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’, others simply ignored it. Fact is trade negotiations 2.0 have started and nobody really knows where they are heading.
Transport Logistic takes off June 2-5, at Munich Trade Centre,with Air Cargo Europe , the icing on a giant logistics confab as a partner event, whichmanaged to combine different interests in logistics in order to attract large crowds from all over the world. No one is quite sure how much audience spillover occurs between the venues, which in the case of air cargo organizersclaims more than 262 exhibitors from 46 countries in a gigantic venue of 15,000 meters. But one fact is undeniable: this is ...
I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful andloving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our localsuper business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazinead for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a DorothyDress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. Thepicture here tells you the story better than a thousand words. In addition to some money, we obtained several cases of glass brickdeliver...
GeoffreyArend of Air Cargo News (that’s me, folks!) met Jeffrey Van Haeften, Senior Vice Presidentof Commercial, Emirates SkyCargo, just before IATA’s WCS in Dubai in thespringtime. Originallyit was an interview, but in the end it became something more thoughtful andunexpected and it is best told as a short essay. With our readers’ support wegive you Van Haeften’s views on air cargo, trade events and beyond, in firstperson(s). Jeffrey speaking to Geoffrey . . . “Throughout my career, I have had ...
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After a long journey, as both Italian andSwiss railways decided that this Sunday was the best day for network and equipment maintenance, I arrived in Geneva after dusk. On Monday 17th ofMarch at 9 o’ clock, as sharp as a Swiss clock, the FIATA Headquarters’ meeting began with a rather ambitious programme, harbouring the desire to “provide participants with key market trends and trade developments as well as an external outlook in corridors and logistics in an uncertain environment.”Michael McKay...
Come April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump will becelebrating a “liberating day” because, as he stated, “we’re getting back someof the wealth that very, very foolish Presidents gave away because they had noclue what they were doing.” Is India ready to counter the U.S.’s reciprocal tariffs? As April approaches, the pressing question is not just aboutthe effects of these tariffs, but how to remain protected when PresidentTrump’s reciprocal tariffs take effect on April 2....
Hot topic touching nearly every trade show and ndustry gatherng. Here s what you need to know before those meetngs.
Let us start our in-depth consideration of the de minimis regime with a quote published by Ms. Cindy Allen, CEO of Tradeforcemultiplier: “If the option to utilize de minimis was eliminated for goods, large marketplaces may structure the transactions differently for transportation, sale, and entry declaration to reduce costs. They would consolidate the merchandise on one entry per conveyance. They would establish a U.S. based entity, and a U.S. warehouse location, which some of the large online c...
Here I am between James Brooks the Long Island artist who in 1940-42 painted a huge mural titled, “Flight” affixed on Belgian Linen on the upper walls of The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport and Laurance Rockefeller who put up the money to save the mural after he learned it was painted out of sight (read on) in 1952.Once upon a time I was hell bent for leather working with my air cargo publication Air Cargo News in 1979 to save The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LGA, home base in New...
When Building 260 originally appeared in 1962 at Idlewild Airport Cargo (today JFK) in New York the place heralded a new era for air shippers with all the bells and whistles to advance air cargo to an unheard of new plateau. When that very same building empty and unused for decades bit the dust and was removed a while back, air cargo romantics lamented the final chapter in the the rich history of the pioneering all cargo airline, Seaboard World that bought and paid for the original Building 260 ...
The man who has been the singular Pied Piper of local air cargo clubs, trade associations like AfA and IATA, CNS and now FIATA, and seems to always be there for everybody else, Air Forwarders Association’s Brandon Fried is pictured in an endearing moment at home with Rhodes, the grandson blessing delivered to Brandon and Kim 14 months ago. But while “baby its cold outside” this week and into the foreseeable future Brandon Is back on the on the road again this doing what he has done best for deca...
Dear Hearts & Gentle People Here are a group of people that everyone should know about when the question is asked ,”where in the world does air cargo reach out and help others asking for nothing in return?”. This recent snapshot includes some folks serving on the board of Cargo Human Care (CHC). They are (from left) Dr. Thomas Berger, Gerhard Meyke, Dr. Wolf Cyran, Fokko Doyen, Sieglinde Reinhard, and Arno Pfeiffer. Cargo Human Care was founded in 2007 by Lufthansa Cargo employees in coopera...
Getting stuck at the airport is often an interminable experience. It’s enough to pass through the welter of airport security, losing shoes and sometimes dignity to an impassive TSA crew, only to find oneself with few options for food aside from boiled-in-a-bag offal or questionable, plastic-entombed sandwiches. The culturally bereft limbo that exists between security’s point of no return and one’s boarding gate is a difficult terrain to navigate. It can be quite restorative, then, to discover so...
Welcome and Happy New Year from your friends at Flying Typers. Today we close the chapter on this rather extended year end break in the action and beginning of the New Year of 2025. Let’s in the spirit of the New Year party season recall a great gathering on several New Years Day occasions over the years as we travel back to a once upon a time at JFK International Airport in New York City.
Baby It’s Cold Outside But not for these high fliers from Air India outfitted in Manish Malhotra-designed uniforms. Here warming this up considerably Air India people made waltzing through Manhattan look easy as the Indian airline launched services via its candy dandy brand new A350s from Newark to New Delhi January 2.
Hi I am Flying Typers Executive Editor Flossie Arend.Every year around this time, we struggle to find new words to offer to our loyal Flying Talkers Broadcast listeners. I am not immune to the warm responses inspired by our annual Christmas story, and I would be posturing if I said it doesn’t feel good to know it is so well received. However, the pressure mounts to say something new; to not rehash the things you already know; to provide some meaningful insight into our holiday gathering. You kno...
Express Yourself At Christmas 2024 … Welcome to Flying Talkers Broadcast. We loved looking at a picture we just received from Paris France Express Cargo that among other efforts serves 17 African destinations via Tunis Express imagines a care free Christmas delivery creating a “look up into the sky” moment. Here with all good wishes, International Air Transport Association tells its tale and Air Forwarders Association Brandon Fried joins The International Air Cargo Association’s Glyn Hughes, and...
Here is a Great Lady of Air Cargo India . You dear listener are invited to take a 12 minute break and enjoy someone who in addition to helping to build ATC -Aviation into the premier choice for GSSA in India.is also a complete original. Her name is Jane Vaz and what she does for women in air cargo and for the air cargo community of India is simply wonderful.
Welcome to today’s Flying Talkers Broadcast……. We are here to tell you today FlyingTypers was delighted to attend the Air Cargo Forum 2024 in Miami, which admittedly was built to be more than an exhibition. The promise was fulfilled, no doubt….. We will have more after this brief time out that brings word from today’s sponsor….. Pay Cargo.
Merry Christmas! Love Santa Making Merry and when Merry gets tired Santa flies off in the left seat of a C-46. Who is the lead..Rudy?
Summer Tales Am a crazy New York Yankees baseball fan and seldom miss one of the 161 games they play each summer.But my ability to watch those boys of summer games on TV hit a glitch until a kind lady named Jennifer Vivas who works for YES The Yankees Entertainment &Sports Network both assuaged my fears, and found my signal and sent it to me.So I sat right down and wrote her a letter now shared here with a bit of LaGuardia Airport history
Return with us now to yesteryear ....As we approach another anniversary of that terrible day The National September 11,(2001) Memorial & Museum leads the nation, and the world, in marking the the day that changed our lives forever. The 23nd anniversary commemoration ceremony will take place next week in Manhattan at the WTC Memorial Plaza, focused as always on an in-person reading of the names of the 3000 souls lost in the tragedy, by family members and friends who like all of us will never ...
The airline & the people and the airline that planted a giant Redwood Tree At Schiphol Cargo in Amsterdam may be gone, but here both are fondly remembered. Sometimes what cargo does together can grow everyone's situation for the better, is the message here nearly 55 years later.
As Summer 2024 Reruns continues here from 2023 we remembered our dear friend and business colleague Jo Frigger who died April 19, 2021. Today as before this 50 years plau business in USA continues as a family affair ,headed up by Chairwoman Karin Frigger, VP Compliance Sven Frigger and VP Digital Transformation Jenni Frigger.
From April 11 , 2022 Amar More founder and powerful force in the world today from Kale Logistics Solutions of India lays out his plan ,with innovative ideas and clear creative thinking that have withstood the test of time. Now in Summer 2024 Kale is growing by leap and bounds worldwide. It’s simple : The Kale Solution eliminates paper and keeps cargo moving faster. Here we go up close and personal so you can listen and learn all about it! Later join Joe McBryan Founder and Canadian air cargo pio...
From January 9 2024 we launch or "Summer Reruns " with a look at the pioneer ACMI individual of all time Mike Chowdry who took that form into the big time. We aalso mention some greats still among us in air cargo so you should not spend your summer stuck in the past. Welcome aboard.
In December 2020 as the world held it's breath under the global threat of the deadly infecting COVID-19 , came the air cargo industry leading the way in delivering the antidote to millions. Based on the job air cargo did for getting COVID vaccine to people all over the world the great expectation based on general knowledge amongst the masses was that maybe finally our industry and particularly the USA would embrace wider spread induction of freighters. One executive in 2020 actually called for c...
As India inches closer to the ambitious target of 10MMT of air cargo handled per year by 2030, one question that is being asked is: Why are there so few freighter operators from India? One of the major reasons is the high belly capacity available in India. Around 80 percent of cargo traffic is carried on passenger aircraft. Today, Blue Dart apart, there are only a handful of freighters carrying the India flag. August 15 brings a great golf tourney as the 19th Annual Dan Ferrante gathering takes ...
In The Lav of a DC9 With Donald Trump When Donald Trump bought the old Eastern Airlines Shuttle, that had served Boston and Washington with hourly flights, he came to LaGuardia Airport to launch the newly branded Trump Shuttle, in the form of an old DC9 that waited quietly outside at the gate bound for Washington. The Donald stood at the check-in gate greeting the press. I was there as the Trump Shuttle flak came to my office at Air Cargo News FlyingTypers in the Marine Air Terminal and asked me...
