Air Cargo World articles from March 2008

Air Cargo World archives from March 2008

Enough Already.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Robert W. Moorman Two months ago, I wrote about the green movement and in it the air transport industry''s involvement. Because of space constraints, I didn''t include the downside issue of unreasonable, possibly unworkable...

News Updates.
March 1, 2008... DHL''s Taxing Troubles Deutsche Post World Net and its DHL subsidiary started the year hurtling from one crisis to another and appeared to be heading toward a critical look at the company and its operations. The business began 2008 by...

Delta Dawn.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Robert W. Moorman Neel Shah is a man on a mission. Delta Air Lines new vice president of cargo comes from United Airlines with a bag full of ideas and a mandate to turn the moribund cargo division into a successful profit center....

Virtual Air.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Roger Turney It could have been, "Big," "Yellow Sky" or even "Synergy." But out of a possible 80 choices, "AeroLogic" was chosen as the name for the joint venture cargo airline to be launched by Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express. ...

Chinese Conundrum.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger China went from El Dorado to Pandora''s box last year as cargo capacity surged past the momentum of air exports. Particularly worrying for the Western airlines that had fed lavishly on those export yields was the...

Beyond Crews Control.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger Texas is still waiting for its freighter link to Shenzhen in the heart of the Pearl River Delta. According to plan, Jade Cargo Airlines was due last June to launch weekly 747-400 freighter flights from its Shenzhen,...

Air Cargo Excellence Survey.
March 1, 2008... The fourth edition of the Air Cargo World''s Air Cargo Excellence Survey found Japan''s Nagoya International and Munich International the top rated airports worldwide and Lufthansa Cargo and Swiss WorldCargo the top vote getters among airlines....

New Distribution Central.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Alan Field In the old days, ordering a piece of heavy equipment in Europe was a fairly straightforward process. A sales rep in Italy might contact a Western European manufacturer who shipped it directly from a home-country plant,...

People.
March 1, 2008... Airlines Polar Air Cargo: The 747 freighter operator named Thomas Betenia vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. Betenia, 47, had been with Lufthansa Cargo since 1980, most recently as director of sales and handling for...

PICKS.
March 1, 2008... BYLINE: Brandon Fried In late January, the House Homeland Security Committee delivered a letter to the Government Accountability Office, asking for a full review of the Transportation Security Administration''s implementation of the law...