Sometimes things happen that change everything. The first flight, the first Tesla electric car, the first cup of Starbucks coffee. Here from 2023, the rarest of up close and personal interview with Eduardo Del Riego, CEO of PayCargo. Eduardo and his team from Coral Gables, Florida have changed the way to pay shipping cargo forever, all over the world. This interview created in April 2023 laid out the PayCargo plan that has succeeded way beyond what many people thought possible. Many,that is with...
Jul 10, 2024•30 min
It’s Summer Dog Days and time when cargo people and their organizations kick back a bit, almost everywhere in the world by taking one for the team at various golf and social events outside the daily grind of industry events.Trade shows and upbeat discussion groups and company pitchmen and women are off somewhere spending lazy afternoons for a brief few weeks, catching their breath after a very active business and social first half of 2024.While the interlude in contact air cargo will be brief, o...
Jul 09, 2024•10 min
When Sirius would appear in the sky just before the sun, in July, that marked the beginning of the very hottest days of the year. The Romans referred to this period as "dies caniculares" or "days of the dog star," which was eventually translated as just "dog days." Too hot to handle? Now that the world seems warmer and that last trade show of the first half of 2024 was over at PVG last week, we are counting the ‘Dog Days’ as July 4th in America approaches Thursday wishing all A SUPER SUMMER 2024...
Jul 03, 2024•15 min•Season 7Ep. 214
Okay put down those margaritas for a moment, and read what was said at a great air cargo gathering last week in Cancun, Mexico. Look for the entire transcript of these comments in FlyingTypers at www.aircargones.com. Here is Kale Logistics Solutions self-generated initiative, branded Clear View Americas. Our view is that Clear View is fresh, while other industry events these days seem tired. First Session: Collaborative Growth in the Air Cargo Industry – The Vital Role of Partnerships and Airpor...
Jun 25, 2024•22 min•Season 7Ep. 213
Great interview with Andreas Obermeyer about employing and retaining the right person in transport and logistics. Mr. Obermeyer is an expert who has a wide horizon on the global labor market in logistics; a first-class consultant who works with la crème of logistics in Europe. Born and grown in Basel, he completed his apprenticeship in freight forwarding after his “Matura”, i.e. the college certificate valid in Switzerland. After positions in Schenker and Danzas, world famous in those years, And...
Jun 20, 2024•22 min
Sentimental journey... We recall the life & times of a great Chilean air cargo pioneer Alex Thiermann. In Normandie as that big D-Day gathering today June 6 will see return of DC3s above the skies above the coast of France ,we visit friends and family there. Some years since we journeyed to Bernay in Normandie and relived some WWII memories with our Uncle Claude who recalled D Day through the eyes of a child. As preamble , it needs to be noted five years ago there were maybe 250 veterans of ...
Jun 05, 2024•19 min
“ CONFETRA ,” said our senor contributing editor Marco Sorgetti based in Rome,” is an interesting report on the state of air cargo in Italy. “For me this was a great opportunity to report comforting numbers from my home country, albeit with some alarming signs.” This gave us reason to take contact with some of our friends by hop scotching around the world with the aim to understand difference and similarities, through a series of short statements regarding the state of air cargo in their respect...
Jun 04, 2024•30 min
Hello, air cargo fans. Here is Quick Take India.Well, if you want to say Air India is keen to get back into its prime position as an international cargo player, you wouldn't be far off. Give us a couple minutes .We give you the world.
Jun 02, 2024•8 min•Season 7Ep. 207
Here are some memories of Memorial Day yesterday & today and some personal observations of my time in the Vietnam war zone as we pray for peace.
Jun 01, 2024•10 min
Mike White needs no introduction with our listeners. Mike has a CV and presence in the aviation and airfreight industry that is second to none. His tenure in CNS as President was most inspirational for all of us. Everybody knows Mike White: his presence is immediate wherever he goes. In other words when it comes to clear thinking and realizing where we are or should be heading as an industry:We Like Mike! S/H The question today is that in a business that needs lots of young executives whose atte...
May 27, 2024•16 min•Season 7Ep. 208
Latest news from the world beating air cargo market of India. Look back at some people who built Emirates Sky Cargo in USA and around the world.
May 26, 2024•20 min
Los Angeles Air Cargo Association (LAACA) Air Cargo Day at the Proud Bird Grand Ballroom just off the main runways takes off next Thursday May 9. Doors open at 1100. The air cargo event of the year at LAX goes until 15:00 and is free! Bruce McCaffrey Did Not Back Down “The air cargo price fixing saga of 2005 was a-gas. "A mellifluous malodorous episode in the history of air cargo”. A story without a happy ending is recalled in 2024 as we mark ten years since Bruce McCaffrey died February 25, 201...
May 05, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 203
In a perfect world the following words would just make no sense. Yes, indeed, in a perfect world… We are talking about how much logistics, and air cargo in particular, is missing by overlooking women’s skills, but we are doing this sideways, as it is convenient at the FlyingTypers. Women’s skills can be ignored knowingly or as a habit, in any case it is a missed opportunity at best. This is not the main concept of this Podcast, but it cannot be ignored if you wish to fully understand its content...
Mar 23, 2024•28 min•Season 7Ep. 204
It begn in February at Louisville Kentucky at Air Cargo and just ended March at Hong Kong at World Cargo Symposium. Here is an up clode and personal look at the people and business scene at air cargo trade show so far in 2024 and a peek ahead to what is next in April
Mar 21, 2024•22 min
Doha, Qatar - “Qatar Airways Cargo confirms that Mark Drusch has been appointed as Chief Officer Cargo effective immediately.” This in Qatar’s Press Release: “with over 25 years in senior airline management roles, Mark is a well-known figure in the aviation world. His most recent role was SVP Revenue Management, Alliances and Strategy at Qatar Airways where he led the development and implementation of the company’s revenue strategy as well as managing strategic alliances with key partner airline...
Feb 02, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 198
If you want to learn about August Martin, the great air cargo pilot who flew for Seaboard World Airlines during the 1950’s, the name August Martin as an internet search, most often comes up as “August” 28, 1963,the day “Martin” Luther King whose birthday we celebrate Monday delivered his never to be forgotten “I Have A Dream,”speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. August Martin was a gentle man, who would be remembered in history as the first African American to serve as Captain on a...
Jan 15, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 200
Now hear this here is the true cradle of modern air cargo thinking from some airline people long gone and nearly forgotten.Once upon a time there were two giant all cargo airlines operating from the USA to points internationally.From Los Angeles to the Pacific & Asia was Flying Tigers and from New York Across the Atlantic to Europe,Africa,the Middle East and India was Seaboard World Airlines.This is about Seaboard World Airlines and specifically some excellent people that learned air cargo f...
Jan 09, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 199
Talked to Bob Rogers the force behind ULD Care. Bob is based in Hong Kong where Christmas and the New Year was celebrated with the "usual Hong Kong enthusiasm" and of course we are only a few weeks away from doubling down with Chinese New Year as Year of the Dragon approaches as a big celebration this year. So in January while the world takes off in 2024 is the last month of the Year of the Rabbit before February on the Chinese Zodiak Calendar debuts the Year of the Dragon . While hoping that we...
Jan 08, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 199
Return with us now to those glory days of international aviation yesteryear aboard The China Clipper. Speed Gibson is high adventure at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and its range was 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers). Once upon time Pan Am was America's "airline to the world" and Hong Kong was mysterious and aviation and short wave radio were the way to go and tell the story. Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was a radio adventure series written by Virginia Cooke. It was centered on the...
Jan 07, 2024•50 min•Season 5Ep. 198
One From The Heart Here we take a deep dive right out of the gate as 2024 debuts into Alitalia and Italian air cargo. We also recall learning for sure of two fave books in the private library of Pope John Paul 11 .
Jan 07, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 197
One of the joys of Summer, aside from the beach and the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations and warmed up weather and outside get-togethers is cruising along with all of the same, during August, on a long, slow languorous glide, like the water ride at Palisade’s Park into September. No need to rush, we have time. Speaking of cruising there seems to be a lot of that going on right now. No need to blush either, boy: we have some other game in mind… The word cruising as well as the world of cruising hold s...
Aug 19, 2023•33 min
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Jul 20, 2023•28 min
As Air Cargo Europe finally meets this week with people gathering from all over the world in Munich, the outstanding development since last we met is the emergence of a company branded PayCargo. PayCargo is the brain child of Cuban-born Eduardo del Riego, who came to the United States of America as a child and embraced the American Dream. What Eduardo did was invent a well-funded, top financial service company head and shoulders above any we have ever seen, that delivers air and sea cargo flexib...
May 07, 2023•30 min
LogiPharma was held April 25-27 in Lyon, France at Palais des congrès de Lyon. The event was slick well-organized and interesting, full of heavy duty business, and lots of people and action at a great venue. If you want to know where many of the airlines looking for business and new horizons post COVID were, they were in France discovering that engaging the pharma in 2023 is good over there, Pierre! "One From The Heart" recalls the life and times of our friend, the late Joachim Frigger....
Apr 29, 2023•20 min
The theme for International Women’s Month this year is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” Who better to represent air cargo during International Women’s Month 2023 than Tulsi Nowlakha Mirchandaney, who is celebrating over five decades in air cargo. Tulsi is Managing Director and Accountable Manager of Blue Dart Aviation and is our lead off story as we launch Women’s Month 2023. Blue Dart is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and serves 7 Indian metro cities. Deutsche Post owns a 70% stak...
Mar 06, 2023•27 min
Fruit and vegetable lovers will be 'loving it up' at Berlin’s Annual Fruit Logistica all this week at the massive Berlin ExpoCenterCity and CityCube in Germany, February 8-10, 2023. It may come as a shock to some shippers to learn that one of the biggest challenges to safe handling of lithium batteries or lithium anything is the paperwork. Enter an IATA-initiative branded Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV), a process that now can assure auditing the action and providing confi...
Feb 06, 2023•29 min
A Billion Here a Billion There . . . Remember the Price-Fixing Air Cargo Surcharges scandal that rocked the global air cargo industry in late 2010 when in Europe for example 11 legacy carriers were found guilty after Lufthansa and Swiss threw everybody under the bus and elsewhere got immunity, as eager prosecutors in countries around the world handed out fines? On again, off again, the case has continued for the past dozen years. In America and elsewhere once young lawyers looking to make politi...
Jan 30, 2023•24 min
Bill Spohrer died December 16 in Sarasota, Florida at age 91. Air Cargo lost a giant that quietly walked among us and made one hell of a difference in air cargo, changing the face of Miami Airport completely by innovating that airport some decades ago, into the pole position of global leadership in perishables. It was Bill that changed "Corrosion Corner" in the air cargo area at Miami International into a huge refrigerator masquerading as an air cargo facility that eventually became a cornerston...
Jan 08, 2023•34 min
Here is an update as trade shows begin to take shape for 2023. The International Air Cargo Association said its Executive Summit 2023 will be held in Brussels November 6-8, 2023 at the exquisite, recently renovated, historic Skyhall. Inaugurated in 1958, to receive the many visitors of the first post-war World Exhibition, Skyhall was nothing short of ground-breaking. One of its outstanding features was the 1,800-meter high, glass-fronted transit hall with its seemingly floating arched roof. Inte...
Nov 29, 2022•29 min
How Miami Landed Its First Asian Scheduled Carrier Once upon a time in 1994 I found myself in Taipei, Taiwan sitting at lunch with Peter Yap, who was the top cargo executive for China Airlines Cargo. At one point, Peter looked at me and said: “The trouble today is finding markets that offer great growth potential and also support from the local gateway. “Very rare,” Peter said. “Taiwanese people love to eat fish and we cannot get enough of it, competing with Europe and elsewhere.” I looked at Pe...
Nov 03, 2022•28 min
