Air Cargo World articles from September 2008

Air Cargo World archives from September 2008

Workplace Balance.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Robert W. Moorman It should come as no surprise that the air cargo industry continues to be a male dominated profession, particularly in the mid-to-upper management ranks. Less than 10 percent of top managers in our business are...

News Updates.
September 1, 2008... Fixing the Sentences A federal judge sentenced former Qantas cargo executive Bruce McCaffrey to six months in prison, cutting his jail time by two months after hearing his family and attorneys argue that the airline had used the ailing...

Ohio Player.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Robert Moorman Toledo Express Airport might not have the star power of other air freight centers, but it could be instrumental in restoring the Ohio River Valley as a center of air freight activity. With the imminent demise of...

Handling China.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Ian Putzger Lufthansa Cargo hardly could have imagined Jade Cargo International would become a partial ACMI business when it launched the Shenzhen-based freighter offshoot. But yields in the China market had declined to a point...

Against All Odds.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Roger Turney It was probably the worst time ever to start-up a new cargo airline, particularly when attempting to do it with a pair of gas-guzzling 747-200 freighters. But against highly stacked odds Belgium carrier Cargo B...

Outsourcing Air Cargo.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Larry Gibbons Ever-rising fuel prices and the continual pressure on yields are making a strong case for outsourcing once again. Outsourcing is a mature concept, but the recent challenges for our industry are prompting...

Beyond the Box.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: John Cammett At the International Air Transport Association''s recent World Cargo Symposium in Rome, IATA Director General and Chief Executive Officer Giovanni Bisignani described air cargo this way: "A tough business that is only...

The World''s Top 50 Cargo Airlines.
September 1, 2008... The first tier of the 2007 Top 50 Cargo Airlines worldwide looks a lot like the 2006 ranking with FedEx Express, UPS, Korean Air and Lufthansa retaining their No. 1 through No. 4 positions. Yet there has been movement. With a 17.4 percent...

Boom or Bust?
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Peter Conway India traditionally has been a useful market for freighter operators between Europe and Asia. Since the country declared open skies for cargo in 1995, European and Asian carriers have been able to stop their freighters...

Security''s Tools of the Trade.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Mike Seemuth Like other technology suppliers that work with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, X-ray equipment manufacturer Rapiscan Systems has sold the TSA more products for baggage than boxes. The Hawthorne,...

People.
September 1, 2008... Airlines Etihad Airways: Etihad Crystal Cargo named Jacqueline Ni sales manager for the Asia-Pacific region, a Shanghai-based position. She had spent 13 years with the Volga Dnepr Group, most recently as commercial director China for Air...

Screening.
September 1, 2008... BYLINE: Brandon Fried This summer, the Transportation Security Administration told the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection that air cargo bound for the United States would not be screened. In...