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In April 2023, former Polar Air Cargo COO Lars Winkelbauer was arrested in Thailand and charged, along with 10 others, with defrauding the company of an estimated $52m. [5] In February 2025, Atlas Air and DHL announced that Polar Air Cargo would be dissolved, with the 4 747-8s and 2 777Fs in Polar’s fleet continuing to be operated by Atlas. [6]
Air India Cargo; Aryan Cargo Express; Crescent Air Cargo; Deccan 360; Elbee Airlines; Hinduja Cargo Services Indonesia. Megantara Air Iran. Fars Air Qeshm Japan. ANA & JP Express; Orange Cargo Kazakhstan. Almaty Aviation Malaysia. Transmile Air Services Philippines. Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines Singapore. Jett8 Airlines Vietnam. Trai Thien ...
These aircraft had the powerful "Q" (Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7Q) engines and heavy landing gear and could simultaneously carry both 250,000 pounds (110,000 kg) of fuel and 250,000 pounds (110,000 kg) of cargo loaded through both the nose door and the side door at the same time. Aircraft loaders had earlier refused to work at the extreme 30 feet (9 ...
Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Announces Enhancement of Intra-Asia Schedule Also Increasing Trans-Pacific Connections to United States PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc ...
From 1960 to 2010 the efficiency of air freight has increased 75%, mostly due to more efficient jet engines. [141] 1 gal-US (3.785 L, 0.833 gal-imp) of fuel can move a ton of cargo 857 km or 462 nmi by barge, or 337 km (209 mi) by rail, or 98 km (61 mi) by lorry. [142] Compare:
Air freight rates rose as a consequence, from $0.80 per kg for transatlantic cargoes to $2.50-4 per kg, enticing passenger airlines to operate cargo-only flights through the use of preighters, while cargo airlines bring back into service fuel-guzzling stored aircraft, helped by falling oil prices.
Thousands of boxes littering Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles attest to a wave of rail thefts that have taken place in recent months, and have worsened supply chain bottlenecks.
A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.