Kale Founder Proves More Is More
      Some people like to say “less is more.”
      But a couple of years ago when I started writing about Kale Logistics Solutions we were privileged to get to know, albeit from a distance, Amar More, CEO of the company and a main driver in dreaming up a better way to move cargo via the Kale Airport Cargo Community System.

Veteran's Day 2024
      Now it is Veterans Day USA November 11, 2024 and once again am thinking about D-Day in Europe 1944, and how it was celebrated earlier this year as the old veteran soldiers emerged from a Delta Air Lines flight onto a hardstand, in France where a couple dozen wheel chairs whisked them to the battlefields of Normandy where once upon a time they had fought their way onto the beach.

Three Questions For Peter Penseel
      As TIACA Air Cargo Forum meets in Miami next week, a sought after new addition to the top management scheme at a major airline, that everybody is wondering about is Peter Penseel who landed in Atlanta as SVP and President Delta Cargo on June 1, 2024.

United Cargo Decade of Jan Krems
      As Jan Krems, President United Airlines Cargo approaches a decade atop the U.S. giant legacy combination airline, we spend a few minutes here with Jan prior to his appearance next week at The TIACA Air Cargo Forum taking place at The Miami Convention Center.

No Halting Haltmayers
      QCS-Quick Cargo Service based in Frankfurt founded in 1974 celebrates 50 years in business during 2024, but perhaps the bigger story here is that Quick Cargo founder Dieter Haltmayer, who has been in evidence at the company since he founded it, will be front and center celebrating his 90th birthday (October 31) at a big party in his honor November 2, at the Frankfurt Kempinski Hotel.

Lionel van der Walt Goes Digital
      Lionel van der Walt has headlined world air cargo news often for his service as President of IATA Cargo Network Services (CNS) and at onset as part of the team that changed logistics forever at PayCargo.
Today based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lionel emerges in 2024 as Chief Commercial Officer for Nallian charged with developing strategic partnerships.

United Cargo New Portal
      United Airlines Cargo can handle whatever, whenever is the core message October 8 as the Chicago-based wunderkind global cargo resource further rolls out “a new online booking experience.”
      “Booking online is about to become even easier,” UA said on its website as “WebCargo and United Cargo have developed a new online booking portal intended to enhance United Cargo’s website offering to freight forwarders.

Bright Ideas During A Port Strike
Automation Makes People More Efficient
      Dock strike does not leave the best and the brightest in air cargo speechless.
      Here are thoughts and strategies for moving cargo during the U.S. dockworkers strike, which is halting half the nation's ocean shipping.
Donna Mullins of Kale Logistics Solutions is an industry veteran with close to four decades of experience in the logistics and supply chain industry. She has held key positions in airlines, freight forwarding and customs brokering firms.

FIATA At Panama Crossing
      The theme of this year’s FIATA World Congress in Panama is: The Great Connection.
      I admit I have seldom heard a more appropriate, imaginative and yet concise motto for a FIATA event, and I have seen many of these slogans in my many years with FIATA. Connection is indeed the guiding principle in our work. What are forwarders doing in the end? Scout, establish and exploit each and every connecting opportunity that exists in the international trade, be it human, mechanical, digital, geographical or in any other form or manner. We are indeed “connecting” people with their goods, wherever they come from. Perhaps this could be another way of looking at freight forwarding services . . .

Messe Muenchen Readies Istanbul Acquires Air Cargo Americas
      “Supply chain security, which has been questioned again under pandemic conditions, brings Turkey and Istanbul to the forefront,” said Ekin Seren Ünsaç, Deputy General Manager of EKO Fair Organization, the organizer of International logitrans Transport Logistics Fair that meets this November 20-22 in Istanbul for the 15th time.

John's Pizzeria No Slices
      This week I celebrated my 83rd birthday, and I’d like to share a story with you, dear readers. It has little to do with air cargo, but I take this exception as a birthday privilege.
      Sometimes in life, you find that close relationships with which you’ve kept almost constant contact begin to slowly diminish to an occasional card or letter, or worse—evaporate into memory altogether. That happened with my great, good friend, Peter Castellotti, who I sadly just learned died July 30th in Staten Island, New York.

Escape From The World Trade Center Chapter 23
      Americans old enough to remember watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
     Now as we recall that sad day, 23 years later, pleased to report that Jim Larsen, 2001 Air Cargo Manager at The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, who was sitting in his office on the 65th floor of Tower One in The World Trade Center when the planes struck, lived to tell his story about the experience in detail.

No Place Like Holm At Frankfurt Airport ACCF Meet
      By now almost everybody knows that Flughafen Frankfurt Airport dominates as Europe's largest air cargo airport and is among the world's top 15.
      With almost 50 percent of the total air cargo volume to and from Germany, FRA plays a central role in global logistics.