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Fresh organic produce shipped by air could soon be the next target of the environmental campaigners. As if the debate over carbon emissions weren't enough, airlines could soon face a challenge over their organic footprint amid calls to virtually ban the shipment of all air shipments of organic produce. The startling move comes from the United Kingdom's Soil Association, the country's leading campaigner and certification organization for organic food and farming. It verifies the organic credentials of 70 percent of the UK's $4 billion organic produce market, with most imported produce coming into the country from Africa and South America....

Standing at the head of the runway at Memphis International Airport at two o'clock in the morning, it's impossible not to be impressed. Planes roar overhead at a rate of one every 90 seconds. The night sky is filled with a perfect line of lights as an almost military formation of planes dip towards the tarmac ready to disgorge their cargo from all over America, Europe and the world. Fedex Fedex has developed into a $30billion corporation You can almost hear The Ride of the Valkyries.

The early, and somewhat unexpected, success of the Airbus A380F freighter program could prompt a major rethinking of the way the cargo aircraft market, estimated to be worth around $ 130 billion over the next 20 years, will develop. There is one area where Airbus and Boeing broadly agree: At current rates of growth, the world will need around 725 new all-cargo aircraft by 2023. Both companies also agree that widebody aircraft will represent about 60% of the all-freighter fleet by 2022, and only disagree slightly on how this number will be reached -- with Boeing suggesting more passenger-to-freighter conversions,...

CNBC reported that a Fed Ex plane crashed in Memphis, Tennessee... then returned a few minutes later reporting that there was no crash, but an engine on fire.

Federal agents say they are investigating how a man succeeded in stowing away in a cargo plane on a flight from New York to Dallas by shipping himself in a wooden crate. After hours of traveling, Charles McKinley, 25, of New York City, pried open the crate with a crowbar Saturday morning, authorities said. He popped up outside his parents' doorstep in suburban DeSoto, shook the hand of a shocked deliveryman and walked away, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday. The deliveryman called DeSoto police, who arrested him on outstanding Texas warrants. McKinley has not been charged with a crime,...