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Munich Airport's virtuous circle
If you want evidence that it is still possible for European airports to capture new freighter business, look no further than Munich.The south German airport saw a growth of 9.5% to 236,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2015, with maindeck cargo being the overwhelming — but not the ...
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Ashwin Bhat: Swiss WorldCargo looking to preserve the premium
It can be tough to take over from a high profile figure, as Ashwin Bhat has done in succeeding Oliver Evans as head of cargo at Swiss. But Bhat is no stranger to the organisation he is now leading and nor has he played a minor part in its strategy ...
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Luc Nadal: GEFCO's purchase of IJS not just a takeover
The news in September that French logistics company GEFCO was buying Dutch freight forwarder IJS Global might have surprised those with a knowledge of air cargo history.After all, IJS was created back in 2004 with the aim of creating AEI mark two — a new version of the legendary US-based ...
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Air charterer to the stars
Air Charter Service has moved its Los Angeles operations to new, larger premises on Santa Monica Boulevard.Director of ACS California, Thomas Howe, said it followed a record year for both the company and the LA office, with impressive growth in both the number of charters and revenue in 2015.He ...
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Dan March: How WCA is backing the independents
Just keeping up with all the activities of WCA can leave one a little dizzy. Its founder and outright owner David Yokeum has spent two decades relentlessly travelling the world and creating not one but four different global networks for independent forwarders, and six specialist ones.He has now stepped back ...
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Boeing's Jim Edgar - the history man
Jim Edgar, who retired as regional director marketing, commercial airplanes for Boeing in December after an air transport career of 45 years, seems to have had a knack of being present at historic moments.A self-confessed aviation geek, he first got the whiff of jet fuel straight after leaving high school, ...
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Schiphol's Jonas van Stekelenburg: Only connect
When you are already one of the world’s busiest cargo airports, and arguably the one best known throughout the industry for its innovation and thought leadership, where do you go next? That is the challenge for Jonas van Stekelenburg, who took over as cargo director of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on ...
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Preetham Philip: Quikjet's need for speed
India-based all-cargo carrier Quikjet Cargo Airlines certainly seems to be a big believer in the theory that slow and steady wins the race.Plans to launch the airline were first revealed in 2007 and although some flights were flown using an ATR-72F in the intermittent period, it took nine years before ...
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Lars Droog: TIACA's shipper committee chairman says we need to talk
A lot is said in the air cargo industry about the importance of understanding shippers’ needs, but how closely have they actually been listened to?Not closely enough, according to TIACA, which has set up a new Shippers’ Advisory Committee to “review all elements of the supply chain in order to ...
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AF-KLM's Bram Gräber says premium products won’t save you
The strong air cargo growth of the three decades to 2008 will not return and premium products are not going to save airlines from margin pressure.These are the conclusions of Bram Gräber, executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo, as he prepares to quit the airfreight business for a job ...
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Naomi Landman: Pharma game changers
All specialist product areas have their particular regulations and jargon, but they seem to proliferate in pharmaceuticals more than in any other sector.Naomi Landman, director commercial development for IJS Global GEFCO, says the current hot topic is serialisation. These are rules that say that each pharmaceutical package has to have ...
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Nick Platts: Heathrow’s man with a plan
Heathrow Airport’s cargo chief, Nick Platts, is experienced in rescuing “errant English-men” from his ten years as a Southern Ocean maritime patrol pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force.Rather than chasing submarines or rescuing yachtsmen, Platts is now on a ten year mission to make Heathrow the “preferred transatlantic gateway” ...
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AMI's Sharon Wright: The benefits of neutrality
Various ways have been suggested over the years to give small to medium forwarders the tools to compete with the larger players.One that has been a big success in the UK market — and which is spreading its model globally — turns 40 this year.AMI these days stands for Air ...
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Cindy Miller: UPS forwarding and supply chain are pulling together
When UPS acquired Fritz in 2001 and then Menlo, which had itself absorbed the mighty Emery Worldwide, in 2004, there was much speculation about what the combination of a global integrator and a global freight forwarding operation would mean.The pundits talked about a business that could provide every logistics and ...
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Germany's BARIG, speaking up for air cargo
BARIG has been speaking for Germany’s airlines for 65 years – and cargo is a key part of its role, as Ivan Santoro and Michael Hoppe tell Peter Conway.Europe’s biggest national airline association turned 65 on June 8, with a celebration attended by 250 representatives from air traffic control, cargo ...
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Dirk Schusdziara: Frankfurt Airport, a dedicated voice for cargo
Frankfurt Airport once more has a cargo manager, Dirk Schusdziara, whose title is senior vice president cargo at the airport’s owners, Fraport. The company might bridle at the idea that there was a period when it didn’t take cargo as seriously as it might, but certainly for some years it ...
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Frantz Wallenborn: A trucker in the fast lane
Wallenborn is a well-known name in European road feeder services (RFS), but president and chief executive Frantz Wallenborn had a youngster’s enthusiasm for a speedier form of transport than the family business could offer.“As a boy I always loved cars, especially fast ones. Engines in general fascinated me. Trucks, however, ...
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Tony Wright of Exelsius: The way ahead for pharma
What standards should be applied to ground handlers when it comes to pharmaceutical traffic and how should they be measured? What do shippers really want in this respect? And how can investment in facilities and procedures to handle pharmaceutical shipments be supported and encouraged?These are just some of the themes ...
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Steven Verhasselt: Liege Airport has room for freighters
You might think that in this day and age the exciting growth prospects in cargo are in bellyhold. All those widebody passenger planes with enough hold space to carry a car.But Liège in Belgium is proof that it is still possible for a dedicated freighter airport to thrive. In the ...
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Airlink’s Steven Smith: How airlines can save lives
Be it either Ebola or an earthquake, the aviation industry is always ready to help, providing charitable logistical support by flying rescue workers or humanitarian aid to the disaster zone. That’s where Airlink comes in.Airlink is a non-profit rapid-response organiser partnering with 35 airlines and more than 60 non-governmental organisations ...