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Lufthansa Cargo Examines Security
 Lufthansa Wednesday (Sept. 19), hosted its first Cargo Security Conference 2007 in Frankfurt, drawing about 200 industry and government security experts to discuss the state of the air cargo industry’s security, threats at hand, and the steps that must be undertaken to ensure safe passenger travel and cargo transit in future. More Click Here
Lufthansa Cargo Security Boss Hails Progress
Harald Zielinski, Lufthansa’s chief security officer called the company’s Cargo Security Conference on Wednesday (Sept. 19), a great success and a good contribution to the necessary dialogue between government authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, and members of the cargo industry. More Click Here


  CEM Warsaw Timely Delivery
  Aleks Popovich, IATA head of Cargo is upbeat.
 “I'm glad to say that IATA Cargo in Emerging Markets in Eastern Europe held this past Tuesday and Wednesday in Warsaw, Poland was a great success! More Click Here
IATA Price Fixing Primer
Anita Mosner is a lawyer and consultant based in Washington, D.C. practicing in areas of the commercial aviation industry, with experience in handling policy and commercial matters in other modes of transportation. More Click Here.
Tony Delivers
By The Numbers
In Warsaw, Poland at IATA Cargo Emerging markets (CEM) last week Tony Widmer, Head of Air Freight DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) More Click Here
IATA Cargo Warsaw Continues
At the IATA Cargo Emerging Markets two-day conference held in Warsaw, Poland, Wolfgang Schmitz Lufthansa Cargo Head of Corporate and Business Development, set the tone for a busy day affording attendees a brief word picture of how to. . . More Click Here
Down To Business In Eastern Europe
Stan Wraight, an expert on Eastern European and Russian air cargo, with 40 years in the business overall, said the market is still maturing as Russia develops its infrastructure. More Click Here
LOT Sees Opportunity In Eastern Europe
Polish carrier LOT said it sees a great deal of opportunity in Eastern Europe and Russia, as growing economies are leading to more capital More Click Here
Markets East Grow Domodedovo
Domodedovo Airport, the largest in Russia, says its cargo center is one of the most technologically sophisticated in the country, moving around 126,000 tons of cargo in More Click Here.
IATA Hits Where They Ain't
  In America right now baseball is on everyone’s mind.
  I mention baseball in a story about IATA Cargo because once upon a time there was this player named Willie Keeler who at 5'4" and only 140 pounds, was one of the smallest men to ever play Major League baseball.
  But in 1894, he began a streak of eight seasons with 200 or more hits, while batting for a 371 average.
  Somebody asked Wee Willie how a little guy could achieve such great averages that escaped most other regular sized players of the game? More Click Here
IATA Markets Poland Today
Warsaw Dateline Exclusive—“We are taking the show on the road and developing a shared understanding of a growing and rapidly changing industry,” says Aleks Popovich, Head of Cargo at IATA. More Click Here

Emerging Markets
Eastern Europe
Volker Oesau, the CEO of DHL Global Forwarding for Central & Eastern Europe and the country manager for Germany, spoke to Air Cargo News/FlyingTypers about business in Eastern Europe and Russia.
FT:  How will DHL’s air freight business develop in Eastern Europe and Russia in the next several years?
Volker Oesau:  Our current assumption is that the annual . . . More Click Here

Growing Frederic Chopin Airport
    Polish Airports, the state entity that runs three of the country’s main airports and has stakes in more than a half dozen others said in 2005, Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport, handled 44,000 tons of cargo, an increase of 8% over 2004’s 41,000 tons.
According to Polish Airports' 2005 report. . . More Click Here



Schenker Settles China Flap      
    “Since the matter was brought to light, investigations were conducted jointly by Schenker with the relevant authorities.
   “It was found that a recalcitrant employee had committed fraud against SCL, by generating false documents and absconded with payments for licenses.”
   That uproar over charges August 8 posted by the Ministry of Communications (“MOC”) People’s Republic of China, against Schenker China Ltd (”SCL”) stating that the company had been operating with improper forged licenses has apparently been settled.
   In a letter obtained by FlyingTypers that was sent to customers from SCL , the company states that both parties are in the process of closing the case.
  “MOC already updated their list of valid NVOCC operators on their website to include the licenses for Schenker China Ltd. in Shanghai and Ningbo,” Schenker said.
   "I think most company's operating in China have faced similar problems,” said Nick Coverdale, Managing Director Piff Shipping Hong Kong.
  “For one corrupt employee to cause so much mayhem seems unfair for the employer.
  “But the MOC was right.
  “These were not valid licenses.
  That the person committing this criminal offense has been identified is good for all concerned.”
Geoffrey



ACI FIATA TIACA Bid Liberalized Cargo

Left to Right—Robert J. Aaronson, Jack Boisen and Issa Baluch

 Next week as the 36th International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly convenes, some 180 contracting states, various agencies and other observers will gather to discuss aviation issues.
  The ICAO Assembly 36th Session is held at ICAO Headquarters in Montréal, Canada from September 18-28 and during that time a virtual blizzard of information will come forth. More Click Here


Emerging Markets Eastern Europe

David Kerr (left) also discusses growing the American Airlines Cargo business in Eastern Europe.
FT: What’s your presence like in Eastern Europe and Russia?
David Kerr: In order to serve the needs of our multinational customers in Central Europe, we established offices in Poland, Hungary, More Click Here		 AA Cargo Lifts Barcelona/Milan
David Kerr, the managing director of EMEA Cargo Sales for American Airlines said American would start passenger service between New York-JFK and Milan and Barcelona starting on May 1, 2008. He said the More Click Here

 

German Plot Raises Air Cargo Security
   While authorities in Germany last week arrested three men who were said to be planning bomb attacks at Frankfurt Airport, and Ramstein Airbase, the U.S. Air Forces European headquarters, police say they’re still searching for 10 other suspects.
   Even though U.S. and European authorities have made significant changes and improvements to cargo security in recent years to hinder such threats to the cargo network, some experts think security measures must still be undertaken to ensure all cargo transport is safer.
   In terms of air cargo safety, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on its website says, among other improvements, it’s added more than 150 inspectors, both domestically and abroad, deployed 170 more dogs, and started screening at more than 200 smaller airports since mid 2006. More Click Here

UPS Celebrates Mumbai
   Barely a year ago – December 1, 2006 to be precise, Franklin L. Lavin, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade had pointed out that companies such as UPS enable global commerce and help grow trade between the U.S. and India.
  "If time is money, then UPS has saved millions of dollars for the 10,000 customers you have More Click Here

Attendance Stalls At Asian Aerospace
   On September 6th, the four-day Asian Aerospace International Expo 2007 closed at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. Dubbed the world’s largest civil aviation exposition, Asian Aerospace has a history of over two decades.
   Before this latest session in Hong Kong, Asian Aerospace had been held 13 times previously in Singapore. More Click Here

USA Air Cargo Security Slammed

   Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner, a career U.S. government audit officer made public a report yesterday (Thursday September 6) saying that the TSA (air cargo) system "increases the opportunities (to put) explosives, incendiaries and other dangerous devices on passenger aircraft."
   It seems like every year since 9/11, the run up to that terrible day in America includes press reports of some new impending security problem.
   This year in America the subject is air cargo.
   USA Today, the top national newspaper in America on Friday September 7 ran a lead front-page story above the fold with the headline:
“Report Blasts TSA Air Cargo Security.”  More Click Here



Inside Air Freight Asia

Hui Launches Air Freight Asia

Exclusive Hong Kong—Asian Aerospace, which has always been held in Singapore, moves to Hong Kong this year, and the choice of Hong Kong signifies the increasing attraction of China.
  In the past two decades, the . . . More Click Here

Ameco Beijing 747 Conversion
Exclusive Hong Kong—At Air Freight Asia Air Cargo News/FlyingTypers learned that Ameco Beijing, the joint venture between Air China and Lufthansa, is considering moving into the aircraft conversion business, anticipating that Air China's fleet of Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft will eventually end up as freighters.
   The maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company's executive director Zheng Yan told reporters the decision to enter the freighter conversion business is still under investigation. More Click Here

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