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Border Trade Alliance Sees
Need For Discussion
   Now that the American Senate has approved that $3 billion USD border fence between USA and Mexico, some portions of which are being manufactured in China, it’s worth noting that over $760 billion in trade using surface transportation took place between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico in 2006, 8.9 percent higher than in 2005. More Click Here.		  
AA Cargo At Hand
    Ask American’s Dave Brooks what he thinks of recent reports on the state of air cargo security, and the top cargo executive of the biggest airline in the world is direct:
    “Too much sloppy and hysterical retail reporting of air cargo issues have unnecessarily prolonged the debate over what rational air cargo programs should look like.
    “A recent issue of USA Today with the headline, "Report Blasts Air Cargo Security," is a good example. More Click Here
Air Cargo Rewriting India Shipping
  The growth in the economy has seen an explosion in the cargo sector in the last three years.
   In fact, air cargo has galloped ahead well past the traditional favorites—railways and ships—to take the biggest bite in freight traffic.
   According to a study done by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, ASSOCHAM Delhi (the country's premier apex chamber with a membership of over 100,000 companies and professionals) if immediate measures are not taken, railways and shipping would be the biggest losers in the long run.
  The ASSOCHAM Eco Pulse (AEP) study, 'Changing Pattern of Cargo Traffic in India' has analyzed the three major transportation modes -- aviation, railways and shipping – for the 2000-07 period and found that air cargo has grown by around 19 percent as against 10.3 percent and 9.2 percent growth in shipping and railways during the last three years. More Click Here.
East Star Airlines Growing China
    East Star Airlines, one of China's growing private airlines, had just signed a Total Component Support (TCS) deal with Lufthansa Technik AG.
   The contract will run for five years and is worth over USD10 million.
   Although East Star commenced flying in May 2006 with three Airbus A319's, the carrier has become the notable “new kid on the block,” by outperforming other older, more entrenched Chinese private airlines.
  The airline declared a net profit of over USD145 million for its first year operation. More Click Here

A380 Deliverance
 Mark down this day when finally the Airbus A380 was delivered to an airline.
In about a week Singapore Airlines will become first in the world to press A380 into commercial service with flights between Singapore and Sydney.
     A380 becomes at last “Queen of the Skies,” replacing B747 that has held that title since 1969.
     Today in Toulouse, France an hour-and-a-half handover ceremony with all the glitter and bling signaled the end (or new beginning) to a . . . More Click Here
ATL Wants TIACA
   “Hartsfield Jackson International Airport wants The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) 26th Air Cargo Forum & Exposition in Atlanta for 2012,” Robert Kennedy, Assistant General Manager for Operations, Maintenance and Security for HJIA told Air Cargo News/Flying Typers.
   “Hartsfield-Jackson has already hosted, major events for several other world transportation organizations, including ALACAT and also with United Nations affiliate CIFAL Atlanta, the multiple best practice sharing seminars for airport and government officials from around the world,” Mr. Kennedy noted. More Click Here

EU/USA Cops
Raid Air Cargo
  Air cargo historians may remember yesterday, October 10, 2007 as “Black Wednesday” when USA and EU law enforcement carried out the most extensive one-day raids of companies and hand out of subpoenas connected to alleged industry collusion and price fixing.
  Schenker, in addition to having its USA office in Long Island, New York searched by FBI on Wednesday, also yesterday saw its offices in Essen, Germany inspected by European competition regulators and the German Federal Cartel Office.
   Sources say that Deutsche Post, which owns DHL, was also put under the lamp by European and Swiss Cartel inspectors. More Click Here
FBI Invades Schenker
Air Cargo News/FlyingTypers learned that law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic are ramping up the search for incriminating evidence that might be obtained against leading cargo companies.
    In New York according to sources the FBI invaded Schenker, “swarming all over that company’s facility in Freeport, Long Island near JFK International Airport.
“They,” (FBI) “were checking computers and internal records and all employees were told to go home for the day.
    “The exceptions were the managers and IT people who stayed and apparently were ordered to turn over records.” More Click Here

Prosit As Inter Airport Munich Opens
 Even though Oktoberfest—the biggest public festival in the world—left the city for another year a few days ago, rest assured, there is no shortage of beer in Munich. They wouldn’t have it any other way.
 In place of Oktoberfest, the biggest airport gathering of its kind kicked off Tuesday (October 9), as 600 exhibitors from 30 countries toasted the start of Inter Airport Europe.
  In the cargo spotlight of the giant tradeshow are firms including VRR, the Dutch container manufacturing company; Miloco, a French company specializing in repair of air freight containers and machinery; and Smiths Heimann, a global airport security technology company. More Click Here.


The Dwell From Hell
  A battle royale between freight forwarders and the Delhi airport administrators is on the cards.
  The issue: cargo dwell time at the airport.
  Starting this month (October), cargo dwell time at Delhi and other metro airports in the country has been reduced effectively from 5 days to 3 days.
 The move follows a notification from the Ministry of Civil Aviation restricting the free dwell time of cargo at airports.      
   The dwell time or free time allowed for cargo to be parked in any of the More Click Here

 
 



Parting Shot
  “Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
  “The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
  “And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout;
  “But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.”
     When Ernest Lawrence Thayer wrote his immortal homage to baseball and what . . . More Click Here
Contact Talk To Geoffrey

Dear Geoffrey:
   Get your head out of the fifties.
  Your team today proves again that you can't buy a championship every year. There has to be some spark and fire like the Indians and the Rockies have.
   Go Rockies!
   By the way, I think a lot of Joe Torre, but you have way overrated him.
   Anyway, for the rest of the country. . . More Click Here


CNS Gag Order For Air Cargo
   Mark 2007 as the year that air cargo industry trade events came with a warning label.
  Some air cargo types don’t much like it either.
  "The end of free speech in airfreight? “As agents now we can't ask carriers for better rates or for a collection fee for surcharges; can't discuss business or security challenges?
  “Burma looms over the air cargo industry!
  “Order of the day:
  “Unite but shut up with tails between our legs.
  “What brave leaders we have.
  “Tony Calabrese must be having a good chuckle over his next glass of splendid red wine," was one comment, as CNS the U.S. arm of IATA Cargo held the first in a series . . . More Click Here


  Scott Dolan addressed The Traffic Club of Chicago (Thursday September 20).
  The United Airlines Worldwide Cargo top executive helped mark the 100th anniversary of the pioneering transportation organization with a brief yet concise look into America’s second largest airline’s air cargo activities, offering a glimpse at what lies ahead. More Click Here
About That LH/DHL Airline
 As reported exclusively in Air Cargo News/FlyingTypers on June 26 (DLH/LH New Cargo), Lufthansa Cargo and Deutsche Post came forward on September 20 confirming start-up of a 50-50 joint cargo airline through their . . . More Click Here
    


Life Sciences
In The Air
David Y. Bang is CEO of LifeConEx LLC, a joint venture between DHL Global Forwarding and Lufthansa Cargo. LifeConEx is the only industry-specific provider of integrated end-to-end
temperature controlled transportation solutions for the life sciences industry.
 
Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Global Forwarding saw there was a need for temperature-sensitive cargo service for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life-science industries, More Click Here.
Air Jamaica Builds
Latin America
   Sometimes an air cargo executive is so good at what he or she does that the job looks easy to an outsider or somebody who doesn’t know any better.
  It has always been that way with the real professionals.
  The way Pelé played football (soccer) . . . More Click Here


Meinl Airports International (MAI) has purchased 100% of shares of Mukhino Airport in Ulan-Ude (the

Royal Jordanian Cargo said it is now able to carry up to 2 tons of air cargo onboard its Embraer 195 passenger

That sudden departure of Datuk JJ Ong from the top spot at Malaysian Air Cargo earlier this month as Ong moved

Airports Authority of India recorded more than 27 percent growth in passengers handled during the first six-months of

  A report by Dan Rather “America’s Anchor Man” for his decades of fronting CBS News, titled Plastic Planes broadcast last week on HD TV Net brings forward some frightening charges about Boeing’s vaunted B787.
  Vince Weldon, a former Boeing senior aerospace engineer who among other things is credited with being part of the team that invented the B727 wing which allowed that airplane to land at short field runways
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