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Cargo Hazmat Breach At LAX
    This past Saturday night eight companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, and a phalanx of other law enforcement types and hazardous materials teams responded to a call for help at the Lufthansa Air Cargo facility located across the street from “Hotel Row” at Aviation and Imperial Highway at LAX. Lufthansa personnel reported that a forklift had punctured a box containing a low-grade radioactive material after it had been off-loaded from an aircraft.
  The box, one of three, was being transferred from one location in the cargo facility to another when the incident occurred at 8:10 p.m. More Click Here.

 

Schenker Nixes China Cargo Flap

   German cargo giant Schenker, a unit of the German national rail service Deutsche Bahn, responded Monday to the Chinese government's claims that Schenker has been operating without the necessary licenses or that the licenses were forged, as baseless.
    On Friday August 10 (updated Sunday August 12) FlyingTypers carried an exclusive story 'Schenker China Cargo Uproar,' revealing a document released in China by the Ministry of Commerce that stated that an offical investigation was underway of BAX Global International Limited, Schenker China Limited, of operating with a falsified Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) license. More Click Here

Schenker China Cargo Uproar

    FlyingTypers has obtained an official document circulated yesterday by Ministry of Communications in China to the cargo community charging (BAX) Global International Limited (Schenker China Ltd.), of operating with More Click Here

Schenker China Reaction

   China transportation reacted to the exclusive FlyingTypers report last Friday that Schenkers Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC), has been accused by Ministry of Commerce (MOC) here for operating with a “forged NVOCC license, More Click Here.


IATA Air Cargo Best
Fall Trade Show Slate
   Trade show attendees looking for some bang for the buck cannot do better than the extensive menu of events and industry gatherings put up by The International Air Transport Association and its energetic, inventive Global Head of Cargo, Akeks Popovich.
  As 2008 approaches IATA Cargo once again is fresh while . . . More Click Here
 

Fedex Quits Frankfurt
     U.S. integrator FedEx will cease their Frankfurt flight operations almost completely and move traffic to Cologne/Bonn airport instead.
    The move will be taken in spring 2010 and include 60 weekly flights.
    Reason for doing so is the night flight ban Frankfurt's airport company Fraport AG wants to impose by 2011 when runway number four will be ready and go into service. More Click Here

Lufthansa Charter Cargo Reigns In Spain
    Lufthansa Cargo Charter said that its satellite office in Madrid is the first broker to contract Girjet’s B747-200 freighter for a long haul charter flight from Vitoria to Lima, Peru.
     Turns out that due to the complexity of the shipment of machinery and its associated pieces that needed to be transported to Peru urgently, the newly. . . More Click Here

Air Cargo Price Fix Flap Widens
     
   

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   As news of industry-shaking mega fines of more than USD$800 million levied in USA and Europe against Korean and British Air Cargo for price fixing continued to sink in and reverberate around the world, Qantas in one of the strangest revelations to date said it might be guilty of price fixing itself.
   Not since a guy did a whole lot of nasty things to other people and then claim he ate too many Twinkies (an American sponge cake filled with whipped cream) saying Twinkies made him crazy, has a defense or in Qantas’ case a preventive defense seemed stranger. More Click Here



Air Cargo Price Probe A Set Up?
   We reported of the huge fines levied against Korean Airlines and British Airways by the USA and UK for predatory air cargo business practices (Air Cargo Price Fixing Uproar, FT08.02.07).
   Here are some more thoughts from readers and us on that subject.
   The picture of the animal during Dog Days of August gives rest to the standard airplane as photo art.
   Summer is for dogs and kids anyway. More Click Here


August Danny Golf At JFK
   There wasn’t much you could say about Daniel Ferrante who worked at JFK International Airport in New York for BAX Global Forwarders.
   So for years, Danny, as people called him, went largely unnoticed about his business, as part of the huge infrastructure of forwarders and brokers that operate on and off JFK Airport in big offices and atop bodegas; in purpose-built corporate parks, and even in neighborhoods zoned as both residential and commercial, where in the summer kids play stick ball while trucks just down the block unload twenty-foot containers.
   A lot of people, in a very understated way, knew Danny until something happened to him three years ago.
   Danny died from cancer. More Click Here


Air Cargo Price Fixing Uproar
   British Airways got slapped twice during the past 24 hours with fines for price-fixing passenger and cargo fuel surcharges.
   In United Kingdom BA admitted that between August 2004 and January 2006, it colluded with Virgin Atlantic over surcharges that were added to ticket prices.
   The UK penalty of $290 million is the highest ever imposed for infringement of competition law.
   In U.S., both British Airways and Korean Air pleaded guilty to U.S. Department of Justice criminal charges and will pay $300 million apiece for conspiring to fix prices on cargo and passenger flights.
   During the air cargo conspiracy, BA's fuel surcharge on shipments to and from the United States changed more than 20 times and increased from $.05 per kilogram of cargo shipped to as high as $0.85 per kilogram. More Click Here.


Boeing Projects 911
   Boeing has been on a high.
   Business has been good and the USA plane builder has raked in orders all year long.
   But a new projection of expected airplane sales across India makes us wonder just a bit.
   A Boeing Current Market Outlook (CMO) report released on July 30 and put out on Reuters and Associated Press and nearly everywhere else said that India would require 911 aircraft by 2027. More Click Here.
     


Bravo Bisignani
  Finally an organization that people pay attention to came out and said what travelers and air cargo people have known for a long time, that service and the day-to-day experience at Heathrow and other U.K. airports owned by BAA Ltd. needs improvement. More Click Here.
Iata Warsaw Best Bets
   Trade show attendees looking for some bang for the buck cannot do better than the extensive menu of events and industry gatherings put up by The International Air Transport Association and its energetic, inventive Global Head of Cargo, Akeks Popovich.
   As 2008 approaches IATA Cargo once again is fresh while everybody else is tired.
   In a world of air cargo trade shows that promise sizzle but will deliver the usual suspects More Click Here
Stephan Haltmeyer
Is Quick
FlyingTypers keeps track and supports and applauds the initiatives of family-owned international freight forwarders and companies around the world. More Click Here.
Plain Speaking With Klaus Holler
When Lufthansa Cargo wanted the best location to operate cargo headquarters in the Americas, the German national carrier settled in on Atlanta, Georgia.
     “Atlanta,” said Joachim Haas who was top executive for the carrier’s cargo effort at the time, “offers central location, a great international city and airport, a wonderful standard of living and . . . More Click Here
Guess What Happened While Your Were Away
   The U.S. House of Representatives/Senate panel waited until everybody went to the beach and then agreed to allow tests on new technology to be completed before requiring inspections on cargo.
  So as you read this, that House Transportation Security Bill from this past January that would have required all cargo on passenger jets be inspected within three years and all U.S.-bound maritime cargo to . . . . More Click Here
Benny & The Jets
“It is a significant increase in the level of security,” said Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts who has made a national name for himself ever since 9/11, advocating strict air cargo security. More Click Here

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