A lion’s head and skin from an East African safari expedition sits on display in the club's trophy room in New York. It was donated to The Explorers Club sometime between 1908 and 1910 by former U.S. president, big game hunter, conservationist, and adventurer Theodore Roosevelt.
     An international outcry has erupted since an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month.
     Delta Air Lines said it has banned carrying trophy animals effective immediately.

     Well, it seems enough oblivious big-game hunters have posed ridiculously with the innocent animals they have killed to anger the entirety of the world. We’re finally full-up on murderous idiots.
     On July 1, 2015, a 13-year-old lion named Cecil—one of the main attractions at Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, and an integral subject of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit—was surreptitiously led off park grounds and then unceremoniously killed—his body skinned and his head removed—by an American dentist and recreational hunter named Walter Palmer.
     The backlash was swift and merciless. Walter Palmer’s dental office was shuttered, his clients were instructed to find another dentist, and his office’s Yelp page became a battleground of angry reviewers.      Dr. Palmer quickly went underground. Conservationists, animal lovers, activists, celebrities—it seemed everyone in the world sided (rightly so) with Cecil.
     And now you can add Delta Air Lines to the list.
     Earlier today, in response to a SumOfUs.org petition that received more than 250,000 signatures,      Delta announced a worldwide ban on the shipment of “all lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and water buffalo trophies as freight.” Delta also received an open letter demanding change signed by over 4,000 Delta SkyMiles Frequent Fliers.
     Delta said, “Prior to this ban, [our] strict acceptance policy called for absolute compliance with all government regulations regarding protected species. Delta will also review acceptance policies of other hunting trophies with appropriate government agencies and other organizations supporting legal shipments.”
     SumOfUs.org’s Campaigns Director Paul Ferris issued the following statement: "Airlines and other large travel corporations would be foolish to ignore the public reaction to the killing of Cecil the lion, and growing concern about the plight of endangered species. We are glad to see Delta Air Lines using its unique position to help end trophy hunting and protect critically endangered species.”
     “Now other airlines need to do the same, and stop putting endangered species at risk around the world. It's clear their customers won't continue to tolerate companies that profit off the trafficking of these threatened animals."
     The sum of us, indeed.
Flossie Arend

For our earlier story on Trophy Transport Bans Click here.

     We Like Mike!
     And not just because he was an Oldsmobile salesman before joining United Airlines Cargo 28 years ago.
     My memories forever linger on my Grandfather Stowell, a pioneer auto salesman, as he worked out in the barn behind our home in Sylvania, Ohio, fixing up his 1928 Oldsmobile, which was built 50 miles north up in Detroit. In the shadowy light of the barn, it was my Grandmother Flossie who held the lantern as he worked on the darkened engine.
     So to learn in 2015 that Mike Oslansky was connected to a now long-gone American icon, which branded one automobile model “Rocket 88,” before moving to a career in air cargo, certainly tickles our nostalgia.
     Maybe even better is the knowledge that Mike has moved easily into becoming the consummate air cargo professional, one galaxy at time.
     Also, despite a track record at UA Cargo that includes what amounts to earning a doctorate in the step-by-step, on-the-job education in the art of shipping by air, today Mike radiates the attitude and zeal of a “young mobile.”
     Mike moved from serving as an account executive at United Cargo from April 1987 to April 1997 to his post today as director, U.S. Cargo Operations, where he started on June 15.
     Along the way he has served as program director for UC360, the cargo IT program, focused on Phase 2 planning.
     Mike has served as manager - Cargo Customer Service; manager, Product Development; sales manager; and corporate account manager at UA Cargo, among other postings at the carriers.
     A young mobile from Oldsmobile works for us, and apparently United Cargo as well.
Geoffrey

In the picture . . . back row, standing left to right: Matt Kmet, Kennon Carter, Eric Lefebvre, Robin Finke, and Stacie Countryman. Front row, seated left to right: Sheryl Jones, April Terry, Eric Poujol, and Kathy Miller.

      Fast growing EMO Trans counts on delivering a top service solution to transportation from 250 offices in 120 countries worldwide.
      In the U.S. the company operates three important corporate competence centers.
      In addition to headquarters in Freeport, New York, EMO fields a center in Los Angeles and also in Atlanta.
      Atlanta corporate functions separately from the Atlanta EMO branch, but its mandate provides major ongoing support to company operations worldwide.
      EMO Atlanta supports Brokerage, Compliance, Ocean Freight, and Route Development to Sales, Marketing, and Administrative matters.
      For example, the Ocean Freight Team of Corporate Ocean Freight Manager Robin Finke, Sheryl Jones Pricing Manager, and Corporate Ocean Export Manager Kennon Carter focuses on operation of several vital company functions, including general procurement and development of global framework agreements for all EMO Trans countries and its vital domestic trucking programs.
      “The corporate ocean team grew from a one-man-show in 2010 that mainly focused on Transpacific business to what is now in 2015 a full department of three covering all directions of the trade,” Robin Finke said.
      At EMO Atlanta Corporate Sheryl Jones gathers all inbound freight rates, getting pricing assistance, and managing weekly allocations for inbound freight across all carriers.
      “Sheryl is the expert on our portfolio of online tools and provides training to our employees,” Robin included.
      Kennon Carter is responsible for all rate procurement and pricing on export lanes from the United States.
      “Kennon’s strong background with EMO Trans as Atlanta’s former Ocean Export Manager is actioning our general ocean product with some innovative thinking, based on his years of hands on service to the trade,” Robin Finke said.

Open Door Policy

      “With ocean freight continuing to be a heavily regulated market, strict adherence to FMC rules and regulations is mandatory.
      “We encourage our service partners with ocean freight needs to reach out to our team.
      "We’re also eager to hear market feedback directly from our customers.
      “Sometimes the best input to service related issues is to simply ask: ‘How are we doing?’” Robin Finke said.

Compliance Solutions

      EMO Atlanta corporate additionally serves as the central support unit for company compliance, making sure the network individually fulfills its internal and external responsibilities whilst moving cargo to and from the U.S.
      Export Compliance Manager Stacie Countryman notes:
      “Administrative Assistant April Terry and I work daily with Director Export Compliance Sven Frigger in our Freeport, New York, corporate office.
      “Our job is to make sure EMO Trans meets or exceeds all TSA requirements dealing with exports.”
Customs Broker Matt Kmet adds that, in addition to providing daily support to the EMO Trans network for import customs compliance, the Atlanta corporate office also oversees participation in customs and trade supply chain security programs such as C-TPAT.
      “We distribute updates on trade, legislation, and Customs and Border Protection mandates as they become available,” he explains.
      “We also perform Customs Compliance Audits for all of EMO Trans CHB offices,” Mr. Kmet.
Geoffrey Arend

     Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation just came out in theaters and features a scene with actor Tom Cruise lashed by his fingertips to the side of a military cargoAirbus A400M turboprop aircraft as it flies all the way up to 5,000 feet.
     “No,” reports Esquire Magazine,”not his stunt double, Cruise himself."
     "I feel that, [with] acting, you're bringing everything physically and emotionally to a character and story."
     Plus, he said, he can do it—so why not? "I've trained for 30 years doing things like this. It allows us to put cameras in places that you're not normally able to do.
     “When I started producing Mission: Impossible, I started developing different action around what I could physically train to do."
     With Rogue Nation, the actor may have finally pushed himself to a place of terror.
     In new, behind-the-scenes footage, Cruise admits that the movie's big plane stunt "scared him shitless."
     If you crave too much aerial action and cannot stand sitting on the sidelines, a UK company called “Into The Blue” is offering customers their very own “Wing Walking Experience,” (right).
     Right now there is still time to book a ride during August for a “Summer Celebration Wing Walk” and it costs only a mere £429.
     Sounds to us like a walk in the heavens at a discount.
     Click here for more information.

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