All IATA WCS articles – Page 2
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NewsVIDEO: The best of the IATA World Cargo Symposium
Join Air Cargo News as we look back at some of the key moments of the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) 2022.
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NewsVIDEO: Vienna Airport's Michal Zach on current air cargo challenges
The Air Cargo News video team spoke with Michal Zach, VP sales & finance, ground handling & cargo, Vienna Airport about current air cargo challenges.
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NewsVIDEO: IATA's Henk Mulder on digitalisation in air cargo
The Air Cargo News video team spoke with IATA head of digital cargo, Henk Mulder, about the industry’s ongoing digital drive.
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NewsIATA WCS: take action to drive change
Michael Steen (left) with Andres Bianchi (centre) and Brendan Sullivan. Photo: IATAThe take home message from the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) was clear – the industry has the tools to enact positive change but it must not hesitate.At the Closing Plenary of the conference, Michael Steen, cargo advisory ...
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VIDEO: dnata's Angus outlines air cargo's positive outlook
The Air Cargo News video team caught up with Stewart Angus of dnata at the recent IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) to find out his thoughts on current market conditions.
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NewsMore to come from air cargo booking portals
Online booking portals still have many “exciting years of growth” ahead of them despite their rapid emergence over the last couple of years.On an IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) digitalisation panel chaired by Christopher Shawdon, head of business development, CHAMP Cargosystems, speakers agreed that booking portals had experienced rapid growth ...
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NewsVIDEO: Schiphol's van Hemert on challenging market conditions
The Air Cargo News video team caught up with Anne Marie van Hemert, head of aviation business development, Schiphol Airport, as she highlighted the challenging market conditions faced by the airfreight industry in the first part of this year.
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NewsEmirates SkyCargo and United Cargo sign cargo interline and block space MoU
Emirates SkyCargo and United Cargo have signed an MOU. Photo: EmiratesEmirates SkyCargo and United Cargo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work closely on issues including expanding cargo interline options and block space agreements, pending regulatory approvals.Signed at the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS), the MoU will build ...
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NewsFlexible decarbonisation solutions aid smart sustainability in air cargo
The panelists with moderator Robert Fordree, executive vice president - cargo, Menzies AviationPowering operations and machinery that will increasingly rely on electricity as a fuel source is one of the biggest decarbonisation challenges facing the air cargo industry, according to an industry sustainability expert.The electric grid isn’t sufficient to accommodate ...
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NewsVIDEO: VRR outlines its new collapsible container
VRR has launched what is believed to be the world’s first fully collapsible AAX container to better manage ULD imbalances at this year’s IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS). The collapsible AAX ULD can be folded and stacked to enable ULD managers to store or reposition them where ...
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NewsVIDEO: IATA's Brendan Sullivan on air cargo's key challenges
The Air Cargo News team caught up with IATA global head of cargo Brendan Sullivan to discuss the importance of this year’s World Cargo Symposium and also to find out a bit more about how the association is tackling key industry challenges.
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NewsVIDEO: AFA expects air cargo capacity challenges to continue
Brandon Fried, executive director, Airforwarders Association, tells Air Cargo News that capacity challenges in air cargo are set to be around for a while longer.
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NewsAir cargo needs to adapt to changing customer demands
Source: IATAAir cargo should leverage technology to help it to adapt to growing customer demand for complete logistics solutions.Speaking at the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS), Ashok Rajan senior vice president, global head, cargo and logistics solutions at IBS Software, said that over the last couple of years shippers have ...
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NewsHas air cargo's digital drive accelerated fast enough?
Source: IATAThe adoption of digitalisation has accelerated during the past two years, but this isn't too much of a surprise given the slow progress prior to the pandemic.Speaking on an IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) digitalisation panel chaired by Deloitte Canada global air cargo and logistics leader Dejan Markovic, panelists ...
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NewsClosing the sustainability knowledge gap in air cargo
Innovating to achieve net zero panel at the IATA WCS. Photo: Rebecca JeffreyThere are huge divides in the understanding of sustainability and this is a barrier to progress in air cargo.Speaking during day two of the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS), CargoAI chief commercial officer Magali Beauregard said we need ...
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NewsIntegrated logistics adds efficiency and value for shippers
Integrated logistics panel at the IATA WCS. Photo: Rebecca JeffreyIntegrated logistics can play a key role in adding value and efficiency for shippers but airfreight and oceanfreight will remain "distinctly different", air cargo leaders have concluded.A panel discussion on day one of the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) discussed the ...
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NewsAir cargo not out of the eye of the storm yet
Marco Bloeman, managing director at Seabury Cargo, spoke about air cargo market dynamics at the IATA WCS. Photo: IATAAir cargo demand is softening as capacity is recovering, according to new analysis.Speaking at the 2022 IATA Word Cargo Symposium (WCS) opening plenary, Marco Bloeman, managing director at Seabury Cargo, said that ...
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Air cargo still benefiting from high cost of box shipping
Air cargo will continue to benefit from the narrowing of pricing compared with ocean shipping despite that difference coming down in recent months.Speaking on day one of the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS), IATA chief economist Marie Owens Thomsen pointed to statistics showing that the gap between ocean and airfreight ...
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NewsIATA: Air cargo is lagom – not too hot, not too cold
Source: IATAIATA chief economist Marie Owens Thomsen turned to her native language of Swedish when asked to outline the current state of the air cargo market, describing it as lagom – not too hot, not too cold.Speaking to the press after the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) opening, Thomsen said ...
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NewsIATA keynote: Harness air cargo’s value and invest
Source: IATAAir cargo has never been more valued and the industry must leverage this now to invest sustainably.This was the message from David Shepherd, managing director of IAG Cargo, in his keynote address at the start of the IATA World Cargo Symposium.“For too long we’ve heard the refrain in this ...
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