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Air Belgium abandons direct passenger service to focus on cargo

In an unusual move, Air Belgium said Monday it will cease to exist as a passenger airline because of difficult market conditions and switch to become a contract carrier for airlines that need cargo or passenger airlift.

The board of directors moved to discontinue the company’s own passenger business, effective Oct. 3, to focus on the business-to-business market offering packaged leases that bundle an aircraft with transport service. 

Air Belgium said its financial position has been severely...

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CMA CGM Air Cargo To Make First Flight

  • Start of commercial operations for CMA CGM AIR CARGO’s first Airbus A330-200F.
  • Opening of a regular route between Liege and Chicago on March 8.
  • CMA CGM chooses Air Belgium to operate its fleet, Groupe ECS as commercial agent and is developing a blocked space agreement with CEVA Logistics.

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, announces that its new specialist air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO is to begin operations starting March 8 with the first Airbus A330-200F...

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Shipping line CMA CGM’s first air cargo destination: Chicago

A pallet of cargo on a hydraulic lift sliding into the open side bay of a cargo jet.

Ocean container line CMA CGM’s new in-house cargo airline will operate its first flight March 8 from its home base at Liege Airport to Chicago, the company said Tuesday. It also confirmed earlier reports that Air Belgium will operate the fleet of four previously owned Airbus A330-200 freighters that it recently acquired. 

In addition to diversifying its freight business, the move into air cargo gives the French ocean carrier’s huge logistics arm, CEVA Logistics, a leg up securing hard-to-find...

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Ocean carrier CMA CGM buys jets for new air cargo unit

Close of landing gear on a large jet.

CMA CGM, the fourth-largest container shipping line and parent of CEVA Logistics, now owns a cargo airline. The move bears similarities to what Amazon.com (NASDQ: AMZN) did five years ago when it launched a private airline to help support its rapidly growing e-commerce business.

The French shipping company, based in Marseille, announced Friday it was diversifying its transportation and logistics portfolio by creating an airfreight division. It has purchased four Airbus A330-200 freighters, which...

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CMA CGM officially launches air cargo division with four A330-200Fs

French container line CMA CGM, owner of Ceva Logistics, has confirmed it has created an air cargo division and acquired four freighters.
As reported in The Loadstar last week, it has launched CMA CGM Air Cargo with four A330-200Fs – a move, it said, that “strengthens the group’s transport and logistics business”.
The aircraft, bought from Qatar Airways Cargo, will be operated by a “European airline”, said the carrier, which is thought …

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