Peter Conway INTERVIEWS...
Dieter Haltmayer
The founder of German forwarder Quick Cargo Service has seen a lot in a career in air cargo spanning 56 years. But why, he wonders, do airlines seem to prefer putting up surcharges to raising freight rates these days?
ANYONE who has started an air cargo business in the past year or so and is now struggling with the global economic climate can take heart from the story of Dieter Haltmayer. The founder and managing director of German forwarder Quick Cargo Service, who was given a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Cargo Airline of the Year awards, remembers that he started his business at a similarly bad time, in June 1974.
A massive global downturn was underway, the worst air cargo ever experienced until the crisis of 1998-9. “For the first year I worked for almost no income,” he remembers. “Lots of people promised me German...read more