Tag: infrastructure

Airport automation: Start-up secures $7mn to 'revolutionise' cargo operations with AI

Airport automation: Start-up secures $7mn to ‘revolutionise’ cargo operations with AI

Tech start-up Moonware has secured $7mn in venture capital to automate airport cargo operations through artificial intelligence (AI). In hopes to "revolutionise the aviation industry", the company said that with the funding it is ready to address the industry's "operational inefficiencies". Th...

OPINION: Web3 efficiencies abound for aviation

OPINION: Web3 efficiencies abound for aviation

In an ever-changing world, airports have long been the vital connectors of our globalised society. However, today's airports are facing a unique set of challenges that demand innovative solutions and steadfast resilience - from heightened security concerns, to labour and equipment shortages, to all-...

DHL modernises Frankfurt Airport operations with new air freight centre

DHL modernises Frankfurt Airport operations with new air freight centre

DHL Global Forwarding and Fraport today officially began construction of a new air freight centre at Frankfurt Airport to expand and modernise its operations. Tobias Schmidt, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Europe, and Anke Giesen, Fraport's executive director for retail and real estate, led the cer...

Fraport and DAKOSY partner up to establish new, digital cargo community system

Fraport and software provider DAKOSY have announced a new joint venture to establish, operate and develop its Cargo Community System for air freight transport. The coalition will further develop with 'allivate', a platform which aims to digitalise air cargo processes both at Frankfurt Airport and...

Gatwick Airport sign

Gatwick and Heathrow airports found to have RAAC concrete

RAAC has been found onsite at Gatwick and Heathrow airports, amid the school concrete crisis. Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), which is estimated to have a lifespan around 30 years, is less durable than traditional concrete and has been used in the construction of public sector buil...

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