All specialist product areas have their particular regulations and jargon, but they seem to proliferate in pharmaceuticals more than in…
June 2017
Nick Platts: Heathrow’s man with a plan
19 / 06 / 2017
Heathrow Airport’s cargo chief, Nick Platts, is experienced in rescuing “errant English-men” from his ten years as a Southern Ocean…
AMI’s Sharon Wright: The benefits of neutrality
19 / 06 / 2017
Various ways have been suggested over the years to give small to medium forwarders the tools to compete with the…
Cindy Miller: UPS forwarding and supply chain are pulling together
19 / 06 / 2017
When UPS acquired Fritz in 2001 and then Menlo, which had itself absorbed the mighty Emery Worldwide, in 2004, there…
Germany’s BARIG, speaking up for air cargo
19 / 06 / 2017
BARIG has been speaking for Germany’s airlines for 65 years – and cargo is a key part of its role,…
Dirk Schusdziara: Frankfurt Airport, a dedicated voice for cargo
19 / 06 / 2017
Frankfurt Airport once more has a cargo manager, Dirk Schusdziara, whose title is senior vice president cargo at the airport’s…
Frantz Wallenborn: A trucker in the fast lane
19 / 06 / 2017
Wallenborn is a well-known name in European road feeder services (RFS), but president and chief executive Frantz Wallenborn had a…
Tony Wright of Exelsius: The way ahead for pharma
19 / 06 / 2017
What standards should be applied to ground handlers when it comes to pharmaceutical traffic and how should they be measured?…
Steven Verhasselt: Liege Airport has room for freighters
19 / 06 / 2017
You might think that in this day and age the exciting growth prospects in cargo are in bellyhold. All those…
Airlink’s Steven Smith: How airlines can save lives
19 / 06 / 2017
Be it either Ebola or an earthquake, the aviation industry is always ready to help, providing charitable logistical support by…
Virgin Atlantic’s Steve Buckerfield – Like father, like son
19 / 06 / 2017
A young Steve Buckerfield sampled his first taste of the air cargo business when his father Chris took him to…
WFS’ Craig Smyth, back from the garden
19 / 06 / 2017
It has been two years since Craig Smyth left his position as boss of ground handler Menzies Aviation. During his…
Lars Syberg: Cargolux, airfreight’s flexible friend
19 / 06 / 2017
Lars Syberg, a former freight forwarder and pharma shipper, has made a further shift within the supply chain as the…
Richard Forson: Cargolux, a new model airline
19 / 06 / 2017
Cargolux’s new president and chief executive has commissioned a strategic review of the European all-cargo airline, to establish whether the…
Drew Crawley: Sofa so good for IAG
19 / 06 / 2017
When you change jobs it can sometimes take a while to settle into life at a new company. One thing…
Vladimir Zubkov of TIACA
19 / 06 / 2017
Co-operation is a word that is bandied around a lot in the cargo transport arena, perhaps because there are so…
David Kerr – Etihad Cargo strikes a balanced approach
19 / 06 / 2017
David Kerr runs a $1bn cargo business at Etihad Airways but grimaces at the phrase “billion-dollar man”, emphasising instead the…
Flydubai renews with Mercator
19 / 06 / 2017
Flydubai has renewed its contract with Mercator to provide a cargo platform for the end-to-end management of air cargo operations…
Halifax has doubts over sell-off plan
19 / 06 / 2017
Halifax International Airport processed, 33,329 tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 4.1% over 2015, the airport total its annual public…
Noise fines trigger Brussels freighter exodus
19 / 06 / 2017
Noise fines imposed on carriers by the Brussels Capital Region are beginning to drive all-cargo airlines away, complains Brussels Airport….