Vol.
21 No. 27 TUESDAY
JULY 5,
2022 |
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Chuckles
for July 5, 2022 |
High-Tech
JFK Cargo System Debut
When it comes to
future thinking in air cargo, Phil Jensen, Vice President Business
Development and Industry Relations at Worldwide Flight Services (WFS)
and Donna Mullins, Vice President Kale Logistics Solutions are all
smiles after a test collaboration of the partners' Kale-provided Community
Cargo System recently at the WFS JFK Cargo Building 9 in New York. |
Sally
Takes Another Ride Into History
They dedicated
a statue to Sally Ride on Friday June 17 that now stands in the entrance
courtyard of the Cradle Of Aviation Museum in Uniondale, Long Island,
New York.
Created by
Colorado-based sculptors and brothers George Lundeen and Mark Lundeen,
working with fellow artist, Joey Bainer, the seven foot tall statue
is executed in bronze and gold. |
The
Boys Of Summer
We’ve reached
a fork in the road in New York City, as July 4th, 2022 found my New
York Yankees, the most storied sports franchise in the world cooling
on a rare day off, breaking a torrid winning streak so far this year,
but still comfortably in first place with the best record in the sport. |
Vol.
21 No. 25 THURSDAY
JUNE 16,
2022 |
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WeQare
A Children's Song
On Bedford Street
in Manhattan is a wonderful ancient passage that runs for some blocks
parallel to Hudson Street.
There
is a beautiful wooden frame home on Bedford Street right down the
block from Chumley’s, a great writer's saloon and at one time
a stop on the Underground Railroad that until the end of the U.S.
Civil War worked to free slaves. |
Chuckles
for June 16, 2022 |
Ram
Menen Looking At Tomorrow
In late May we
wrote of the enduring friendships formed by people in transportation
that outlast companies, careers, and in the case of Ram Menen and
Des Vertannes, still going strong with expansive thinking and on point
after 40 years.
We asked
the gentlemen about some current issues in cargo.
Here Ram Menen opens up on a variety of subjects. |
Wear
A Mask
Need more proof
that COVID is still out there? Although in some cases people are reluctant
to come right out and say “I have COVID” we are getting
reports from attendees of Cargo Network Services Corp. (CNS) held
in Phoenix May 23-25 and also Air Cargo India Mumbai May 31-June 2,
by people, who after flying home, a few days later are coming up sick,
bitten by the pandemic despite being vaccinated several times . .
. |
Vol.
21 No. 24 THURSDAY
JUNE 9,
2022 |
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ATC
Best In Show
One of the busiest
people in Mumbai recently was the person who creates the awards and
honorariums.
We may wonder
as example, if every panelist needs a citation for their attendance
and participation in a talk session, but guess that is a personal
choice. |
Adani
India Big Time Operator
The Adani Group, headed by Gautam
Adani, has, in just over two years after entering the aviation space,
become the largest operator in India. Through the Adani Airports Holding
Limited (AAHL), it manages the airports at Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru,
Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram (all the airports were won
through a competitive bid that was announced in 2019). Adani also
bought the Mumbai International Airport from the GVK group - today,
it is the jewel in the crown. The six airports along with the Mumbai
airport, handled nearly 80 million passengers in 2019-2020, approximately
a quarter of India's total air traffic of 341 million. |
Throwing
Caution In The Wind
Air cargo trade show elbow and fist
bumps, kisses and hugs and sharing food in what used to pass as normal
behavior in a trade show setting anywhere, right now, may be premature
and worse, might make you sick according to some people that we talked
to in the past days. |
Chuckles
for June 9, 2022 |
D-Day
In Bernay
Liberté,
Egalité, Fraternité On June 6
On June 6 we recall D-Day in France during World War II when the Allies
landed and it was the beginning of the end of Nazi rule of Europe.
We especially recall three
years ago when on June 6 more than 40 DC-3s that had first accompanied
the landings in 1944 returned to the skies above the coast of France
to mark the 75h Anniversary of the landings. |
Vol.
21 No. 23 TUESDAY
MAY 31,
2022 |
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Another
Opening Another Show
As Air Cargo India
gets ready, set, to go at Grand Hyatt, Santacruz, Mumbai today, May
31 through June 2 maybe someone can answer a big get India is out
for as it strives to become “pharmacy of the world.” |
ATC
Hosts VIP Lounge At Air Cargo India
It is not unusual for people in
air cargo to be in contact with their partners in business.
But for the past few years business as usual has been unusual.
Take the case of ATC, the
fastest rising GSSA in the world based in Frankfurt Cargo City Sud
and its CEO Ingo Zimmer. |
Ram
& Des In 2022 What Old Friends Do
You remember what you liked when
we were all together prior to the COVID-19 separation.
Being together and being there was always about “the networking”.
Back in office when heads
were put together, what aside from maybe a couple of contracts mattered
from that last trade show?
It was always the people. |
Vol.
21 No. 21 TUESDAY
MAY 24,
2022 |
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Chuckles
for May 24, 2022 |
Life
Goes Down To Zero
Word Up May 22, 2022 . .
. Having ducked COVID for what feels like a half a decade
now, although guess it is only the past two years, we celebrated an
evening out in Manhattan last week just as fat, dumb and happy as
it gets after 47 years of marriage.
Yesterday, Sabiha came down with COVID. |
Vol.
21 No. 20 TUESDAY
MAY 17,
2022 |
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Franceso
Parisi Propels Trieste Port
To The Future
On my way to collect Francesco Parisi
from Turin’s train station on Friday 29th of April, I received
an email from Geoffrey, which demanded: “Would so appreciate
a story with Francesco. He is a beautiful human being . . . When he
is in our issue he makes us all look good. Perhaps you can have him
talk and predict ocean or something connected to gateway Trieste?”
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Chuckles
for May 17, 2022 |
LAACA
Comeback At Proud Bird
The Proud Bird may no longer have
a Golden Tail as it once had back in the glory days of Continental
Airlines but for the air cargo community of Los Angeles May 12 was
a once a year day as the Los Angeles Air Cargo Club hosted Air Cargo
Day. |
World
Bee Day Is May 20
Can’t come
fast enough for a shipment of about 800 pounds of bees, or more than
5 million individual bees, that were being shipped by Delta Cargo
to Alaska from Sacramento, California in early May that were left
to die on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
according to EcoWatch. |
India
Superdog Takes A Bite Out Of Cargo
India's air cargo
received a thumping boost when the Harvard and Stanford Graduate School
of Business-educated Jyotiraditya Scindia, the country's minister
for Civil Aviation charted out a target: achieve 10 million metric
tons of cargo by 2030 from the 3.1 mn metric tons at present. |
Space
The Future Lifting Cargo
The face of the future—lifting
super heavy cargo payloads and passengers into space, on a mural in
Brownsville, Texas created by PoPC.
Once again part of the success of getting off the ground depends on
action taken by aviators to get out of the environmental bullseye
as the magnificent and huge SpaceX “Starship” works its
way through the development process to eventually deposit heavyweight
satellites into near earth orbit, and humans on the Moon and Mars. |
Vol.
21 No. 19 WEDNESDAY
MAY 4,
2022 |
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Ramzan
Ends New Beginnings At PIA
A Muslim woman with her hands painted
with traditional henna prays during an Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking
the end of the fasting month of Ramzan, at the historical Badshahi
Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. |
Chuckles
for May 4, 2022 |
Brussels
Sprouts Needs 1,200 New Hires
Aviato, Brussels Airport’s
job hub says it needs 1,200 new hires for all kinds of jobs at the
airport. |
India
Ready For Take Off
Overcoming challenges
– the Coronavirus pandemic, rising costs and supply chain woes
notwithstanding – the Indian aviation sector seems to be ready
for a booming take-off. While most carriers faced huge losses, with
the announcements of two new airlines coming soon, Akasa Air and a
resurrected Jet Airways, there is optimism from the ground up. Along
with the steady rise in passenger traffic, air cargo is making rapid
strides. |
This
Birthday Is A Moveable Feast
April 25th was
all hands on deck around the Arend household as Sabiha celebrated
her 70th birthday.
True
to character at a last-minute emergency she spent this important day
in Kalamazoo, Michigan with daughter Florence caring for her ailing
brother Ahsan, who thankfully is now well on his way to full recovery.
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