March 2017
American Airlines Cargo has announced the appointment of Lorena Sandoval as managing director of its Florida, Caribbean and Latin America (FCLA) division. She takes over from much-loved industry stalwart, Carmen Taylor who retired from the airline at the end of 2016.
Sandoval joined the carrier 26 years ago in Quito, Ecuador and has held a number of positions in passenger sales, reservations and operations, most recently as sales operations manager ...
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Houston-based international logistics company Crane Worldwide has announced its expansion in the Netherlands. The company opened a new head office at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
The office will also have an air freight operation and warehouse facility. This allows Crane to give clients complete supply chain solutions. Crane has access to 500 ...
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The American Equity Underwriters, Inc. (AEU) presented their Safety Awards at their annual conference late last year in Lake Oconee, Georgia and Diversified Port Holdings was the recipient of the Large Stevedore Safety Award.
AEU is the program administrator for American Longshore Mutual Association (ALMA), a group mutual association providing ...
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Etihad Cargo has taken delivery of its 10th freighter further boosting Etihad Airways’ fastest growing division.
The addition of an A330F takes its Airbus freighter fleet to five, joining five Boeing 777 freighters that collectively serve 42 destinations worldwide.
The delivery follows 12 months of sustained growth for the carrier, which launched ...
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The European Commission’s antitrust regulator reports that it is re-imposing $835.6 million in fines against 10 air cargo carriers after redrawing a complaint that a court threw out in 2015. Those carriers are Air Canada, Air France-KLM, British Airways, Cargolux, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines, LAN Chile, Martinair, SAS and ...
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Kerry Logistics Network Limited, Asia’s leading logistics service provider, has won the Market Leadership in Business Logistics accolade at the HKIM Market Leadership Award (the ‘Award’) 2016 organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing.
Entering its second year, the Award honors individuals and enterprises that excel in marketing strategy, integrated ...
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The Port of Virginia® moved 220,376 TEUs in February; 351 TEUs lower than February 2016, but placing its fiscal-year-to-date growth at 6.9%.
The continued growth comes as the port has started the engineering and survey work on its capacity expansion plan at Virginia International Gateway (VIG); work at Norfolk International ...
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Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has broken the record for building the largest containership surpassing 20,000 TEU. SHI held a naming ceremony on March 15 for the first of four 20,150 TEU containerships, ordered from Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' (MOL) in February 2015.
The event, held in Geoje shipyard, gathered 90 ...
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South Carolina Ports Authority reported on March 15 nearly 9% fiscal year-over-year container volume growth through February.
SCPA’s total fiscal year-to-date container volume reached nearly 1.4 million TEUs last month, compared to 1.3 million TEUs handled during the same period last year. SCPA handled 175,820 TEUs in February, an increase of ...
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is developing an early warning system for pharma shippers, using a one million euro subsidy awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and TKI Dinalog, the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics.
The money will fund data collection and monitoring of Pharma Gateway Amsterdam (PGA) shipments ...
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