Escape From The World Trade Center The Jim Larsen Story As the twentieth September 11th since the World Trade Center tragedy in New York City is upon us, somber memorial services and recollections continue around the world recalling that terrible day. We remember being at home when the doorbell rang on September 13, and there stood our friend Jim Larsen, Manager of Air Cargo Business Development for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. We were so glad to see him, we hugged, and poured ...
Sep 09, 2021•30 min
Last week attendees in Miami at the 30th Annual Cargo Network Services (CNS) Partnership, the American-based pioneer air cargo organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between airlines and forwarders, were introduced to a new look as CNS met its new President Frédéric Leger. Frédéric Leger has held several inside jobs at IATA and is referred to as a “right hand man” to IATA DG Willie Walsh. Both are based and will continue to operate from Geneva . “I’m very proud to walk in Tony Calabrese...
Sep 05, 2021•29 min
As CNS gets underway this weekend in Florida, (August 29-31) featuring Willie Walsh, Director General of IATA, on his first public mission with gravitas after his appointment, I would gladly ask him questions regarding the IATA approach. Starting with Air Cargo, is One Record the totem for which IATA decided to ditch its IATA FIATA program? Was the entire IATA FIATA negotiation just a straddle strategy? Time to celebrate 30 years of the CNS Partnership recalling the people that made the "Partner...
Aug 29, 2021•29 min
Fall Ahead In New York 22 carriers at Newark Airport's main air cargo handling Buildings 339-340 are about to be displaced and right now are scrambling for space as walking papers are sure to follow the deal the airport operator Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has made allowing Amazon complete control of those buildings—it might be useful to look at some numbers to see how goes the cargo business EWR and JFK . . . High Road To Casablanca “Royal Air Maroc is into development of more s...
Aug 22, 2021•32 min
Amazing Inception Need Meditation Amazon is cooking up a deal with the New York New Jersey Port Authority that, if enacted, could end up turning over 23 acres or the heart of Newark International Airport Air Cargo handling via Buildings 339 and 340 to one company, Amazon, leaving almost every other cargo operator at the airport including 22 airlines, whistling in the wind.
Aug 15, 2021•28 min
The International Air Cargo Association Summit scheduled for San Francisco for November 8-10 will now take place on March 22-25 in San Francisco. We could not find a location for this meeting but you can check for further developments & location @www.tiaca.org. When Air Canada Cargo put out the news late last month underscoring the best air cargo quarter the airline has ever seen, we sat up and took immediate notice. Now with freighters getting ready to extend the Air Canada Cargo brand this...
Aug 09, 2021•35 min
Dr Yang Yuntao was born in Changchun, in Northeast China. Changchun means “Long Spring” in Chinese. During his 20 years serving as the head of legal affairs in Sinotrans, Dr Yang lead the legal work of various milestone events, such as the initial public offering, litigation and arbitration cases, both at home and abroad, bankruptcy reorganisation of listed shipping subsidiaries, etc. Dr. Yang Yuntao has a simple and natural criterion for being a General Counsel, i.e. serving the company in a pr...
Aug 04, 2021•32 min
We can never forget that irresistible determined picture of some comely, nice- looking people masked up out on the ramp and inside Virgin Atlantic aircraft bringing life to otherwise empty passenger cabins .When you think about it, very early in the pandemic Virgin Atlantic Cargo made it clear that the red coats were going to take the bull by the horns and damn the pandemic they stepped out brilliantly with an aggressive, well thought out strategy to move cargo upstairs on aircraft seats, before...
Jul 25, 2021•40 min
Twenty five years ago on July 17, 1996 230 people were lost, when Trans World Airlines Flight 800 bound for Paris from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City exploded above East Moriches, Long Island and fell into the Atlantic OceanI This past weekend more than 200 people gathered in Smith Point County Park near the crash site that contains a black tablet wall inscribed with the names of all those aboard the doomed aircraft. Will The Real Hong Kong Stand Up Please? For some time ...
Jul 18, 2021•33 min
Member of the FIATA Board of Directors, Turgut Erkeskin is a seasoned, yet youthful, energetic and quietly confident presence. But make no mistake about it, he is all there, albeit just below the radar, a most interesting transportation executive from Istanbul. Turgut doesn’t shout for attention. In fact, a major force in Turkish cargo as a long time shaker and mover of UTIKAD, the high energy forwarder association of Turkey, Turgut is best known for his advanced thinking and respected as a reas...
Jul 11, 2021•31 min
Meet Jason Berry Vice President Cargo at Air Canada. Exciting news last week that Air Canada Cargo is adding freighters to its fleet is some very positive news of the impact and impression of air cargo to the world in 2021.So now with its first freighter due to arrive sometime early in Q4 of 2021, we thought the man carrying the responsibility to make the future Air Canada Cargo plan work might share some insights and industry views as his mighty all -cargo fleet is building. Summer Rewind ....T...
Jun 28, 2021•29 min
During the last year, the industry has seen quite a change in individuals at key organizations that represent the airline industry. Many senior people have left the associations for other positions. What is worse, we have not seen anyone filling these positions that right now are more important than ever, for an industry that is in a state of dramatic growth. As if the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) having a lot of people chasing their tails including Importers, Exporters, Carriers...
Jun 22, 2021•22 min
Will CNS Finally Disappear? The backroom whispers have always been there, even as legendary Tony Calabrese founded Cargo Network Services (CNS) thirty years ago as a landmark U.S. organization with the mission to create a middle ground between airlines and forwarders and shelter the partnership from anti-trust legislation in the U.S. “IATA doesn’t really like CNS.” Well, what goes around comes around in 2021, as the industry learned Thursday that Cargo Network Services (CNS) financial roadmap to...
Jun 11, 2021•27 min
What became small during the opening stages of the pandemic and is getting bigger now as COVID-19 fades in some places? Why are some publishers and trade show companies and organizations insisting size matters and live meetings are needed in 2021 whilst lockdowns continue in places all over the world? World Environment Day: Projecting a ghastly reality ahead. Here's hope . . . Dan Muscatello knows as much about airport marketing as anyone on the planet. Stay tuned as he offers a glimpse ahead of...
Jun 06, 2021•29 min
Good thing Sri Lankan Airlines has made some moves to ramp up cargo as COVID -19 has closed almost everything else in the island nation down. FIATA took a look in the crystal ball at the rest of 2021 and decided discretion is the better part of valor, nixing its plan to hold its big annual conference in Brussels come September. It's June this week as 2021 is moving rapidly toward being half over. We wish we could say the same thing about COVID-19 but the simple fact is people still cannot travel...
May 30, 2021•26 min
Was I born in this India? Every morning you wake up with hope that soon fritters away when you look at the newspaper, your WhatsApp group chats that speak of yet another death and extended family members, friends and acquaintances falling prey to Covid-19. There is, perhaps, no family that has remained untouched. I lost a dear cousin and another in a few days. Added to that was the fact that the first cousin’s son and daughter-in-law along with their two kids also contracted the dreaded sickness...
May 26, 2021•42 min
Reality is that COVID-19 is the demon, and that demon still impacts life and is a danger in some manner or form more or less in various places as you move around the world. Being together is something we all want. But jumping the gun is both ill-informed and irresponsible. Indian aviation is passing through its most difficult phase. In a financial crunch even before the pandemic started, this time around with the second run of Covid, the aviation sector is predicted to see possible downsizing or...
May 18, 2021•24 min
Often people ask-"Hey FlyingTalkers why not do some short news items?" Must admit that item news that my friend and early colleague, the late Tony Funnel branded Pumping Traffic News & Comment for us in 1975, which appeared in our newspaper Air Cargo News until 2010 and then online in our E-Zine Flying Typers for the past decade, has gone missing from FlyingTalkers. Truth be told in the click bait race for readers to jack up otherwise meaningless mass readership claims, others in our profess...
May 10, 2021•33 min
After many long years of start and stop between the giant association of the airlines IATA and the 100 plus year old international association of freight forwarders FIATA, it looks like that deal we announced and delivered a key-note speech for in Dublin a few years back (2016) is toast.
May 03, 2021•23 min
My colleague and very best friend Joachim "Jo" Frigger Chairman of EMO Trans died on Monday April 19. Here is the press release from EMO Trans. Later, after the shock of this sudden and great loss for people all over the world has passed our time of mourning, we will share with you our story of a decades-long friendship and alliance with this truly remarkable air freight forwarding pioneer. Jo Frigger Inspired Freight Forwarding Speaking of forwarders . . . Spend a few minutes with FIATA’s Direc...
Apr 26, 2021•38 min
As Women's Month Marched along and the world celebrated International Women’s Day March 8, Jennifer Frigger Latham, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at EMO Trans based in Long Island, New York was hard at work away from the spotlight from home with her husband Paul and the couple’s two small children creating a counterpoint as the faces of love in the world of air and ocean shipping. What Jenni experienced up close and personal makes for an interesting study of discovery and appreciation of...
Apr 18, 2021•26 min
This episode of FlyingTalkers is about performance and hope. We have been aware of the stellar performance of Brandon Fried, President of the U.S-based Airforwarders Association for some time now. Here we try and make the case why this man and his hardworking association deserve your support. Lost & Found Speaking from our recent experience when we finally came around to thinking about life after the two shot vaccination was drilled into our arms, we found ourselves at Max a German restauran...
Apr 11, 2021•34 min
Francesco Parisi's view on the strategic potential of the port of Trieste cannot be clearer: he sees the Adriatic like an enormous navigable canal to the heart of Europe, cutting transit times to the east by almost a week.
Apr 05, 2021•28 min
Here we share stories about some interesting new leadership in air cargo that has emerged during the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that our conversations were conducted with women, we suppose, fits nicely into the ongoing International Women's Month celebrations. But we have been sharing these stories since we began publishing in 1975. The fact that the story can now involve many more women in positions of power than when we began is testimony to the expansive thinking going o...
Mar 29, 2021•33 min
Will Live Meetings & Trade Shows Come Back? The quick answer is, of course they will. Right now while you hear this story, COVID-19 vaccines continue to arrive in doses by the millions almost everywhere on earth. At the same time eager cargo events are reaching out entreating us to join a webinar or attend a trade show convention or a regional meeting. The voices, like crickets in summer, will only continue to rise and fall on the wind with greater urgency as populations reach herd immunity,...
Mar 24, 2021•30 min
Indication that the COVID-19 pandemic has heated up the investment community for air cargo and especially folks deep dish into digitalization is acknowledged as M33 Growth, a Boston-based venture capital firm showed up at SmartKargo with a suitcase full of investment money. Globalization In Real Decline? As long as there is cheap labor and low environmental requirements overseas, don’t expect offshoring of supplies to stop anytime soon. An India Air Handling the vaccines is Cargo Service Center’...
Mar 21, 2021•30 min
One From The Heart “We benefit from her self-awareness, empathy and social skills that helps to navigate complex situations. “She is the heart of our company,” Ingo Zimmer, CEO ATC Aviation Services says of Dagmar Hanau. Why Guillaume Halleux Guillaume Halleux Chief Cargo Officer at Qatar Airways is a Frenchman, who decades prior began his air cargo career from a split hangar in London that Air France operated with half full of Concorde parts and the other half full of air cargo. Guillaume, who ...
Mar 14, 2021•43 min
“People have space in their ultimate sanctuary, their homes, allotted for living. “To make the transition from the office easier and more familiar we handed over office equipment, including ATC laptops and personal computers and also even office furniture for use at home," said Ingo Zimmer, CEO of ATC, the world's leading GSSA. Too Cool At a time in life when everything is changing, the McCools, both father Sean and son Ian have collectively been a constant of the Irish air cargo scene for more ...
Mar 08, 2021•32 min
In aviation the letters spoken as a word reporting flying conditions is WOXOF. "Weather: Overcast, Ceiling Obscured, Visibility Zero in Fog." Pronounced like it looks: "WOXOF” when spoken most often gets the same response from everyone, especially pilots: “You're not getting me up in that.” Here in COVID-19 2021 as the year progresses and Spring begins, through the fog, there are some questions with everyone working at maximum overdrive, whilst delivering life-saving vaccines worldwide. WOXOF-“W...
Mar 01, 2021•36 min
Basil Pietersen Brings The Rainbow To FIATA As COVID-19 has severely limited public events for the past fourteen months , you may have missed that late in 2019 at it's World Congress in Cape Town FIATA elected Basil L.S. Pietersen, the former Chair and longtime director of the South African Association of Freight Forwarders to serve a two-year term as President of the global organization.As we celebrate Black History Month here in America and elsewhere around the world, it’s important to share t...
Feb 22, 2021•37 min
