BERLIN — Air cargo has an image problem. That was the central message from Peter Gerber, the CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. In cargo transport, a small percentage of overall volume is carried by air, but that cargo is also a high percentage of value of all cargo transported. Gerber during remarks yesterday at the 2016 World[…]
BERLIN — IATA’s senior economist George Anjaparidze provided a sobering, but still hopeful, outlook for global air cargo markets in his Plenary Session presentation “When Will Growth Return?” at the 2016 World Cargo Symposium here yesterday. The answer to the question in the speech’s title might be “eventually, but not as much as you’d hoped.”[…]
Cargo Facts, our sister pubication, is excited to announce two new speakers to be featured at Cargo Facts Asia 2016 in Hong Kong next month. The explosive growth of e-commerce is fueling the biggest revolution in the air freight and express industry in decades, and nowhere is the impact of this revolution bigger than in China, where[…]
After a tumultuous year that included a €336 million write down for a failed IT system rollout, the Deutsche Post DHL Group is moving full-steam ahead with greater confidence in 2016. Consolidated EBIT for the full year 2015 was €2.41 billion, almost exactly the group’s target of €2.40 billion for the year, but less than[…]
One would think that Lufthansa Cargo is preparing to conquer the world with all of the new routes and destinations the carrier is adding when its summer schedule kicks in March 27. For starters, a weekly freighter service to Moscow will be added. An MD-11F has already been flying every Monday from Frankfurt to Moscow’s[…]
Singapore’s Changi Airport and six companies who are active in pharmaceutical handling are planning to work toward attaining IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validator’s (CEIV) certification according to the Singapore Business Review. This is the first initiative of its kind in Asia. The CEIV program was created to improve the operational and preparedness procedures[…]
