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Nick Platts: Heathrow’s man with a plan
Heathrow Airport’s cargo chief, Nick Platts, is experienced in rescuing “errant English-men” from his ten years as a Southern Ocean maritime patrol pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force.Rather than chasing submarines or rescuing yachtsmen, Platts is now on a ten year mission to make Heathrow the “preferred transatlantic gateway” ...
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AMI's Sharon Wright: The benefits of neutrality
Various ways have been suggested over the years to give small to medium forwarders the tools to compete with the larger players.One that has been a big success in the UK market — and which is spreading its model globally — turns 40 this year.AMI these days stands for Air ...
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Cindy Miller: UPS forwarding and supply chain are pulling together
When UPS acquired Fritz in 2001 and then Menlo, which had itself absorbed the mighty Emery Worldwide, in 2004, there was much speculation about what the combination of a global integrator and a global freight forwarding operation would mean.The pundits talked about a business that could provide every logistics and ...
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Germany's BARIG, speaking up for air cargo
BARIG has been speaking for Germany’s airlines for 65 years – and cargo is a key part of its role, as Ivan Santoro and Michael Hoppe tell Peter Conway.Europe’s biggest national airline association turned 65 on June 8, with a celebration attended by 250 representatives from air traffic control, cargo ...
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Dirk Schusdziara: Frankfurt Airport, a dedicated voice for cargo
Frankfurt Airport once more has a cargo manager, Dirk Schusdziara, whose title is senior vice president cargo at the airport’s owners, Fraport. The company might bridle at the idea that there was a period when it didn’t take cargo as seriously as it might, but certainly for some years it ...
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Frantz Wallenborn: A trucker in the fast lane
Wallenborn is a well-known name in European road feeder services (RFS), but president and chief executive Frantz Wallenborn had a youngster’s enthusiasm for a speedier form of transport than the family business could offer.“As a boy I always loved cars, especially fast ones. Engines in general fascinated me. Trucks, however, ...
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Tony Wright of Exelsius: The way ahead for pharma
What standards should be applied to ground handlers when it comes to pharmaceutical traffic and how should they be measured? What do shippers really want in this respect? And how can investment in facilities and procedures to handle pharmaceutical shipments be supported and encouraged?These are just some of the themes ...
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Steven Verhasselt: Liege Airport has room for freighters
You might think that in this day and age the exciting growth prospects in cargo are in bellyhold. All those widebody passenger planes with enough hold space to carry a car.But Liège in Belgium is proof that it is still possible for a dedicated freighter airport to thrive. In the ...
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Airlink’s Steven Smith: How airlines can save lives
Be it either Ebola or an earthquake, the aviation industry is always ready to help, providing charitable logistical support by flying rescue workers or humanitarian aid to the disaster zone. That’s where Airlink comes in.Airlink is a non-profit rapid-response organiser partnering with 35 airlines and more than 60 non-governmental organisations ...
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Virgin Atlantic's Steve Buckerfield - Like father, like son
A young Steve Buckerfield sampled his first taste of the air cargo business when his father Chris took him to the Seaboard World Airlines offices at Heathrow on a Saturday morning.Those first glances of a glistening Boeing 747 freighter on the tarmac and playing with the telex paper tape in ...
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WFS' Craig Smyth, back from the garden
It has been two years since Craig Smyth left his position as boss of ground handler Menzies Aviation.During his 22 year tenure at the company he played a big role in Menzies’ growth to become one of the largest aviation businesses in the world, so he is a man used ...
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Lars Syberg: Cargolux, airfreight’s flexible friend
Lars Syberg, a former freight forwarder and pharma shipper, has made a further shift within the supply chain as the new executive vice president of global logistics at Cargolux, the European all-freighter carrier.Danish-born Syberg, who has an MBA, also worked for Flying Tiger, not the famous and now defunct US-based ...
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Richard Forson: Cargolux, a new model airline
Cargolux’s new president and chief executive has commissioned a strategic review of the European all-cargo airline, to establish whether the current business model is sustainable and also to position the carrier for the twist and turns of a volatile industry.Richard Forson, who took on the role in August this year ...
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Drew Crawley: Sofa so good for IAG
When you change jobs it can sometimes take a while to settle into life at a new company.One thing helping IAG Cargo’s recently appointed chief executive Drew Crawley feel a bit more at home in his new office is a giant blue sofa.He explains that his wife was arranging to ...
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Vladimir Zubkov of TIACA
Co-operation is a word that is bandied around a lot in the cargo transport arena, perhaps because there are so many different parties involved in the industry, each with varying priorities.It is therefore unsurprising that the new secretary general of TIACA − an organisation that was created to bring together ...
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David Kerr - Etihad Cargo strikes a balanced approach
David Kerr runs a $1bn cargo business at Etihad Airways but grimaces at the phrase “billion-dollar man”, emphasising instead the teamwork behind the success.Interviewed against the backdrop of IATA’s World Cargo Symposium (WCS) in Etihad’s home hub of Abu Dhabi, there was plenty to discuss: digitisation, disruptors, protectionism and a ...
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Flydubai renews with Mercator
Flydubai has renewed its contract with Mercator to provide a cargo platform for the end-to-end management of air cargo operations and cargo revenue accounting.The seven-year contract extension expands on the existing platform as flydubai will also have access to Mercator's Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem.This is an open API portfolio of air ...
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Halifax has doubts over sell-off plan
Halifax International Airport processed, 33,329 tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 4.1% over 2015, the airport total its annual public meeting on 11 May.New services included Qatar Airways Cargo’s weekly flight to Doha and a second weekly service by Korean Air Cargo to Seoul, South Korea. Much of the cargo ...
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Noise fines trigger Brussels freighter exodus
Noise fines imposed on carriers by the Brussels Capital Region are beginning to drive all-cargo airlines away, complains Brussels Airport.After the departure of Yangtze River Express in February this year, full-freighter operator Air Cargo Global has sent written confirming that it is stopping all its activities at Brussels Airport because ...
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Agility settles US government military supply contract case
Logistics firm Agility has now fully settled criminal and civil cases over allegations it defrauded the US government on a military supply contract.In the criminal portion of the case, Agility announced earlier that it has agreed to plead to a misdemeanor in connection with a single invoice valued at $551.In ...