Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is expanding its presence in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with the proposed acquisition of Menzies World Cargo (Amsterdam) B.V., Menzies Aviation’s general cargo handling operations at AMS, the main international airport in the Netherlands. The proposed acquisition...

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is the first cargo handler at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to introduce electric cargo towing vehicles in the latest global initiative supporting SATS’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) group priorities. Supplied by vehicle partner, TCR, the Goldhofe...

Lödige Benelux is currently equipping dnata's new cargo terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with fully automated storage technology. This closes a circle that began 50 years ago with the first project for KLM at Schiphol. For five decades now, the Lödige Industries subsidiary based in 's-...

Transport and logistics service providers are vulnerable to the undermining effect of criminal activity. Air freight in particular, because it is mainly high-quality and expensive products that are transported by air. Logistics companies and their employees are experiencing increasing problems...

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) and Jan de Rijk Logistics have joined forces to take the new Long Heavy Vehicle (LHV) into operation. This completely new truck combination will run on BioFuel – Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil 100 (HVO100). The big advantage of using an LHV is the hu...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo volume for the first six months of 2022 decreased by -13.8% to 721,746 tonnes compared to the first six months of 2021, in line with global cargo trends. Half year cargo 2022 figures show decreased throughput year-on-year, with inbound cargo volumes decr...

dnata, a leading global air and travel service provider, has contracted Lödige Industries, the world's leading provider of cargo terminal solutions, to supply their new cargo terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Due to construction measures at Schiphol to improve airport infrastructure, it ...

Menzies Aviation, the global aviation logistics specialist, has announced it has won a cargo handling contract with GEODIS, a global leading transport and logistics services provider, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS). The five-year contract encompasses cargo handling for the import and export...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo volume for 2021 increased by 15.7% to 1.66 million tonnes compared to 2020. Last year, inbound cargo volumes increased by 15.2% to 869,241 tonnes in 2021 compared to 2020, and outbound cargo volumes also increased by 16.1% to 798,063 tonnes during the s...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol won the Cargo Airport of the Year award at the 15th Air Cargo Week World Air Cargo Awards (WACA) last night. It is the second time Europe’s fourth busiest air cargo hub has been recognised by Air Cargo Week, organisers of the event. ...

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is restructuring its Cargo Division, bringing it into its new Aviation Business Development Division under the umbrella of business unit Airport Operations and Aviation Partnerships, from the first of March 2021. From this date, Miriam Hoekstra – van der Deen will step ...