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 Vol. 9 No. 90                         Friday July 30, 2010

Lufthansa Cargo Americas Names Achim Martinka
  Lufthansa Cargo has named Achim Martinka (right) as its new Vice President, the Americas.
  Achim steps in for Klaus Holler who is retiring after a stellar career at Lufthansa, which includes his final stint turning around the fortunes of the German national carrier in the Americas market.

U.S. Forwarders Talk About
100% Air Cargo Screening
  Mensch·es, or mensch·en (m_n'sh_n).
  The word mensch is defined as a person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose:
  "He radiates the kind of fundamental decency that has a name in Yiddish; he's a mensch," says James Atlas on the web.
  The “he” we are talking about here is the ambitious, hard driving President of the U.S. Airforwarders Association, Brandon Fried.
Air Cargo News FlyingTypers Film Editor
Working On New Project
  Many famous filmmakers started their careers with small, low-budget projects, and now our youngest son, Ralph Arend, pictured left (Film Editor, Air Cargo News FlyingTypers) is hoping to join the ranks!
  He and two college friends are raising funds to produce their new film, Worst Friends, through the donation-based site kickstarter.com.      

 Vol. 9 No. 89                         Wednesday July 28, 2010

CO Cargo Up To The Screen
  Talk about passing through the USA air cargo screening boldly! Continental Airlines Cargo says it is applying some Texas “Can Do” Attitude” as it moves (like everybody else) to deliver those highly anticipated August 1 security changes in Houston.

iCargo Vision 20/20
  When the New York-based low cost carrier JetBlue migrated from its legacy system to the India- manufactured iCargo for its cargo operations, it was one more feather in the cap of the Thiruvananthapuram-based IBS Software.
Chris Cadigan At Unishippers Lands On His Feet
  When DHL significantly curtailed their domestic operations to concentrate internationally in January 2009, tens of thousands of Americans were laid off and wondering what to do next.

That Lufthansa Cargo flight that crashed yesterday at 11:38 a.m. local Saudi Arabian time at Riyadh’s King Khaled Airport is not the first loss of an MD-11F.

 

 
 


 

  
     

 Vol. 9 No. 88                                                                          Monday July 26, 2010

Cargo Screening Goes Next Week
    In the early days of aviation, cruising a mile high up in the air in a DC3 or JU-52, you could always tell when it was Sunday because looking out the window, the roads between the towns below were mostly empty, while the parking lots around the churches were always full.
     Come next Sunday, when 100% screening of all USA air cargo goes into law, there may be a few more cars in the executive parking areas at cargo centers, but by all measure things should be business as usual.

United Cargo Goes Full Screen Sunday
“We are ready!” declares Kyle Betterton, Vice President United Cargo, Managing Director United Airlines, as cargo screening goes 100 percent in the USA next Sunday, August 1.
 
Don't Fly Away Rene
   Unfazed about the competition and the general gloom in Europe, Rene Peerboom, Director, Air France-KLM (Cargo) based in Delhi, is upbeat about India and is looking forward to a good 2010.
    

How Smart Can You Get?
  Air Cargo Netherlands (ACN) has received grants from the Ministry of Economic Affairs for "Smart Gate Learning.”
 In this project, ACN, Schiphol Group and ten air cargo companies have embarked upon utilizing a “serious video game” to help the air cargo industry prepare and train for the changes "Schiphol Smart Cargo Gate" will bring in 2011.



 Vol. 9 No. 87                                                                           Friday July 23, 2010

Carsten Spohr To Lead Lufthansa Group
   According to German media reports, Lufthansa Cargo’s CEO, Carsten Spohr, will soon be named as new head of the Lufthansa Passenger Airline Group.
  The decision is expected to go through at at the next formal meeting of the carrier’s Supervisory Board on September 22. If appointed by the Board, Spohr would take on his future duty in Spring 2011. He would follow Christoph Franz, who is believed will succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG in May 2011.

100% Air Cargo Screening At Hand
  “We are well prepared for August 1st and actually set an internal target. We have been screening at 96 percent since July 1st, with the balance being unscreened shipper built units that will no longer be accepted after July 29th.
  “Total 100 percent screening for air cargo has obviously been a huge challenge, but at the end of the day Delta Air Cargo met the challenge.
  “I do look forward to seeing many more forwarders join the CCSP program as this will be the best long term solution,” says Neel Shah, (left) Vice President and top executive at Delta Air Cargo.

Third Party Priority One
For Many
   In many cases, small- to medium-sized companies cannot invest in the expensive types of technology required in order to meet 100 percent screening mandates; their best hope lies in working with a third party company, which will, for a fee, clear the cargo and get consignments to the departing flights on time.
  We spoke to Karen Avestruz, WFS Director of Cargo Security and Compliance, who told ACN/FT what she expects for early next month.

Ceará Could Hub Northern Brazil
 Recently, The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) awarded a $480,000 grant to the Ceará State Government in Brazil to determine the technical and financial viability of the construction of a new cargo airport in the state of Ceará.

At leisure And Loving It
  Bon Bini! This friendly welcome is offered to the traveler at Hato International Airport and upon receiving it one knows immediately: I have arrived at Curacao. The language? It’s Papiamentu, the local Dutch-African-French-Portuguese-English-Spanish-Creole dialect, which nicely represents the unique and vibrant atmosphere you experience during your stay.


 Vol. 9 No. 86                                                                          Tuesday July 20, 2010

AA Cargo Takes Screening Public
  "We've been stepping up the screening that we have been doing in the air freight environment for three years now, so I don't expect life to be that much different August 1 or August 2," said Dave Brooks, President of American Airlines Cargo as the mandated early August 100% screening of all U.S. air cargo carried in the bellies of passenger flights draws near.

Germany Churning Along Nicely
   In a recent report, Deutsche Bank Research headlines that the “German Economy (still) Churning Along Nicely,” punctuating that statement with the following:
•  Despite adverse weather conditions (read “volcano”) Germany’s economy grew 0.2% again in Q1 compared with the previous quarter.
•  Latest economic indicators point to strong acceleration of growth in Q2 (in excess of +1%).

Boeing News Gets Better
    Boeing, which announced (somewhat discreetly) last week another delay in delivery of its troubled B787 Dreamliner, had better news at the Farnborough UK air show this week as Emirates ordered another 30 of its B777s. Emirates, on its way to maybe becoming the biggest airline in the world, spent $9.1 billion (at list price) on the planes.

Airbus has 234 orders for its super-jumbo A380 from 17 customers and now is talking about a halo effect as analysis of traffic data on various routes before and after the introduction of the aircraft has “operators enthusiastic about their A380 fleets, as Airbus puts it”.
End Of The Line For Arrow
  Apparently, Miami-based icon Arrow Air Cargo is no more.
  The carrier, whose lineage traces back to its 1947 founding in Compton, California, came into being when an ex U.S. Army pilot named George Batchelor (left) flew a surplus DC3 from Hawaii and sold it for a profit.
  Batchelor, it should be noted, became famous for both creating Arrow Air and also for buying and selling airplanes at Batch Air, which helped turn Florida’s last aviation legend into a multimillionaire before his death at age 81 in 2002.
New Austrian Lufthansa Cargo Combine
 “We intend to expand our position in Austria in the long term, increase our market share and strengthen the Vienna hub.
 “In the future the airport shall become a center of operations between eastern and western Europe," said Lufthansa Cargo Chairman and CEO, Carsten Spohr.
Schiphol Still Active
Active Airline Representatives BV, founded eighteen years ago in 1992, is an independent Dutch GSSA representing leisure Cargo Group in the Netherlands.

 Vol. 9 No. 85                                                                          Saturday July 17, 2010

Emirates SkyCargo Pioneer Peter Sedgley Retires
  "Peter Sedgley has been a friend of mine for 20 years, so I will miss him personally, as will many of us who are not directly part of Emirates SkyCargo.
  “He will not be forgotten.
  “As to our SkyCargo business, his loss will be a severe blow.

Boeing 2010 Market Outlook
    Close on the heels of all those uplifting airline reports it should come as no surprise that Boeing is out with another in their long line of crystal ball predictions about how many airplanes the world will need to cope with future cargo and passenger business.

Emirates A380 Serves India In Historic First
   Another opening… Capt. Sameer Murjani meets the press in Delhi Thursday at the newly launched T3 facility there as Emirates A380 starts service to India becoming the first airline to offer the super jumbo in regular schedules to the subcontinent.
 Vol. 9 No. 84                                                                          Wednesday July 14, 2010

No Delay Blues At JFK
 No Delay Blues at JFK…. Turns out the runway closing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York did not turn out to be the “catastrastrope” (as the entertainer Jimmy Durante would say) that everybody imagined.

Dynamite TNT India
    As demand across the world zooms and air cargo finds itself in a prime position, the Indian government planners have been focusing on enhancing the infrastructure to ensure better facilities. The view is that proper infrastructure can bring in huge savings in services as well as deliveries. As a result, there is now talk of modern cargo handling facilities at airports and dedicated rail freight corridors. Since building infrastructure cannot be done in a hurry, the planners are seriously considering how to overcome the challenges that face the sector.

Lufthansa Numbers Up
   “The cargo business is currently absolutely booming,” Stephan Gemkow, Lufthansa Group chief financial officer said.
  “For the first time in over 10 years we are seeing not just strong imports out of China, but also strong exports into China,” he added
 Vol. 9 No. 83                                                                          Monday July 12, 2010

Ram Menen Looking At Tomorrow
   It should have come as no surprise when last week it was announced that Emirates SkyCargo is now the number one air cargo resource on the planet to utilize paperless movement of its air freight product, or ‘efreight.’
   Right now, Ram Menen, the SkyCargo Divisional Vice President, has quietly become among the longest serving and most prolific executives in the history of the form.
   Emirates SkyCargo 2010 continues as a dynamic innovator, changing the playing field for air cargo the world over.
  What’s more, Emirates is not finished, but maybe just ending its beginnings.

At Dubai The Beat Goes On
   We are looking at the above story and remembering a year ago, when news of financial stress was circling the world and was regarding, of all places, Dubai, where everything has been up, up and away! Or at least it was until 2009, when it was reported that there was some nasty money trouble floating about.
ATC Growing GSSA Adds Croatia
   Ingo Zimmer, CEO of ATC Aviation Services Group reports from Frankfurt headquarters that the number of air cargo companies utilizing its services continues to grow. Today with the addition of Croatia Airlines, the company represents 60 companies
Flying Boat On Wings Of Help
  It may be a very small blip on the global radar, but come this September a flying boat will come down close to the deck, moving very low and slow as it acts as an air bridge across the Atlantic Ocean—an antique Sikorsky S38 is scheduled to make a charity flight from Canada to Germany, and we can hardly wait.
  Wings of Help and pilot Tom Schrade, who owns the aircraft, will make the flight to raise money for the children's charity.
 Vol. 9 No. 82                                                                          Friday July 9, 2010

Iran Air Faces Boycott
   Flight IR723 from Hamburg to Tehran last Sunday seems to be the first in Europe hit by a boycott of a major energy provider. Airport sources say multinational BP refused filling up the tanks of Iran Air’s Boeing B747SP with kerosene.
   To avoid getting stranded in Germany, the aircraft took off to Vienna Schwechat airport where the tanks were refilled, enabling the craft to fly the remaining five hours back to the Iranian capital.
Maldutis Report—Dr. J Sums It Up
Up To The Minute Overview
   The USA economic recovery is under way, but there is the growing risk of a double dip and a return to a recession in early 2011. Unemployment rates rose to 19.1 percent in May.
   In the meantime, the European Union and the U.S. are running the risk of experiencing a financial meltdown.
Emirates Tops Paperless
  “We are excited about it because e-freight is the future of our industry, and the road ahead is what it is all about around here.
  “The benefit of efreight are enormous, and we encourage our forwarding partners to adopt it,” Ram Menen, Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President Cargo of Emirates Sky Cargo said as e-freight – paperless cargo consignments – reaching the one million kilos a month in June.
 Vol. 9 No. 81                                                                          Tuesday July 6, 2010

Gabriela Dynamic At Jade Cargo

   She’s on home leave, but her cell phone rings incessantly. The calls come from China: from Shenzhen, the booming metropolis of the Pearl River Delta, from Shanghai, from Yantai, the emerging center of the high-tech industry in the north of the country.
China Southern Airlines Hits Top 3
   China Southern Airlines was just ranked as one of the world’s top three carriers in passenger transportation by IATA on June 12, handling 66.28 million passengers in 2009. Eight days later, as a new Airbus A330-200 arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, the airlines took the day to celebrate the coming of its “400-jet era”.
Emirates Adds Non-Stop Dubai Prague
   Trade between the Czech Republic and the UAE, which consists of Czech-made Bohemian glass, electrical equipment, jewelery, beverages, data processing devices, machine tools, cars and car parts just got a lift as Emirates began daily A330-200 flights from Dubai to Prague on July 1.
Remembering Wolfgang Fank
    My old friend colleague and business partner Wolfgang Fank died on June 14, 2010 in his home near Cologne after a long bout with cancer.
   Wolfgang was 59 years old.
   He is survived by his wife Gabi, his life and business partner who will continue to operate CES Cologne.
Pizza Fourth For USA Troops
    Although it should not be too hard to find some really good Nan (a soft, piquant and flavorful fresh bread that comes straight out of a tandoori clay oven and can be found almost anywhere in the Middle East), the troops were in luck this weekend as the yearly Independence Day shipment of 'fresh as the day they were frozen' pizzas were due for arrival on July 4th.
 Vol. 9 No. 80                                                                          Thursday July 1, 2010

U.S. House Takes On Air Cargo Screening
     Yesterday, Wednesday June 30, as America prepared to take a break to celebrate its annual rite of Summer—Independence Day, on July 4th—an important hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. titled “100% Air Cargo Screening: Remaining Steps to Secure Passenger Aircraft,” took place at 2:00 pm inside the Cannon House Office Building. Barely a month before TSA mandated 100 percent screening of all belly lift air cargo, the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection is meeting with the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response to discuss these matters.
  The Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) Texas, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection and other lawmakers heard presentations from invited witnesses, including the TSA’s John Sammon, U.S. GAO’s Stephen Lord, ATA’s CEO John Meenan and three air cargo industry executives, including Mike Middleton, EVP of Secure Global Logistics and Fernando Soler, CEO of S.O.S. Global Express.  
May 31:   Giant Airbus A400M military cargo lifter visits ILA Berlin Air Show hardstand at Schönefeld Airport from June 8th to 10th.

 


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