Vol.
23 No. 16 Wednesday
April 10,
2024 |
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IATA
Head Of Cargo Ahead On USA
“I like the feeling I get
when I’m riding in a jet, saying I’m going places”
sang The Jackson Five in an uplifting message about air travel back
when Michael was just a kid.
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India
Open Skies Benefits
“The operation of foreign
ad hoc and pure non-scheduled freighter charter service flights shall
be allowed at all international airports in India without co-terminal
rights by cargo-only aircraft for three years from the date of issue
of the aeronautical information circular.” That was India’s
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issuing a notice circulated
at the end of February this year.
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Chuckles
for March April 10, 2024
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United
Cargo Opens New Newark Facility
Eclipsing
The Competition . . . On Monday April 8 as the world
awaited the Solar Eclipse, down on the ground United Cargo had officially
just opened a brand spanking new full-service air cargo facility with
all the bells and whistles at Newark Liberty International Airport
(EWR) at 100 Frontage Road.
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Vol.
23 No. 15 Thursday
April 4,
2024 |
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MSC
Brings It Home In USA
On April 22 the remarkable journey
of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will be the subject of a talk
by Brittney Knisley Lawler, Branch Manager of MSC based in Charleston
South Carolina.
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IAG
Cargo India Growth Spotlight
The cargo division of European
major International Airlines Group (IAG), expressed its plan to partner
with Indian carriers and logistics players – with the condition
that it would be done at the right time. IAG which represents the
cargo business of five airlines -- British Airways, Iberia Cargo,
Vueling and LEVEL (Spanish carriers) and Ireland’s Aer Lingus
Cargo—gets 10 per cent of its global export revenues from India.
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Chuckles
for March April 4, 2024
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Maersk
A Sustainable Future
A sustainable future
just got a bit closer to reality as Danish shipping company A.P. Moller
- Maersk’s second large methanol-enabled vessel is soon to arrive
in Yokohama, Japan.
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Vol.
23 No. 14 Tuesday
March 26,
2024 |
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United
Campfire Gathering
We’ve gotten kind of used
to having meetings that are described as roundtables that are not
round or fireside chats minus the fire, but in Houston United Campfire
Gathering got the job done and was electric.
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Donna
Mullins A Thoughtful Lesson
In a perfect world the following
few lines would just make no sense. Yes, indeed, in a perfect world
. . . We are talking about how much logistics, and air cargo in particular,
is missing by overlooking women’s skills, but we are doing this
sideways, as it is convenient at the Flying Typers. Women’s
skills can be ignored knowingly or as a habit, in any case it is a
missed opportunity at best. This is not the main concept of this article,
but it cannot be ignored if you wish to fully understand its content.
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Chuckles
for March 26, 2024
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Four
For Why CNS Matters
And It’s not just Great Golf
Opening Day Sunday at IATA's Cargo Network Services (CNS) Partnership
Conference April 14-16.
This is
the 33rd CNS gathering and it is at The Gaylord Resort & Convention
Center, in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
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Vol.
23 No. 13 Wednesday
March 19,
2024 |
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I
Got The Horse Right Here
So, what do you do whilst in Hong
Kong to top the greatest, most well attended meeting in IATA Cargo
history?
I mean did World Cargo Symposuim
2024 blow the doors off Hong Kong Expo Center or what?
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Ingo
On The Road Again
We have been tracking the movements
of “Road-Meister" Ingo Zimmer, CEO ATC Aviation Services
AG, who in the last month alone has appeared in Mumbai, Addis Ababa,
São Paulo and all last week in Hong Kong at International Air
Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium.
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Chuckles
for March 19, 2024
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An
Education In Many Languages
Tervetuloa! That
is how you would be received by Airport College, Helsinki, if they
offered their courses only in Finnish. No worries, the institution
we are presenting today boasts over 30 ready-to-use online eLearning
courses available worldwide 24/7 in many languages including English,
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Finnish, French, Thai, Spanish and more
to come.
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Letter
From Brandon Fried
Hey Geoffrey,
Thanks for
reaching out and for your interest in our efforts!
As
for Michael Steen's comment at the WCS in Hong Kong about greater
engagement with legislators on sustainability, he's definitely got
a point. While we're actively working on sustainability initiatives,
there's always room for more collaboration, especially with lawmakers.
We're all about being proactive, and our new Environmental Sustainability
Committee is a testament to that.
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Vol.
23 No. 12 Wednesday
March 13,
2024 |
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IATA
ONE Record Priority
Brendan Sullivan, International
Air Transport Association (IATA) Global Head of Cargo with the people
that brought IATA World Cargo Symposium to Hong Kong, led the charge
Tuesday March 12 where the news was as big as the audience itself.
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Think
Tank IATA WCS
One of the highlights of any really
fine conference aside from networking and sessions, (and if you’re
really lucky this week at IATA WCS Hong Kong a bit of local color
experience to remember this jewel of a destination) are the ideas
and friends; and maybe one or two new ideas that will endure, that
you pick up along the way.
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Chuckles
for March 13, 2024
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Three
Words Big Story At HACTL
At
WCS 2024 Hong Kong this week if there were Skytypers writing across
the sky above the throng gathered below at HK Expo Center, the words,
like the focus of HACTL would be:
“Digitalization,
Safety & Sustainability.”
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A
Great Day For The Irish
Celebrate St. Patrick’s
Day with these words as you raise your glass to friends and family:
May the road rise up to meet you
And may the wind always be at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And the raindrops fall soft upon your
fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the small of his
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Vol.
23 No. 11 Wednesday
March 5,
2024 |
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On
The Road Again
On The Road Again with a great story
to tell including being named “Best GSSA by Ethiopian Airlines
Cargo “ up in the air somewhere from Mumbai to Addis Ababa to
São Paulo
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Wim
Will Always Be A Winner
Our colleague Willem Sonneveldt
passed away on Tuesday, February 27, at the age of 74.
Wim worked a long time as Director Airfreight at Ziegler
Netherlands, served many years in the Board of the Dutch Airfreight
Forwarders Association (NVVL) and later, on behalf of ACN Air Cargo
Netherlands and the Dutch Forwarders Association Fenex, in the International
Air Transport Association (IATA)-FIATA International Federation of
Freight Forwarders Associations Consultative Council (IFCC) and the
Air Cargo Program Joint Council.
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Vol.
23 No. 10 Wednesday
February 28,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 28, 2024
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Can't
Anybody Here Play This Game?
Greek theatre saw its climax with
the establishment of catharsis, when the difficult plot of the play,
often a tragedy, was resolved through the phenomenon of anagnorisis,
or agnition. In time, the initially simple stage process got jumbled,
as reaching the climax through the agnition was becoming more and
more difficult. But theatre in ancient Greece was no trinket, it was
a very important affair, with big political implications. Can we say
. . . it was their equivalent to our television?
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Buffalo
Cargo Delivering At Jet Speed
“We join a very small
group of companies (in modern times) that can say they’ve flown
DC-3s and B737s,” says, Mikey McBryan General Manager Buffalo
Airways in Yellowknife on Northwest Territories-based radio station
Cabin Radio.
Hay River-based Buffalo
acquired the 737-300SF saying the purchase was necessary because existing
freight connections into the NWT cannot keep up with next-day demand.
Freight carried by Buffalo mostly arrives in the Northwest Territories
by truck. Cargo is then loaded onto the airline’s DC-3 and C-46
aircraft, some of them 80 plus years old, for onward travel to the
territory’s smaller communities.
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Vol.
23 No. 9 Thursday
February 22,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 22, 2024
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Oman
Air Cargo Ready
Right now central to a plan to develop
itself into the here and now of the future, Oman Air Cargo has launched
flights from its capitol Muscat to several new destinations across
India via a newly added B737-8 freighter.
The connections and can-do of the national carrier of the
Sultanate of Oman are increasingly coming to the attention of smart
logisticians everywhere.
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Vol.
23 No. 8 Thursday
February 15,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 15, 2024
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No
Mood Indigo For Ingo
Can you imagine something more buoyant
than this? You are in the air and this is your message: “Hi
Geoffrey, this message reaches you from 10.000 m above Turkey on my
way to Mumbai thanks to LH FlyNet®.”
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Mardi
Gras
The big party for “Fat
Tuesday”, Mardi Gras in New Orleans and in other places in USA
and around the world was yesterday. Yesterday Ash Wednesday began
Lent that ends with the celebration of Easter Sunday March 31, 2024.
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Vol.
23 No. 7 Tuesday
February 13,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 13, 2024
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Pharma
Not Just Dry Ice In A Box
Jennifer L. Haigh, United Cargo
Head Of Specialty Products, Americas is thinking “Small”
when the big subject is "Pharma".
“Pharma today is smaller shipments with shorter lead
time in small dosages that can add up millions of dollars in value..
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What
Happens When The Sea Turns Red
Today the Red Sea is a place
where maritime trade gets into a lot of trouble. You can turn the
puzzle around one thousand times, but the riddle is difficult to unfold.
And it is not the first time. I have personally lived through another
three or four similar periods in which the Suez Canal and/or the Red
Sea became difficult or blocked for ships with traded goods, and each
and every time the consequences of such obstruction ignited waves
and ripples in the economy that conditioned our development for a
number of years.
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Letter
From Hong Kong
Kung Hei Fat Choi to all readers
as we say goodbye to the Rabbit and hello to the Dragon, ushering
in a whole New Year of opportunity in China and around the world from
Hong Kong.
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Vol.
23 No. 6 Friday
February 9,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 9, 2024
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QR
Cargo Freshens Fruit
Biggest most important event held
anywhere we think during February is Fruit Logistica going on this
week iin Berlin February 7-9.
Here Day 1 of Fruit Logistica 2024 Qatar Airways Cargo Team
in Hall 26 Booth H49 show strength as to how important this show has
become.
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Year
Of The Dragon In The Wings
Here is our Bob Rogers getting
ready for International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s World Cargo
Symposium being held next month in Hong Kong March 12-14.
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Beatles
Day At JFK
It was 60 years ago on February
7, that the Beatles arrived at JFK!
It
has already been ten years since FlyingTypers published one
of our most popular pieces. It is rare enough that articles from an
air cargo publication get reshared among Beatles fan groups and sites
but this one touched Pan Am alumni, aviation buffs and others who
agreed they’d never read anything quite like it about one of
the most researched phenomena of the past century.
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Vol.
23 No. 5 Tuesday
February 6,
2024 |
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Chuckles
for February 6, 2024 |
ATC
At aircargo India
Ingo Zimmer, CEO of ATC Aviation
Services AG, the greatest GSSA in the world who also takes centerstage
as a notable lover in attendance at aircargo India, which, as it happens
kicks off in Mumbai on Valentine's Day February 14.
Did
Tata Wistron India Takeover Get The Right Number?
Air India is looking at cargo
to write the words for its celebratory song. The Tata Group-led India’s
national carrier recently started operating six Boeing 777s (Air India
has ordered 470 Airbus and Boeing aircraft and deliveries will start
in 2025). These widebodies will be helped by temperature-controlled
transport solutions and bonded trucking services and will provide
competition to the foreign carriers that have been predominant in
the transportation of cargo from India. FT has often pointed out that
foreign carriers handle around 85-90 per cent of the exim air cargo
business from India.
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