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Vol. 16 No. 97 | Friday
December 8, 2017 |
Cargo Network Services Corp. (CNS) and PayCargo have inked a pact to provide a way for the air cargo industry to pay online for imports in the U.S. The Lasting Gift Credit outgoing CNS President
Lionel Van der Walt with engineering this late-year, blockbuster announcement
(pictured here with FlyingTypers Publisher Geoffrey Arend) . The Way It Works PayCargo’s current online solution for Air, Ocean, Trucking, and Warehouses allows shippers to move cargo quicker in a secure, efficient way to reduce costs associated with payment processing. PayCargo eliminates the traditional resource-intensive system of requesting, printing, mailing, or delivering checks, wire transfers, or cash, with a majority of the vendors releasing the cargo within an hour after receiving the “Payment Approval” alert from PayCargo. Just For Instance With the PayCargo-CNS System importers can make online payments within minutes and the payment data will flow to the airline immediately, allowing the importer to pick up their cargo at the airport facility within one (1) hour for a simple flat fee of $5.00 per transaction. The airlines will receive their funds from PayCargo-CNS overnight and see their funds in their bank account the next morning. The Natural As PayCargo’s
fame and client list has grown across transportation, PayCargo CEO Eduardo
Del Riego (pictured above) has been called a visionary leader. He applauds
the CNS cooperation: |
Most indicators suggest the market hit new highs in recent months and ‘peak air’ could last through to Chinese New Year in February. But some forwarders report a slight easing of demand in early December. C’est Magnifique Why the French? Well, it is almost a New
Year and nearing the time to pop some bubbly, celebrate, and live a little
as we report: “The latest air freight data on rates and volumes
points to a magnificent Q4—unless, that is, you were caught in the
perfect demand storm without enough space to airlift product to market
in time for the holidays.” YoY Up Times 14 “For the fourteenth month in succession,
the industry showed a year-over-year (YoY) growth well above 5 percent,
easily outpacing the growth in world trade,” said WorldACD. “And
the records set in October are almost certain to be broken when November
figures are in.” Driving High Tech The main market drivers in October included
impressive yield growth from Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia,
and high volume growth from Europe—from and to North America, and
to Central and South America. “Looking at the Top-20 origin countries,
we noticed a more than average YoY volume growth in parts of the USA (Atlantic
South +19.1 percent, and Midwest +14.4 percent), Vietnam (+16.6 percent),
Australia (+15.9 percent), Japan (+12.3 percent), the UK (+10.4 percent),
Spain (+8.6 percent) and Germany (+7.6 percent),” reported WorldACD.
“Lagging behind were such diverse origins as Taiwan (-8.8 percent),
the Netherlands (+1.5 percent), China East (+2.9 percent), and India (+3.7
percent).” IATA Positive But Hedges Cautious
IATA’s figures for October largely matched those of WorldACD, with
demand measured in freight ton kilometers (FTKs) up 5.9 percent year-on-year.
Although this represented a slowdown from the 9.2 percent annual growth
recorded in September 2017, it still exceeded the average annual growth
rate of 3.2 percent over the past decade. October also proved the 15th
consecutive month that demand growth outstripped capacity growth; global
capacity expanded just 3.7 percent year-on-year in October. The Beat Goes On Drewry also expects the rest of Q4 to
remain buoyant. “Based on seasonal trends and anecdotal reports,
Drewry expects airfreight rates to increase further in November,”
added the analyst. Slowdown at The Hoedown Throwdown? There are also signs of a slight slowdown
in loadings in Asia. “The cost of air freight has dropped for the
last two weeks, and the overall situation has improved quite a bit, but
for large volume of movement we are still having some difficulty [finding
space],” Paul Tsui, managing director of Hong Kong-based forwarding
and logistics operator Janel Group, told FlyingTypers in the
second week of December. Continues To Seek Peak Lucas Kuehner, Panalpina’s Head
of Global Air Freight, said ‘peak air’ could last beyond the
first week of December, the traditional point where things start to slow
down. “It’s really difficult to forecast,” he added.
“But I would not be surprised if, due to e-commerce stocking up
in the second half of December and thereby creating a kind of vacuum for
heavy freight, the peak went right into January and only slowed down after
Chinese New Year. I think there’s a chance this might happen. At
least, that's what we are prepared for.” |
Come
January, Delhi will host the largest Association of South East Asia Nations
(ASEAN) India business and investment summit. Good Time To Celebrate The January 2018 Delhi Summit comes at
a very crucial time for both India and ASEAN. With the belligerent Chinese
dragon breathing down India’s neck, Narendra Modi has been reaching
out to ASEAN leaders to invite them for India’s 69th Republic Day
celebrations. All Signs Point Upward According to a study by the Economic Research
Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), an enhanced ASEAN-India connectivity
could result in gains of over five percent of gross domestic product (GDP)
for Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, while India’s GDP
would gain more than two percent. |
It has been 76 years since December 7, 1941, and the
people of that time are in their late 70s and older, but a gravestone
still marks the resting place of 7 unknowns from the USS Oklahoma at the
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. |
Of course, everybody wants to know what will happen in 2018 and there seem to be no shortage of prognosticators willing to let loose on the subject. But for those people looking for a sure thing, here is one. The Super Moon that debuted above us on December 3 is the first of a series of three Super Moons that will appear between now and January 31st. The second full Super Moon will occur just as 2018 begins, on January 1st, and then the third Super Moon will occcur on the last day of January 2018, lighting up the night sky as February 2018 begins. So keep looking up throughout this bright holiday season, wherever you are. |
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