Air Cargo World articles from June 2000

Air Cargo World archives from June 2000

Integrating.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... For several years, there has been a disturbing discussion in the freight transport business beneath all the public talk about improved supply chains, logistics management and value added services. It's disturbing because there's really not...

Globally Aligned Cargo.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The freight alliance that Lufthansa Cargo, Singapore International Airlines and Scandinavian Airline System have grandly named New Global Cargo is sort of new and could well become global but worldwide customers and competitors are wondering...

Shipping PCs.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Shipments of personal computers, one of the largest single products filling air freight capacity, grew 15 percent in the first quarter this year with growth in Asia and Latin America offsetting an unsettling slowdown in Europe, according to...

Bankrupt Kitty.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... It became increasingly clear last month that Kitty Hawk Inc. would never become the airline to prove that a forwarder-based domestic overnight air freight network can ever work. With Kitty Hawk in bankruptcy protection and struggling to...

Circle's Download.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The stability and direction that David Beatson was going to bring to forwarder Circle International lasted just a little less than two years. Beatson's surprise departure as chairman and chief executive of the $814 million American...

Jumbo Freight.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... By saying it will acquire up to 10 Air bus A3XXs, including two freighters, Emirates has not only given Airbus' foray into "super-jumbo" jets a vote of confidence but also the Middle East's budding cargo market. "The market is doing very...

L-1011s Dropping Value.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... For companies trying to breathe life into the faltering L-1011 freighter program, the announcement that ailing Kitty Hawk Cargo was parking its troubled tri-jets couldn't have come at a worse time. By citing high maintenance costs of the...

Lessor More.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The freighter operators who specialize in wet-leasing to airlines can't seem to expand fast enough. Atlas Air announced the acquisition and conversion of three 747300 combis last month, which will give the carrier 35 747 freighters by the...

Heavy Losses.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... A new study highlights a sharp decline in heavy-freight air shipping in the United States and the authors say the growth of electronic commerce and tighter supply chain management are behind the apparent shift in air shipping patterns. ...

Red Flags.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Since the 1996 ValuJet crash, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued seven regulatory changes and four advisory bulletins on the transport of oxygen generators. But all the heightened attention have hardly made a dent in the shipping...

Going Domestic.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Is there any distinction left between an international and domestic forwarder in the United States? Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, the latest in a string of international providers to venture into the domestic United States air freight market,...

Profitable DP.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Deutsche Post is done, at least for now, with acquisitions as the German postal authority prepares for an initial public offering this fall. DP Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkle, who has overseen a buying spree that has turned Germany's...

Bellies Filling.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... After two years of declines, belly cargo appears to be on the rebound for combination carriers in the United States. The Air Transport Association of America also reports a recovery in the airlines' cargo business, with total cargo...

Dolce Finale.
June 1, 2000... KLM's divorce from Alitalia sheds harsh light on the airline industry's alliance mania Did it really have to end in tears before bedtime? Yes, apparently it did. On paper the tie-up between KIM Royal Dutch Airlines and Alitalia looked...

DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and Sogerma.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and Sogerma will launch a passenger-to-freighter conversion program for A300-600 aircraft this year....

European Commission.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Europe's air carriers are fighting a European Commission proposal to have member states impose an environmental fuel tax on jet fuel....

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is projecting 3 percent growth in cargo traffic this year, behind the 6 percent growth in passengers and 5 percent gain in aircraft movement the airport foresees....

Cargolux.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Cargolux traffic was up 26 percent through the first two months of the year, to 533.7 million revenue tonne kilometers....

Alitalia.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Alitalia cargo traffic grew 16.9 percent in February to 137 million RTKs, with a load factor of 73.8 percent, 10.5 percentage points higher than last year....

Martinair Holland and MK Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Martinair Holland and MK Airlines combined their cargo services on routes to Mozambique.

Transavia Engineering and Maintenance.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Transavia Engineering and Maintenance selected KLM to distribute aircraft parts worldwide.

Coty.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Cosmetics manufacturer Coty signed a global agreement with Uti, formerly Union-Transport.

Florence Airport.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Italy's Florence Airport opened a new cargo facility.

TNT International Express.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... TNT International Express expanded its facility in the northern Spanish city of Vitoria and is planning similar expansions in Malaga and Vigo.

Frankfurt Airport.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Dutch government is studying plans to privatize the management of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Schiphol also set up a working group with Frankfurt Airport on cargo and ground handling as part of their effort to jointly develop business.

Europort Vatry.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... France's Europort Vatry handled its first freighter flight, a 747-200 chartered by Pathfinder Air.

KLM.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... KLM won ISO 14001 quality certification for its environmental management.

Icelandair.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Icelandair, which operates three narrowbody freighters, set up its cargo department as a separate subsidiary. The airline reported a 26 percent increase in cargo traffic for 1999 to 24,000 tons.

Finnair.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Finnair has dropped flights to Toronto, San Francisco and Osaka in favor of new service to Beijing, Bangkok and Singapore.

UPS.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... UPS is acquiring French logistics company Finon Sofecome.

American Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... American Airlines moved its cargo handling at London Gatwick from British Airways to Servisair.

Rutges Cargo.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Dutch-based air freight trucker Rutges Cargo opened an office in Belgium.

Jumbo Choices.
June 1, 2000... Boeing is churning out freighters in record numbers, but its largest customer base isn't about to ante up In stark contrast to the downswing of last decade, two U.S. combination carriers are starting the new century with strong freighter...

Cisco Systems.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Technology giant Cisco Systems named Redwood Systems to manage supply side procurement and warehousing in the United States and Mexico.

Consolidated Freightways.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... National less-than-truck-load giant Consolidated Freightways said it would purchase First Air, the forwarder that operates through Flightmasters and Seamasters.

Forward Air.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Forward Air, the expedited trucker, reported a 31 percent gain in revenue in the first quarter, to $49.4 million, and a $4.6 million net profit, 48 percent better than last year.

Grand Aire.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The government proposed a $195,000 fine against Grand Aire for allegedly operating an aircraft without a required maintenance test.

PBB Global Logistics.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... PBB Global Logistics opened an office at Columbus' Rickenbacker Airport.

United Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... United Airlines expanded its time-definite express cargo service to include domestic transfers between major U.S. gateways.

GeoLogistics.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Flint Ink chose GeoLogistics to handle exports to Australia and New Zealand. The forwarder also won a contract from airbag maker Autoliv to manage the movement of the goods it manufactures in North America.

Aviation Facilities Company.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Aviation Facilities Company broke ground on a 60,000 square-foot cargo building at Baltimore-Washington Airport and bought facilities in Hartford, Conn., and Bakersfield, Calif.

SAS Cargo.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... SAS Cargo won ISO 9002 quality certification in North American.

UTi.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... UTi, formerly Union-Transport, opened a customs office in Laredo, Texas.

AirNet Systems.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Express carrier AirNet Systems showed a $1.4 million profit in the first quarter compared to an $800,000 loss in the year-ago quarter.

Yellow Freight.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Trucker Yellow Freight changed the name of its air forwarding subsidiary from YCS International to Yellow Global.

Silicon Villa?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... It's called 24/7 elsewhere, but shippers still find the customary delays at most Latin American borders Which came first, the virtual chicken or the virtual egg? Or, as shippers and carriers in Latin America may ask, is it customs...

LanChile.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a $332,500 fine against LanChile for carrying an undeclared shipment of oxygen generators on a flight last year.

Cuba Travel Services.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Cuba Travel Services started weekly charter service between Los Angeles and Havana under a special exemption by the U.S. government.

Grupo Taca.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Grupo Taca expanded service between San Salvador, Havana and Toronto.

International Data Corp.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... International Data Corp. said sales of personal computers grew 15 percent in Latin American 1999.

Emery Worldwide.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Hoping to tap into growth in Peru's budding mining industry, Emery Worldwide opened an office in Lima.

Avensa.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Venezuela's troubled Avensa has dropped its international service and returned DC-l0s it was using on Europe routes.

Honduras.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Honduras will transfer control of its four largest airports to private managers for a 20-year period.

Delta Air Lines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Delta Air Lines plans to start three weekly 767-300 nonstop flights between Atlanta and Rio de Janeiro and daily 767 flights to Santiago in November.

Continental Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Continental Airlines will start serving Santa Cruz, Bolivia, via Lima in June and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, via Rio de Janiero in September.

Liberalized aviation agreement.(United States and Colombia)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The U.S. and Colombia signed a liberalized aviation agreement paving the way for an additional 21 weekly flights over the next three years.

Asia's Web.(World Wide Web)
June 1, 2000... Pacific Rim airlines have a patchwork of strategies and styles as they approach the Internet A large share of the semiconductors that fuel the world's high-technological growth may be made in Taiwan, but that only made the recent plea of...

Evergreen International Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Evergreen International Airlines says it will add a third weekly 747 freighter flight between Columbus' Rickenbacker airport and Singapore this month.

GeoLogistics.(electronics manufacturer)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Lite-On signed GeoLogistics as its global freight forwarder.

Ansett Australia Cargo.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Ansett Australia Cargo opened a charter logistics center in Sydney.

DHL Worldwide Express.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... DHL Worldwide Express gave Hong Kong's Customs Department a plaque expressing the carrier's appreciation for work done to facilitate DHL's use Hong Kong as an express hub.

Circle International.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Circle International's Thailand operation won ISO 9002 quality certification.

Northwest Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Northwest Airlines said its twice-weekly 747 freighter flights between Detroit and Shanghai have had an average load factor exceeding 95 percent since the service began last November.

A Sri Lankan AN-12.(air crash)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... A Sri Lankan AN-12 freighter en route from Bangkok crashed near the Colombo airport in late March, killing six of the eight crew members and wounding the other two.

United Parcel Service.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... United Parcel Service expanded its international financial services arm, Capital Global Trade Finance, to Hong Kong, the division's first Asian market.

Macau International Airport.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Lotus Bridge linking SAR and Zhuai near the Macau International Airport became fully operational.

Qantas Freight.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Qantas Freight began 747 freighter service from Sydney to Jakarta and Taipei, from Brisbane to Jakarta and from Melbourne to Singapore.

MacroAsia.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Manila-based MacroAsia said it will sell $14 million worth of new shares and warrants to fund an aircraft maintenance venture with Lufthansa.

Cygnion.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Communications systems manufacturer Cygnion selected Circle International to provide services from Asia to North America.

Air New Zealand.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Air New Zealand acquired the 50 percent stake it didn't already own in Ansett Australia from News Corp.

Singapore Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Singapore Airlines is looking to acquire a 25 percent stake in Air New Zealand.

Japan Airlines.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Japan Airlines said it will Cut another 700 jobs in addition to the 3,500 already announced.

Sydney International Airport.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... International air carriers serving Sydney International Airport are protesting the Australian government's move to increase landing rates to cover improvements at the airport in advance of the 2000 Olympics.

Thai International Airways.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Thailand's government, which is selling off 23 percent of Thai International Airways, will reserve part of the private stake for a strategic partner in the airline.

All Nippon Airways.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... All Nippon Airways is planning a low-cost subsidiary to fly 767s on short-haul routes near Japan.

African Skies.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The U.S. is opening Africa to new air service, but don't expect carriers to follow the government lead In the more than two years since the United States first uncorked a program to promote aviation trade with Africa, U.S. Transportation...

Cargo's @ Dot-Com Future.
June 1, 2000... Internet exchanges are bringing new opportunity to air freight operators, but the price to all may not be apparent When nearly 400 representatives from airlines and air forwarders were surveyed at the recent Cargo Network Services annual...

Dot-Commed Freight.
June 1, 2000... Anyone looking for winners in freight's push to e-commerce should look first to shippers As if the freight transport industry didn't have enough problems. The trucking industry is challenged with runaway fuel costs and driver shortages....

Shipping Away.
June 1, 2000... Mid-Atlantic airports have a great view of torrid economic growth, only most of it is going down the highway Swedish telecommunications grant Ericsson produces some 10 million cellular phones a year, along with 25 million pounds of...

People.
June 1, 2000... Airlines Swisscargo: The carrier hired Thomas Huchler to succeed Hans Hofstetter as vice president of the Americas region. Huchler joins the SAirGroup company from Lufthansa Cargo, where he most recently served as sales director for the...

InterMart.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Minnesota company introduced Shipping Solutions 2000, software designed to accelerate the completion of export documents. The program can complete more than 24 standard export forms and e-mail the data to forwarders, customs brokers or...

Prophesy Transportation Software.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Connecticut company vendor released TaxTally Version 6.5 to help trucking companies calculate fuel taxes. This latest version integrates with Prophesy's dispatch and accounting software.

TOPS Engineering.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Texas company released MaxLoad Pro Version 2.5, a Windows-based program with cargo loading and diagramming capabilities. The latest version features e-mail analysis and enhanced mixed pallet features.

E.J. Brooks.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The manufacturer introduced two high-security cable seals to protect goods in transit. Designed for bulk shipments, the Multi-Lok Seal is available in diameters of 1/16th, 1/8th and 3/32nd inches. Used to secure valves, hatches and intermodal...