Category: China

Temp-control Tower Cold Chain’s cool breakthrough in China

William Chong, TWS’s chairman, reveal’s: “With this new GSA agreement in place, TWS and Tower Cold Chain will be able to further break through some of the previous obstacles – and further enhance our cooperation for a win-win outcome in this huge potential China market,” he enthuses.

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Maersk chooses the UK’s Bournemouth Airport for new China freighter service

Speaking about the new business from Maersk, Steve Gill, managing director of Bournemouth Airport, underscores the greater ambition for the UK south coast airport to eventually evolve as the UK’s number one entry and exit point for time critical cargo. “We now have 500 tonnes of weekly import capacity operating between China and Bournemouth as more customers take advantage of our location, lack of slot constraints.”

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Qatar Airways Cargo adds extra airfreight capacity to China and Poland 

Elisabeth Oudkerk, senior vice-president of cargo sales and network planning at Qatar Airways Cargo, believes the launch of the new service will provide consistent and reliable air cargo services between Poland and Qatar. “[The] freighters to Warsaw will complement our passenger flights to this important city,” she adds. 

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Uptick in worldwide air cargo rates was a false dawn, says index  

There has been one main exception to the worldwide downwards trend in air cargo rates: Germany’s Frankfurt from where prices were up by two per cent week-on-week, reports TAC Index.

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Virgin adds new cargo expert as it resurrects daily Shanghai flights

Speaking of the resurrected frequencies, Juha Jarvinen, chief commercial officer at Virgin Atlantic, underscores: “Shanghai was the first of our routes to be suspended in 2020 at the start of the global pandemic and the last to return, making it the final piece to restore our flying programme to full capacity.”   

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Cargo.One opens China to more freight forwarders 

Moritz Claussen, founder and co-chief of the digital disruptor, insists that thousands of freight forwarders using Cargo.One will now benefit from Hongyuan’s strong offerings into Asia. “[Furthermore, the group] can now accelerate its digital sales journey and gain important ground with our established frameworks.”

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