High fashion still seems to be in fashion in the airfreight arena, as Etihad Cargo announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with forwarder Trinity Logistics USA, Inc., to operate a weekly widebody freighter service to deliver couture clothing items from Sri Lanka to Rickenbacker International Airport (LCK) in Columbus, U.S. After experimenting with[…]
MIAMI — Key business functions are turning into commodities, “where it basically does not matter to the shipper who is selling, as the product is so interchangeable,” said Phillip von Mecklenburg-Blumenthal, head of U.S. operations for Freightos at yesterday’s ELEVATE 2016 presentation. “Think of milk or gas in your daily life,” he suggested. As a[…]
MIAMI — Air Cargo World’s first-ever ELEVATE 2016 conference kicked off in grand style here yesterday, as Monika Wiederhold, vice president of product management and innovation at Lufthansa Cargo, told the audience that successful innovators need to ignore the immediate legal and logistical hurdles, and rather concentrate on “securing the future.” During a live “Fireside[…]
Last Friday, AirBridgeCargo, the scheduled-service subsidiary of Russia-based Volga-Dnepr group took delivery of its tenth 747-8F, during a ceremony held at Seattle’s SeaTac Airport. Though freighter deliveries are a frequent occurrence, AirBridge’s growth and success is closely interlinked with the future of the 747 program and thus deserves recognition. As Boeing’s backlog for the jumbo-freighter[…]
Is there an air cargo executive you wish to nominate who has been head-and-shoulders above the rest in the last year? We at Air Cargo World want to know about it for our upcoming Air Cargo Executive of the Year award. But time is running out: Nominations are due no later than Thursday, Oct. 13. The 2016[…]
In June, Nobutoshi Torii assumed the role of president and CEO of Japanese forwarder Kintetsu World Express, Inc. (KWE). As a 34-year veteran of KWE, Torii has held numerous roles at the company, beginning in sales for the export airfreight forwarding office in Nagoya, and most recently serving as president, CEO and general manager of[…]
