Air Cargo World articles from August 2004

Air Cargo World archives from August 2004

Recovery.(Editor's Note)(Dell Computers)
August 1, 2004... Did you miss it? The recovery, that is. The latest reports on the American economy bear out what you already knew: that business is cyclical and that positive trends were bound to turn in another direction. Last month's report that retail...

Investing in America.(News Updates)
August 1, 2004... DHL is not entering the U.S. market lightly. From sponsoring the United States Olympic team to launching a full-scale advertising blitz on American television, the logistics giant is putting out the word that it is a viable third alternative to...

Korean converts.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Asian appear eager carriers to add freighter capacity and older passenger aircraft may be the ticket. Korean Air recently became the latest Far East airline to announce a planned ramp-up in freighter capacity, ordering kits from Boeing to...

ACI changing.(News Updates)(Air Cargo Inc. )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Air Cargo Inc. says it's unconcerned by the recent defection of Towne Air Freight from its linehaul trucking network and plans to continue developing and employing new ways of doing business. Once owned by U.S. scheduled airlines, ACI is...

BA freighters.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... British Airways World Cargo, not long ago merely a dabbler in the freighter market, now appears set to make freighter operations a major component of its cargo network. The carrier added a fourth freighter to its fleet last month and announced...

Siberian hub.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Russia's Volga-Dnepr, the heavy lift specialist airline that recently entered the scheduled cargo arena with the launch of subsidiary Air Bridge Cargo, continues to look for new transit points in its home country. Believing that Russia's vast...

Dragonair Grows.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Dragonair took delivery last month of its fifth freighter, a 747-200 with the capacity to carry 110 tonnes of cargo. The Hong Kong-based airline, which is embarking on an aggressive expansion of its cargo operations, already owns three 747-300...

Streaking FedEx: an expanded portfolio, leaner cost structure and recovering economy have an already dominant company eyeing continued growth.(North America)(Company Profile)
August 1, 2004... There were plenty of skeptics of FedEx founder Frederick Smith's vision of a large-scale overnight express delivery business back in 1971 when the company was launched in Memphis, Tenn. As a business student at Yale, Smith famously received a...

FedEx.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... A federal appeals court denied a request by FedEx for a review of the Department of Transportation's formula for allocating revenue relief for September 11-related losses, with a judge noting that after the terror attacks "some cargo carriers...

Indianapolis Airport Authority.(raises landing fees)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Indianapolis Airport Authority proposed a new rate structure for airlines that would raise landing fees for cargo and passenger carriers by 33 percent while cutting some other fees for passenger operators....

Pilot Air Freight.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Pilot Air Freight moved into a larger facility in Boston, where the forwarder said its revenue grew 24 percent in the first quarter....

TNT Logistics.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... TNT Logistics expanded its home delivery network for retailer Sears, adding locations in Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

Gulf swing: Gulf Air's cargo restructuring could include taking another shot at freighter operations.(Europe)(Company Profile)
August 1, 2004... Bahrain's Gulf Air appears to have turned its finances around, in no small part due to the carrier's Australian-born Chief executive, the former bmi british midland CEO James Hogan. The first non-Gulf national to run the airline, Hogan restored...

TNT noise.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Noise from night flights is a contentious issue at a number of European hubs, with environmentalists and sleep-deprived airport neighbors often asking legal authorities to provide relief. Some 750 families living near Liege Airport in Belgium...

Swiss forwarder Panalpina acquired Aberdeen, Scotland-based Grampian International Freight.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Swiss forwarder Panalpina acquired Aberdeen, Scotland-based Grampian International Freight, extending Panalpina's reach in its oil and gas specialty business....

Instoneair.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Instoneair, a specialist freighter operator, has based an AN-74 convertible freighter at Ireland's Shannon Airport to make it available for livestock and other freight charters....

Frankfurt Airport.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Freight tonnage at Frankfurt Airport jumped 18.2 percent in May and was up 10.9 percent through the first five months of 2004....

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is to open a truck parking area at Southeast Schiphol with room for 150 trucks for regular cargo users at the airport....

Cargo traffic at London Stansted Airport jumped 19.8 percent in May and was up 16.9 percent for the first half of 2004.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cargo traffic at London Stansted Airport jumped 19.8 percent in May and was up 16.9 percent for the first half of 2004. Cargo at London Heathrow was up 8.2 percent in the same six-month period....

As part of its noise mitigation efforts, the UK's Manchester Airport gave China Airlines its top environmental "Skyliner" award.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... As part of its noise mitigation efforts, the UK's Manchester Airport gave China Airlines its top environmental "Skyliner" award for setting a record in which the carrier stayed entirely within its takeoff and landing routings in 2003 for all...

UPS.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... UPS began deploying wireless technologies to package facilities and drivers in Europe to enable customers to access up-to-the-minute tracking information....

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cargo growth traffic at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol accelerated, increasing 10.8 percent in May compared to the same month a year ago and growing 6.2 percent year-over-year in the first five months of 2004....

Spedpol and Schenker started work on a logistics center in Pyskowice.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Spedpol and Schenker started work on a logistics center in Pyskowice, near Katowice, Poland, that is to open in the third quarter next year....

EGSAC, the pan-European cargo general sales agent consortium.(Galaxy Air Services, Air Proxy)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... EGSAC, the pan-European cargo general sales agent consortium, signed Athens-based Galaxy Air Services to cover Greece and Tallin-based Air Proxy to cover Estonia....

Turkish airline Fly Air signed with Unitpool to outsource management of its aircraft containers.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Turkish airline Fly Air signed with Unitpool to outsource management of its aircraft containers, giving Switzerland-based contracts with 30 carriers for the outsourced ULD management services it launched in 2002....

Frankfurt Hahn Airport.(Cargo traffic)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cargo traffic at the industrial Frankfurt Hahn Airport soared 20.7 percent to 15,236 tonnes in the first five months of 2004....

Singapore Airlines.(Galaxy Air Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Singapore Airlines, which operates three-times weekly 777 passenger flights to Athens, named Galaxy Air Services as its cargo general sales agent for Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro....

TNT Logistics.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Xerox awarded TNT Logistics a three-year contract to manage the company's critical spare parts operation in the United Kingdom....

Cargo handler Swissport set up a joint venture with partners in Israel including CAL Cargo Airlines.(Ben Gurion International Airport)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cargo handler Swissport set up a joint venture with partners in Israel including CAL Cargo Airlines to build a freight facility in Tel Aviv and enter the closed handling market at Ben Gurion International Airport.

Singapore's assets: SIA Cargo's chief says freight carriers are selling themselves short in a world of expedited supply chains.(Pacific)(Singapore Airlines Cargo)
August 1, 2004... Hwang Teng Aun has no illusions about one of the most important sources of value within Singapore Airlines Cargo. The president of the Asian air freight giant looks past all the talk of wider issues pulling and pushing at the world's cargo...

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals said exports to Europe grew 31.2 percent in the second quarter, pushing the handler's overall tonnage in the quarter up 17.6 percent. The better than one million tonnes the company saw in the first six months of...

Qantas and Thai Air Cargo will work together with investment partner CTI Holdings on a joint venture freighter business.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Qantas and Thai Air Cargo will work together with investment partner CTI Holdings on a joint venture freighter business for intra-Asia that published reports in Australia said would launch with a leased aircraft and connect India, China and...

Expedited freight's ground game: experts believe domestic U.S. expedited cargo's shift to trucking is permanent.(Feature trends: trucking)
August 1, 2004... Driven by a need to cut costs in the harsh fiscal environment of the early 2000s, U.S. forwarders and shippers began moving domestic time-sensitive freight on the ground with increasing frequency. And while the economy may finally be on the...

Cargo's new gateways? Congestion at traditional U.S. west coast hubs could push international freighter traffic to secondary airports.(Feature focus: Western Airports)
August 1, 2004... Los Angeles and San Francisco are the U.S. west coast's star cities, favored vacation spots for international travelers and well known to businesses throughout the world. But are those cities' hub airports necessarily the most efficient transit...

Letter perfect: airlines continue to adjust to the U.S. Postal Service's new system for allocating domestic air mail.(Region focus: North America)
August 1, 2004... Mail was an oasis of stability for U.S. airlines for decades, as constant in volume as it was in price. But the U.S. Postal Service's change last year to a new system for allocating traffic has turned mail into a shifty lover that is always...

2005 Air Cargo World Forwarders Directory.(Directory)
August 1, 2004... Alabama BIRMINGHAM AIR FREIGHT 5335 Airport Hwy., Birmingham, AL 35212. Contact: Anita Craig, President. Phone: 205-591-2677. Fax: 205-591-2681. E-Mail: baftrucking@aol.com Services: Bonded Warehousing, Courier Delivery, Consolidation,...

2005 International Forwarders Directory.(Directory)
August 1, 2004... ARGENTINA CRISTOFERSEN INTERNACIONAL S.A. Maipu 812-7th Floor, Suite H, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina C1006ACL. Contact: Rodolfo E. Galiardi, GM. Phone: +54 1143 140 678. Fax: +54 1143 139 352. E-Mail: cristofersen@uolsinectis.com.ar....

Atlas Air Worlwide Holdings.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings: The parent of Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo promoted Wake Smith to the post of senior vice president and chief operating officer. Formerly Atlas's senior vice president of corporate planning and business...

Cargolux.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cargolux: The freight airline named Thomas Kaltnegger director of import/export services at the carrier's Luxembourg hub. Kaltnegger has been with Cargolux for 14 years and was country manager for Germany. Replacing him in Frankfurt is Klans...

British Airways World Cargo.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... British Airways World Cargo: The carrier appointed Steve Smith area manager for Africa, replacing David Shepherd, who became area manager for Europe. Smith has worked in revenue management and operations at BA, most recently as manager for...

BAX Global.(Integrators)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... BAX Global: The California-based heavyfreight and logistics operator named Marie Kroesen Connell manager of public relations. In the newly-created position, she will head public relations and media relations throughout the world for BAX. She...

Consolidators International.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Consolidators International: The Los Angeles-based wholesaler of air freight services promoted Peter Lamy to president. An 11-year veteran of the company, Lamy had directed operations since it was founded. Before that, he worked at all-cargo...

Pilot Air Freight.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Pilot Air Freight: The transportation and logistics services provider named Robert Bockenfeld national account manager for the southern region. Bockenfeld will be based in Dallas, serving as account manager for businesses in cities including...

SEKO Worldwide.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... SEKO Worldwide: The Illinois-based freight forwarder named Marva Washburn vice president of international business development. She will be responsible for sales training for SEKO representatives, as well as managing bids for customer export...

Pacific CMA.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Pacific CMA: The New York-based freight forwarder hired Bill Stangland chief financial officer. A 30-year industry veteran, Stangland had been controller of Air-Sea Forwarders. He worked before that for British Air Ferries and at Flying Tiger...

GAC Group.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... GAC Group: The Dubai-based global logistics operator named Stuart Bowie managing director for its operations in Hong Kong. A native of Scotland, Bowie had been regional logistics manager for GAC in Dubai. Be fore that, the 20-year industry...

TT Club.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... TT Club: The transport insurance firm appointed Andrew Webster as its London-based director of loss prevention, replacing John Nicholls, who retired. A veteran of cargo insurance and a former shipbroker with experience in Geneva and Singapore,...

Eagle Global Logistics.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Eagle Global Logistics: The forwarder hired Mark Malambri as vice president of global ocean services. Malambri, 46, had held several senior positions during 22 years at Maersk and Maersk Sealand. He was recently president of Maersk Customs...

Pacer International.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Pacer International: The logistics and freight transportation provider named 27-year industry veteran Kent Prokop president of its warehousing and distribution unit. Prokop had been vice president of air affiliated unit, Pacer Cartage, for five...

IAM.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... IAM: The Dublin-based aviation services group promoted Ray Dermody to operations director of the group's air freight hauling arm, International Trucking Consolidators, which was launched in 1996 to provide express road feeders to and from the...

Aerospace Composite Structures.(Manufacturers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Aerospace Composite Structures: The unit of the Aerobox container manufacturing operation named a new marketing team aimed at building sales of tire company's line of lightweight unit load devices and in a new line of refrigerated transport...

Kansas City International.(Airports)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Kansas City International: The Kansas City Aviation Department hired Mark VanLoh as director of aviation. VanLoh is the former commissioner of airports for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, where he oversaw development and construction...

AMB Property.(Ground Handling)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... AMB Property: The San Francisco-based developer and manager of logistics facilities named Arthur Tielens regional manager for Europe. Tielens had been a senior assets manager at a European logistics fund, Celogix, where he specialized in...

Events.(Calendar)
August 1, 2004... Sept. 14-17 Bilbao, Spain: International Air Cargo Forum, at the Eskalduna Conference Center, the bi-annual edition of the world's largest air cargo industry event basks in the Iberian countryside. For information, call (786) 265-7011 or...

The bottom line.(Illustration)
August 1, 2004... Getoutahere Ten fastest growing air export markets from New York Customs District Region, January-May 2004 over 2003, among the 50 largest markets. * (in thousands of tonnes) 1. Czech Republic 583,291 83.2 2. Luxembourg...

Benchmarks: a new survey sheds light on forwarders, airlines and the contracts between them.(Forwarders Forum)
August 1, 2004... Earlier this year, a large commercial business with global trading interests that spends significantly on air freight logistics conducted an industry benchmarking survey of freight forwarders. The goal of the survey was to identify "best...