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 CARGO carrier Midex Airlines faces suspension of operations following a recent audit by the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
 BOEING has unexpectedly chosen not to renew Oregon-based Evergreen International’s five-year contract to operate the manufacturer’s four 747-400 Dreamlifters.
 KUEHNE + Nagel posted a 13.2 per cent drop in pre-tax revenue, to SFr885 million (US$819 million), for 2009 compared to 2008.
 INDIA’S long-delayed new international cargo airline – Aryan Cargo – has been awarded its air operator’s certificate (AOC).
 FLORIDA-based Amerijet International has taken possession of its first of two 767-200 widebody freighters from Cargo Aircraft Management, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group.
 BRITISH Airways World Cargo (BAWC) recorded a strong recovery in demand for February, with traffic up 9.2 per cent to 348 freight tonne kilometres.
 LATVIAN airline airBaltic has acquired full ownership of a cargo business at Riga International Airport (Latvia) and will operate it under a new BalticCargo brand.
 AUSTRALIA has charged Korean Air Lines with airfreight price-fixing. This makes korean the twelfth airline to be targeted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
 AERONAUTICAL Engineers (AEI) has delivered Turkey’s first 737-400 freighter to MNG Airlines.
 CHARLES Kendall Freight has become an accredited authorised economic operator (AEO), effective 25 February.
 AUSTRIA'S major carrier disappears as an independent cargo player, as Lufthansa seeks European dominance
 CARGO load factors and volumes are back to pre-crisis levels at Swiss International Airlines, but revenues and yields are definitely not.
 FRANKFURT Hahn, the airport in Rhineland Palatinate, which pits itself as an alternative cargo gateway to mighty Frankfurt, ended 2009 on a high note
 SEVERE though it was in the first half of the year, the slump in cargo demand did not make much of a dent in Seoul’s Incheon International Airport in the final reckoning for 2009.
 CEVA Logistics has reported its revenue dropped 13 per cent in 2009, to €5.5 billion (US$7.5 billion), while profit fell 28 per cent in profit, to €233 million ($318 million). Debt decreased seven per cent to €2.4 billion ($3.2 billion).
 LAN Airlines has resumed restricted domestic and international flight operations at the Santiago airport following the recent Chilean earthquake.
 MAXIMUS Air Cargo has pledged to back the UAE’s recent An-12 ban.
 AMERICAN Airlines Cargo (AA Cargo) has opened a cargo terminal at John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York.
 CATHAY Pacific is to bring back into operation one of its five parked 747-400 freighters.
 DEMAND for international scheduled air traffic showed continuing improvement in January.
 LUFTHANSA lost €112 million (US$152 million) in 2009, compared to a profit of €542 million ($734 million) in 2008.
 CHINA Cargo Airlines (CCA), a subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines, has taken delivery of its first 777 freighter.
 CYPRUS Airways (CY) is demanding compensation from the Cypriot government due to it being unable to operate to Turkey or through its airspace.
 JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has reported a large increase in losses for the last nine months of 2009.
 EMIRATES Airline is launching an internal investigation to try and determine how it became implicated in the illegal shipment of two tonnes of African elephant ivory.
 ICELANDAIR has confirmed that it will sell its recently purchased subsidiary, Bluebird. Bluebird has seven B737s and usually operates them on a wet-lease basis, such as to China Post which has two of them.
 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Cargo has extended its cargo handling agreement with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS).
 IBERIA’S results for 2009 show it was one of the most difficult years in the airline’s history.
 WORLD Airways has signed an agreement with Asiana Airlines to operate a Boeing 747-400 freighter for the South Korean carrier.
 NIPPON Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Yusen Air & Sea Service (YAS), have agreed to integrate their logistics divisions.
 IRELAND’S Celtic Forwarding has become the first Irish logistics company to achieve official European authorised economic operator (AEO) status.
 THE fight for London Heathrow’s proposed third runway has entered a new phase with environmental groups, local councils and residents starting their legal challenge to the government’s plans.
 CHENNAI Customs has seized a consignment of sniper rifle sights and silencers that came in on a cargo aircraft from Dubai.
 GREEK carriers Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air are to merge. Following approval from the European Competition Commission, both names and logos will be used in parallel “following the necessary transition and adjustment period”.
 HOT on the heels of the news that Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are merging their cargo operations comes the news that the merge will also entail severe cutbacks, mainly on the Austrian side.
 THE UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has banned the An-12 from operating within its airspace again.
 AMERICAN Airlines is negotiating with China Eastern Airlines to have it join the Oneworld alliance.
 DEREK Kerr, US Airways’ chief financial officer has announced that the carrier is looking to merge with another US airline.
 EL Al Israel Airlines and Maman Cargo Terminals and Handling’s attempt to enter into close cooperation with each other has been blocked by the country’s antitrust authority.
 FROM 1 July, Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Airlines have agreed to merge their global operations.
 A DOMINICAN stowaway fell to his death from an Amerijet freighter as it left Santo Domingo on its way to Miami.
 AUSTRALIAN airports are riddled with organised crime at every level, according to an Australian government investigation.
 WITH manufacturers rethinking their production and supply chain strategies, air cargo stands to emerge from the global economic crisis in a stronger position than other transport modes.
 THE global financial and economic crisis did not leave Munich Airport’s traffic figures unscathed in 2009.
 AN An-225, the world’s largest fixed-wing aircraft, has transported four giant pieces of oil and gas equipment, almost 150 tons, from Houston to Sao Paulo. This is the first time the An-225 had been used for an operation in South America.
 BRITISH Airways (BA) cabin crew have voted for a strike over demands for pay and better working conditions.
 SOUTHERN Air has added two Boeing 777 freighters to its fleet. The first was delivered earlier this month and the second will be delivered on 2 March.
 AIR France-KLM flights to Japan are often abuzz. The reason for this, are bumblebees headed to the land of the rising sun to be deployed as an ecological alternative to pesticides.
 DESPITE recent turbulence Cathay Pacific Cargo says it is positioning itself to capitalise on China’s recovering exports.
 A round up of the latest new airline services
 VIKTOR Bout, the so-called Merchant of Death, must be feeling all warm and fuzzy considering the extent that Russia and the US are fighting over him.
 MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS), has received a complaint by an American freight-forwarding company accusing of price fixing.
 BRITISH Airways World Cargo has reported commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) of £402 million for the nine months beginning April 2009.
 A round up of the recent appointments in the industry
 FINNAIR Cargo Oy, which belongs to the Finnair Group, is exploring the possibility of starting cargo flights between Asia destinations and Helsinki using its own and leased aircraft.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo has confirmed that it will cut its workforce by 10 per cent this year as part of its plan to cut costs by €1 billion ($1.38 billion) by the end of 2011.
 LUFTHANSA Cargo saw a resurgence in traffic in January, with 18.6 per cent more shipped than the same month last year.
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 AUSTRALIA’s airfreight traffic surpassed predictions in December.
 CHINA Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines have completed their merger.
 BOEING is to scrap production of its 787-3, the short-range version of the new 787 Dreamliner, following two Japanese airlines deciding to buy that model instead.
 A round up of the recent airport news
 CATHAY Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for January 2010 show a significant rise in cargo and mail tonnage.
 KENYA Airways Cargo has reported a nine per cent growth in traffic for the last three months of 2009.
 ROBERT Frei has stepped down from his position as global head of product and procurement, air at Panalpina.
 DHL Global has admitted that it was the whistleblower that initiated the massive international investigation into illegal anti-competition activities among global freight forwarders.
 WEST Atlantic has sold one of its Lockheed Electra (L188) turboprop fleet to the Canadian operator Conair.
 A round up of recent changes to routes and services
 A KUWAITI member of parliament has accused the local Customs department of corruption.
 WORLDWIDE Flight Services (WFS) has won Air China’s cargo handling contract at London’s Heathrow Airport.
 THE cargo crew of the Il-76 at the centre of the North Korean weapons smuggling operation seized in Thailand are to be deported back to their home countries.
 AERONAUTICAL Engineers (AEI) has launched an MD-80SF passenger to freighter conversion programme.
 A news round up of the latest new offices opening
 UK-based freight forwarder Davies Turner has achieved Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status.
 AS an example to how other perishables entering the US will have to be processed from June, Alaska Air Cargo has made procedural changes to how it handles consignments of seafood.
 THE owners of Colombia's Avianca and El Salvador's Taca have finalised a deal to form a joint venture: Aviance-Taca.
 THE European Commission (EC) has sent Swiss logistics company Panalpina preliminary findings of its ongoing anti-competition investigation.
 A round up of the recent appointments in the industry
 MALAYSIA Airlines Cargo (MASkargo) says that it will focus on India in 2010 as it is an important emerging market that has high potential growth
 CHINA’S Hainan Airlines has extended its agreement with Pemco World Air Services to convert some of its 737-300 passenger aircraft into freighters up to six.
 ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) is often considered the shy wallflower of Japanese carriers compared to Japan Airlines (JAL).
 A round up of recent news about airfreight GSSAs
 BOEING’S much-delayed freighter – the 747-8 – has finally taken its maiden flight a year late and having racked up more than US$1 billion in charges for the delay.
 AS part of its plan to cut back its all-cargo operations, Air France-KLM is set to sell two 777 freighters to FedEx.
 REGIONAL Antigua-based airline Liat has delayed the launch of its dedicated freighter until 1 March.
 JAPANESE shipper K Line has agreed to buy a 51 per cent controlling share in the Air Tiger Express (ATE) group.
 THIS year's Cargo Airline of the Year award is almost here and ten lucky people will win $100 for voting.
 AIR India is to split off its cargo unit into an autonomous business.
 A round up of recent airport news
 A 5.5m, 68kg panel fell from an Atlas Air 747 freighter on Friday landing in a Miami shopping mall’s car park.
 A NEW Zealand judge has ruled that the country’s anti-cartel Commerce Commission abused rules by preventing Air New Zealand from questioning employees the commission had interviewed.
 KINGFISHER Airlines has launched a door-to-door express cargo service, Kingfisher Express.
 BOGOTA airport is handing over its cargo infrastructure to US-based cargo facility developer Lynxs Group to manage and operate it.
 DRAMATIC year-on-year growth in December helped Frankfurt to achieve its second best day ever for freight on 13 December – a sign that the air cargo market might truly be on the mend.
 A new B777 passenger service from Singapore Airlines and the start of Il-96 freighter services by Polet, will be key sources of growth for Munich Airport in the months ahead, making up for the loss of B747F services from Cathay Pacific and Korean Air in the downturn.
 REALISING its results for the quarter ended 31 December, management of Nippon Cargo Airlines parent NYK, felt compelled to add a statement that negotiations with Japan Airlines about a merger of NCA with JAL Cargo had not come to a conclusion but were still going on.
 Revolutionary web portal allows shippers to bypass freight forwarders that they say ‘don’t add value’
 AIR Partner has expanded into Turkey and Hong Kong as part of its on-going geographical growth plans to enter new and emerging markets.
 IN December 2009, the ACI PaxFlash and FreightFlash traffic reports show a surge in traffic worldwide.
 FOLLOWING its acquisition of an ex-Air France B747-400ERF in late 2009, AirBridgeCargo is looking to rapidly expand its fleet further
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Bali Bomber Mastermind Dulmatin Kiilled in Shoot-out
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:28:50 +0000The alleged mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings is believed to have been killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police on the outskirts of Jakarta today. Dulmatin, nicknamed “the Genius”, was an explosives expert who was believed to have set off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phone, as well as helping to [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Jihad Jane – Philly Woman Charged With Supporting Terrorists
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:03:53 +0000Jihad Jane – A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities online as “JihadJane” has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft according to a Fox News report.
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Gunman Kills One, Injures Two at Ohio State
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:46:23 +0000A gunman shot three university employees early Tuesday morning on the Columbus campus of Ohio State University, killing one, Ohio State University Police told NBC News.
University police said a suspect was taken into custody after heavily armed campus officers searched the area, just east of Ohio Stadium.
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Ex-Terrorist Takes CBN News Inside Al Qaeda
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:23:46 +0000Western leaders are often at odds over how to take on the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, appears totally focused on its mission.
The terrorist group is obsessed with destroying the United States. And according to one former colleague of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, they don&’t care how many [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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Terror Alert Sounded in Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:20:05 +0000From the India Times NEW DELHI: With arrested Indian Mujahideen cadres unveiling fresh terror plans of the ISI-LeT combine to target metropolitan cities here, the
home ministry has issued alerts to Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata seeking a security beef-up at all vulnerable spots.
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California Man Took College Exams for Middle Eastern Students
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:10:13 +0000Fox News reports Daniel Higgins doesn’t look like a Middle Eastern student, but officials say he routinely portrayed himself as one for almost a decade, getting paid up to $1,500 per student to attend their classes and take exams so they could keep their visas current and remain in the U.S.
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Worker ID Card at Center of Immigration Plan
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:00:23 +0000Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
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Cyberwar May Have Same Impact as Well-Placed Bomb
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:56:08 +0000NATO and America’s European allies are sounding the alarm over what they say are increased cyber attacks originating from China that are targeting key government and intelligence computers.
The warning comes on the heels of an FBI report last week detailing the “real … and expanding threat” of cyber terrorism, especially from Al Qaeda.
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Flight Attendants Seek Counter-terror Measures
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:46:20 +0000The nation’s flight attendants say the government needs to ratchet up security measures inside airplanes and we couldn’t agree more. This four point plan outlined by the Assn. of Flight Attendants is simple and effective.
The new rules seek to strengthen in-cabin security through hand-to-hand combat instruction, personal radios and standardized size limits for carry-on luggage.
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Sheppard Air Force Base On Lock Down
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:25:31 +0000Wichita Falls TX – Sheppard AFB Police have confirmed to KAUZ Newschannel 6 that Sheppard Air Force Base is under lock down, and all entrances and exits have been sealed until further notice.
George Woodward, Sheppard’s Public Information Officer, tells Newschannel 6 that police apprehended a man carrying a shotgun on base.
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Report – al Qaeda Urges Followers To Track Royal Navy Ships
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:43:44 +0000According to a report in the UK’s Daily Express, nuclear weapons carried aboard Royal Navy warships are high on Al Qaeda’s hit list.
The report states, followers of Osama Bin Laden are being urged to track the Ark Royal, Illustrious and Invincible in what is being called the “battle of the masts”.
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Adam Gadahn, American al Qaeda Captured? Not…
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:29:32 +0000Watch CBS News Videos Online
Pakistani intelligence agents say they have captured an American al-Qaida operative, but they have reversed their initial assertion that he is Adam Gadahn, who is wanted in the United States on a treason charge.
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Americans Say Debt To China Greater Threat Than Terrorism
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:34:21 +0000A recent Zogby poll may surprise many. More than twice as many U.S. adults (58%) say that debt owed to China is a more serious threat to the long-term security and well-being of the U.S than is terrorism from radical Islamic terrorists (27%).
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U.S. Sees a Terror Threat – Pakistanis See a Heroine
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:09:03 +0000Relations between the United States and Pakistan often have a through-the-looking-glass quality, where almost nothing appears quite the same from the other side. The latest example is the case of Aafia Siddiqui.
In the United States, authorities say Ms. Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who once studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is suspected of having [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
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