Transport and logistics service providers are vulnerable to the undermining effect of criminal activity. Air freight in particular, because it is mainly high-quality and expensive products that are transported by air. Logistics companies and their employees are experiencing increasing problems...

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) and Jan de Rijk Logistics have joined forces to take the new Long Heavy Vehicle (LHV) into operation. This completely new truck combination will run on BioFuel – Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil 100 (HVO100). The big advantage of using an LHV is the hu...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo volume for the first six months of 2022 decreased by -13.8% to 721,746 tonnes compared to the first six months of 2021, in line with global cargo trends. Half year cargo 2022 figures show decreased throughput year-on-year, with inbound cargo volumes decr...

Automated Nomination, the digital station declaration of a forwarder’s involvement in the handling of a shipment, has become the standard for inbound shipments at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which no longer accepts paper declarations as of the 1st of April 2022. Prior to Automated Nomination, g...

dnata, a leading global air and travel service provider, has contracted Lödige Industries, the world's leading provider of cargo terminal solutions, to supply their new cargo terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Due to construction measures at Schiphol to improve airport infrastructure, it ...

Menzies Aviation, the global aviation logistics specialist, has announced it has won a cargo handling contract with GEODIS, a global leading transport and logistics services provider, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS). The five-year contract encompasses cargo handling for the import and export...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo volume for 2021 increased by 15.7% to 1.66 million tonnes compared to 2020. Last year, inbound cargo volumes increased by 15.2% to 869,241 tonnes in 2021 compared to 2020, and outbound cargo volumes also increased by 16.1% to 798,063 tonnes during the s...

Crane Worldwide Logistics has invested in a state-of-the-art bonded warehouse facility near Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “During the last six months, we have received an increase in requests for additional storage capacity in Amsterdam as well as our other facilities in Holl...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol won the Cargo Airport of the Year award at the 15th Air Cargo Week World Air Cargo Awards (WACA) last night. It is the second time Europe’s fourth busiest air cargo hub has been recognised by Air Cargo Week, organisers of the event. ...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is restructuring its Cargo Division, bringing it into its new Aviation Business Development Division under the umbrella of business unit Airport Operations and Aviation Partnerships, from the first of March 2021. From this date, Miriam Hoekstra – van der Deen will step ...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s Pharma Cargo Community is collaborating to ensure the temperature-controlled supply chain is ready for the safe and efficient transportation of COVID-19 vaccines. A taskforce led by Air Cargo Netherlands (ACN), Schiphol Cargo and Air France KLM Martinair Cargo, inc...

Around 360 cargo-only flights a week are being operated each week, up from the 260 a week before the crisis Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s air cargo community is cooperating and collaborating to meet changing demand due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Airlines, handlers, hauliers, freight forwarder...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s (AMS) slot procedure has changed after Airport Coordination Netherlands (ACNL) temporarily lifted the Local Rule 2 (LR2) due to the global COVID-19 outbreak. The purpose of LR2 at AMS is to provide sufficient ad hoc capacity for full freighter airlines, but ACNL sa...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s (AAS) total cargo volume for 2019 declined by nine per cent to 1.57 million tonnes compared to 2018, as reduced full freighter flights and a weaker global air cargo market affected the figures. The year-end results revealed that inbound cargo volumes declined 9.8 p...

The lack of freighter slots and traffic was the chief reason Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s cargo volumes fell 9.2 per cent to 767,519 tonnes in the first half of 2019, compared to the same period last year. Freighter tonnage was down by 16.4 per cent due to the 14.4 per cent fall in the number ...