up to rely less on others for air shipping.
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The slower-moving shipping and air-cargo business has long been in the doldrums as a result of slow overall growth in trade in recent years.
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Earlier this week, reports shed light on Amazon's plans for a $218 billion air cargo hub in Kentucky for its more than 29 Prime Air planes.
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Air cargo - a bellwether for the wider economy - transports over $6 trillion worth of goods, accounting for 35% of world trade by value, according to IATA.
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Western Global Airlines, which is privately owned, advertises itself as one of the world's fastest-growing low-cost air cargo companies, with clients around the world.
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"There is no standard compensation package in the aviation industry — is true in both the passenger and air cargo segments," an Atlas representative told Business Insider.
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The volume of FedEx's US non-priority shipments jumped by 24% in Q2 2019, while revenue per package at the air cargo segment dipped by 7%.
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At the time of his arrest, he was conspiring to export as many as 85033 kilos of cocaine a month to the U.S by air cargo.
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Atlas Air Worldwide, a Purchase, New York-based company, said Amazon would also have the right to acquire up to 30% of the air cargo company.
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For Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and Korean Air Lines Co - the world's No. 4 and 5 air cargo firms - freight represents nearly a quarter of revenue.
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The air cargo industry had been struggling before the outbreak, which has so far sickened more than 24,000 people, mostly in China, and killed more than 400.
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Meanwhile, airports in Southwest China cities such as Kunming in Yunnan province and Chengdu in Sichuan province were grabbing air cargo business from Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
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Boeing has said it expects 747 demand to recover when air cargo traffic growth resumes and when a wave of older 747s are retired beginning around 23.
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Airlines had reported $30 billion in annual profits in 2018, but conditions in the air cargo market - an extra source of revenue for carriers - have weakened substantially.
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"We do see long-term strength in the (air cargo) market," Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg said during an earnings call, citing stronger global trade and e-commerce.
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Air Transport Services Group, a freight company that handles parts of Amazon's air cargo shipments, saw 29 percent of its revenue come from the e-commerce giant.
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"We are closely monitoring the air cargo market as we work to win additional orders to support ongoing future production," said Greg Smith, Boeing's chief financial officer.
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The round was led by Lufthansa Cargo, the German airline's air cargo subsidiary, with participation from new and returning investors Hunt Technology, UPS, UP2398 and 1517 Fund.
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While air cargo represents less than 1% of global trade by tonnage it accounts for more than 35% of trade by value, according to a Boeing report.
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But soon, he and an American counterpart from United States Customs and Border Protection will work together clearing air cargo shipments in and out of Latin America.
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The Senate GOP plan also includes $2900 billion in loans for distressed industries, including $220006 billion for U.S. passenger airlines and $2202 billion for air cargo carriers.
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Air cargo grew more weakly than passenger traffic, rising 2.6 percent in total volume during 2015, partly because of subdued growth in emerging markets and developing economies.
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In spite of these more positive trends, the air-cargo business has one big worry: the likelihood of sharply lower trade if Donald Trump enacts genuinely protectionist policies.
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Hong Kongs International Airport, the worlds busiest air cargo hub, reported volumes were down more than 5 percent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019.
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Boeing said lessor BBAM had commissioned the planemaker to convert three 737-800 passenger jets to freighters to serve the growing e-commerce market and express air cargo.
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The company is investing $1.5 billion to build an air cargo hub in northern Kentucky, setting it up to rely less and less on others for air shipping.
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Police suspected that the explosives used to make the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by Islamic state.
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Most middle distillate fuels such as diesel, gasoil and jet fuel are consumed in freight transport (ships, trucks, railroads and air cargo) as well as manufacturing and mining.
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Hong Kong's International Airport, the world's busiest air cargo hub, reported volumes were down more than 5 percent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019.
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On Wednesday, Boeing predicted 4.2 percent annual growth in air cargo traffic over then next 20 years, driven largely by e-commerce traffic and express delivery in China.
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"Markets linked to Asia will lead all other international markets in average air cargo growth," Boeing said, citing a need by 2035 for 550 large, 747-size freighters.
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Griffith will be picketing along with about 235 other pilots from Atlas and air cargo conglomerate Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), which also has a contract with Amazon.
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About half of all air cargo carried worldwide normally flies in passenger jets but the grounding of those planes due to the coronavirus outbreak is driving freighter demand.
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Cathay also noted that yields for air cargo rose for the first time since 2011 and said that it had leased two dedicated 747-8 freighters in June.
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The preliminary evidence from the index, which includes components like car sales, air cargo and purchasing managers' index data suggests the government has over-estimated GDP growth, he said.
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If it's successful, however, operating its own air cargo fleet can help Amazon reduce its shipping costs, which were $8.7 billion in 2014, a 31 percent increase from 2013.
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Citing sluggishness in the air cargo market, the company said it will only produce one of that aircraft every two months beginning in September — from one every month previously.
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Combined with flat demand for shipping by air, the result is that average capacity utilisation across the air-cargo business has fallen to 43.5%, the lowest since the crisis.
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Fruit producers had long pressed for more air cargo services but disjointed planning and a lack of infrastructure, such as facilities for cold storage, had proved a stumbling-block.
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"The world is flat and getting flatter," said Rick Zerkel, a pilot in Anchorage and president of an airfreight company, Lynden Air Cargo, that ships goods around the state.
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But it has announced investments worth roughly $400 million in two public companies in recent years: fuel cell maker Plug Power and air cargo provider Air Transport Services Group.
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The rise in November puts the air cargo industry on track for the strongest operational and financial performance since the post-global financial crisis rebound in 2010, IATA said.
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Elroy Air believes that expanding air cargo reach can expedite economic development by delivering goods and necessities to those who are relatively inaccessible because of location or weather issues.
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Tianjin Binhai International Airport, a major air cargo center, suspended service from Sunday evening to mid-morning Monday, resulting in the cancellation of 2500 flights and 2200 delays, Xinhua said.
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Amazon has built up a massive shipping network in the United States that includes more than 100 fulfillment centers, 100 delivery stations, and a fleet of Amazon Air cargo planes.
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Earlier Wednesday, the International Air Transport Association said air cargo demand fell 3.3% in 2019, making it the worst for the sector since 2009 and the first decline since 2012.
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Randy Tinseth, Boeing's marketing vice president, recently said the company expects global trade to pick up this year, which could increase air cargo demand by 3 percent to 4 percent.
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Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air.
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Freight is growing at the slowest rate since the mid-cycle slowdown of 216/43, based on the index, which covers movements by truck, railroad, barge, pipeline and air cargo.
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Transcontinental railroads could also boost China's economic integration with Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, offering a faster option than sea freight but a cheaper one than air cargo.
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The tonnage of freight moved by road, rail, barge, pipeline and air cargo has been increasing year on year since October, after stagnating for much of 2015/16 (tmsnrt.rs/2qSDLAJ).
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The news comes months after FedEx announced that it would no longer move Amazon's air cargo packages, and as Amazon works to scale up its own logistics and delivery services.
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"Qatar Airways is aware of the new Air Cargo Advance Screening requirements and is liaising with TSA and ... regulators to ensure regulatory compliance," an airline spokeswoman said in an email.
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Bravo's Logística division, which consists of Bravo Cargas and Bravo MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul), plans to operate the turboprop LM-100J for air cargo operations in Brazil, the companies said.
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"Picture yourself running the company where one minute we're talking about how we're going to operate air cargo, and the next minute we're going to talk about artificial intelligence," he said.
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"Qatar Airways is aware of the new Air Cargo Advance Screening requirements and is liaising with TSA and ... U.S. regulators to ensure regulatory compliance," an airline spokeswoman said in an email.
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Police had alleged that high-grade military explosives used to make the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot "inspired and directed" by Islamic state.
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"Despite the ongoing challenges of the air cargo market, we continue to see the 135.963 as a unique and significant value creator for our customers over the long term," Muilenburg said.
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As for airports, air cargo is a small part of their operations, but a trade war could worry facilities that handle large international shipments, according to Seth Lehman, a Fitch analyst.
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IATA has also called on governments to support cargo operators by waiving certain fees, granting temporary traffic rights and exempting air cargo crew members from quarantine requirements in countries they enter.
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Most recently, construction was finished on a major air-cargo unit, and new data-service technologies are set to improve communication between aviation service providers at the airport and airline customers.
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GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Air cargo markets, an economic bellwether linked to global trade, are beginning to stabilise after a downturn in 2019, the International Air Transport Association said on Thursday.
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Smaller U.S. carriers JetBlue, Atlas Air Wand Hawaiian Holdings Inc, as well as the air cargo unit of FedEx have formally banded together behind the Gulf carriers, against their larger competitors.
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KABUL, June 19 (Reuters) - An aircraft packed with 60 tons of Afghan plants with medicinal uses marked the opening of the first air cargo corridor between Afghanistan and India on Monday.
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The global air cargo industry is unlikely to grow this year because of the challenges in the China market due to the coronavirus, a senior executive at Boeing said on Wednesday.
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As supply chains in the West began to run dry, airfreight rates from China jumped suddenly last week, according to TAC Index, an air cargo pricing data company in Hong Kong.
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But over the years, the competition with partners-slash-rivals like FedEx have heated up — and not only on air cargo, but also in newer areas like ground delivery robots and drones.
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However, the sharp fall in air-cargo rates is likely to hasten the decommissioning of many 747s, and the replacement of these four-engined jets with more efficient, two-engined Boeing 777s.
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The airline said here it would have a separate air cargo fleet comprising Boeing Co 737 planes, and that it planned to add the first four aircraft by the 2019 fiscal year.
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The startup's goal is to "decouple air cargo from airports," according to CEO David Merrill — which means letting big VTOLs do the work that small cargo planes currently handle for air freight.
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It will also provide $25 billion in direct financial aid to struggling airlines and $4 billion for air cargo carriers, two industries that have taken a big hit in the economic downturn.
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The global air cargo industry is unlikely to grow this year because of the challenges in the China market due to the coronavirus, a senior executive at Boeing Co said on Wednesday.
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The growth in freight demand, coinciding with the traditional period of strong demand seen in the fourth quarter, comes despite indicators pointing to air cargo having passed a cyclical peak, IATA said.
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The threat posed by air cargo was highlighted in 2010, when terrorists concealed bombs in printer cartridges mailed from Yemen in a plot designed to bring down the planes over the United States.
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" A Royal Jordanian spokeswoman said the airline had "received this new amendment from TSA to be implemented on air cargo shipments, and we were given one month period to apply the new amendment.
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The type of certification Wing received as an air carrier is the same one granted to charter airlines and small air-cargo haulers and means it can fly longer ranges and charge customers.
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The total volume of freight moved by road, rail, pipeline, inland waterways and as air cargo in November 2015 was 1.1 percent lower than in the corresponding month a year earlier (tmsnrt.rs/1UTYLgg).
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" A Royal Jordanian spokeswoman said the airline had "received this new amendment from TSA to be implemented on air cargo shipments, and we were given one month period to apply the new amendment.
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If trade issues "don't get resolved soon, it's going to get a lot worse," said Stephen Fortune, principal at Fortune Aviation Services, an aircraft investment firm that specializes in the air cargo business.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) have banned all Samsung Galaxy Note27 phones from airline flights, including air cargo.
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Eddie Soh of Singapore-based Global Air Cargo International, says using Freightos allows him to give a customer a quote quickly, even if he's on the road, just by pulling out his iPad.
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Although East Midlands airport is bustling, and the global air-cargo business now handles more than a third of world trade by value, the industry has been under pressure since the financial crisis.
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Cargo yields rose by 9.9 percent during the first quarter, but volumes fell and Singapore Airlines warned the escalation of trade tensions could potentially have a longer-term impact on air cargo demand.
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The agency is requiring six carriers that depart with US-bound air cargo from seven airports in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to be subject to further scrutiny.
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SAO PAULO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with drone manufacturer Elroy Air to expand its business into the automated commercial air cargo market.
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The world's largest online retailer announced air cargo services for its U.S. deliveries in 2016, raising fears that CEO Jeff Bezos could soon compete with global logistics giants such as FedEx or DHL.
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Air cargo growth through major hubs such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Londons Heathrow began to decelerate in the middle of 2017 and by the end of 2018 was falling year-on-year.
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But air cargo volumes weakened again in the first month of 2020, suggesting the upswing was running out of steam even before the coronavirus epidemic shutdown much of Chinas manufacturing sector in February.
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Around half the world's air cargo normally travels in the bellies of passenger planes rather than dedicated freighters, so the cancellation of passenger flights has led to a sharp reduction in cargo capacity.
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He enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school, working in security, and later joined the Guard full time to become a loadmaster, responsible for the loading and transporting of air cargo.
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U.S. regulators identified 39 incidents in air cargo transportation between 2010 and 2016, with 13 involving lithium batteries and smoke, fire, extreme heat, or explosion that would have been affected by the new rules.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Tuesday that lessor BBAM had ordered three 737-800 converted freighters to serve the growing e-commerce market and express sectors of the air cargo market.
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An Indian government source attending the meeting in Amritsar said air cargo route details were still being worked out and could include Kandahar as a point of origin for shipping fruit directly to India.
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About half of the air cargo carried globally is in the belly of passenger jets rather than in dedicated freighters, and the flight cuts have made the Chinese market more dependent on freight haulers.
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Amazon on Tuesday said it will add more than a dozen air freighters to its fast-growing air cargo arm, the e-commerce giant's latest push to tighten control over its own logistics network.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday nearly halved its annual forecast for traffic growth in the air cargo market to 2 percent citing trade frictions, Brexit and anti-globalization rhetoric.
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Why it matters: The global demand for shipping larger goods via air cargo (like manufacturing and automotive parts) is creating competition for companies and motivating them to ship everyday items as quickly as possible.
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The directive mandates voluntary measures already in use by Turkey and will ensure "cargo flying to the United States is screened and secured in accordance with the Air Cargo Advance Screening Program," he said.
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Medium-density refined fuels, including road diesel, marine gasoil and jet kerosene, are the most heavily geared to the growth of freight given their dominance in the road, rail, shipping and air cargo sectors.
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JetBlue confirmed in an email to The Hill that the airline will be participating, and so will Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and executives from air cargo carriers and airport officials, according to CNN Money.
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And with the elimination of FedEx, which boasts some 700 planes and 47 years of air-cargo experience, from Amazon's air network, the pressure is dialed up for the e-commerce company's transportation venture.
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It includes $58 billion for U.S. airline and air cargo companies, a source of significant controversy during the last three days of closed-door talks between senators of both parties and the White House.
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In an aborted plot in Australia this summer, parts of a roadside bomb were sent through international air cargo from Turkey through Islamic State operatives in Syria to one of the suspects in Australia.
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As a weakened tropical depression, NOAA expects the storm to pass over central Tennessee early Wednesday, east of Memphis, home to FedEx and the world's second-busiest airport for air cargo after Hong Kong.
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The ongoing trade war between the United States and China is negatively affecting air cargo demand for Asian airlines, according to the director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, a regional trade body.
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The air cargo unit of FedEx Corp, JetBlue Airways Corp, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc and Hawaiian Holdings Inc banded together to create U.S. Airlines for Open Skies Coalition, which backs the Gulf-carriers' cause.
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The company is now facilitating sea freight shipments, leasing Boeing cargo planes, building a $1.5 billion air cargo hub in Kentucky, and expanding its own UPS and FedEx competitor called Shipping with Amazon, or SWA.
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IATA last week said air cargo demand in Asia fell by 3.6 percent in January due to weaker manufacturing conditions for exporters in the region, ongoing trade tensions and a slowing of the Chinese economy.
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Clearly, adding extra air cargo capacity was part of that spend, but the investment in Amazon Air is set to continue with Clark also pointing out the fleet will grow to 70 aircraft by 2021.
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The Senate Republican plan also includes a $2202 billion rescue package for small businesses, $2628 billion in loans for U.S. passenger airlines and air cargo carriers, and $28500 billion in loans for other affected industries.
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HNA Airport is a unit of HNA Modern Logistics, the Chinese conglomerate's logistics and industrial arm whose assets includes Swissport International, a Zurich-based air cargo handler that HNA acquired for $2.8 billion in 2015.
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Asian airlines are major players in the air cargo industry and carry almost 40% of global volume, Andrew Herdman told CNBC's Chery Kang at the International Air Transport Association's annual general meeting in Seoul, South Korea.
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Asia, accounting for around 40% of global air cargo traffic, is particularly vulnerable to the global trade wars, but de Juniac said that potentially strong passenger demand could help negate any trade headwinds the region faces.
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Chinese aviation and shipping conglomerate HNA Group bought Swiss airline catering firm Gategroup Holdings in April in a bilateral deal, having bought Swiss air cargo handler Swissport from PAI Partners in a similar fashion last year.
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So far, it's a pretty positive story for Amazon: Last month, it announced the creation of an Air Cargo Hub in Kentucky to support its new fleet of Prime Air planes, creating some 2,000 new jobs.
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Inanimate air cargo mostly rides in the same planes as the live sort; when rising passenger demand encouraged airlines to buy more planes, the additional cargo capacity flooded the industry, causing air-freight prices to slide.
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Two indicators in the aviation industry may be pointing to a economic downturn: declining demand for air cargo and a "peak" in aircraft orders last year, according to the executive chairman of CAPA Centre for Aviation.
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Freight volumes handled through major ports such as Long Beach and Singapore as well as air cargo handled through hubs such as Hong Kong, Memphis, London and Frankfurt are either flat or down compared with 2018.
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According to the paper, he received $11,250 from the US subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, and an additional $11,250 from a US air cargo company affiliated with the Russian-owned Volga-Dnepr Group.
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Air cargo transports $603 trillion in value of goods, and 52 million metric tonnes of cargo a year, earning airlines $1.62 a kilo (or $3.57 a pound), according to statistics from theInternational Air Transport Association(IATA).
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London (CNN Business)The shutdown in commercial aviation caused by the coronavirus pandemic is severely limiting air cargo capacity, making it harder to move vital supplies around the world, including medical equipment to fight the outbreak.
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The Amazon Prime Air cargo plane operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings was flying to Houston from Miami when it nosedived into the bay, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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The agents recorded video of meetings and intercepted packages shipped to various airports through the Postal Service, UPS and FedEx, air cargo and small parcel companies, where other members of the trafficking organization picked them up.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The air cargo market is unlikely to grow this year because of the challenges posed in the China market due to the coronavirus, a senior executive at Boeing Co said on Wednesday.
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Demand was also driven by increased shipments of semiconductor materials used in consumer electronics "February further added to the cautious optimism building in air cargo markets," IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac said in a statement.
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Freight volumes handled through major ports such as Long Beach and Singapore as well as air cargo handled through hubs such as Hong Kong, Memphis, London and Frankfurt are either flat or down compared with 22008.
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Officials say the focus of the air cargo service is to improve landlocked Afghanistan's connectivity to key markets abroad and boost the growth prospects of its fruit and carpet industries while it battles a deadly Taliban insurgency.
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A senior ISIS commander sent parts -- including weapons-grade explosives -- by air cargo from Turkey intending to build an improvised explosive device, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said during a press conference Friday.
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An extension of the city's airport runways, which is expected to be completed in 2024, is estimated to see air cargo volumes grow from 4.5 million tonnes currently to 9 million tonnes in coming years, Chan said.
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But some say the industry is overconfident, noting that Amazon has been scooping up local warehouses and negotiating air cargo deals in Brazil, while some retailers are reporting double-digit growth in online sales from last year.
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"Air cargo has been a vital partner in delivering much-needed medicines, medical equipment, and in keeping global supply chains functioning for the most time-sensitive materials," the International Air Transport Association said in a statement Monday.
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He has played politics as he plays cards, be that securing deregulation of the air-cargo industry in the 1970s, winning protection from American unions or schmoozing congressmen at the FedEx Field, home to the Washington Redskins.
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The air cargo market, an economic bellwether linked to global trade, saw its traffic decline by 3.3% in 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said, driven by a tariff war between the United States and China.
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The air cargo market, an economic bellwether linked to global trade, saw its traffic decline by 3.3% in 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said, driven by a tariff war between the United States and China.
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The coronavirus crisis has dimmed hopes of a rebound for air cargo after its worst year in the decade since the financial crisis, the International Air Transport Association, a group of 21 global airlines, said last week.
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Amazon plans to invest about $1.5 billion in an air cargo hub in northern Kentucky, state officials said Tuesday, The company said it would aim to employ 2,000 people and eventually house 40 Amazon Prime Air planes there.
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Four years later, Amazon is a more powerful company whose interest in bricks-and-mortar grocery, air cargo, healthcare and Hollywood has sent shockwaves through a growing number of markets, expanding its sources of intelligence about its users.
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Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways swung to a half-year profit, the first for the January-June period since 20193, as rising passenger revenue and lower fuel costs helped to offset a decline in the air cargo market.
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Since police revealed details of the scheme, security experts said it exposed weaknesses in air cargo screening, particularly in Turkey, where intelligence agencies have been weakened by a government purge in the wake of last year's failed coup.
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High-grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot "inspired and directed" by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said.
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"On the 747 program, we decided to reduce future production expectations and revenue assumptions to account for current and anticipated weakness in the air cargo market," Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said on a post-earnings call with analysts.
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"I have a pilot who's a real expert, and he said … [the government] is instituting a massive, multi-billion dollar project, but they're using the wrong equipment," Trump said to airline CEOs, airport officials and air cargo carriers.
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Maryland resident Brittany Roush and her ad hoc volunteer group ViequesLove sent an air cargo shipment of satellite phones to Vieques, a small island of about 10,000 full-time residents to the east of Puerto Rico's main island.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Following a sharp fall in freight prices air cargo companies are set to trim their fleets and jobs further to battle overcapacity while looking for new partnerships and products to carry, industry executives and analysts say.
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According to Bloomberg: The deal would provide a crucial lifeline for the "Queen of the Skies" as Boeing tries to preserve production until the air-cargo market revives or shipping companies start to replace aging wide-body fleets.
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AMRITSAR, India, Dec 3 (Reuters) - India and Afghanistan are likely to announce an air cargo service on Saturday to help increase trade that both say is stymied because of their tense political relations with Pakistan that lies between them.
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The UPS order, which includes options for 107.623 more of the hump-backed planes, reflects growing demand the freight company is seeing for air cargo after years of anemic growth, Chief Executive Officer David Abney said in an interview.
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KABUL (Reuters) - An aircraft on Tuesday flew 33 tons of pine nuts from Afghanistan to China, officials said, inaugurating their first air cargo link as the landlocked South Asian nation turns to overseas markets to offset its trade deficit.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan opened the latest in a series of air cargo trade corridors on Wednesday with the inauguration of a route linking the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif with Istanbul and destinations in Europe.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Argentina will invest 22.2 billion pesos ($1.47 billion) over the next three years to modernize the country's airports to increase passenger capacity and boost air cargo shipments, the country's transportation minister said on Wednesday.
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SF-based Elroy Air hopes to transform bulk air cargo shipping with its "Chaparral" vertical take-off and landing craft, the first version of which will be able to carry 250 pounds of cargo as far as 300 miles.
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Another good example of proactive efforts that are currently taking place in Congress to help Puerto Rico is that of Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez-Colon who introduced a bill to amend Title 22019 referencing air cargo on the Island.
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The Amazon One is one of forty air cargo planes the world's biggest online retailer recently agreed to lease in an ambitious effort to streamline the logistics behind Prime, its $99-a-year super-fast delivery service (among other things).
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SYDNEY - An unprecedented shortage of air cargo space, after years of booming exports to Asia, is forcing Australian producers of top-end foods to potentially miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of everything from lobster to cherries.
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The world's largest online retailer says it's going to operate its own air cargo network in the US, a move that points to its larger ambitions to build out a comprehensive factory-to-doorstep delivery system to serve its customers.
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The U.S.-China tariff battle is even affecting the air cargo industry: Recently, the president and CEO of airport ground-handler and catering solutions provider SATS told CNBC his company has seen changes in routes due to the trade war.
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Georgia also boasts a solid and seamlessly connected logistics infrastructure — we are home to the world's most traveled airport and a top-ranked international air-cargo hub, the fastest-growing and largest single container terminal in America and six major interstates.
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The initial disclosures left out that Flynn received money from Russia's state-funded television network, RT, for a speech in Moscow in December 2015 and from air cargo company Volga-Dnepr Airlines and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Government Security Solutions Inc.
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High-grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot "inspired and directed" by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.
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Turns out the dog I was already hoping to call my own had been rescued from a dog meat farm in South Korea and was on his way via Korean Air Cargo to a new life in the United States.
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No longer content relying solely on third-party couriers such as UPS to deliver packages to customers, Amazon is turning to its own delivery trucks, drones, ocean freight, and air cargo operations to fulfil deliveries itself; more control, higher profit.
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IATA said this week that more than 185,000 passenger flights have been canceled since the end of January, removing "vital" air cargo capacity that is needed to keep supply chains going, including the delivery of critical medicines and medical equipment.
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" The International Air Transport Association, whose members include several US airlines, said this week it is urging governments around the world to "take urgent measures to ensure that air cargo will be available to support the global fight against COVID-19.
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Instead of smuggling heroin through ports of entry or across the border, the cartel's traffickers exploited weaknesses in border security: parcels shipped through the mail, UPS and FedEx; air cargo; and travel on transit systems with relatively little security, like Amtrak.
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The 2628-plus page bill includes a $28503 corporate liquidity fund to corporations; $22020 billion would be set aside for U.S. airlines, $4 billion for air cargo carriers and $17 billion for other distressed companies related to critical national security.
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In Boeing's earnings conference call last month, Mr. Muilenburg noted that air passenger traffic had outpaced global economic growth this year, and that air cargo traffic was up a solid 10 percent for the first five months of the year.
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Instituting this would be a necessary and long-overdue step in fashioning consistencies across the international shipping world, and bring USPS up to code with private carriers, who must submit advance security data through the Air Cargo Advance Screening system.
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But the property, formerly a military airport, also contains an industrial park, a United States Department of Agriculture animal inspection center, three air cargo operators, an Air National Guard base and a runway long enough to handle the largest jetliners.
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Autoparts and medical equipment makers were among the companies considering the more expensive air cargo to avoid incurring penalties for late delivery to U.S. clients, or factory closures, Luis Aguirre, the president of Mexico's manufacturing industry chamber INDEX, said late on Wednesday.
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Ahead of a visit to China this week on city business, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel raised concerns about the impact of a trade war on O'Hare International Airport, which he said handles 29 percent of China's air cargo to the United States.
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Some even say the invention of plastic bubble wrap in 1957, which replaced ultraheavy packaging methods like bulks of paper or even rubberized horse hair, helped usher in the era of airfreight from companies like UPS, FedEx, and other small air-cargo companies.
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"Global air passenger traffic growth and airplane demand remain strong, but the air cargo market recovery that began in late 2013 has stalled in recent months and slowed demand for the 747-8 Freighter," said Ray Conner, Boeing's vice chairman, in a statement.
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Laura Lane and Dontai Smalls, UPS This dynamic duo has been fighting to protect air cargo interests in an air traffic control reform bill, beating back against amendments that would make cargo plane pilots subject to the same standards as passenger plane pilots.
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The bill sets aside $25 billion for U.S. airlines, which face the threat of bankruptcy without government intervention, $4 billion for air cargo carriers and $17 billion for other distressed companies related to critical national security, such as Boeing, the airplane manufacturing giant.
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It does have warrants to buy at least a 20 percent share of each company over the next several years, and it is investing $1.5 billion into an air cargo hub at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport, where package carrier DHL has operations.
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IAG Cargo, the air cargo arm of British Airways parent IAG (ICAGY), on Monday canceled all services to and from mainland China for at least the remainder of the month, citing a UK government travel advisory, according to a statement on its website.
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Air cargo demand fell 3.5% in October, the start of the peak season when companies are stocking up inventory for the holiday shopping season, compared with a year ago, marking the 12th consecutive month of declines, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday.
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Global air cargo volumes surged 10.4 percent in the first half - their strongest half-year performance in seven years and nearly triple the industry's average growth rate of 13 percent in past five years, data from the International Air Transport Association shows.
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"Air cargo is an important part of our overall business and the introduction of these new Boeing 777 freighters will play an integral role in our long-term growth strategy," he said in a statement after the deal was announced at the Paris Airshow.
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The bonuses are the latest sign of fallout from a global pilot shortage, which is already squeezing the operations of passenger airlines and now pressuring FedEx as it looks to cash in on the revival of the global air cargo market after a prolonged slump.
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When it comes to business, Grana explained that Hong Kong's status as the world's largest air cargo hub, and DHL's shipping rates, mean that its next-day/two-day delivery service to the U.S. and other countries are on par with any local service.
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Auto parts and medical equipment makers were among the Mexican companies considering the more expensive air cargo to avoid incurring penalties for late delivery to U.S. clients or factory closures, Luis Aguirre, the president of Mexico's manufacturing industry chamber INDEX, said late on Wednesday.
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"We believe that now is the moment in history when autonomous VTOL aircraft can be developed to expand the reach of air cargo at scale — the enabling technology is ready, and regulators are on board to help," the company wrote in a blog post.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd swung on Wednesday to a half-year profit, the first in the first half of the year since 2016, as rising passenger revenue and lower fuel costs helped to offset a decline in the air cargo market.
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Amazon, which is building up a cargo hub in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for 2021, is planning to open other air cargo centers this year at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas, Wilmington Air Park in southwestern Ohio and at the Chicago Rockford International Airport.
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BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday that it had re-adopted its decision to fine 11 airlines for their part in a cartel to fix air cargo prices after an EU court had annulled its initial finding due to a procedural error.
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The shortage of workers at Chinese ports has resulted in fewer calls from container shipping lines, a situation likely to result in months of delivery delays, while some air cargo firms such as Lufthansa have reduced services in response to crew health concerns and uncertain demand.
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Whether you're a member of Congress flying home for the August recess or a vacationer visiting the nation's capital on summer break, you're among the millions of airline passengers and air cargo shippers who count on the extraordinary level of safety offered by U.S. air transportation.
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"TSA looks at threats emanating from each country uniquely, and cannot provide specific information about those threats, but after analyzing evaluated intelligence, we determined that we needed to expand the (air cargo advance screening) program within each of them at this time," the emergency order stated.
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Much of that air cargo could switch to rail in future, says Mr Kleijwegt, with one important proviso—that Russia would need to lift the retaliatory sanctions it placed in 2014 on imports of Western food, which stop most foodstuffs from travelling by land between Europe and China.
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Photo: Joseph Kaczmarek (AP)The Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued an interim rule banning the transportation of lithium ion cells and batteries as cargo on passenger craft, as well as setting a 30 percent charge limit on ones shipped as air cargo.
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"Global air passenger traffic growth and airplane demand remain strong, but the air cargo market recovery that began in late 2013 has stalled in recent months and slowed demand for the 747-8 Freighter," Ray Conner, Boeing's vice chairman, said in a statement at the time of the announcement.
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Air cargo traffic in India is expected to grow by 60 percent in the next five years, SpiceJet said, adding that the new planes were expected to increase its cargo capacity to as much as 900 tonnes per day by FY2019 from 500 tonnes per day at present.
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Enter the three zoos, which jointly issued the imperiled elephants "A Ticket to Safety" — those words hovering in boldface above a silhouette of the modified National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 that on March 10, 2016, operating as Flight 805, spirited the Swaziland elephants toward their new homes.
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Enter the three zoos, which jointly issued the imperiled elephants "A Ticket to Safety" — those words hovering in boldface above a silhouette of the modified National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 that on March 10, 2016, operating as Flight 805, spirited the Swaziland elephants toward their new homes.
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the Teamsters had run afoul of federal labor law while helping pilots to angle for a more favorable collective bargaining agreement with Atlas Air Inc and a subsidiary, Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc.
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The Transportation Security Administration issued an emergency order Monday for more intense scrutiny on U.S.-bound air cargo on flights departing from five majority-Muslim countries, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the U.A.E. Why it matters: This is based on threat assessments about each country, according to the TSA.
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"Global air passenger traffic growth and airplane demand remain strong, but the air cargo market recovery that began in late 2013 has stalled in recent months and slowed demand for the 747-8 Freighter," said Ray Conner, Boeing vice chairman and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in a statement.
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The U.S.-China trade war, slowing trade and weakening economic growth are weighing on air cargo demand and setting up air freight volumes this year to be the weakest since the financial crisis, the International Air Transport Association, a trade group that represents most of the world's airlines, said earlier this month.
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Manufacturers and shippers took a "wait-and-see approach regarding tariffs and trade issues" that hurt cargo flying demand, Atlas Air CEO Bill Flynn said in an earnings release Air cargo had been a small but growing corner of large passenger airlines' revenue but that business is suffering, despite recent strength in shorter flights for e-commerce customers.
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The enhanced scrutiny is a part of Customs and Border Protection's Air Cargo Advance Screening protocols (ACAS), which will provide TSA and CBP with advance information about cargo destined for the U.S. A TSA official tells Axios there are conversations ongoing inside the administration to determine whether to move this expansion of ACAS to a global scale.
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While some industries and companies are benefiting from provisions tailored for them, others appear certain to get a piece of the pie through more general components of the bill, from the $224 billion general purpose fund for businesses and state and local governments to the $22020 billion earmarked for airlines and $8 billion for air cargo carriers.
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Amazon is building one of the largest internal logistics and shipping businesses in the world, and if you needed any more evidence this was the case, the company just revealed that it's investing $1.5 billion in a new air cargo hub, which will occupy a spot that crosses the Cincinnati and Kentucky border, and eventually result in around 2,000 total new jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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The countries and airlines (and their airports) that are affected: Egypt: Egypt Air, Cairo International Airport Jordan: Royal Jordanian, Queen Alia International Airport Saudi Arabia: Saudia, King Abdul-Aziz International Airport and King Khalid International Airport Qatar: Qatar Airways, Doha International Airport U.A.E: Emirates and Etihad, Dubai International Airport and Abu Dhabi International Airport Catch up quick: The order comes just after a failed terrorist plot to blow up an Australian flight last summer, which involved military explosives sent by air cargo from Turkey.
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"Now, because there's no passengers on the top of the plane, a lot of those airlines are just not flying those planes, and therefore we've lost a lot of capacity to bring air cargo into the U.S." Friedmann said the "severe backup in the global supply chain" emanating from China — which shut down factories and ports earlier this year, causing trans-Pacific shipments to plummet — has also led to logjams throughout the U.S. He also called on federal transport regulators to loosen trucking rules for food and farm goods amid the crisis, like they did for medical devices and other items needed to address the outbreak.
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