Tesis Lands At LEJ

    Tesis Cargo, a private Russian all-cargo carrier has inaugurated a weekly freighter connection between Leipzig, the capital of Saxonia in the Eastern part of Germany and Nanking/China via Moscow.
    Leipzig airport had been chosen by DHL as its future central European hub a while ago.
    A huge airfreight facility is under construction as well as a new runway here.
    Since that announcement, Leipzig has attracted a number of major logistic providers and carriers with cargo volume tripling to 17,896 tons between January and September 2006.
    The weekly Tesis B 747-200 flight is part of the Panalpina import strategy for Europe carrying all kinds of consumer goods to be distributed by truck.
    Outbound are time-sensitive commodities including electronic components and equipment, machinery, chemical and pharmaceutical products as well as automotive parts and other typical German export products.
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Empowering Africa

Business Malawi reports Women Empowerment Network (WEN) has secured free export services to Dubai from Air Cargo Limited, a subsidiary of the national flag-carrier Air Malawi.
     WEN is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers rural people, especially farmers in an effort to make them self-reliant and improve food production.
     The network recently decided to embark on exporting vegetables to other countries as one way of creating markets for farmers.
     “We saw potential in the farmers but they lacked market opportunities to sell their produce.
     “Most of them were also complaining about lack of resources to help them improve their farming business that is when we came in with the sole aim of making sure that the farmers have all necessary materials,” Wezi Ngalamira, WEN’s national coordinator told Business Malawi.
     Apart from creating markets through exports, “Our organization is also helping farmers to have good shelter.”  

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     Dole the pineapple and fresh flower mega multi-national likes to cut things as a natural part of doing business, but now the giant has decided to cut workers saying increased global competition is forcing Dole Fresh Flowers, the largest producer of cut flowers in Latin America to shutter farms in Ecuador and Colombia.
     The Miami Herald reports 3,500, more than a third of its workforce in the two countries, are losing their jobs.
     Latin flower industry has been rocked in 2006 by over-supply as globalization has brought competition from lower-cost production centers in Africa and Asia.
     Colombia is the source of 60 percent of the flower imports into the United States, most shipped by air to Miami International Airport, and it is the second-largest flower exporter after Holland.
     Expect Miami International, where flowers are the reason that the air cargo area at the airport is in reality a giant reefer, to also experience a big and ongoing hit as these trade and growing patterns continue to unfold.
     Miami Herald reports that Cielos del Peru, a Lima, Peru-based cargo carrier, operates a daily flight from Bogotá to Miami, carrying 60 tons of Dole's fresh flowers.
     The shipments represent 5 percent of the company's revenue, said Cielos' Chief Executive Orestes Romero.
     ''It's very important for us,'' Romero told The Herald.
     “We need each penny we make.”
     However, Romero said his company's contract, which lasts two more years, is with freight forwarder Panalpina.
     ''If Dole should shut down operations, I think there will be other farms that will cover the demand,'' Romero told Miami Herald.
     “The demand is there.''
     Meantime it is accurate to report people are keeping their fingers crossed.
     Cielos Airlines is a privately held international carrier that was founded in 1997, as a non-sked.
     Today the company operates eight DC10 freighters on schedules to the west coast of USA via Miami to several destinations in Latin America and also from Viracopos (São Paulo) to Luxembourg.
     Cielos by the way is a Spanish word describing the radiant light drawn around the head of a saint ... glory be! gracias a Dios!
     Go to glory—morirse, subir a los cielos!

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     Price of changing everything has gone up according to Airbus that said the A380 aircraft will reach the break-even point with the delivery of the 420th aircraft, compared with 270 aircraft in the company’s 2005 business plan.
     With development delays Airbus estimates have risen since 2004 when the company said the A380 would be profitable after 250 deliveries.
     Undaunted Airbus will prevail and A380 will eventually sell beyond break-even, despite some grumbling and executives sacrificed for this truly remarkable airplane of the future.
     A380 will deliver on its promise while offering some reprise to the aged Boeing B747 that might even convince some carriers to buy some stop-gap passenger versions of the old bird after all.
     But history will prove the visionaries at Airbus right.
     And you can say that you read it in FlyingTypers.

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Boeing opened and closed the swing tail for the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter for the first time Oct. 10 and FT publishes first picture.
  Can you stand the excitement?
  The 747 LCF is currently at the Boeing Everett factory for tests on the swing tail, a major modification to the airplane that allows large pieces of the new B787’s to be loaded and unloaded (à la the Canadair CL 44A) from the back of the airplane.
  These tests are the first time the LCF swing tail has opened.
  No report yet if the thing closed properly