ITJ Sep 2014 New Freighter

ITJ

International Transport Journal

37 · 38 | 12 September 2014 www.transportjournal.com ENGLISH EDITION (also available in an identical German and French version)

Specials Breakbulk / Heavylift Supplement North America

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Acquisitions

Finance sector once again banking on potential of US container terminals 11

European centre Poland ever more significant as a warehousing hot spot

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The shorter Pacific

Canada’s western ports handling greater volumes from Asia

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Aviation

International Transport Journal 37-38 2014

Two smaller German airports have mana­ ged to push their airfreight activities forward recently, whilst local competi­ tors are either fine­tuning their strategy (Frankfurt Hahn) or struggling to stay in business (Zweibrücken).

The moves concern the hub in Dort­ mund, where the logistics provider Mül­ ler + Partner started offering its services in August. This is the first time in ten years that forwarding services are being expanded at the Ruhr region’s air cargo centre. Andreas Rottmann, head of the forwarder’s Fulda branch office, said that his firm chose the location because «we found the conditions there that we were looking for. Connections to the motor­ ways, a well­developed air cargo sector and enough space to handle our logistics activities was enough to convince us.»

The hub in Friedrichshafen is the other one. It operates without freighter activi­ ties, which did not prevent the Stuttgart­ based ground handler Apron from open­ ing a station there early in September. It plans to handle 50 t of freight a month.

Turkish Airlines, whose five weekly Istan­ bul flights offer about 2 t of co­loading capacity each, is interested. ah

CAL expanding horizons

In brief Big plans. Mexico is planning to build Latin America’s largest airport. The hub will be finished in 2019 and cost USD 9.2 billion. www.fosterandpartners.com Photo: CAL Cargo Airlines

Growing ambitions

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Taking to the air for CAL in new livery.

Israel’s CAL Cargo Airlines, which has a hub in Liège, has taken over a second Boeing B747­400ERF. The acquisition of the plane, built in 2007, has completed CAL’s fleet expansion programme. «We expect to commence operations with the freighter in November, and its excel­ lent range will give us the opportunity to transport goods to many new global destinations», according to Offer Gilboa, founder and president of the CAL Group.

The airline will focus on consignments that exceed standard sizes and expecta­ tions, as well as on the Asia­Pacific region and on Latin America. CAL named the firm EXP­Air as its GSA for the Canadian market in August. ah

Government approval. The Japanese mini­ stry concerned has authorised a strategic joint venture between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa Cargo. The partners can now jointly manage activities covered by the undertaking, including network planning, pricing, sales and handling on all routes between Japan and Europe and vice versa. The carriers plan to introduce their joint approach with the launch of the winter schedule. www.anacargo.jp www.lufthansa-cargo.com More flights. Cargolux has added a third weekly service between Luxembourg and Zhengzhou (China). The link was first flown in June and will be grown to six weekly flights this year. www.cargolux.com Closed. Moskovia Airlines, which had three An­12 freighters, has terminated operations.

Aeroflot’s low­cost subsidiary Dobrolet, and the business carrier Bylina, also closed down in Russia recently. www.favt.ru

No change in Europe: freight hubs continue to grow in July the country’s freight forwarders. In July Gatwick handled 7,937 t (–7.9%).

Istanbul’s Atatürk airport lost a little ground too, but Sabiha Gökçen (3,320 t, +26.2%) saved the honour of the metro­ polis on the Bosphorus. The airports in Kiev (2,084 t, –9.2%) and Moscow were

harder hit. The Russian capital’s Domo­ dedovo hub handled 13,387 t (–9,4%), with Sheremetyevo registering 12,085 t (–19.8%). The heavy political tension in Tel Aviv, in contrast, did not affect the hub’s air cargo throughput figures for July (22,254 t, +2.2%). ah

Freight throughput at leading European airports in July 2014 Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

July (2013) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Airport Frankfurt / Main Paris (CDG) Amsterdam London (LHR) Leipzig Halle Cologne Bonn Luxembourg Istanbul (IST) Liège Milan (MXP)

Country DE FR NL UK DE DE LU TR BE IT

Airfreight in t 172,271 165,500 136,650 128,206 78,113 64,217 57,299 53,982 49,826 41,477

±% +1.1 +0.3 +9.7 +7.8 +12.4 +3.5 –1.4 –2.3 +5.2 +4.5

Freight throughput at leading Swiss airports in July 2014 1 2 3

(1) (2) (3)

Zurich Geneva Basel

CH CH CH

26,851 4,102 3,481

+8.0 +6.2 +4.9

Source: ACI Europe, ADV

The improvement registered for Europe’s airfreight centres in July came to 3%, which was slightly above last month’s rate, according to the continental airport association ACI Europe. There was no change in the order of the ten top­ranked airports in comparison with July 2013.

Leipzig Halle has set a strong course for growth recently, after a weaker per­ formance in June. London Heathrow and Amsterdam both did particularly well, with the latter overcoming its home carrier AF­KLM’s crisis (see page 17). On 2 September Britain’s Davies Commis­ sion announced that it favoured the con­ struction of a second runway at London Gatwick, as well as the extension of one of the existing runways at Heathrow, or alternatively the building of a third one at the west of London hub. The mayor of London Boris Johnson’s ambitious pro­ ject for a completely new EUR 88–113 million airport in the Thames estuary (nicknamed Boris island) was thus dis­ carded, a decision that was welcomed by