Air Cargo

TOKYO — With a bankruptcy protection filing looming, Japan Airlines, Asia’s largest air carrier, selected Delta Air Lines over American Airlines as its alliance partner, according to Japanese reports.

The parent of Air China, the largest freight airline in China, will get a $220 million government subsidy to expand its stake in cargo operations, the airline said Monday.

The Haitian government on Friday granted temporary control of the country’s main airport in Port-au-Prince to the United States in an effort to speed earthquake relief efforts, the State Department an

FedEx Express introduced its first 777 freighter service from Shanghai, China to the FedEx hub in Memphis, Tenn.

UPS is adding 101 field stocking locations in China to beef up its global service parts logistics network to serve the rapidly expanding industrial needs in that country.

International cargo volume grew for Japan’s two largest airlines in November, but domestic cargo declined.

Japan Airlines, the biggest air carrier in Asia, is set to file for bankruptcy protection under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law as early as Jan.19, according to Japanese media reports.

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest cargo airline, carried 8.5 percent less freight in December than a year ago, led by a double digit drop in traffic on the key Asia-Pacific network.

Despite a drop of more than 10 percent in sales for a foundation of the electronics industry, the Semiconductor Industry Association raised projections for the year ahead, based on better-than-expecte

How do you budget for air cargo costs when pricing is on a wild roller coaster? Presented with serious backlogs at major Asian gateways, airlines spent much of October and November pushing up rates.

The air freight industry faces an August deadline to meet U.S. government mandates to have 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft screened.

To judge from the number of carriers and logistics providers that unveiled temperature-controlled products in 2009, the industry sector was a bastion of stability in a crumbling world.

Miami-based ASTAR Air Cargo will lay off over 300 pilots by July 1, 2010 as a result of reduced flying for DHL.

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

Hong Kong’s largest air cargo handler saw tonnage soar 38.5 percent in December, capping a huge expansion in shipping late in the year that still left business for all of 2009 down 8.3 percent f

UPS said Friday the economy and shipping demand are improving faster than the company anticipated, but the package carrier announced new cost-cutting plans that will eliminate 1,800 jobs across the Un

Deutsche Post DHL, extending its push away from domestic parcel delivery in Europe, said it plans to sell its French domestic parcels unit in the first quarter this ye

Global forwarder DB Schenker will increase U.S. domestic rates effective March 1, the company announced Wednesday.

De Post-La Poste, Belgium's national postal operator, acquired a majority stake in MSI Worldwide Mail, a U.S.-based mail and parcel delivery company.

Operational and design changes in global aviation and marine transportation could reduce growth in greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 percent by 2050, according to a new report from the Pew Cent

DHL sold its domestic parcel service in the United Kingdom to the Home Delivery Network, the company said Tuesday, extending DHL’s move toward international and logistics services.

Freight traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport slumped by almost a fifth in 2009.

Swiss WorldCargo said it will launch daily flights between Zurich and San Francisco in early June, effectively doubling freight capacity between its European cargo hub and the U.S. West Coast.

International freight expanded for the first time in a year-and-a-half in November, as a sudden peak season surge in Asia-Pacific shipping sent freight up 9.5 percent over the same month a year ago.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell 12.7 percent in October, the slimmest decline of a dreadful year in air cargo, helped by a 30.7 percent surge in trade on Middle East routes, the Association

New York’s Kennedy International Airport saw its busiest month for cargo in 2009 in October as tonnage fell 11.5 percent from the same month a year ago, the slimmest decline so far this year.

National Air Cargo founder Christopher Alf said Tuesday he is back in charge of the freight forwarder after winning a key ruling in a dispute over the conflicts between commercial shipping practices a

Asia-Pacific airlines, turning the corner on steep declines in freight business, reported their first growth in cargo traffic in a year and a half in November, according to the Association o

Singapore Airlines says it will restore some of its scheduled passenger flights in the coming first quarter, adding back some belly freight capacity as the carrier is starting to see an upturn in carg

FedEx will use the first two of its new 777 freighters on routes between Hong Kong and Memphis starting next month, company officials said, adding service at an Asia gateway hit hard by capacity short

For Bob Scribner, the relative ease of shipping goods out of Asia in 2009 came to a crashing halt late this fall as the holidays approached.

London - British Airways on Thursday won a High Court bid to outlaw a 12-day strike by 13,000 flight attendants over the Christmas period, when more than 1 million passengers had booked flights with E

FedEx said Thursday its net profit fell 30 percent in the quarter ending Nov.

British Airways officials say they are reworking schedules and planning to contact cargo customers about the changes in case flight crewmembers launch a strike as threatened next week.

Fifteen major airlines, including top cargo carriers, signed what the Air Transport Association calls “groundbreaking” agreements to line up supplies of alternative aviation fuels with two

The world's airlines will lose $5.6 billion in 2010, nearly 50 percent higher than a forecast of $3.8 billion in September, because of rising fuel prices, the International Air Transport Association s

Lufthansa employees brought the airline’s operations at its Frankfurt Airport hub to a stop Monday as the Lufthansa Cargo Corporate Works Council staged a special meeting to oppose the airport&r

British Airways cabin crewmembers plan to launch a strike against the airline next week in a dispute over wages and job cutbacks.

Lufthansa is launching fresh legal action against night flight restrictions at Frankfurt airport which it claims threatens the existence of its freight business.

Federal payouts for construction projects authorized by the Department of Transportation under the stimulus law reached $6.818 billion by Dec. 4, DOT reported.