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24 No. 28 Monday
June 16, 2025 |
Between Infrastructure And Tariff Where Is Trade?
Those who were in Munich recently for Transport Logistic Munich know that international trade, which is the main engine behind global logistics, is thriving on one side, whilst running its greatest risks at the same time. Clearly some of those in the attendance were not comfortable with the ‘elephant in the room’,
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Action/Reaction Transport Logistic Munich 2025
Kept looking at the people in the opening day photo from this year’s Transport Logistic Munich, and when the final numbers came in they were no surprise.
The show that rocks the world of logistics is back operating in high gear to record crowds after pandemic and global upheaval.
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Delta Cargo Expands B767-400 On Ice
Delta Cargo said that it has added Dry Ice Limitations for 767-400 aircraft effective June 2025 from a previous limit 100 lbs (45kg) to 2,000 lbs (907kg).
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Brian Wilson Thanks For The Music
Brian Wilson, the music man of Summer died June 11 at 82 years of age.
When I knew him The Beach Boys were part of my beat during the early 1970s when, just before I began writing about air cargo, I was creating a club and pop music column for The Hollywood Reporter.
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24 No. 27 Thursday
June 5, 2025 |
Brandon Fried Where Do We Go From Here?
Early June 2025 and big thoughts from leading global logisticians are rolling around the cavernous halls of the Munich Germany Convention Center as Transport Logistic and Air Cargo Europe continues through June 5.
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Ram Menon Jr. Wallenborn Group COO
Somebody once said that "The Apple Doesn't Fall Too Far From The Tree".
That phrase came to mind as we learned today in Munich that Ram Menon Jr. with a successful ACE Munich under his belt was just named Chief Operating Officer for the Wallenborn Group.
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Hire Up Says Vaughn Moore About AIT Worldwide Logistics
Vaughn Moore, CEO of Chicago-based AIT Worldwide Logistics is at Transport Logistic segment of the big show in Munich that opened June 2.
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Chuckles for June 5, 2025
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Air One Scholten ShowAt Munich
At Air Cargo Europe this week, the all-cargo pro for every season, Peter Scholten, Chief Commercial Officer for Air One Aviation is in Hall A1 Booth 112.
Air One was established in 2009 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
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Francesco Parisi Four Plus Centuries Going Strong
Here is Francesco Parisi pictured here with his son, Matteo attending a Munich Air Cargo Europe event.
Francesco Parisi Casa di Spedizioni S.p.A. is a Shipping and Freight Forwarding Group of Companies established in Trieste and operating in Central Europe since 1807.
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24 No. 26 Tuesday
June 3, 2025 |
Doing More With More
In particular, but not exclusively, in Europe we have spent a number of years burdened by the expectation of “doing more with less”. This was our politicians’ abstraction taken from a famous Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe’s statement, made within the architectural milieu in the beginning of last century. Buckminster Fuller had also complemented this concept in 1938 by theorizing the use of technology to reduce the most labour intensive activities.
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As Easy As ATC
Ingo Zimmer, CEO ATC Aviation Services with his team above leads into the big show at Air Cargo Europe, where the access for attendees will find the Frankfurt-based powerhouse comfortably situate in major space at the event.
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EMO Trans Marks 60 Years
EMO Trans Marks 60 Years 2025 Let’s face it, in business, as perhaps everywhere else, it’s good to know where you have been, especially in plotting a course as time goes by to arriving at where you want to be.
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Chuckles for June 3, 2025
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24 No. 24 Thursday
May 15, 2025 |
Kale Logistics USA Five-Year Journey
As CNS Partnership continues in Miami, Florida with meetings and networking galore, here we spend a few minutes with Donna Mullins.
Although Donna, as you read this, is enjoying a well-earned vacation, she is always a vital engaging factor at trade shows and events.
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ATC Says Take A Load Off
Ingo Zimmer, CEO of All-Star GSSA ATC Aviation Services AG is waiting to see you in Miami at Cargo Network Services Corp. (CNS) Partnership Conference.
Just like any top executive in air cargo today, he is fixing in his mind what will be said about the condition and power of his GSSA as it moves inexorably to the very top in every measurable estimation of quality and service.
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Mr. Lufthansa Remembered
Jürgen Weber, former CEO of Lufthansa and co-founder of Star Alliance has passed away at the age of 83.
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Mother's Day Come What May
I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful and loving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our local super business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazine ad for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a Dorothy Dress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. The picture here tells you the story better than a thousand words.
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24 No. 23 Wednesday
May 14, 2025 |
Brandon Fried CNS Role in U.S. Trade
At Cargo Network Services Conference going on right now in Miami came rarity just out of the gate as Brandon Fried, the erstwhile President of the important U.S.-based Airforwarders Association (AfA) struck a critical chord in the air cargo discussion with some background and keen advice on navigating the changing business climate in 2025
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CNS Week And Building Air Cargo
The 34th CNS Partnership Conference takes off this week May 13-15 at the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa, in Miami.
Miami native Alicia Lines was appointed as President of Cargo Network Services on January 7, 2025.; we shall share some of her thoughts here.
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Jason Berry Alaska/Horizon The Power To Pivot
Jason Berry “Mr. Air Cargo” at Alaska Air, for many seasons, got upped last September to Executive Vice President at the Alaska Air Group, Inc. parent company level, while also maintaining his role as President of Horizon Air.
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24 No. 22 Monday
May 5, 2025 |
Meanwhile In Abu Dhabi
Meanwhile, just down the road a piece in Abu Dhabi, while the air cargo business enjoyed Dubai on the half-shell for a couple days at the IATA World Cargo Symposium in April 14-17, Stanislas Brun, Chief Cargo Officer of Etihad Cargo has been working away at integrating Etihad Cargo into an operational and commercial powerhouse, with focus on enhancing efficiency, elevating service quality and driving sustainable growth. |
Reflections On WCS 2025
With Dubai feeling in the rearview mirror it's time to reflect a little on WCS 2025.
Digitalization was one of the three key agenda items so it was not surprising that you could hardly throw a stone anywhere in the event without hitting somebody or something on this particular subject. But at the same time this is an industry that seems to observe the status quo, one notable comment from the concluding session “Innovation Showcase” was “this industry needs to get better at letting things go,” a remark that resonated for me.
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Chuckles for May 5, 2025
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The Brandon Fried Story
Brandon Fried came to mind the other day watching Max Fried a classy southpaw pitcher, who as baseball 2025 moves into May, is a New York Yankee, undefeated at 5-0.
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Jewels In The Crown
We are situate inside our rooms we branded "North Beach Club", at an after work prayer meeting, upstairs inside The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport.
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo
In 1862 France at war with Mexico, fought a battle at the Batalla de Puebla and on the fifth day of May 1862, Napoleon III’s army was defeated by General Ignacio Zaragoza.
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24 No. 21 Wednesday
April 16, 2025 |
A Flipping Great Show In Dubai
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Watching And Learning IATA Style
So once again the IATA WCS show rolled into a big shipping hub, with Dubai looking to upstage last year’s event in Hong Kong . . .
During the opening press conference Willie Walsh, when asked how he felt about the prospects for air cargo over the coming few months, replied in a very confident tone that the start of the year had gone very well and “this is a very adaptable industry.
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Chuckles for April 16, 2025
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Jeffrey Van Haeften An Overview
Geoffrey Arend of Air Cargo News (that’s me, folks!) met Jeffrey Van Haeften, Senior Vice President of Commercial, Emirates SkyCargo, just before IATA’s WCS in Dubai in the springtime.
Originally it was an interview, but in the end it became something more thoughtful and unexpected and it is best told as a short essay. With our readers’ support we give you Van Haeften’s views on air cargo, trade events and beyond, in first person(s).
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Robert van de Weg Will Deliver
If you are not satisfied with the status quo and you wish to have something better for yourself and others, you could say in Spanish that you want “màs” i.e. more. In this instant interview with Robert van de Weg, the new CEO at mas, in Mexico – and Mexico is a Spanish speaking country – you have a glimpse on why mas actually means more for its customers.
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24 No. 20 Tuesday
April 15, 2025 |
Pictures At An Exhibition
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Matt And A Great Doggone Ride
Matthieu Casey, Managing Director Commercial Cargo joined Air Canada a dozen plus years ago, but he has been in aviation for more than 30 years, 15 of which were in Cargo.
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Issa Baluch Once A Swift Operator
In my time spent in Geneva for the spring FIATA Headquarters, on an invitation extended by Geoffrey Arend I managed to dine with Issa Baluch, a person who will not fail to be recognized by those working in transport and logistics. Issa and I share the same age and parallel paths in life, in particular within FIATA. |
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24 No. 19 Sunday
April 13, 2025 |
Dubai Saved An Air Cargo Asset
Not sure if H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum of Dubai, the chief force behind Emirates Airlines will cut the ribbon at IATA WCS, the big cargo show in town this week, but I remember standing with him, when he visited the TIACA show in Seattle, Washington in 1994.
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Air Cargo Going Where Exactly? Reflecting On IATA Op-Ed
April 2025 will not go down in history for being peaceful and unexciting. This probably means that delegates travelling to Dubai on April 15th for IATA’s WCS will come to the event with a bunch of burning questions. Choosing the timing for an event is a skilful exercise; agendas will remain in conflict no
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Up Close Delta's Peter Penseel
Peter Penseel joined Delta in June 2024, responsible for leading the Cargo Commercial division with a focus on driving revenue and profitable growth, delivering industry-leading customer service and ensuring operational excellence within Delta’s Cargo business.
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IATA FIATA Can Join Forces
“Thriving in an uncertain future” is the subtitle of one of the event streams at IATA’s WCS in Dubai and it captures everyone’s attention today with this message: “Aviation is committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, including the air cargo sector. At the World Cargo Symposium, Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA’s Chief Economist and SVP, Sustainability, put this challenge into context.”
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ICAO Cargo Debut Roaring Success
Ask Amar More Kale Logistics Solutions Founder and guiding spirit who just attended ICAO’s first ever Global Air Cargo Summit at Istanbul April 9-11 about that organization moving into organized air cargo events and the erstwhile executive always on the go in between flights onto Dubai for World Cargo Symposium that kicks off on Monday April 14 puts it this way:
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24 No. 18 Thursday
April 10, 2025 |
FIATA IATA In Merry Go Around
“This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today.”
That is the sequence of verses that David Bowie made immoral in his 1969 hit song “Space Oddity”. Whenever I think of flights, aircraft, air cargo, freighters, ULD’s, pallets, you name it, I get dragged into a sort of ground control to Major Tom feeling. I enter the capsule with great hopes, but then I often find myself stranded in outer space with many, many questions, “one hundred thousand miles” from home.
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Pre-Tariff Deadline Freighter Flights
How about exhaling for a double entendre ?
"You know why right now everybody is investing in Ireland?
"The Capital is always Dublin!"
But back to where the rubber meets the road, or rolls down the runway
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Chuckles for April 10, 2025
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Marie Epstein's Birthday
April 8 was Marie Epstein's Birthday.
Great lady of air cargo (retired) . . . Pioneered herself into the heads and hearts of an entire industry. Many happy's, always, dear Marie.
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24 No. 17 Tuesday
April 8, 2025 |
Indian Tariffs No Fooling
On April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump with "friendly" reciprocal tariffs celebrated “liberating day” in the White House Rose Garden stating, “we’re getting back some of the wealth that very, very foolish Presidents gave away because they had no clue what they were doing.”
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Autonomous Ramp Tugs @ Hong Kong International
Unless for some reason you have been on the front lines out on the ramp at Airport Authority Hong Kong, you are probably unaware of the silent revolution going on as this airport embraces autonomous self-driving vehicles.
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We Shipped A Small Package From China
Recently after a series of articles we published (here) and (here) on the subject of De Minimis, we created a shipment to measure what impact if any, a small package moving from Hong Kong China to New York City might encounter?
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When Human Beings Talk Humanitarianism
Somewhere between the mechanical bull and an opulent sumptuous gathering in Dallas, Texas Early in March 2025, several sessions at AirCargo Conference did manage to get down to where the rubber meets the road for the three unique host associations including Air & Expedited Motor Carriers Conference (AEMCA), Airports Operators Council North America (ACI-NA), and Airforwarders Association (AfA).
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Love This Show More & More Every Year
Came across an uplifting post on Linkedin and thought to share it here with some additional thoughts of the recently concluded AirCargo Conference in Dallas, Texas.
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