Air Cargo World articles from August 2008

Air Cargo World archives from August 2008

Fleet Predictions.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Robert W. Moorman While several passenger airlines continue to downsize both planes and personnel, the air cargo business holds on. The cargo side has suffered failures. But the industry is showing marginal growth in some...

News Updates.
August 1, 2008... Airlines Shift on Surcharges With rising jet fuel prices and surcharges exacting a greater toll on air freight business, Air France-KLM is taking action on the fundamental structure of the surcharges. The cargo divisions at Air France...

FedEx Downshifts.(FedEx Express)
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Michael Fabey While harboring hopes the U.S. economy will turn around and fuel prices will start to level off, FedEx is positioning itself for what company officials say is an altered industry landscape. Frederick W. Smith,...

Carbon Admissions.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Roger Turney Just how big a carbon footprint does air cargo create and what can the industry do to lessen its impact on the environment? Long shrugged aside by industry executives, these questions are becoming increasingly...

Expressly Asian.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger After more than a decade of cohabitation, UPS assumed full control of its activities in Korea in June, acquiring partner Korea Express''s 40 percent share in the joint venture the pair had run since 1996. The...

Southern Cargo Exposure.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Michael Mackey Air cargo is developing in South America - albeit unevenly - despite myriad problems it faces. Chile''s LAN Cargo occupies the pole position at the moment where its'' emphasis is on further growth, having just...

Emerging Brazil.
August 1, 2008... Brazil is modernizing at a rapid pace and one result is that an increasingly competitive cargo sector is emerging. A new air services treaty between the United States and Brazil to allow cargo flights to nearly double within two years will...

Apres Trucking.
August 1, 2008... Sterling Transportation bills itself as a trucking link between Los Angeles and Miami but the real connection is to South America. "Ninety-five percent of our business feeds into Central and South America," said Sterling President Keith...

Shipping in the South.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Nicole Nelson Atlanta has all the offerings to make a shipper content. Within 1,000 miles of a very high percentage of the U.S. population, the Southeastern gateway has representation from all of the major modes, each with...

People.
August 1, 2008... Airlines Polar Air Cargo: The freighter operator promoted Ellen Murphy to sales manager for the U.S. Midwest and Canada. She has been with Pan Am, United Cargo and in freight forwarding during her career. She also is president of the...

Hedges.
August 1, 2008... BYLINE: Brandon Fried In the wake of the highest U.S. fuel prices on record, coupled with a slowing economy, it comes as no surprise that air freight forwarders are reporting an increase in shipper demand for lower priced deferred traffic....