All Business Articles – Page 86
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The bear necessities
READING my esteemed colleague Thelma Etim’s informative round-up of the latest animals-by-air innovations in this issue (see pages 10 and 11 of Air Cargo News 17 June 2013 - Issue No 754) got me to wondering if whether, anytime soon, humans might be treated with as much respect and dignity ...
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This airfr(e)ight business
CARGO used to be a dirty word in the airline industry.Not so long ago, well before today’s belated introduction of paperless transactions, and the recognition by planemakers that belly capacity is actually an important contributor to the economics of flying expensive aircraft around the world, airfreight departments were the unheralded, ...
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Its a doddle doing this job..
SEPTEMBER is going to be an unbelievably busy month for me and my editorial colleagues at Air Cargo News.If you thought that being a journalist consisted of lounging at a bar, eavesdropping some salacious gossip, and regurgitating mundane press releases, then think again.Firstly, I’m off to Hong Kong for a ...
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How DIMwits measure up
YOU don’t need to be a mathematician to be an airfreight forwarder, but it helps.Forwarding is clearly for DIMwits, because calculating the chargeable ‘dimensional’ weight – the DIM factor of any individual shipment – can be a complex affair and usually makes the difference between profit and loss.Over many years, ...
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Find a niche..raise quality
NICHE market exploitation is the name of the game right now. With reducing amounts of general air cargo about, sharp organisations are looking instead for yield-retention opportunities.Not for them the horizontal, pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap business model redolent of the past three decades.Over a number of years, some of these clever operators ...
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One marriage made in heaven
THE announcement that Lufthansa Cargo and Chapman Freeborn Airchartering are to work closely together in a unique marketing and operational alliance is of particular interest.In the air cargo business, it’s not often that one can exclaim: ‘Now THAT makes sense’.Although vastly different organisations, both companies share some of the same ...
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Air cargo faces a sex change
HAVE you noticed that women are – at last – making a significant invasion of the upper ecehelons of air cargo management.In this past 12 months, we have been delighted to report the appointments of around a dozen or so women into senior air cargo-related roles, all around the world ...
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Comment
WAS it naïve to think airlines, shippers and forwarders could come together in the spirit of co-operation and right the industry in one jolly fellowship?Over a year on from the birth of GACAG and at the World Cargo Symposium in March, held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), the delegates – voting ...