Air Cargo World articles from July 2003

Air Cargo World archives from July 2003

Volumes. (Editor's Note).(United States Justice Department deals blow to International Air Transport Association's Resolution 502)
July 1, 2003... Shippers and air forwarders will be tempted to start on a victory lap after hearing that the United States Justice Department dealt a crippling blow to Resolution 502, the commercial airline industry's bid to amend the formula for measuring...

Service forward: The debate over forwarding's future misses a key element. (Commentary).(freight forwarders and customer relations)
July 1, 2003... The thesis put forward in the Ted Scherck's column in the April edition of Air Cargo World ("Forwarder Futures") regarding the future of forwarders versus that of the integrators was spot on except for one missing ingredient: personal customer...

Justice dims volume charges. (News Updates).(International Air Transportation Association)
July 1, 2003... The stormy effort by world commercial airlines to change the formula for volumetric cargo pricing is taking on new dimensions the air carriers never intended. The United States Justice Department dealt a lethal blow to the effort, recommending...

Green freight. (News Updates).(FedEx Express tests hybrid delivery trucks from Eaton Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... It may not be easy being green, but some freight transport operators say it just may be profitable. FedEx Express recently unveiled a prototype of a hybrid electric/ diesel delivery truck that the company says could become the standard...

Food freeze. (News Updates).(United States Food and Drug Administration consider advance notice requirement for food shipments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Air cargo carriers are hoping that expansive new requirements for prior notice of fruits, vegetables and other food coming into the United States are more perishable than the shipments themselves. In a fractious debate mirroring the U.S....

Getting share. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... One cargo industry investment analyst says tougher security requirements are behind some of the strong gains large forwarders are showing in their financial reports. Looking at an exceptionally strong quarter that suggests UTi Worldwide is...

Express wars. (News Updates).(FedEx and United Parcel Service's case with DHL)
July 1, 2003... The dispute over the citizenship of DHL's business in the United States is turning into a transportation soap opera being played out in heated legal hearings, unusually vitriolic papers and high-stakes lobbying in Congress aimed at settling the...

Carrying Canada. (News Updates).
July 1, 2003... Does the road to airline industry recovery go through the freight terminal? Air Canada may think that it does, at least in part, as the troubled carrier plans a return to freighter operations even as the bankrupt airline struggles to...

Hardly Cavalier: squeezed by the economy and larger competitors, smaller freight forwarders say service carries a new premium. (Regional Reports: North America).
July 1, 2003... It's mid-morning at a brightly-lit warehouse near Washington Dulles International Airport and a young worker in a lab technician's coat is hunched over a small piece of equipment hooked up to a computer monitor. In a narrow sense, he is...

Team Worldwide. (Paid Advertisement).(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2003... Team Worldwide is comprised of the service companies of Team Air Express, Inc., Team Ocean Services, Team Transportation, Team Customs Brokerage, Team International Trade Services Group, Team Worldwide Canada, and most recently Team Worldwide...

US Airways joined the Star Alliance. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... US Airways joined the Star Alliance, the global passenger airline grouping that includes United Airlines and Lufthansa.

Forwarder Panalpina restructured its Americas operations. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Forwarder Panalpina restructured its Americas operations, splitting that division to create an office for the United States and Canada and a separate Latin American office. Christian Ryser will head the Miami-based Latin American operation and...

All Nippon Airways started participating in Cargo Network Services' Air Waybill Number Distribution Service. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... All Nippon Airways started participating in Cargo Network Services' Air Waybill Number Distribution Service, a service that allows airlines to link CASS-USA agent performance ratings to air waybill number distribution.

AirNet Systems. (Briefly).(will sell Mercury Business Services unit)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Saying it is now moving away from the next-day courier business and focusing back on time-critical shipping, AirNet Systems will sell the Mercury Business Services operation it bought back in 1998 back to its managers.

Converting Qatar: little Qatar Airways is pushing onto the world stage and cargo service is part of the strategy. (Regional Reports: Europe).
July 1, 2003... Until the outbreak of hostilities with Iraq, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was little more than a blip on the global radar map. It quickly came to prominence as the joint operations center of the coalition forces and, as such, the focus of world...

Association of European Airlines. (Briefly).(reports increase in transport of cargo by European airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Cargo traffic carried by European airlines declined 1.3 percent in April, including a 13.1 percent drop in short- and medium-haul international traffic, according to the Association of European Airlines. Total scheduled cargo traffic grew 2.4...

Menzies World Cargo and Iceland's Eimskip opened their joint venture FreshPort. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Menzies World Cargo and Iceland's Eimskip opened their joint venture FreshPort perishables handling and border inspection center on a site at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport that they say will speed up handling and clearance of perishables at the...

Frankfurt Airport. (Briefly).(reports increased freight traffic)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freight traffic at Germany's Frankfurt Airport grew 5.4 percent in the first four months of 2003 even as passenger business slipped 1.1 percent.

Polet Cargo Airlines. (Briefly).(adds AN-124 aircraft)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Outsized cargo specialist Polet Cargo Airlines said it would take delivery of its seventh AN-124 aircraft this fall.

Menzies World Cargo will perform cargo handling and road linehaul for Kalitta Air. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Menzies World Cargo will perform cargo handling and road linehaul for Kalitta Air's new freighter services to the United Kingdom under a contract awarded by Heavyweight Air Express, Kalitta's general sales agent in the UK and Ireland.

DFDS Transport. (Briefly).(reports financial results for 2002)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... DFDS Transport, a diversified British-based freight hauler, said its net profit grew 9.3 percent in 2002 to US$4.9 million even though revenue was flat at $416 million.

Bigger Dragon: while passenger trade has been falling, Hong Kong's Dragonair has been planning a big freight expansion. (Regional Reports: Pacific).
July 1, 2003... It has been an uneasy marriage from the very outset. When China National Aviation Corp and Citic Pacific (the Hong Kong investment vehicle of a Beijing conglomerate) took the majority of shares in Cathay Pacific's subsidiary Dragonair back in...

Korean Air. (Briefly).(orders aircraft from Airbus, Boeing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Korean Air ordered two 747-400 Extended-Range freighters from Boeing and eight A380 passenger planes from Airbus.

Martinair Holland. (Briefly).(will launch twice-weekly service between Nanjing, China, and Amsterdam)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Martinair Holland said it would start twice-weekly 747-200 freighter service between Nanjing, China, and Amsterdam and that fifth freedom rights out of China would allow the airline to add Bangkok to the route.

Polar Air Cargo. (Briefly).(adds new services from Japan, Phillippines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Polar Air Cargo started a third weekly 747 freighter flight from Tokyo-Narita to Chicago and New York and added a third weekly frequency to Manila through Hong Kong.

Forecast correction.(MergeGlobal 2003 World Air Freight Forecast)(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2003... Due to an editing error during the production of the "MergeGlobal 2003 World Air Freight Forecast" published in the May edition of Air Cargo World, certain charts in the Forecast were printed with incorrect information even though the correct...

The Top 50 Cargo Airports. (Feature Focus: Top Airports).(Memphis International Airport ranks as top cargo airport in terms of traffic)
July 1, 2003... The most striking thing about the final 2002 cargo results from airports around the world, aside from the remarkable growth among China's airports, is how the big got so much bigger. While much of the world staggered through the year hard...

Calgary International Airport. (Paid Advertisement).
July 1, 2003... In 2001 the Calgary Airport Authority board of directors approved a multi million-dollar five-year cargo plan in order to ensure the long-term success of cargo development in Calgary. As western Canada's in-land hub airport, the airport has...

Houston Airport System. (Paid Advertisement).
July 1, 2003... For the first four months of 2003, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) total cargo grew 23 percent over the same time last year, with 238.9 million pounds of air freight. The IAH international cargo operation climbed 15.1 percent with...

Iraq by air: cargo operators aren't expressing shock and awe just yet, but they have commercial interests in being embedded in a post-war Iraq. (Region Focus: Middle East).
July 1, 2003... Regime change in Iraq came relatively quickly, and, if it can be said of war, relatively efficiently. Rebuilding the shattered economy and infrastructure of the country is going to be achieved neither quickly nor, most would suspect,...

Chartering new competition: can airlines become charter brokers? Two carriers seem to be moving that way and that has the world's charter market reacting warily. (Feature Focus: Cargo Charters).(Lufthansa Cargo Charter)(Atlas Air Inc.)
July 1, 2003... What's the difference between a scheduled airline, a charter airline and the charter broker? That was a simple enough question a few years ago, but in a new world of globalization and diversification, the lines between traditional air cargo...

Spirit Airlines. (Paid Advertisement).
July 1, 2003... The summer travel season is here and Spirit Airlines looks toward the season with much anticipation. Just in time for the summer, Spirit has introduced enhanced booking services at spiritair.com. For the first time in the airline industry,...

Airlines. (People).(includes personnel news from Atlas Air Inc., Kitty Hawk Cargo, Martinair Holland N.V.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Atlas Air: The 747 freighter named David Lancelot chief financial officer and John Dietrich vice president and general counsel as the company filled out its management shakeup. Lancelot had been controller of Polar Air Cargo since March 2002...

Third-Parties. (People).(includes multiple personnel briefs)
July 1, 2003... TNT Logistics: The logistics arm of the TNT express and postal company named Gunther Thiel, the founder of Luxembourg-based Thiel Logistics, to head operations in Central Europe, a region that stretches from Germany to Hungary. Thiel resigned...

Trucking. (People).(includes personnel news from Contract Freighters Inc., Vexure)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Contract Freighters: The truckload carrier promoted Bruce Stockton to vice president, operations. Since joining CFI in 1985, Stockton worked in several management positions, most recently as vice president, maintenance. Joe Longo, a 15-year...

Manufacturing. (People).(Mordechai Boness appointed president of Israel Aircraft Industries International; division presidents named at Goodrich)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... IAI International: The plane maker named Mordechai Boness president of Israel Aircraft Industries International, IAI's U.S. subsidiary. Boness was corporate vice president and general manager of IAI's commercial aircraft group. Zeev Nahamoni...

Ground Handling. (People).(Dodge Elkins appointed at Magtrol; William Burke named president of Rifton Aviation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Magtrol: Dodge Elkins will oversee North and South American sales for the maker of cargo shipping equipment. Elkins worked at Automation Engineering for 23 years, recently as vice president of sales. Rifton Aviation: The aviation ground...

Events.(Calendar)
July 1, 2003... July 27-29 Los Angeles: ACI Air Cargo Symposium, at the Beverly Hilton, Airports Council International-North America brings together cargo operators and facilities managers for a close look at supply chain trends where they happen....

The bottom line.(top air forwarders; Chinese market share; cargo traffic data)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2003... Top Forwarders The world's top 10 air forwarders, based on 2002 estimates of air freight revenue. (in US$ billions) REVENUE EST. MARKET SHARE % 1. DHL Danzas $2.0 3.9 2. Panalpina ...

Smaller: lack of size doesn't mean weakness in the turbulent global air freight shipping market. (Forwarders Forum).
July 1, 2003... In these challenging and difficult economic times, I am frequently asked by industry analysts and media representatives to comment on the long-term viability of the small freight forwarder. Although I suppose the question is well intentioned,...