Air Cargo World articles from November 2008

Air Cargo World archives from November 2008

A Good Time to Improve TSA Oversight.
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Brandon Fried Presidential transition periods are times of contradiction and uncertainty. The outgoing president has the legal power of the presidency with little political influence. The incoming president, by comparison, enjoys...

Lufthansa''s Zero-Risk Growth for 2009.
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger If things go right for Lufthansa in the coming weeks and months, the German carrier could morph into a pan-European outfit and the world''s largest airline. As the crisis shakes the airline industry and opens the...

Airbus and Boeing Take the Long View.
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Simon Keeble and Jessica Binns Boeing''s latest Air Cargo Forecast, which includes the Russia/CIS-built fleet for the first time, suggests traffic will more than triple over the next 20 years, prompting the number of airplanes in...

Swiss Cheese Model for Cargo Screening?
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Jessica Binns Advanced technology in cargo screening is coming to a freight forwarder near you. The Transportation Security Administration has asked contractors to respond to the Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP) and...

Bull... from Brussels.
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Simon Keeble Imagine flying from Washington, D.C. to Miami via Memphis. No, you''re not a piece of freight, you''re a passenger. There''s some cargo in the belly, but it won''t complain. Your airline flies via Memphis because...

News Updates.
November 1, 2008... Global Cargo Capacity Slashed The global financial crisis combined with U.S. economic woes have prompted a significant drop in the world''s scheduled passenger airline cargo capacity, says OAG. U.S. airlines are cutting 265,000...

Why Air When a Truck Will Do?
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Simon Keeble The 2009 Defense Authorization Act has corrected a long-standing discrepancy that made it all but illegal for a freight forwarder to use a truck to deliver a shipment on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense. ...

Too Little and Too Late for Taiwan''s Carriers?
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger Taiwan''s international airlines could be forgiven for feeling a trifle peevish about the China market. For years relegated to bystanders who could only tap into China''s airfreight boom through interline deals, the...

Criminal Intent.
November 1, 2008... BYLINE: Roger Turney A new crime-busting force is being set up in the Netherlands to counter an epidemic of attacks on the country''s supply chain infrastructure. Statistics reported by the Transported Asset Protection Association...

People.
November 1, 2008... Airlines Emirates: The Dubai-based airline hired Abbas A. Haji as vice president cargo, commercial development to handle Emirates SkyCargo''s priority group, including express, courier and mail. Haji has been with Emirates Group since...

Sustainability: What is it, anyway?(Company overview)
November 1, 2008... Back in 2005, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott acknowledged, "there are not two worlds out there, a Wal-Mart world and some other world...for us there is virtually no distinction between being a responsible citizen and a successful business." Along...