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How to survive the air cargo Christmas party
HERE’S a warning about the seasonal dangers, which can leave air cargo managers with a nasty financial hangover –long after the decorations have been taken down.The festive period poses a number of risks, ranging from health and safety issues to selective or group amnesia.According to research, with their mix of ...
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Can Tiaca make Seoul music?
THE 27th Air Cargo Forum and Exhibition is planned for October (7-9) this year, hosted by Seoul’s Incheon Airport.Good luck to organiser TIACA which, on its website, modestly describes the beanfeast as ‘the world’s largest and most prestigious air cargo event of its kind’.It will be the 27th time that ...
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Lufthansa Cargo offers customers global real-time tracking
CUSTOMERS of Lufthansa Cargo can now pay for global real-time tracking of their shipments.With the use of GSM transponders, they are able to check online where any consignment is at all times.The carrier is offering its customers “maximum transparency and precise, real-time consignment tracking,” says a spokesperson.The devices have been ...
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Cargo Champion – Essa Al-Saleh
IN THE corridors of power, humility is often in short supply. This is primarily because of the misconceptions many people harbour about how to succeed in life, and what it takes to maintain this favourable outcome.Unfortunately, history shows humbleness is routinely sacrificed in favour of aggression, dehumanisation and superciliousness.Essa Al-Saleh’s ...
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Cargo Champion – Danita Waterfall-Brizzi
IT MAY be one of the oldest, most overused proverbs: If you don’t succeed, try, try again. But it does actually work. Success leaves clues and one of them is that perseverance is essential fuel for lofty ambitions.If you are still in doubt, ask Danita Waterfall-Brizzi, director of cargo sales ...
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30 years of air cargo insights
NIGEL TOMKINS learned a useful lesson at Heathrow Airport in the 1970s. As a young newspaper reporter, his job was to talk to celebrities and leading figures as they arrived at the airport and get whatever news stories out of them he could.“On a typical day I’d have the Rolling ...
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Regulators consider advanced air cargo data law
REGULATORY agencies are proposing new draft laws to step up the submission of customs information for all air cargo shipments well in advance of aircraft departures.This house airwaybill level information will be used to calculate potential security risk, with corresponding screening and relevant regulatory messages sent to the carrier/forwarder.TIACA’s secretary ...
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Air cargo will remain stagnant in 2014, says IATA
AIR CARGO revenues are expected to be US$60bn this year and in 2014 – unchanged from 2007 levels, reveals IATA’s Global Economic Outlook.The revenues have been made worse by the belly capacity arriving from the improving passenger business, which is adding to the downward pressure on cargo yields, the report ...
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The rise and rise of air cargo apps
SMARTPHONE and tablet apps are becoming must-have business tools for the air cargo industry.Their use for tracking shipment progress has advanced considerably, Air Cargo News research has discovered.With hand-held devices, customers can check the status of their shipments anytime, anywhere.Typical of recent developments is the release of a new version ...
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Online purchases drive China’s express market hike
THE warnings from those pessimists who spotted a structural downturn in China’s slowdown apparently failed to reach the country’s consumers or the carriers who are looking to deliver their purchases.The express market in China has expanded at a blistering pace, driven largely by on-line shopping, writes Ian Putzger.Purchases over the ...
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AIA launches track-and-trace app
GENERAL sales agency Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) has launched an air cargo track-and-trace mobile app.The software allows customers to check the status of their shipments 24/7, a statement from the UK-based company says.“We know our clients need to track a shipment late at night or in the early hours [of ...
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Four B777 long-range freighters for Ethiopian
ETHIOPIAN Airlines has ordered four new B777-200 long-range freighters.The carrier, Africa’s largest cargo operator, with a network covering 24 destinations in Asia, Europe, Africa and Middle East, has agreed a financing arrangement, so that the aircraft will be delivered between the autumn of this year and winter 2015."We are phasing-in ...
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Descartes acquires Impatex
GLOBAL logistics technology solutions-provider Descartes Systems has acquired Impatex, one of the UK’s largest customs and freight forwarding software companies.Founded in the early 1980s by husband and wife team Peter and Sue Day, the company’s iCE (Integrated Customs for Europe) processing system services major players including Agility, CEVA, Damco, DHL, ...
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Swissport, Servisair merger agreed
GROUND handler Swissport has formally acquired competitor Servisair, having secured appropriate financing for the acquisition by issuing and successfully pricing a US$390 million senior secured add-on note.The acquisition has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to merger clearance by the competent ...
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PACTL celebrates record air cargo month
SHANGHAI Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal Co (PACTL) has given a boost to air cargo by recording its most successful month ever.In November, the Sino-German entity saw its tonnage soar by 10.96 per cent year-on-year to 129,363 tonnes – beating its previous record set back in October 2010.The cargo terminal’s ...
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South African Airways funds Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund quiz
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) has joined forces with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund to offer a free trip to visit three locations, which featured in the film epic about his life.The Walk to Freedom competition to win a seven-night holiday in Mandela’s homeland celebrates the upcoming release of Mandela: Long ...
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IAG Cargo boosts B747-8 freighters to Hong Kong
IAG CARGO is expanding its operations in the Asia Pacific region with the introduction of an additional B747-8 freighter service into Hong Kong.The move increases the carrier’s schedule to six freighter flights a week into the territory.Steve Gunning, managing director at IAG Cargo, emphasises that Hong Kong remains “an incredibly ...
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Cathay Pacific to relocate freighter operations to DWC
CATHAY PACIFIC is to relocate its freighter operations from Dubai International to new airport Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC) from February.Dubai is Cathay’s transit hub for its European destinations of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Paris and Milan.The Hong Kong airline currently operates seven weekly freighter services and ...
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Cargo Champion – Magnus Ohlin
PASSION, like enthusiasm and charisma, is unmistakable. Either one possesses it, or not. A person may be able to ‘fake it’ but, inevitably, the façade will slip, revealing his or her true feelings.Equally one knows when one is in the midst of its intoxication. How many times have you found ...
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Agility's flexible business model
IF YOU WANT to know why big hub airports continue to thrive in the air cargo business, you could do worse than study the new 6,300-sq m airfreight hub that Agility Logistics opened in Frankfurt airport’s CargoCity South at the start of April.It was aimed initially at Asian manufacturers – ...