 
RE: Escape
From The World Trade Center
Geoffrey,
Great articles in “Escape
From The World Trade Center” last week!
Jim Larsen is a very special person.
Our friend Julius (Maldutis) was
at WTC (that fateful week) as well as my daughter
Robin.
On 911, I was in Washington, DC,
and saw the Pentagon devastation.
That triggered a nerve in me that
changed my life.
After 9/11, I volunteered to lead
a covert project in Iraq and Afghanistan to move cargo
overland using local drivers instead of our troops who
were in harm’s way.
Reflecting on that time and effort,
after 50 years in air cargo, that work for our country
is most likely the best thing that I have ever done.
Knowing so many people you wrote
about and others that saw these attacks shows me we
live in a small world, but still dangerous, and thanks
to our great security agencies a little safer for us
in the USA.
Thanks again from both of us,
Bill Boesch & Shari Cohen
RE: 9/11
Recollections From The Cargo Community
 Geoffrey,
Thanks for your excellent and heartfelt
911 coverage.
Recalling that time, 9/11 was a
very special day for me.
My lifetime friend from New York,
Golda (with whom I had dined a couple of years earlier
at the Windows of the World atop the World Trade Center),
decided to move to Rome in 2000.
I had also moved from Turin to
Trieste.
We decided we would meet in Trieste;
she boarded the train from Rome in the morning to come
visit me in Trieste on September 11th, 2001.
I spent the morning in the office
and when the news broke we switched on the TV we kept
in the office for emergencies.
I could not believe my eyes.
My sense of despair and irreparable
loss was complete.
With that feeling in my heart and
barely able to walk, I made my way to the train station
to be there at Golda’s arrival.
When she appeared in the middle
of the crowd, I broke into tears and it looked so bad
from the outside that Golda thought something had happened
to her children. She panicked, then I managed to communicate
that nothing was wrong with her children and explained
what had happened in New York to our beloved World Trade
Center.
We went home and cried and sulked
until 5 in the morning when one of our unworldly neighbors
came to complain that we were making too much noise.
We tried crying more silently.
That was my 9/11.
No harm done to me other than to
my heart and hopes.
Kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Bien cordialement,
MfG,
Distinti saluti,
Marco L. Sorgetti
FIATA
Schaffhauserstrasse 104
CH 8152 GLATTBRUGG
www.fiata.com
RE: Hanjin
Debacle Pain Into Gain
Geoffrey,
The article
on Hanjin raises a question that perhaps has been addressedelsewhere,
but certainly loomslarge—what caused the collapse,
and is it possible that the same dynamics could occur
elsewhere in the industry?
In any instance, however, the loss
of the Hanjin capacity will be partially offset as you
indicated by bringing on additional ocean-borne capacity,
but it is hard to imagine a scenario where the impact
on shipping by air will not be positive for several
reasons:
- The products that are currently
in the Hanjin system are already delayed. Delivery
will become increasingly time sensitive the longer
the cargo is caught in the system, inevitably pushing
some to air.
- The sheer loss of Hanjin capacity,
despite other shipping lines increasing their fleet
size, will impact seasonal shipping planning and operations,
causing additional diversions to air.
- Perhaps of less importance, but
certainly realistic, is a potential temporary loss
of confidence in ocean shipments.
As always, thanks for your succinct
insights,
Dan
Daniel B. Muscatello
Associate Vice President, Cargo & Logistics
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