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Politics Scuppers St Louis Airport Privatization
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 8:50am | 655Read More...St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri has ended its controversial exploration of going private. Mayor Lyda Krewson pulled the plug Dec. 22 after a two-year process to consider leasing the airport to a private operator. Krewson previously supported studying whether privatization could...
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Riga Airport Expands To Keep Up With Surge In Cargo Volume
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 11:16am | 419Read More...DHL Express' new plan to build a sort facility for packages at Riga International Airport reflects the burgeoning business interest in Latvia as an air cargo hub. During the first nine months of the year, the airport handled almost 20,000 tons of cargo – half the entire air cargo volume in the...
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Hamburg Airport Adopts Fair@Link Air Cargo Platform
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 4:56pm | 454Read More...Hamburg Airport has joined the growing roster of European airports that are adopting digitalization to facilitate and expedite air cargo handling. After a six-month pilot program, Hamburg Airport Cargo Center has fully adopted the Fair@Link system to respond to a requirement for faster and more...
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Hyderabad Airport Launches Air Cargo Charter Program
Monday, October 21, 2019 - 12:14pm | 676Read More...In India, GMR Hyderabad Airport Cargo launched its Hyderabad Cargo Charter Circle (HC3) handling program this month. Airport operator GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Airports Ltd. and a step-down subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Ltd. (GMR Group), plans to boost...
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St Louis Lambert Airport Moves Closer To Privatization
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 11:45am | 641Read More...St. Louis, a major city along the Mississippi River in the U.S. Midwestern state of Missouri, has taken a step forward in assessing whether to seek a private operator for St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) under the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Airport Investment Partnership...
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Kalitta May Be Forced To Exit Schiphol Airport
Monday, September 23, 2019 - 10:27am | 672Read More...U.S.-based freighter operator Kalitta Air may be forced to exit service at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, a key European hub for 15 years, over an ongoing dispute about take-off and landing slots. Kalitta operates the only scheduled all-cargo service between Schiphol and the U.S., but its on-time...
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Commentary: Great Expectations For Beijing's Daxing Airport – But At What Cost?
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 12:23pm | 787Read More...FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. It was recently announced that Beijing's second international airport, Beijing Daxing International Airport, has been...
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What Makes Miami International Airport Special?
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 1:11pm | 1005Read More...FreightWaves is providing a forum – Market Voices – for a number of market experts. Cathy Morrow Roberson is a market analyst with a research and economics background. Roberson began her career as a librarian; she was then an analyst at an e-commerce start-up; and was an...
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Delays At LaGuardia, Newark, Philadelphia Concern Air Freight
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 3:09pm | 575Read More...The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Twitter on Friday morning that delays would affect LaGuardia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport due to the effects of the government shutdown, potentially delaying air cargo operations at these airports. "My...
