Times What?
Summer
issue of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) Times “South
Korea Ready For Takeoff” writes of building a better air
cargo industry:
“The leadership of TIACA is enthusiastically
embracing all of these responsibilities.
“It is never somebody else’s job: it is
a collective effort.
“We urge the industry to sign up and commit
resources.”
No argument from us.
Time to put it up and go to Incheon for the Air Cargo
Forum (ACF) October 7-9 2014 we say!
So where is UPS, FedEx, Lufthansa and for that matter
SWISS at ACF '14 ?
Seven out of the seventeen current TIACA board members
are not listed as exhibitors at ACF 2014 according to the TIACA website
on July 17, 2014.
Doing the math right now, 41% of TIACA Board companies
are ACF exhibit no-shows, which on average may or may not be normal.
The TIACA Chairman’s own company Swiss International
Air Lines, part of the Lufthansa Group is also not listed as exhibiting
at ACF 2014.
So while it’s probably not an explicit requirement
that board members exhibit at the ACF, lack of support for TIACA from
among its own leadership tells it’s own story.
We have been told that revenue from the ACF has historically
represented about two- thirds of the money TIACA generates to keep going
for the two years until the next go around which in this case would
be 2016 in Paris.
A weak show this autumn does not bode well for funding
the ambitious program of initiatives just presented in TIACA Times Summer
Newsletter.
