A view from the cargo door of an MD-11 freighter being unloaded on the tarmac at Port-au-Prince. SOUTHWESTERN HAITI — When Hurricane Matthew came ashore on this island nation in early October, Dr. Anke Brugmann was running an orphanage in the village of Beaumont, in Grand’Anse, a municipality the Haitians call a “department.” In the[…]
Brandon Fried is the executive director of the U.S. Airforwarders Association American baseball star Yogi Berra once said that when you get to a fork in the road, take it. His quote recently came to mind while listening to speakers at the recent Air Cargo Forum, sponsored by The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) in[…]
Our sister publication, Cargo Facts, reports on the latest good news from Netherlands-based WorldACD, which reported a 6.2 percent rise, year-over-year, in air cargo demand for the month of October, plus other indicators that the peak season for 2016 will be a robust one for airfreight logistics companies. Source: aircargoworld
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings will operate a 747-400F for Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) on a CMI basis, beginning January 2017, with the option for more aircraft in the future. The initial contract provides for one aircraft to be flown along key global routes across the transpacific, connecting Asia and the United States. Under a CMI[…]
Jens Bjørn Andersen When large companies go through a merger, months can seem like years, even when there are no major bumps in the road. When Air Cargo World recently spoke with Jens Bjørn Andersen, CEO of Denmark-based forwarder DSV, the weariness and relief were evident in his voice as he described the long but[…]
Rumors had been fluttering around all spring and summer of 2015, but the gravity of the situation at DHL-Global Forwarding, Freight (DHL-GFF), didn’t hit home until August. That’s when the company announced that it was “temporarily suspending” the rollout its new, comprehensive IT management system, the New Forwarding Environment (NFE). In early spring, the CEO[…]
