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This week saw two of the most substantial players in their own fields underline similar tactics for dealing with a turbulent freight market. Clarksons the London based shipping services group announced it had acquired EnShip Ltd the Aberdeen based shipping agency and marine industry logistics specialist via its Clarksons Port Services Group. Meanwhile French giant Norbert Dentressangle completed its acquisition of APC Beijing International, a China-based freight forwarding company. Enship, formed in 2004, has built a reputation as a vessel agency within the UK, as well as being a provider of related support services to both its UK customers and worldwide client base. EnShip also encompasses Opex Industrial Supplies, a procurement house supplying the marine,...

WORLDWIDE – Lots going on at Emirates SkyCargo with several developments this month, including a pair of heavy lift records and the announcement of a couple of new routes. Not satisfied with setting a new record for the heaviest recorded single item ever carried by a Boeing 777F the airline has now broken its own record for a freight forwarding project by shipping an even larger piece via a Boeing 747. Firstly the cargo carrier shipped a blowout preventer, a specialised valve used to seal, control and monitor oil and gas wells weighing 21,157kgs, from Iraq to Dubai. The piece cubed out at over 8m3 and bordered the limit of the 777’s capacity by less than 500kgs. Nihal Wickrema, Emirates’ Manager Freighter Operations & Charters commented that...

Bali Cargo ; Although LAN Airlines experienced an 11-percent, year-over-year, drop in net income in the third quarter of 2011, the Latin American carrier reported double-digit cargo gains. Freight revenue, which surged 22.5 percent from 2010, was driven by increased capacity and load factor, LAN Airlines executives revealed. LAN Airlines particularly benefited from an influx of shipments to Latin America and high volumes of commodity exports, such as salmon. To address increased demand, LAN relied heavily on the three Boeing 767-300F freighters it procured between November 2010 and January 2011. Routes to North America and Europe were particularly profitable for the Latin American carrier, company officials remarked. Not surprisingly, capacity on LAN flights rose...

bali Cargo : Regulator penerbangan RI akhirnya memberlakukan inspeksi pengiriman barang untuk kargo internasional mulai hari Minggu (16/10/2011). Pemberlakukan inspeksi oleh regulated agent (RA) tersebut dilakukan sebelum Uni Eropa akan melakùkan peninjauan implementasi keamanan kargo di Bandarà Soekarno Hatta, Cengkareng beberapa hari lagi. Juru bicara Kementerian Perhubungan, Bambang S Ervan mengatakan, RA untuk pengiriman internasional tersebut sesuai dengan jadwal yang ada. “Saat pertemuan terakhir regulator dengan pengusaha, pelaksanaannya paling lambat tiga bulan.  Saat itu ditunda karena belum ada kesepahaman tentang mekanisme pemeriksaan antara Ditjen Bea cukai dan Ditjen Perhubungan Udara (Kemenhub).  Saat ini sudah ada kesepahaman tentang...

PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk (GIAA) menyatakan telah menerima pesawat B737-800NG yang ke-48 atau pesawat B737 series yang ke 123. Direktur Utama GIAA, Emirsyah Satar mengatakan pesawat ini dilengkapi dengan teknologi Boeing Sky Interior” yaitu teknologi pencahayaan yang lebih cerah dan menghasilkan berbagai macam suasana warna (colour schemes). “Melalui program Quantum Leap, hingga tahun 2015 perseroan merencanakan akan menambah armada dari yang saat ini berjumlah sebanyak 84 pesawat menjadi 154 pesawat,” ungkapnya yag dikutip dari imq21.com di Jakarta, Selasa (18/10). Teknologi Boeing Sky Interior seperti warna biru angkasa yang lembut dan warna suasana matahari terbenam yang membuat relax (a relaxing pallet of sunset colors). Penambahan armada tersebut...