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EU and USA agree to recognise each other's "trusted traders"

EU and U.S. certified trusted traders will enjoy lower costs, simplified procedures and greater predictability in their transatlantic activities, as a result of a mutual recognition decision signed today. The European Union and the United States of America formally agreed to recognise each other's...

Schiphol awarded e-freight certificate

IATA Cargo has presented a Certificate of Achievement to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in recognition of its ’outstanding performance in supporting and helping to adopt e-freight in 2011’.The certificate was presented to Schiphol Cargo Director of Business Development Saskia van Pelt by Guillaume...

Winter Operations 2011/2012

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol recently organised an information session about its Winter Operations for 2011/2012, focusing on operational procedures during severe weather conditions. In a review of the winter of 2010/2011, when there was heavy snowfall and extremely low temperatures, the airport and...

eLink Movie Amsterdam Airport Schiphol HD

An informative short movie has been made on e-Link, in which Paul Parramore (ACN), Sjef Schaap and Robin Gase (DB Schenker), Monique Rouss (Cargonaut), Guy Driebeek (SmartLOXS) and Martijn Kuiken (Menzies) explain what e-Link is.Aerocar BV is one out of three freight forwarders at Schiphol...

Centurion Air Cargo increases full freighter services to Schiphol

After the success of the operation which commenced on the 5th June with flights on day 3 and 7 the service will now be extended to a day 5 operation at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.Flights are operated with MD11F with a max payload of 85 tons. Centurion Air Cargo have a fleet of 10 MD11 freighter...

AirBridge Cargo expands freighter operations at Schiphol

ABC anticipates a large amount of high-tech cargo from the many IT production plants in the Zhengzhou region, as well as cargo of European goods flying to China. Just recently ABC launched a new freighter operation to Chicago. Zhengzhou is therefore the second new destination in a short period of...

USA open for e-freight!

As you probably know, for an extensive period of time there have been security issues that have been blocking e-freight shipments from and to the United States. On July 23rd there has been a meeting between IATA (Air Transport Association) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) to discuss the...