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AIR CARGO

Emirates SkyCargo launches direct

connection with Kuehne+Nagel

mirates SkyCargo is now strategy that further elevates the agents, providing access to the cas, Africa, Asia and Oceania by
Eavailable on Kuehne+Nagel’s airline’s world-class customer airline’s schedules, rates and the end of the year.
internal booking engine. service experience. available capacity in real-time. The service will initially be
The deal marks the first time Through the direct host- The connection, first launched available for general cargo with
Emirates SkyCargo has made its to-host connection, Emirates in Switzerland and Austria, will the possibility of adding other
services available via a freight SkyCargo streamlines the book- open up to users in select coun- Emirates SkyCargo’s product
forwarder-owned portal, a ing journey for Kuehne+Nagel tries across Europe, the Ameri- solutions in the near future.

DHL Express, World Energy sign Airbus cuts first metal

deal for 668mn litres SAF
for A350 freighter

irbus announced the arrival
Aof the first components
for the new A350 freighter
from the plants in Stade,
Bremen, and Varel, and Airbus
Aerostructures and Premium
Aerotec (PAI) teams met for
the so-called ‘first metal
cuts’, although metal was not
actually involved every time.
HL Express and World emissions over the aviation fuel Airbus has received 39 firm
DEnergy, a leading SAF lifecycle – this is equivalent to orders for the new A350F
producer and low-carbon handling the approximately version since its launch in
solutions provider, signed a 77,000 annual aircraft movements July 2021. The livery of the
long-term strategic agreement of DHL Express in the Americas very first aircraft was unveiled
to accelerate the decarbonisation carbon neutrally for a full year. during the Paris Air Show in
of aviation logistics through The milestone agreement June this year.
the purchase of approximately is further testament to DHL At the Stade plant, intro-
668 million litres of sustainable Group’s ambitious Sustainability ducing the A350F will have
aviation fuel via sustainable Roadmap, which includes the a big impact on existing fu-
aviation fuel certificates (SAFc). goal to reduce the Group's annual selage shell production. Addi- principle, similar to the A350
The seven-year contract, to run greenhouse gas emissions to tional carbon fibre reinforced passenger version.
through 2030, is one of the long- below 29 million tonnes CO2e in plastic (CFRP) bonding jigs For its first flight and steep
est and largest SAFc agreements 2030 across scopes 1, 2 and 3. will be procured, in particular take-off tests, the first A350F
in the aviation industry to date. The fuel will be supplied to Los for the upper shell which will will be equipped with flight test
The agreement is expected Angeles area airports, close to contain a large part of the instrumentation (FTI), requiring
to reduce approximately 1.7 World Energy’s production facility future cargo door cut-out. substantial reinforcement of the
million tonnes of carbon dioxide in Paramount, CA. The freighter lower shell is, in lower shell’s skin laminate.

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