FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend
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From the Dean of air cargo journalists off the cuff, right to the heart of the air cargo business. It's the past, present and future in conversations with Geoffrey Arend, Award Winning Editor & Publisher of Air Cargo News Flying Typers since 1975 .Geoffrey is the original Air Cargo News .Our publication was in business publishing monthly eight years before a publication of the same name, now owned by the German DVZ Group appeared in the UK during 1983. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
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Going Dutch With Delta Cargo
March 26, 2024 22:00 - 16 seconds - 272 KBNice Picture, Nice Guy and Consummate Professional . . . Took this picture of Peter Penseel during Messe Muenchen Air Cargo Europe in 2019. Beginning June 1, Peter currently serving as COO at CEVA Logistics, assumes command at Delta Air Lines as SVP and President –Delta Cargo. Delta can only hope that “Lightening Can Strike Twice“, as here comes another air cargo superman who was born in the Netherlands, to an American flag airline’s top logistics post. Netherlands, the place where the cu...
Bella Donna Words A Thoughtful Talley For Kale
March 23, 2024 19:10 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn 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 c...
Trade Shows For Air Cargo So Far In 2024
March 21, 2024 18:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBIt 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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
Drusch-A Man & A Mission @ Qatar Cargo
February 02, 2024 15:44 - 14 minutes - 13 MBDoha, 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 air...
Drush-A Man & A Mission @ Qatar Cargo
February 02, 2024 15:44 - 14 minutes - 13 MBDoha, 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 air...
The Man Who Fell From Good To Better
February 02, 2024 15:42 - 25 seconds - 408 KBDoha,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 ...
Martin Changed Color On The Bridge
January 15, 2024 22:12 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBIf 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 ...
Lessens From Our Fathers
January 09, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutes - 13 MBNow 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...
Who Was Bill Spohrer?
January 08, 2024 14:51 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBTalked 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 ...
Speed Gibson Old Time Radio Special
January 07, 2024 15:10 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBReturn 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 Late Great Alitalia & An Italian Interlude
January 07, 2024 14:44 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBOne 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 . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
Tea For The Tillerman , please
August 19, 2023 16:05 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBOne 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 h...
First Half Past COVID Challenging
July 20, 2023 14:14 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBWhere do we go from here? Best Bets Smart advice.You decide... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
The Man Who Is Changing The Way To Pay Cargo
May 07, 2023 18:46 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBAs 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 f...
Trade Shows Takeoff Around The World
April 29, 2023 13:55 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBLogiPharma 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. -...
Tulsi Smart Hits The Bullseye For Dart
March 06, 2023 22:44 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThe 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...
Fruit Logistica Opens Wednesday in Berlin / CEIV Up Close
February 06, 2023 21:58 - 29 minutes - 27 MBFruit 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...
All Bruce Did Was Give Air Cargo A Lifetime
January 30, 2023 15:47 - 23 minutes - 22 MBA 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 ...
Gentleman Bill An American Saga
January 08, 2023 05:12 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBBill 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 corne...
JC Delen On The Case & Brussels Sprouts
November 29, 2022 17:39 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBHere 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...
How Miami Landed It's First Asian Scheduled Carrier
November 03, 2022 17:09 - 28 minutes - 26 MBHow 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 l...
EMO Trans USA Celebrates 50 Big Ones
October 05, 2022 20:39 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBThe Garden City Hotel in Long Island, New York with its distinctive cupola originally designed by Stanford White atop the structure, has been a landmark hostelry in New York for over 125 years. Here was the ground zero center of the global aviation universe for a couple of days in 1927, situated at the exact spot from where a young air mail pilot and soldier of fortune named Charles Lindbergh spent his last moments sleeping fitfully upstairs, resting his head on a pillow for a few hour...
Pay Cargo Big Story At IATA World Cargo This Week In London
September 28, 2022 14:04 - 8 minutes - 7.46 MBToday PayCargo pulled off a show stopper announcement at International Air Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium in London announcing that the financial service company is spreading its wings beyond North America into Europe, the Middle East and Asia. PayCargo also revealed that they will be expanding their product offering and will be providing payment solutions for air waybill charges in addition to the ancillary charges they do today. PayCargo brought in air cargo industry...
Fall Back Lightly Into Trade Shows
August 08, 2022 17:13 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBNow come a few quiet weeks after which, from September until later November, air cargo trade shows will be front and center. But wait, the pandemic is still loose and people are still getting sick. The challenge seems to be for preventive methodology and medicine to position ourselves a half a step ahead of a disease that mutates quickly. While the dreaded face masks wait in the wings for now, a new global health emergency is rearing its ugly head called “monkey pox” and can be spread via...
The Lady Declares Her Time Is Now
June 29, 2022 14:08 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBTalk about no guts, no glory—an overlooked, albeit quite courageous lady named Michelle DeFronzo has worked as an Airline Cargo Sales Agent (CSA) for 30 years. In 2000 she formed ImEx Cargo, a global logistics and air transport service provider. ImEx Cargo like most of us over the past few years fought its way through tremendous negative COVID impacts and was just beginning to recover as a contractor for the largest Russian cargo freighter airline AirBridgeCargo, then came the Ukraine War...
Ram & Des What Old Friends Do
May 31, 2022 19:32 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBAir cargo, it seems, will always find a way to stay close and working together on the local basis almost everywhere in the world. But in truth events that bring together and actually move the marble, whilst searching for some big ideas from a host of attendees feel like they are fewer and further between. As you read about Ram Menen, a guiding spirit that raised Emirates SkyCargo from an afterthought to a great worldwide cargo resource and Des Vertannes, an innovative original thinker and v...
IATA & TIACA Sullivan & Hughes At FIATA Geneva Sessions
May 23, 2022 01:18 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBListen Up As CNS Partnership Meets In Phoenix Here is Flying Talkers Podcast with details of last week in Geneva as Glyn Hughes, TIACA DG, and Brendan Sullivan, IATA Head of Cargo headlined the FIATA Headquarters Sessions. That deal between IATA and FIATA forged in 2016 that was supposed to make the peace between the airlines and the worlds largest organized forwarder group just did not work out. But something good just happened as revealed in an excellent job of reporting FIATA Headqua...
Apodicticity In The Sky?
May 10, 2022 20:20 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBPicking up the pieces of a historical disaster such as the COVID19 pandemic may not be anything one would wish to do, but reading the comments that economy analysts are sending to press this spring you get a chance to ask yourself what are these explanations trying to teach us and wonder. Looking at logistics, airlines and freight forwarders, that is more or less what I have been doing most of my life, your sense of amazed skepticism gains even more ground. --- Support this podcast: https...
Living,Loving,It's Just A Trade Show
May 02, 2022 16:40 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBLiving near a street named Utopia Parkway in New York City, I suspect something unexpected could happen anytime. My great city is a kind of utopia in its own way and loyally prepares you for the unexpected. No wonder something unusual can lurk between the trade show resort meeting rooms and the golf course. Cargo Network Services (CNS) is conducting its Partnership Conference for air cargo in Phoenix beginning on May 23rd, as we just find out. I like the trade show sense of surprise. CNS, l...
Kale By Golly A More Story / Joe McBryan & The Legacy Of Flying A DC-3
April 11, 2022 18:12 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBOn the road again like hundreds or maybe thousands of others in logistics right now, Amar More, the Kale Logistics co-founder and Chief Executive Officer carries a business card that states in no uncertain terms: “Committed to transformation of global logistics industry”. Let us discover together why this is indeed a true statement, as many in our industry already know. We wonder about some of the drivers that moved and are still moving this company into a greater digital future in transpor...
Stars Fell On San Francisco That Night / Why FIATA Matters in 2022
March 26, 2022 13:12 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBTerms of Endearment . . . United Cargo wins Sustainability Award at The International Air Cargo Association TIACA San Francisco Executive Summit March 23. Jan Krems, who never in his imagination would have planned a situation like this, as President United Cargo almost singlehandedly saved the airline with the most ambitious cargo program in airline history, accepted the award saying simply: “I am proud to be in an industry that is really delivering.” Stars fell on San Francisco Wednesday...
Gentleman Bill Is 90 In The Shade
March 11, 2022 15:08 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBBill Spohrer had done about as much as anyone you ever met to lift organized cargo when he served as CEO of Miami-based Challenge Air Cargo. He became a driving force of a great all-cargo enterprise based at MIA that landed four square behind a new idea for a trade show called Air Cargo Americas and also helped lift the comeback of TIACA. Bill celebrated reaching 90 years of age last June 11th. Today, living quietly and comfortably out of touch in Florida with wife Lynn, Bill is smiling his...
Charlotte's Baby Moves On Without Her
March 07, 2022 14:49 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBWhen the 2022 version of Air Cargo Americas/Supply Chain Americas Show launches this week on Tuesday March 8 after having suffering its 2021 version postponed because of COVID, the event venue will look pretty much the same as always. Maybe after all the uproar of the past two years that continues, 105 booths and 1,500 people signed up with many walk-ins always a factor at this event can be looked upon as some kind of miracle. For those of us who operate whilst in Miami on coladas and past...
Air Cargo Delivers Prayers For Imma
February 23, 2022 14:10 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBSay A Prayer For Imma As Imma van der Walt was undergoing brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center in a nine plus hour procedure meant to arrest an enlarged brain tumor, her Dad, well-known and respected transportation executive Lionel van der Walt and Mom, the always gracious and lovely Ilonka were standing by as the procedure continued all day Monday February 21 I spoke to Lionel, who said: “Never been this scared of anything in our lives before, but we know the surgery must be d...
Valentines Day Not Coming Up Roses For India
February 14, 2022 17:18 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBHappy Valentine's Day It is that time of the year when love shines. But India’s flower growers/exporters will hardly feel the warmth of love this Valentine’s Day 2022. Cupid will once again bring tears – like last year – to flower growers/exporters. Many had hoped that exports would rise but that did not happen. Farewell Alfred Kuehlewind We were saddened to learn of the death of Alfred Kuehlewind this past weekend in Los Angeles. In 1974 Alfred opened Commodity Forwarders Inc. (CFI) as ...
Can Glyn Hughes Save TIACA? Remembering The Owl At JFK Cargo
February 07, 2022 16:31 - 29 minutes - 27.8 MBFor the first time since Daniel Fernandez picked up the baton from the first TIACA DG, the late Garth Davies, TIACA has a running chance as the world emerges from the depths of lockdown and uncertainty to what could be a new deal as an organization. The place was called The Owl and it was located just outside the airport on the corner of Farmers & Guy R. Brewer Blvd., and what fun it was. The Owl, a local air cargo haunt operated by Joe “Owl” Mancusi was reportedly an occasional gathering ...
Sometimes Smelling The Flowers Is All There Is
January 30, 2022 20:24 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBIn this COVID-19 (semi) lockdown early-February 2022 as we receive notes of greetings and good wishes for Christmas cards that were send in early December, we have been thinking, based on the slowdown in the US mail service maybe it is not too early despite the snowfall to think about flowers &. Valentines Day Always a big part of Valentines Day now less than two weeks away , we are wondering if space demand for floral shipments that always cube out before they weigh out will be severely ...
Lady Liberty She Ain't
January 27, 2022 16:41 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBBefore you Google to ogle, think about the implications of balancing a woman on top of a skyscraper like a Christmas ornament. Lady Liberty she ain't. The latest ad from Emirates features a flight attendant standing atop the almost 3,000-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai—the tallest skyscraper in the world. Given the context of an ongoing pandemic and the resultant travel woes that have arisen (A recent American Airlines flight from Florida to London that had to return because ONE traveler refused...
Sustainability And Tips For New Orleans Forwarder Week
January 16, 2022 22:29 - 26 minutes - 24.8 MBThe apple doesn't fall far from the tree is a phrase that is typically said in connection with children who show qualities or talents that are similar to those of their parents. When EMO Trans Jenni Frigger Latham appears on the stage in New Orleans at the first panel Wednesday morning to moderate a discussion on sustainability that includes the former Head of IATA Cargo and current President of TIACA Glyn Hughes and the former President of Cargo Network Services (CNS) and current title of ...
What Happend To American Airlines Hangar 1 At LaGuardia?
January 12, 2022 13:59 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBJust came across an announcement that American Airlines Hangar 3-5 have been cleaned up at LaGuardia Airport That caught my eye as the notice also mentioned that the original AA domestic passenger facility at LGA Hangar 1 one of the most historically significant buildings on any airport anywhere had been demolished. Hangars 3 an 5 look OK in the style of the late 1930s and for sure have a lot of history. But to compare them in value historically with Hangar 1 is like trying to match up ...
Cargo Gatherings Versus Cabin Fever/Cargo In Cabin Was Delivered At Jet Speed 60 Years Ago
January 04, 2022 20:41 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBCan't wait to get to an air cargo show? Airforwarders Association is at just that inside a big downtown hotel beginning January 17 in New Orleans. You know all about Cargo in Cabin that saved the world and kept the airlines flying for the past two years. Did you know Cargo In Cabin was invented and performed aboard 40 long range commercial passenger carrying jet aircraft 60 plus years ago by Pan American World Airways Clipper Cargo? Thanks to our readers Bob Rogers and Martin Beasdal...
Farewell and Goodbye to 2021
December 29, 2021 20:03 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBAs we say goodbye to yet another year of pandemic caused by COVID lets remember those parted while looking forward to 2022 hopeful that this seemingly endless string of months that now has turned into years of living in doubt, may finally move into the broad sunshine of a new day people all over the world pray is soon upon us. Bill Boesch has always been the common sense voice in the throng. From the early days at Seaboard World and at Pan Am Clipper Cargo; serving as President of American...
Greatest Air Cargo Charity Outreach/Seaboard World AirwaysBuilding 260 Made History/A Christmas Story
December 12, 2021 16:01 - 30 minutes - 28 MBGreatest Charity Outreach In The History of Air Cargo Slowly in the U.S. people are getting together, although, in some quarters the feeling continues to prevail that the risk of COVID is still there, so maybe better to lay low. That's not good at all for some people anxious to get back to life, as they try to help others. Recently a cargo fundraiser by Lufthansa Cargo at ORD during of all things, a Christmas Party (remember those?), brought to mind Cargo Human Care headed up by Fokko Doy...
Thanks In Hand From UPS Foundation At 70 / Jerry Trimboli Was A Slugger Without A Bat
December 03, 2021 16:10 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBMixed in Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and a phalanx of other branded retail days almost too numerous to mention, days between now and Christmas 2021 let's take a deep breath and give thanks to those deliver it by hand to others in need.UPS celebrating 70 years of the UPS Foundation feels like a good place to start. A Slugger Without A Bat The exemplary In the game of baseball who is able to hit the ball far distances for home runs and extra base hits just three times times eve...
Qatar Cargo Readies For 2022 World Cup/Danger Zone & No Panic Panicker / Happy Thanksgiving 2021
November 22, 2021 11:28 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBSome time ago, shipment of dangerous goods by air and the threat to air cargo from unidentified and unlabelled hazardous materials in shipments was described as “The Wild West of Dangerous Goods". Now Radharamanan Panicker has decided to do something about that, having gone out on his own and formed his own company: Dangerous Goods Management (DGM) India. DGM India is a fully recognized dangerous goods training entity in the Indian air cargo market and Panicker is possibly one of the few e...
Air Cargo You Don't Know What You Got . . . Until You Lose It!
November 12, 2021 16:11 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBHas anyone noticed some ominous changes going on at air cargo leadership like IATA? Most distressing is to witness almost a mass exodus of vital key air cargo staff from the ranks of carriers, even though air cargo was carrying the water for these companies during the last 18 months. Does that make any sense? The answer we think is cutting staff in pieces: if you are always thinking passenger, your mentality will always result in good people of air cargo being swept away. I guess thinking ab...
Wings of Change Downfall of Alitalia/Finnair Is 98
November 03, 2021 15:53 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBNow Alitalia is gone. As you join us today a 74-year saga of the airline business is now gone, maybe forever joining a very long list of airlines that some of us grew up with and thought might never go away. We do not pretend to to know all that much about Alitalia. But we know someone who does and shares his observations here. Marco Sorgetti, the recently retired Director General of FIATA and, for our money, the greatest DG to serve that iconic nearly 95-year old Geneva-based forwarder or...
2021 Was A Swift Kick In The Cans/Car Go Beep Indigo CarGo Freighters
October 26, 2021 15:27 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBNewspapers and TV now feature shipping containers as front page news, whilst shoppers frantically clean out Costco, Target and Walmart and other stores to the bare walls as Christmas and end of year holidays fast approach. All in all, 2021 will be remembered for those images and a time everyone was kicking the cans. IndiGo has initiated a freighter program and is in the process of sourcing four A321 aircraft. “The A321P2F – Passenger-to-Freighter conversion is the most efficient narrow-bo...
Peter Hansen Raised Air Cargo By It's Bootstraps
October 18, 2021 15:21 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBPeter Hansen died on September 9th in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 87. For thirty-five years from the dawn of modern air cargo, Peter was most important, and amongst his peers a very respected, down on the ground innovative air cargo builder of the last century. You may not know him. We realize that time marching on can be ferocious and people can get lost in the shuffle. But not this time. For air cargo, Peter Hansen simply was the whole package back at the beginning when creativit...
IATA AGM Opens Door For Air Cargo/Air Canada 30,000 Reefer Set For YYZ/ Roemer Looks To Port
October 04, 2021 20:36 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBCan you believe it? Scheduled on October 5th for the first time in recent memory, IATA includes an air cargo panel at its passenger AGM titled "What’s Next for Air Cargo After its Heroic Performance in the COVID-19 Crisis?" "Now we are underway building a new state-of-the-art cold chain facility in Greater Toronto Airports Authority Toronto Airport as the next logical step, that will be a 30,000 square foot facility that fully aligns with the rollout of our initial freighter network, which ...