AIR, ocean and logistics company Panalpina made steady progress in 2013 – and expects the airfreight market to grow by…
March 21, 2015
Edging towards e-freight
21 / 03 / 2015
IF you have the idea that targets for the IATA e-freight programme keep slipping, you are not wrong. At the…
New cargo sales manager at Chartersphere
21 / 03 / 2015
GLOBAL aircraft charter provider Chartersphere, has promoted Nacho Carretero as is its new cargo sales manager. Spanish-speaking broker Carretero, who…
New senior vice-president of sales at Etihad
21 / 03 / 2015
ETIHAD AIRWAYS has appointed James Mueller as senior vice-president of sales. Mueller, who has more than 20 years experience in…
Asian e-commerce fuels UK firm’s growth
21 / 03 / 2015
UK-BASED Europa Worldwide Logistics has seen its Asian air cargo operations soar, fuelled by the continuing boom in e-commerce, especially…
New CEO at Dimerco
21 / 03 / 2015
TAIWAN-BASED global logistics service provider Dimerco Express Group has promoted Edward Lin as its new chief executive officer. He replaces…
New interim chief financial officer at Air Partner
21 / 03 / 2015
CHARTER broker Air Partner has promoted Neil Morris to the role of interim chief financial officer. Morris, who replaces Gavin…
‘Local hero’ forwarders can survive globalisation
21 / 03 / 2015
Not so long ago, the orthodoxy was that medium-sized forwarders based in a single country – so-called ‘local heroes’ –…
The cost of modal shift
21 / 03 / 2015
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual…
How air cargo can be green
21 / 03 / 2015
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design…
Columbia excites Canadian exporters
21 / 03 / 2015
THE NATION of Columbia is turning into a growing trade ally with Canada, with companies such as McCain Foods, Red…
SEKO opens shop to e-tail forwarding
21 / 03 / 2015
LIKE mid-sized forwarders, bricks-and-mortar retailers have been the subject of a host of obituaries, whose authors predict a world dominated…
Van de Weg joins Volga-Dnepr Group
21 / 03 / 2015
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo carrier, has appointed former key Cargolux executives Robert van de Weg and Peter van de Pas…
New CEO at Cargolux
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGO airline Cargolux has appointed former Kuehne + Nagel management board member Dirk Reich as its new chief executive. He…
Agility’s profits up
21 / 03 / 2015
AGILITY’s overall profits climbed 37 per cent to KD46.2m (US$164.09m) in 2013, despite revenue from its core Global Integrated Logistics…
LH Cargo extends Jan de Rijk contract
21 / 03 / 2015
LUFTHANSA Cargo has extended its road-feeder contract with ground transportation and distribution specialist Jan de Rijk Logistics. The extension is…
IATA cargo boss Des Vertannes stepping down in June
21 / 03 / 2015
DES VERTANNES, head of cargo at IATA, is retiring from his position in June. A universally popular and hard-working professional,…
AEI launches B737-800 conversion
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGO aircraft conversions specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has formally launched a passenger-to-freighter (12-pallet) and passenger-to-combi (five) programme for the…
DHL Global Forwarding to open Paris cargo warehouse
21 / 03 / 2015
DHL Global Forwarding (GF) has strengthened its presence at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport with the signing of a contract…
DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
21 / 03 / 2015
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design…