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25th November 202225th November 2022

New Boeing 747-8 Freighter for Atlas Air

Atlas Air took delivery of a Boeing 747-8 Freighter. This aircraft is the third of four new Boeing 747-8 Freighters Atlas Air ordered in January 2021 and is the first of two 747-8Fs Atlas Air will operate for its customer Kuehne+Nagel under a long-term agreement. Left to right: Brad McMullen, Senior Vice President of Sales …

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5th September 20225th September 2022

Bolloré Logistics partners with United Airlines

Bolloré Logistics and United Airlines entered into a partnership relating to the purchase of three million litres of sustainable aviation fuel for 2022. This new agreement is geared towards the customary client base and covers all the routes operated by Bolloré Logistics, in all geographical areas. It will enable the company to reduce its scope …

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31st May 202231st May 2022

Antonov Airlines flies power plant components to Nigeria

Antonov Airlines working with Chapman Freeborn Germany has completed three AN-124-100 flights to transport a new mobile gas power plant generator and associated equipment from Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Kano, Nigeria. The delivered cargo, including generator, turbine and additional equipment, weighed about 200 tonnes. The project has been a year in the making. “The entire Antonov …

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12th April 202212th April 2022

Maersk Air Cargo launched

A.P. Moller - Maersk has launched Maersk Air Cargo as the company´s main air freight offering serving the logistics needs of its clients with integrated logistics. At the same time Maersk chooses Denmark’s second largest airport, Billund, as its air freight hub for Maersk Air Cargo with daily flights creating several jobs in the region. …

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10th March 202210th March 2022

DHL Express opts for six additional 777 Freighters

DHL Express has placed an order for six additional 777 Freighters. The purchase takes DHL Express' order book total to twenty-eight aircarfts since it placed its first direct order in 2018. The 777 Freighter improves fuel efficiency and reduces CO2 emissions by 17% compared to legacy airplanes. DHL Express has taken delivery of 15 freighter …

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6th January 20226th January 2022

Antonov Airlines transports Turksat 5B satellite for launch by SpaceX

Antonov Airlines in cooperation with Bollore Logistics Space has transported Turkey's new telecommunication satellite Turksat 5B on board one of its AN-124-100 aircraft from Toulouse, France, to Florida, USA, later launched by the US aerospace company SpaceX. The cargo weighed a total of 60 tonnes including a special container measuring 14.69 m in length, 5.45 m …

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3rd January 20223rd January 2022

Actitrans France delivers for Las Vegas Tower

Just before Christmas, Actitrans Overseas moved by air a 13tn freight from Paris to Las Vegas for the installation of the Las Vegas Tower. Actitrans Director, Hugues Mayeur, explained: "The tower is a bar which you sit down at on floor level and then fly up 38m high to have you drink and admire the …

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15th November 202115th November 2021

ANTONOV TO PROVIDE A FURTHER FIVE YEARS OF STRATEGIC AIRLIFT FOR NATO AND THE EU

ANTONOV Company via its agent Antonov Logistics SALIS GmbH has been awarded a five-year contract with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to continue working on its Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) programme. Ukraine and NATO have been cooperating under the SALIS programme since January 2006, during which time ANTONOV has …

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16th July 202116th July 2021

EXG delivers oxygen cylinders for the Government of India

Express Global Logistics recently completed a project that involved the import of 300 oxygen cylinders from China for the Government of India. The shipment comprised a total volume of 108mt of empty cylinders packed in 150 wooden boxes. A Boeing 747-400F was chartered from Tianjin Binhai International Airport to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for …

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14th July 202114th July 2021

Antonov Airlines delivers medical supplies to Namibia

Antonov Airlines has safely transported medical supplies at short notice from Germany to Namibia on the world’s largest aircraft, the AN-225 “Mriya”. The mission was executed under the Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) programme. The AN-225, which has recently returned to commercial operation took off from its home base at Kyiv-Antonov, Ukraine and flew to Liepzig-Halle airport, …

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