Air Cargo World articles from June 2003

Air Cargo World archives from June 2003

Controlled. (Editor's Note).(DHL)(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... For an outfit that specializes in asking questions, we get a lot of questions ourselves here. Some may be relatively mundane, and familiar to our readers ("Where is my shipment?" came in the other day yet again). But one struck us...

Cargo's virus protections. (News Updates).
June 1, 2003... Is air cargo the airlines' best defense against SARS? With the virus wreaking economic havoc across Asia last month and ominously spreading into Taiwan. a couple of the region's battered carriers restored a few services and said stable demand...

United's freight. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... United Airlines is undertaking major changes in cargo operations even as the airline presses a larger restructuring of its financially-battered passenger business under bankruptcy protection. United Cargo Vice President Roger Gibson says...

Gunning cargo. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Despite opposition for the major integrated express airlines, Congress last month moved closer to granting the pilots of cargo airlines the right to carry guns in the cockpit as part of a larger effort to tighten air freight security. ...

Yield lanes. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Several air forwarders are trumpeting relatively strong earnings in the downbeat world economy, but the returns also suggest signs of trouble in their air shipping paradise. In financial reports on the second half of 2002 and the start of...

Expressly DHL. (News Updates).
June 1, 2003... No wonder Deutsche Post World Net wants more air express business. Even as the expansion-minded German postal giant fights a regulatory battle for a greater stake in the United States market, DPWN says operating profit in its DHL express...

Emirates stretch. (News Updates).(Emirates Airlines)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In the midst of a rapid expansion that has Emirates adding aircraft and destinations, the Dubai-based air carrier is putting off its long-planned launch of service into the United States until next year. Emirates officials say they...

Dimmed out. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Federal Aviation Administration says airline passengers are looking a bit more like oversized cargo. The agency last month ordered air carriers to add 10 pounds for each passenger and five more pounds for checked luggage to the weight...

Legal green. (News Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... At least one part of the troubled ACMI market is producing revenue, although legal judgments in freighter leasing are hardly a recipe for long-term growth. Under a case decided by a federal jury in Portland, Ore., Korea's Asiana Airlines...

Shifting gears: Air Cargo Inc. has new owners, new offices and new leadership, but will it find new business on the surface? (North America).
June 1, 2003... Air Cargo Inc., the nitty-gritty, back-of-the-airport freight trucking service for the airlines, seems an unlikely vehicle for high-minded talk about logistics management, but that's not the way Douglas Faber sees it. Now finishing his second...

BAX Global. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... BAX Global saw its recent financial recovery turn around in the first quarter as the heavy freight specialist reported a $5.5 million operating loss despite a 12 percent gain in worldwide revenue, to $463.6 million.

Mento Worldwide Forwarding. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Mento Worldwide Forwarding, the renamed business of Emery Worldwide, lost $5.4 million in the first quarter even though gross revenue grew 123 percent to $445.8 million.

Pacer International. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Forwarder Pacer International doubled its net profit to $7.4 million in the first quarter as net revenue grew 13.6 percent to $94.5 million, far ahead of the 3.5 percent gain in gross revenue. Pacer used its stronger cash flow to pay down...

FedEx Express donated a retired 727-100 freighter to Oakland International Airport. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FedEx Express donated a retired 727-100 freighter to Oakland International Airport for safety training of airport employees and local law enforcement officials.

University of Tennessee. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The University of Tennessee, saying some of the problems in the world's airline industry are the result of failure to adapt to a changing business environment, created what it says is the first master's of business administration program...

AirNet Systems. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... AirNet Systems reported a 6.5 percent increase in net revenue in the first quarter, to $37.8 million, primarily on gains in express services, while the net profit hit $300,000 following a $700,000 loss last year.

Kennedy International Airport. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A gunman hijacked an armored truck at New York's Kennedy International Airport in March and got away with as much as $2.1 million, the largest theft at the airport since 1978....

Lynden Air Freight and Western Express Airlines. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Lynden Air Freight and Western Express Airlines introduced their combined door-to-door service for the Alaskan oil trade, with service from 10 major Western Canadian sites to 30 destinations throughout Alaska with two-day and three-day...

Technology Asset Protection Association certified Eagle Global Logistics. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Technology Asset Protection Association certified Eagle Global Logistics for its security procedures in Canada.

Kintetsu Worldwide Express. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Japanese forwarder Kintetsu Worldwide Express created a new Web site, kweusa.com, for customers in the Americas.

FPA Customs Brokers and Baltimore-based forwarder Samuel Shapiro & Company. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Swiss forwarder Panalpina, New York's FPA Customs Brokers and Baltimore-based forwarder Samuel Shapiro & Company were certified under the U.S. Customs C-TPAT security program.

AIT Worldwide Logistics. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... AIT Worldwide Logistics opened an office in Louisville and Greenville/Spartanburg, S.C., giving the forwarder offices in 35 U.S. cities.

Kewill Systems' Clippership multi-carrier transportation management system made a module from Emery Forwarding. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Kewill Systems' Clippership multi-carrier transportation management system made a module from Emery Forwarding available for its customers. Also, Emery Forwarding released version 6.1 of its Gemini order entry and shipping support system for...

Target Logistic Services. (Briefly).(Jacksonvilie International Airport)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Target Logistic Services opened an air, sea and trucking facility at the Jacksonvilie International Airport.

Sear Logistics Services named Exel Direct. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Sear Logistics Services named Exel Direct to manage its home delivery operations four cities. Sears Contract Sales had earlier chosen Exel Direct to manage deliveries of large items in cities in Texas, Tennessee and California.

Correction.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The 2003 Air Cargo World Express Guide published in the March edition incorrectly listed the president of Team Worldwide. He is D.G. Perkins.

Go configure.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Beechcraft 1900D may be the world's most versatile airline. In addition to shuttling up to 19 passengers in comfort and style, it can be quickly reconfigured to serve as a rugged, relibale cargo hauler. Add turboprop efficiency and a long...

Building Schiphol: Amsterdam's airport hopes its concrete growth plan is the route to new air trade. (Regional Report: Europe).
June 1, 2003... Is Europe running out of runways? Well, not that you would notice it at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The Dutch gateway has just opened-up its new fifth runway. It already has plans to add a sixth and -- whisper it quietly -- has even penciled...

Freight traffic for European airlines. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Freight traffic for European airlines grew 3.7 percent in the first quarter over the same period last year but the 2.5 percent increase marked the smallest monthly gain since June 2002.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Cargo revenue at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines fell 2 percent in the quarter ending March 31, to $286.4 million, on a 4 percent dive in yield. The airline lost $249.6 million in the quarter, not including a payment of some $208 million it was...

Zoom Airlines. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Canada's Zoom Airlines, which will start 767-300 service out of Toronto and Vancouver this summer to points in Europe and the Caribbean, signed with Switzerland's Unitpool for supply, repair, and control of its ULDs.

Panalpina. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Forwarder Panalpina will contribute nearly $400,000 over the next three years to the Swiss Red Cross for the treatment and prevention of poverty-related blindness in Ghana.

TNT Express. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... TNT Express committed to gaining company-wide certification from the Technology Asset Protection Association for its freight security procedures.

US Airways. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... US Airways started daily 767-200 service between Philadelphia and Dublin and Philadelphia and Shannon through October, giving the airline 10 trans-Atlantic destinations.

Virgin Atlantic Airways. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Virgin Atlantic Airways reported a US$16 million profit for the year ending in April.

Frankfurt Airport. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Cargo traffic at Frankfurt Airport grew 5.8 percent in the first quarter, including double-digit gains in volume to North and South America and the Far East.

Dragonair named Stockholm-based GSAsia. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Hong Kong's Dragonair named Stockholm-based GSAsia its cargo general sales agent for Norway and said the company would look for ways to extend the airline's reach into Russia and the Baltic states.

Prologis. (Briefly).(Tesco PLC)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Global facilities manager Prologis signed British retailing giant Tesco to a lease at a 280,000-square-foot distribution center in Prague.

GB Airways. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... London-based regional operator GB Airways added new routes to Toulon-Hyeres, France, Murcia in Spain and the island of Menorca, boosting Mediterranean connections that the carrier says have brought record cargo tonnage in recent months.

Changi chafes: temperatures are rising in Singapore as security and SARS offer new worries at Changi Airport. (Pacific).
June 1, 2003... In the good old days the whole affair just wouldn't have happened. Singapore Air Terminal Services, which handles the lion's share of cargo at Changi International Airport, would have simply slapped a security surcharge on and the customers...

Northwest Airlines. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Northwest Airlines added 747-200 freighter service to Seoul and Osaka, Japan, five days a week through the airline's cargo hub in Anchorage, Alaska. Northwest said the 10:30 a.m. arrival in Osaka will allow for same-day deliveries in Western...

Korean Air. (Briefly).(Korean Air Lines Company Ltd. )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Freight traffic at Korean Air grew 14.6 percent in the first quarter over the previous year, but the 4 percent gain in March was a sharp retreat from earlier double-digit gains and the cargo load factor fell 4.3 percentage points. Cargo...

Precision Conversions. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Precision Conversions will convert two 757-200 passenger planes to freighters for Australia's Ansett Worldwide for delivery next year and said the airline had options for more conversions after that....

Emirates Sky Cargo. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Emirates Skycargo chartered the first 747-200 from Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City in an urgent shipment of steel beams for a construction project, booked by forwarder ADSO Dubai....

Menzies Aviation Group completed a US$1.8 million upgrade of its cargo handling facility at Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Menzies Aviation Group completed a US$1.8 million upgrade of its cargo handling facility at Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport and said it would introduce its electronic business management system at the Australian facility this...

Atlas Air. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Atlas Air was named the best air charter operator, worldwide, at the Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards ceremony....

Martinair Holland named ACP Worldwide. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Martinair Holland named ACP Worldwide its cargo general sales agent in South Australia and West Australia, extending a relationship that has seen ACP develop feeder truck services for Martinair....

Emirates. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Emirates added some 50 tons of cargo capacity to Australia by upgrading service between Dubai and Perth to daily flights and said it will start daily flights to Brisbane in October and run Sydney flights non-stop when the airline adds...

Menzies Aviation Group. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... U.K.-based Menzies Aviation Group opened its first a cargo handling operation in New Zealand in a 29,000-square-foot facility at Auckland International Airport....

Weiss-Rohlig China. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Weiss-Rohlig China, a joint logistics venture of Austria's Gebruder Weiss and Germany's Rohlig won an A-license from the Chinese government....

ABX Logistics. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Forwarder ABX Logistics expanded in Australia by buying Three Times PTY of Melbourne and International Cargo Services of Perth and Adelaide.

Pointing arrow: Richard Haberly may be an airline rescue artist, but the head of Arrow Air also knows how to expand a business. (Latin America).
June 1, 2003... Like other carriers, the oldest FAA-certified all-cargo airline in the United States has flown through bankruptcy to avoid liquidation and extend its life. Now, Miami-based Arrow Air is showing its younger rivals in Latin America that its...

Varig Brazilian Airways. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Financially-ailing Varig Brazilian Airways lost $593 million in the first nine months of 2002 and says it now has some $1 billion in debt. Varig is working on a cooperation and possible merger with Brazil's No. 2 carrier, TAM, and says it...

LanChile. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... LanChile cargo traffic grew 7.5 percent in April and 10.2 percent in the first four months of 2003.

Team Worldwide. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Texas-based LanChile opened operations in Costa Rica, part of an international expansion initiative that will add offices to the forwarder's network through next year.

Avianca. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Colombia's Avianca filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States to restructure up to $130 million in debt with company officials announcing the likelihood of route cuts and employee layoffs. Its parent company Summa, owner of airlines...

Exel. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Exel will handle logistics operations for Coca-Cola in Mexico.

Charter specialist Aviation Services will develop charters for Ameriflight. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Charter specialist Aviation Services will develop charters for Ameriflight for the air cargo carrier in five southwestern U.S. states and Mexico.

US Airways. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... US Airways plans to start daily service between Charlotte and Mexico City in October.

BWIA and LIAT. (Briefly).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Financially-ailing Caribbean carriers BWIA and LIAT, surviving only through government funding injections, will merge in hopes of creating a single profitable carrier.

Air domestic: are new shipping trends taking the air out of domestic cargo delivery for good? (Air Cargo Commentary).
June 1, 2003... What's happening to the "air" in domestic air freight? Is it in danger of disappearing? If present trends continue, our industry may well be "going back to the future" with domestic air freight becoming an endangered species. The signs are...

Redefining partnerships: some airlines are taking a global view of their relationships with small and mid-sized forwarders. (Airlines and Forwarders).
June 1, 2003... At his keynote speech at the this year's Cargo Network Services Partnership Conference, Lufthansa Cargo management board member Andreas Otto had a key message for the air forwarding community: think globally. It's a mantra Lufthansa has been...

Diagnosing China trade: cargo remains a bright spot in a region scarred by SARS, but freight operators have acute concerns about the world's most highly touted economy. (China).
June 1, 2003... Can a tiny microorganism slow down a torrent of investment to a trickle and derail the momentum of the world's fastest growing economy? It looks as if SARS not only dealt a crippling blow to former paragons of airline profitability such as...

Slimming down east: Airports in the Eastern United States are watching airlines scale back their capacity, so where is all that freight traffic going? (Region Focus: Eastern Airports).
June 1, 2003... The low economic ceiling that has hovered over the aviation industry for three years seemed to lift a bit at airports in the Eastern United States last month. From New England, through the New York area and down the Atlantic seaboard past...

Getting bigger, further: will Airbus' outsized plan for a new freighter change air transport services? (Feature Focus: Oversized).
June 1, 2003... When German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder stepped up to the microphone last month at a ceremony officially opening the major component assembly site of the Airbus A380 "superjumbo" aircraft, his presence marked the most vivid illustration yet...

Obituaries.(Frank Fine, Fine Air Services Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Frank Fine, the founder of Florida-based all cargo airline Fine Air, died April 25 after an extended illness. He was 78. Fine launched the airline in 1975 as Agro Air after he had trouble getting adequate lift to reach new customers in Latin...

Atlas Air. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The 747 freighter operator named Ron Lane chief marketing officer of the holding company, a position in which he will lead global sales and marketing for Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo. Lane has directed sales and marketing for Polar Air Cargo...

Polar Air Cargo. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Atlas Air subsidiary named Richard Nuttall vice president of sales for the Americas. Nuttall replaced industry veteran Peter Burn, whom Polar said left the company to pursue other interests. Nuttall had been director of the RPX express...

Cargolux. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The all-cargo carrier named Robert van de Weg head of sales and marketing. Van de Weg, 37, replaces Ulrich Ogiermann, who was named president and CEO at the start of 2003. Previously, van de Weg was senior vice president of sales and...

Lufthansa Cargo. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The airline named new appointees to three senior positions. Georg Midusnky, 54, was promoted from vice president sales, the Americas, to managing director-elect of the "Yellow Cargo" to sell cargo management services to other carriers....

Pacific Air Cargo. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The cargo airline appointed Carolyn Poe district sales manager. A 15-year transportation veteran, Poe previously held management posts with Mach 1 Forwarding and Valley North American. Margo Woodard was appointed director of finance....

Kitty Hawk Air Cargo. (People: Airlines).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Daniel Stone was appointed vice president of maintenance and engineering. A 36-year aircraft maintenance and engineering veteran, Stone will manage and administer all aircraft maintenance activities for the Kitty Hawk fleet. Previously, Stone...

United Parcel Service. (People: Integrators).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The integrator named Stephen Flowers president of UPS Americas, based in Miami. A 22-year UPS veteran, Flowers, 41, most recent directed operations in Western Europe and was based in Paris since 2000. Flowers succeeds Jovita Carranza, who was...

TNT. (People: Integrators).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Peter Reed was appointed vice president of sales and marketing for TNT International Express, where he will direct its U.S. sales expansion. Previously, Reed was general manager at the Leeds depot for TNT UK International. Before joining TNT...

Exel. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The British-based logistics giant named air cargo industry veteran Michael Steen senior vice president of sales and marketing for technology and global freight management in the Americas, a new position based in Dallas. A familiar figure on...

AIT Worldwide Logistics. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The forwarder promoted W. Vaughn Moore to vice president of sales and marketing. A 10-year industry veteran, Moore most recently as vice president of AIT's eastern region. He will relocate from Atlanta to AIT's corporate headquarters in...

Aeronet Worldwide. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The 3PL appointed David Gibson general manager for its terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. A 21-year industry veteran, Gibson has held management and operations positions in the Los Angeles area.

Menlo Worldwide. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Lorie Goldberg was named senior manager, trade relations, for customs brokerage provider Menlo Worldwide Trade Services, formerly known as Emery Customs Brokers. Previously, Goldberg worked for General Electric before joining Menlo in 2002.

U-Freight. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The United Kingdom branch of the international logistics provider named Jane Wainwright sales and marketing coordinator. A supply chain veteran, Wainwright previously worked for British manufacturer Fexello. At U-Freight's office in...

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Michael Claus, managing director of Hellmann Network, will direct a new standalone division, Hellmann Integrated Logistics Solutions, based in Miami. The division will focus on mid-sized to large customers, especially firms trading with...

Consolidators International. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The wholesaler promoted Michael Castro to vice president of operations at its Los Angeles headquarters. A 25-year industry veteran, the last four at CII, Castro was manager of air exports at the Fritz Cos. and export manager at Phoenix...

Technical Transportation. (People: Third-Parties).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Dallas-based company hired Mark Ochoa as its Chicago-based head of national account sales. Ochoa has 15 years' experience in transport-related field sales.

FAA. (People: Government).(United States. Federal Aviation Administration)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Louise Maillett, the Federal Aviation Adminstration's main point person on aircraft noise issues over the last decade, was named to the key position of senior counsel at the regulatory agency. A former foreign service officer at the State...

SJ Consulting. (People: Consultants).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Mike Behnke, a 20-year veteran supply chain industry veteran, joined the Pittsburgh-based parcel and logistics consulting firm to lead the marketing of the new Global Trade Database in North America. Behnke was director of strategy...