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25 No. 46 Monday
October 26, 2026 |
Busch United Cargo Miles Of Heart
Our guest today is Chris Busch, President United Cargo. His LinkedIn profile tells us that he is an “accomplished leader with a proven track record of delivering results and new solutions within several different industries and functional areas of responsibility. Experienced with transforming, re-structuring and motivating teams and possess aptitude for quickly adapting to, understanding and succeeding at new tasks/heightened levels of responsibility.”
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Rap TAP On Wood
Ready, set, go!
In a blast from the past, a big golden moment we recall at TIACA ACF 2024 we caught up with the TAP Cargo team (above) that included Ruben da Silva Jorge, who leads sales for North America, Bruno Aires, the global senior director for cargo, Rita Rosario Garcia, cargo & mail product and service director and Ramsin Abrahams, the U.S. country manager for cargo, (Rita won’t be at TIACA this time).
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Chuckles for October 26, 2026
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New India Transshipment Framework PoC
India has taken a significant step to strengthen its standing in international air cargo with the operationalization of a new transshipment framework that allows eligible shipments to stay securely packed during transit, thereby removing the requirement for mandatory piece-level security re-screening at the connecting airport.
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25 No. 45 Saturday
October 24, 2026 |
The Man Who Is Changing The Way To Pay Cargo
Picture this: a container is finally off the ship or off the main deck or belly of an arriving aircraft, the paperwork is ready, the trucks are staged . . . and then everything stops. It stops for only one reason, the payment hasn’t cleared.
Often these days we talk about cranes and congestion and labor shortages, but “slow money” can hold cargo hostage just as effectively.
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Air Canada Cargo Flexes New Routes
ir Canada Cargo makes a pretty notable move: expanding its freighter network next week from Toronto with new flights to Amsterdam Schiphol, Monterrey, and Panama City.
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Chuckles for October 24, 2026
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Donna's Kalé Is A Dolly
Airport air cargo stakeholders have some congestion challenges, but help is at work and increasingly on the way to USA airport gateways that have teamed up with Kalé Info Solutions, the wunderkind Airport Cargo Community System (ACCS) that streamlines the entire export and import process for all airport cargo stakeholders.
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25 No. 44 Wednesday
October 21, 2026 |
What To Expect At TIACA ACF 2026
Here is a brief look ahead. Just for you.
Today we’re jumping in with hands, hearts and heads first into content and thoughts before the show starts next week in Miami, Florida, setting our table where the Miami Beach Convention Center is about to turn into a crossroads for the global air cargo world.
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Chuckles for October 21, 2026
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Fast Forward GSSA Timothy Pfeil
Today we’re sitting down with Timothy Pfeil, a longtime air cargo GSSA pro who serves as President and Managing Director U.S.A. / Head of Group Global Compliance at ATC Aviation Services AG.
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FIATA Salutes Air Cargo News FlyingTypers
Attending The FIATA World Congress during their 100th Anniversary week in Milan Italy, we were unexpectedly surprised, delighted and slightly overwhelmed to receive some unsolicited individual recorded moments of accolades and thanks from FIATA's current Director General (DG) Stèphane Graber, past DG Marco Leonardo Sorgetti and Past Presidents Turgut Erkeskin (Turkey) and Huxiang Zhao (China) for our work as FIATA Fellow during the past decade.
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25 No. 43 Friday
October 16, 2026 |
FIATA Imaginary Centennial Celebration
Last week in Milan FIATA celebrated its first centenary. I was wondering what could be a decent way to celebrate the anniversary in these pages and I thought I should go one step further than merely giving account of the rich debate on today’s role of forwarders in trade logistics that took place at MICO. A song came to my mind, emerging from the past. It was probably meant for the CREAM when it was written, and was perhaps side-lined because the band split. I personally consider “Theme for an imaginary western” by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown a true masterpiece, one of the songs that marked my youth, as it was published precisely one day after my 17th birthday on Aug 29th 1969. Since then, it stably put the
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Pictures At An Exhibition—FIATA 100
Lufthansa Cargo agreed to acquire 100% of LUG aircargo handling GmbH from the Dettmer Group. They didn’t disclose what they paid, but they did make the motivation pretty clear: secure immediate cargo-handling capacity in Germany and make operations more resilient when volumes spike.
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25 No. 42 Wednesday
October 7, 2026 |
FIATA Pictures At An Exhibition
It was Tuesday October 6th, and it was Milan, and the big FIATA Celebration of 100 years at the world’s most important freight forwarding organization.
To be a "happy expectant" as an attendee or exhibitor, was in the air everywhere at MiCo Milan Centre this week. As far as we can tell, most people here as delegates, exhibitors and audience are happy if not also a bit delirious (in a nice way) on the half shell with each other, highly motivated, optimistic, and ready to do business.
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25 No. 41 Monday
October 5, 2026 |
FIATA Curtains Up In Milan
If you have been working in freight forwarding and logistics for 20, 30 or more years, sometimes you have the impression you have seen it all and there is no more that you need to learn. That is actually wrong: if you approach today’s logistics with a curious mind you will soon grasp how different the environment is today from what we used to know. A very good way to touch and feel the concentrate of the current approach to logistics servicing international trade is available to all participants in Milan, IT at the FIATA World Congress. This is not a private gathering for members, but an event where FIATA opens the association’s doors to the whole world. And talking in FATA’s language the entire world means precisely that, probably excluding Antarctica . . .
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Lufthansa LUGs Cargo Into Space
Lufthansa Cargo agreed to acquire 100% of LUG aircargo handling GmbH from the Dettmer Group. They didn’t disclose what they paid, but they did make the motivation pretty clear: secure immediate cargo-handling capacity in Germany and make operations more resilient when volumes spike.
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Kunming-Kolkatta Logistics Express Lane
In the world of international air cargo, the most significant geopolitical and economic changes often come in surprisingly small packages. Earlier this year it came in the form of nine tonnes of high-priced Indian crabs.
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