Bharat Jamnadas Thakkar Was Heart, Wisdom & Passion
    The death of Bharat Jamnadas Thakkar, at age 66, Co-Founder and Joint MD, ZEUS Air Services Pvt Ltd, founded in 1986 in Mumbai has left the freight forwarders of India minus both a visionary top leader, and a lovely human being.

Amar Is The Phoenix At CNS Partnership
    Amar More is the President and CEO of Kale Logistics, a company that has made its way through the airport and airfreight communities in the last 10+ years with great success, starting from the beginning and getting to very high results in terms of business and geographical coverage. Read on until the end to get acquainted with the number of communities that cooperate with Kale. Amar More’s presentation told us all that he knows about how community systems can transform an airport ecosystem into a more profitable, efficient and environmentally compliant business place.

IATA & TIACA Sullivan & Hughes At FIATA Geneva
     On May 18th Dawit Woubishet, (left) the Ethiopian chairperson of the FIATA Air Freight Institute, introduced the themes of his session, 'Business Recovery (eCommerce, Digitalisation, COVID, etc.)' and 'Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI)', hosting a high-rank panel of speakers: James Hookham, Secretary-General, GSF, Glyn Hughes, Director General, TIACA, Brendan Sullivan, Global Head, Cargo, IATA and Cortney Robinson of ICAO, gathered in Geneva or participating from remote at the first face to face reunion of the FIATA community after the FWC in Cape Town in 2019.

Come May EMO Trans Delivers Spargel
    Our favorite yearly treat was delivered to New York City this week. Air cargo is once again delivering cases of the great German “royal vegetable,” spargel (white asparagus), once reserved for the upper classes. The German American Chamber of Commerce celebrates the season with its Annual White Asparagus Dinner that was held at The Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan.

Living Loving It's Just A Trade Show
    Living 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.

HKIA Cargo Gold For Hong Kong
     “The last few months have been pretty tough here in Hong Kong,” Bob Rogers Of ULD Care writes.
     “Having ducked the bullet and having escaped the ravages of COVID Alpha and Delta through our stringent social distancing and travel bans,” Mr. Rogers said,

Easter In 1960 With Animals
     Geoffrey called while I was driving to the seaside on Ash Wednesday. I was supposed to meet the builders who are in charge of restoring the apartment my family owned since 1962. Geoffrey wanted to run the Easter article I wrote in 2020 again, but I am not sure the feelings and the meanings are the same. In 2020 I was trying to go back in time to the late 1950’s when we were able to use a car for the first time and drive to the fields for our Easter Monday traditional al fresco, often with rain or even snow.

Will Air India Bring Back The Maharajah?
     After all, he never really left not at least in the heart and imagination of the world that adopted the Maharajah caricature as the icon and brand of Air India.
     Once upon a time the Maharajah of Air India and the Meatball of Pan Am were airline brands as recognized as Coca Cola was.

Kale Logistics Solutions & More
     On 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.

This Guy Lifts All Of Us
     He sold the company he built into a powerhouse in 1997 to UPS, getting what must have amounted to everything and a bag of chips, against anything that he might desire for the rest of his life.
     Lynn Fritz spent 35 years creating a 10,000-employee, world multi-modal shipping Goliath across 120 countries.

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over @ EWR Cargo
     Remember our exclusive story last August of how The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey cancelled cargo leases and turned over most of a thriving, working Newark Airport Cargo area to Amazon leaving several companies including SAS Scandinavian Airlines Cargo, Air Canada, Lufthansa Cargo and IAG holding the bag, whilst scrambling for handling space to service customers

Robert Keen More Than A Knowledgeable Professional
     FIATA’s SG is Robert Keen, much more than a knowledgeable professional.
Interviewing FIATA’s personalities is really a welcome task. Having served as DG until 2017, every second year I have this wonderful opportunity of identifying a new candidate. The October 2021 elections was a good time to reconnect with old friends and establish new contacts within the group. Robert Keen (known to all as Bob) surely has been a friend for many years now. We were both born in 1952. Coming out of very similar pipelines in life, as we shall learn in a short while, Bob and I were bound to meet sooner or later.

Gentleman Bill 90 In The Shade
     Bill 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.

Miami Cargo Warms The World
     When 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.