Air Cargo World articles from July 2004

Air Cargo World archives from July 2004

Networks.(Editor's Note)
July 1, 2004... It shouldn't matter to cargo that unrestricted passenger fares between the United States East Coast and the West Coast are down below $1,000. But it does. A dramatic overhaul of the passenger airline industry is underway and it's a...

Consolidating global logistics.(News Updates)(Tibbett & Britten)
July 1, 2004... The world's largest cargo companies signaled that the logistics and transport landscape is about to change in a dramatic way. Exel, the $9 billion logistics giant, put up a $596.7 million offer to acquire Tibbett & Britten. a $2.6 billion...

Atlas emerges.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The world's largest operator of 747 freighters says it is set for a fresh start. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings is slated to emerge from bankruptcy protection by the end of this month, having freed itself through Chapter 11 court proceedings of...

China landmark.(News Updates)(American Airlines)(Delta Air Lines)(Continental Airlines)
July 1, 2004... Cargo carriers and combination airlines are eagerly lining up to take advantage of the expanded air rights made available last month in the coveted U.S.-China market. In a deal that could reshape the aviation landscape in Asia, China and...

Gassing up.(News Updates)(Fuel Surcharges)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Every penny at the fuel pump equals another fuel surcharge, or so it must seem to airline customers. Several air carriers were on their third fuel surcharge of the year last month and the prospect of oil prices hovering between $35 and $40...

Collapsed talks.(News Updates)(European Union)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cargo operators can forget about "open skies" between Europe and the United States for now. Hopes for a wide-ranging, liberal deal between the European Union and the United States took a serious blow last month when EU transport ministers...

Domestic bliss.(News Updates)(Domestic Forwarding)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Count international forwarders among those who believe the demise of the United States' domestic forwarding market is overblown. Seattle-based Expeditors International of Washington and Panalpina are ramping up freight services in an area...

Emirates adds.(News Updates)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... New air capacity is coming in behind the growing freight traffic between the Middle East and the United States. With freighters already in operation to North America, Emirates added passenger flights to to New York and set up a new cargo office...

Kennedy's gridlock: planners fear JFK Airport's role as the top U.S. global freight gateway is getting stuck in traffic.(North America)
July 1, 2004... It is the United States, No. 1 international air cargo gateway, a transit point for 26 percent of the freight moved by plane into or out of the world's richest country. It has airlines and infrastructure to spare along with room to grow. But...

bmi.(British airline)(Globe Air Cargo)(Trans-Atlantic Operations.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... British airline bmi named Globe Air Cargo its general sales agent in the United States and said the carrier planes to expand trans-Atlantic operations.

United Airlines signed up with time:matters, the door-to-door, premium delivery unit of Lufthansa Cargo.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... United Airlines signed up with time:matters, the door-to-door, premium delivery unit of Lufthansa Cargo, for same-day package delivery from Europe to the United States

World Airways outsourced its ULD management.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... World Airways outsourced its ULD management to Switzerland-based Unitpool.

Omron Healthcare.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Omron Healthcare, a distributor of personal home diagnostics, named Kuehne & Nagel to create a broad North American supply chain network and to manage the logistics and transportation, including customs brokerage.

Swissport is using Virtela Communications' networking service.(Electronic communications at the the ground and cargo handler.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Swissport is using Virtela Communications' networking service for electronic communications at the the ground and cargo handler' 58 airport sites in North America.

United Airlines.(A320 flight)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... United Airlines will resume daily flights between Washington/Dulles and Sacramento, and add a third daily A320 flight between Dulles and Oakland this summer.

Lynden Air Freight.(Puerto Rico.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lynden Air Freight opened a company-owned station in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

San Francisco International Airport.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... San Francisco International Airport's total cargo declined 9.4 percent through the first four months of 2004, including a 21.6 percent fall in mail.

Williams Gateway Airport.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz., said a 56-pound shipment of aircraft parts carried from Mexico by Triton Air Charter was the airport's first international business since gaining Bureau of Customs and Border Protection status as a port...

Menlo Worldwide Trade Services.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Menlo Worldwide Trade Services, the customs brokerage unit of Menlo Worldwide, opened an office in Phoenix.

A judge in North Carolina handed FedEx Express a victory.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A judge in North Carolina handed FedEx Express a victory by denying an environmental group's motion to stop construction on an express hub at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

Los Angeles and San Francisco airports' total share of U.S. air trade dropped from 38 percent in 1995 to 21 percent in 2002.(Public Policy Institute of California)(Los Angeles and San Francisco airports)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Los Angeles and San Francisco airports' total share of U.S. air trade dropped from 38 percent in 1995 to 21 percent in 2002, the Public Policy Institute of California said in a report on international air cargo traffic in the state. It cited...

What freighters? If British Airways has no freighters, why is upper-deck lift growing and connecting with a European all-cargo network?(Europe)
July 1, 2004... It must be something about the British. Or is it, maybe, their taste for understatement? British Airways World Cargo resolutely refuses to describe itself as a freighter operator. And that is true. True, that is, if one dismisses that the...

Alitalia.(Auditors Deloitte & Touche)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Auditors Deloitte & Touche warned that Alitalia could face liquidation this year without strong actions after the airline lost $624 million in 2003.

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cargo traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport jumped 10.5 percent in April, including 15.7 percent growth in Asia traffic compared to last year and a 30.3 percent gain in Africa trade.

Traxon Europe connected its air cargo communications system.(TrackIT system)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Traxon Europe connected its air cargo communications system to Lufthansa's new TrackIT system.

Kuehne & Nagel acquired Dutch forwarder Nether Cargo Services.(Nether Cargo Services)(Kuehne & Nagel)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Kuehne & Nagel acquired Dutch forwarder Nether Cargo Services, whose offices in Rotterdam and Aalsmeer focus on flower and vegetables perishables business.

Martinair.(Amsterdam to Beirut)(747-200 Freighter )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Martinair started 747-200 freighter service from Amsterdam to Beirut, with the flight going on to Hong Kong.

Tibbet & Britten.(Logistics Contract)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... British-based logistics provider Tibbett & Britten won expanded business from Tesco, the United Kingdom's largest retailer, including management of 630,000 square feet of warehouse space as part of what the company called a major "open book"...

Lufthansa Cargo.(747-200 Freighter)(Klaus-Michael Kuehne)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In a nod to its close cooperation with its major forwarding customers, Lufthansa Cargo named a 747-200 freighter the "Klaus-Michael Kuehne" after the president of the board of directors of forwarding giant Kuehne & Nagel.

Air Baltic started four-times-weekly flights from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Air Baltic started four-times-weekly flights from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne with 737-500s and will use general sales agent Transnautic Aero to sell the belly cargo capacity.

Dragonair.(Kales Airline Services)(Dragonair)(Cargo General Sales Agent)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Hong Kong-based Dragonair, pressing its expansion in Europe, named Kales Airline Services as its cargo general sales agent in Switzerland, giving the airline representation in 28 countries in Europe and the Middle East.

Menzies World Cargo.(London Heathrow Airport)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Menzies World Cargo started a $3 million upgrade of one of its main freight handling centers at London Heathrow airport, a project that will add floor space, cargo doors and storage capacity at the MWI facility.

Aviapartner is expanding its cargo handling operations Sept. 1 to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Aviapartner is expanding its cargo handling operations Sept. 1 to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, where the ground services company already does passenger and ramp handling.

Avioport, a joint venture between Dutch companies Schiphol Real Estate and Grontmij Real Estate and Italian company Finair.(Schiphol Real Estate)(Grontmij Real Estate)(Finair)(Avioport Logistics Park)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Avioport, a joint venture between Dutch companies Schiphol Real Estate and Grontmij Real Estate and Italian company Finair, opened the Avioport Logistics Park adjacent to the next to Italy's Milan Malpensa Airport.

Holland Exel, an Amsterdam-based startup holiday airline operator of 767-300s, started four-times-weekly service to Curacao.(Holland Exel)(Curacao)(Active Airline Representatives.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Holland Exel, an Amsterdam-based startup holiday airline operator of 767-300s, started four-times-weekly service to Curacao that will have 10 tonnes of cargo capacity sold by general sales agent Active Airline Representatives.

Zoom Airlines.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Canada's Zoom Airlines named ANA Aviation Services as a cargo general sales agent in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Hauling Hanoi: all eyes are on China, but the search for Asia's fastest growing trading nation may start in Vietnam.(Pacific)
July 1, 2004... While much trade attention in Asia has gone to China's massive economic expansion, air cargo operators are taking notice of the rapid growth a bit further south, where one of the Middle Kingdom's neighbors also boasts a rapidly growing economy....

A new survey of private sector economists forecasts Singapore's economy will grow 7 percent this year.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A new survey of private sector economists forecasts Singapore's economy will grow 7 percent this year, up from 5.5 percent a similar survey had forecast earlier in the year.

Singapore Airlines.(Boeing 7E7)(A330-200)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Singapore Airlines chief executive Chew Choon Seng said the airline could order as many as 50 new aircraft later this year, most likely Boeing's new 7E7 or the A330-200 or a combination of the two.

American Airlines.(United States to Japan )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... American Airlines opened its fifth gateway out of the United States to Japan with daily 777 service between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Cathay Pacific Airways.(777-300 aircraft )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cathay Pacific Airways cargo traffic was up 14 percent in the first four months of 2004, including a 15.8 percent gain in freight tonnage in April. Cathay also ordered two 777-300 aircraft from Boeing for delivery in 2005 and 2006.

Menzies Macau Airport Services.(Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Menzies Macau Airport Services, part of the British-based Menzies ground handling business, formed a joint venture business at the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport along with the local airport handler, Air China and Singapore CIAS.

Singapore Airlines.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Singapore Airlines started three-times-weekly passenger flights to Nanjing, the fifth Chinese city in SIA's network.

APL Logistics.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Children's clothing retailer Oshkosh B'Gosh awarded APL Logistics a supply chain contract that will provide the unit of the APL maritime giant 98 percent of Oshkosh B'Gosh's logistics business originating in Asia.

Melbourne Airport.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Melbourne Airport recorded a 23 percent increase in air cargo export traffic in 2003 to 143,000 tonnes and for the first time bested Sydney as Australia's top air freight export airport.

China Southern Airlines.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... China Southern Airlines started twice-weekly 757 service between Shanghai and the South Pacific island of Saipan.

U-Freight.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Hong Kong-based forwarder U-Freight is opening an office in Nanjing, adding to growth in China following the company's announcement that it will add 10 offices in the Pearl River Delta region.

Elcoteq, a Finland-based outsourcing telecommunications manufacturer for Nokia and Ericsson.(Tradeport)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Elcoteq, a Finland-based outsourcing telecommunications manufacturer for Nokia and Ericsson, will use Tradeport Hong Kong's facility at the Hong Kong International Airport as a logistics base for distribution of parts and products to China and...

Austrian Airlines.(Vienna to Singapore)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Austrian Airlines started three-times weekly service from Vienna to Singapore.

Rebuilding arrow: Arrow Air's exit from bankruptcy includes new strategies for diversification and acquisition.(Latin America)(Venerable Arrow Air)(Arrow Air LLC)
July 1, 2004... The oldest FAA-certified cargo airline in the United States has come to the conclusion that simply flying freight is no longer enough. Venerable Arrow Air has been sprung from the control of a bankruptcy court twice in the last two years, most...

Aero Continente.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Fernando Zevallos, founder of Peru's largest airline, Aero Continente, says he will fight to have the United States remove his name from a blacklist of foreign drug "kingpins."

Avianca.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Colombia's Avianca, operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reported a $16.4 million net profit in the first quarter.

Varig.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Varig will start flying to Beijing with 777s out of Rio de Janeiro through Munich.

LanChile.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LanChile saw cargo traffic grow 15.3 percent in the first five months of 2004, including a 29.7 percent jump in international traffic in May.

LanPeru.(Simon Bolivar International Airport)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LanPeru started four times weekly A320 service to Caracas and hired Menzies Aviation as its ramp handler at the Venezuelan capital's Simon Bolivar International Airport.

American Airlines.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... American Airlines this fall will launch daily 737-800 service between Miami and the Caribbean island St. Lucia.

Aerolineas Argentina.(747-400s, 737s)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Aerolineas Argentina will start revamping its fleet under a $557 million deal that will bring the carrier four used 747-400s and late-model 737s to replace its aging narrowbodies.

The world's top 50 cargo airports.(Feature focus: top airports)
July 1, 2004... There were two kinds of airports that grew in cargo business in 2003: those that were already big and those that were in China. Although that is an exaggeration, a look at the world's top 50 cargo airports and beyond suggests what a troubled...

Worldwide flight services.(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... WFS is recognized as a leader in cargo handling with more than 11,000 employees moving more than one million tons of cargo annually for airlines and airports throughout North America, Europe and Asia. With a wide range of specialized cargo...

Thinning charter margins: air cargo charter operators face tough times as forwarders and shippers put heavy weight on costs versus benefits.(Feature focus: charters)
July 1, 2004... Scheduled air cargo carriers are not the only freight operators facing escalating costs and coping with an uncertain business environment. Charter operators are contending with high prices for fuel, rising fees and the kind of volatility in...

Building on Barajas: trucks leaving Spain are looking for air cargo gateways but Spanish officials have a $5.5 billion airport plan aimed at directing traffic to Madrid.(Region focus: Iberia)
July 1, 2004... Spain's position at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea puts it at a historic and strategic place in European shipping and its position in the European Union was supposed to build on that, raising the country's profile in the trading world. The...

AirBridge Cargo.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... AirBridge Cargo: The Volga-Dnepr scheduled services subsidiary appointed S.P. "Sander" Van Woesik sales and marketing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sander had been at Polar Air Cargo, where he was senior director for global...

SAS Cargo.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... SAS Cargo; The Scandinavian airline named Klaus Glendorf vice president of global handling, giving him responsibility for its worldwide cargo handling division. Glendorf had headed Copenhagen Air Services and Novia Holding and had been working...

Kitty Hawk.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Kitty Hawk: The overnight heavyweight air cargo specialist elected Joseph Ruffolo and Laurie Shahon to its board of directors. Ruffolo manages Ruffolo Benson, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based firm that provides capital for management buyouts and...

Martinair Holland.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Martinair Holland: The Dutch carrier named Vector Wong operations director for its growing Asia-Pacific business based in Hong Kong. Wong, 39, has worked in aviation for 18 years, starting with Jardine Airport Services. He later worked in...

Lufthansa Cargo.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lufthansa Cargo: The German carrier reorganized its sales team in Germany, putting Michael Breul in charge of regional sales for the country. Thomas Egenolf will move from that position to head of business development for Germany/Europe/Africa....

US Airways.(Airlines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... US Airways: The airline named Dave Davis chief financial officer, replacing Neal S. Cohen who left the company. Davis joined the airline in 2002, most recently as senior vice president of finance. Prior to that he held various key positions in...

UPS.(Integrators)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... UPS: The parcel delivery giant named Jose Acosta, a 26-year veteran of the company, vice president of operations for UPS in Latin America. Acosta most recently served as UPS' South Florida package division manager. Acosta began his career with...

DHL.(Integrators)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... DHL: Jerry Hempstead, vice president of national accounts at DHL, received the Mailcom postal group's Franklin Award in recognition of his contributions to mail communications. DHL said Hempstead had "helped pioneer some of the most innovative...

Panalpina.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Panalpina: The North American division of the Swiss forwarder hired Randy Peoples as a vice president of global accounts, overseeing the central region. Peoples, a 20-year industry veteran, had been director of global accounts at Eagle Global...

Tibbett & Britten.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Tibbett & Britten: The British-based logistics provider named Michael Gardner president of the Americas and appointed him to the group's board of directors. Gardner had been with APL Logistics and its predecessor GATX Logistics since 1991, most...

Hellman Worldwide Logistics.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Hellman Worldwide Logistics: The U.S. division of the German forwarder named Angela Higgs vice president of global account development, based in Atlanta. Higgs has 15 years' experience in logistics, most recently at GeoLogistics as vice...

GAC Logistics.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... GAC Logistics: The Dubai-based forwarder named Joanne Wilkins to the new Bangkok-based post of route development manager to boost its logistics business between United Kingdom and the Asia Pacific-Indian subcontinent region, Wilkins joined GAC...

UTi Worldwide.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... UTi Worldwide: The California-abased forwarder and logistics services provider elected J. Simon Stubbings as non-executive chairman of its board, succeeding Matthys "Tiger" Wessels, who became vice chairman, Stubbings has been on UTi's board...

Concert Group Logistics.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Concert Group Logistics: The Chicago-based forwarder named Kevin Koerner director of operations. A 30-year industry veteran, Koerner is a former vice president of domestic operations at Seko Air Freight.

Pilot Air Freight.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Pilot Air Freight: The Pennsylvania-based forwarder named Bill Curtis and Shelly Brick national account managers. Curtis, who will represent Pilot in the Midwest and be based in Milwaukee, spent 19 years at Airborne Express. Brick will...

Kenco Logistic Services.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Kenco Logistic Services: The Tennessee-based packaging, transportation management, engineering support and information technologies company named Ann Christopher as vice president and general counsel. She had been general counsel for the...

DHL Danzas Air & Ocean.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... DHL Danzas Air & Ocean: The freight and logistics unit of DHL named Reto Anton Pergher country manager for Malaysia, overseeing the company's 13 offices and warehousing facilities with over 300 staff. He has 25 years' industry experience,...

U-Freight.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... U-Freight: The Hong-Kong-based forwarder promoted David Tam to eastern regional director for the Americas in a more prompted by growing trade through the region. Taro has been with U-Freight in New York since 1989, starting as an operations...

Menlo Worldwide.(Third-Parties)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Menlo Worldwide: The forwarder named James Hsu managing director of Menlo Worldwide Logistics, Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. He had beeen deputy director of Singapore's Economic Development Board.

Aviapartner.(Ground Handling)
July 1, 2004... Aviapartner: The cargo handler named Jochen Breuer country manager for Germany. Breuer, 48, was managing director of GIS, an information technology and management consultancy. Before that, he was director of technical purchasing at Lufthansa...

Aircraft Service International.(Ground Handling)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Aircraft Service International: The Orlando-based airfield services company named David Carpenter senior director of fuel services, overseeing facilities across North America. Carpenter has worked in the aircraft/ground fuel industry for 34...

Events.(Calendar)
July 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 cargo in the Iberian countryside. For information, call (786)...

The AirCargo bottom line.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Hong Kong Share of traffic handled by Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd. In first five months of 2004. Export 54.7% Import 32.5% Transshipment 12.7% Source: HATCL Note: Table made from pie chart....