Boeing 747-230F-SCD, Lufthansa Cargo Lufthansa Cargo AG and Fraport AG Ground Services have signed a contract to extend their ground-handling partnership at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) for eight more years. The agreement, extending from January 2018 to December 2025, covers aircraft ground handling – particularly the loading and unloading of Lufthansa Cargo’s
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DHL to break ground on ‘8-figure’ freight facility near Hanover Airport
DHL Freight hub European road-freight service provider DHL Freight is making “an eight-figure investment” in a new 7,800-square-meter freight hub at the Hanover Airport Business Park in Langenhagen, Germany. DHL Freight expects its investment to translate into improvements in LTL (less-than-truckload) and FTL (full-truck-load) transport. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the beginning
Why cargo bike deliveries are taking over the UK’s cities
An Outspoken delivery rider in Cambridge. Photograph: Paul Rogers for the Guardian Eco-friendly cycle logistics firms are popping up across the UK, carrying everything from Amazon packages to takeaway food and bouquets London (The Guardian) - Ben Cartwright is amid a ritual familiar to thousands of delivery workers across the country, carefully
Volume growth slows at Fraport’s airports in October
Cargo Hub In Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport is home to around 250 airlines, freight forwarders, cargo handlers and other logistics service provider. It is a major hub for international transport of mail and parcels, equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Besides being a major hub for international cargo shipments, Frankfurt Airport has also developed into a center for courier
DHL Customers prefer root canals to late shipments
In DHL’s 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator’s customers surveyed said that they would “rather get a root canal than having personal holiday shipments come late,” which suggests that some 27 percent of customers haven’t yet experienced the skull-splitting agony of the dentists’ drill burrowing into their molars. Regardless,
How cargo bikes can help unclog London’s congested roads
Outspoken Delivery already runs cargo bike operations in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich. Photograph: Paul Rogers/Commissioned for The Guardian Waltham Forest’s new zero-emissions delivery service aims to replace polluting trucks for local deliveries of food, online purchases and more Each morning Oscar Godoy unlocks a door in a railway arch in north London, organizes
Osinbajo Rallies Investors for Truck Transit Parks, Inland Dry Ports
Nigerian government Plans New Truck Transit Parks in 8 Locations in the Country Lagos - The federal government of Nigeria has urged investors to key into the immense opportunities inherent in the Inland Dry Ports (IDP) and the proposed Truck Transit Parks (TTP) being promoted by the Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC). Speaking
FedEx to be launch customer for new ATR production freighter
The deal will make FedEx the launch customer of ATR’s first production freighter aircraft Aircraft manufacturer, ATR, has signed an agreement with FedEx for the purchase of thirty ATR 72-600 production freighters, with options to increase the order to fifty. ATR42 ATR72 Large Cargo Door Freighter Conversions. [Video] The deal will make FedEx the
UPS building $90m parcel hub outside Denver
A conveyer belt in the new UPS package distribution facility, which opened Nov. 1 The facility, located in an industrial business park in Aurora, is expected to partially begin operations later this year, in time for the holiday shipping season, UPS said in a statement. Aurora, Colorado - UPS is opening a
UPS to equip Class 8 trucks with collision mitigation technology
Commitment to safety puts UPS at forefront of Class 8 trucking technology The parcel delivery and logistics provider will have advanced collision mitigation technology in 60 percent of its Class 8 fleet once installation is complete. Atlanta, GA - Package delivery and logistics provider UPS is equipping more than 5,700 of