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25 No. 26 Tuesday
May 19, 2026 |
Brandon Fried Keynotes CNS SFO
There must be a couple hundred words to describe a Keynote.
But two come to mind that work well together as we share the opening speech that Brandon Fried just delivered to the 35th Annual Cargo Network Services (CNS) Partnership Conference going on today May 19 through May 20 in Downtown San Francisco at the Union Square Hilton Hotel.
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Rajni Patwardhan Rebranding Kale As An Elevation Exercise
Rajni Patwardhan, Head of Marketing at Kale Logistics Solutions, is a person who feels no trouble dealing with new, challenging concepts, even when starting from a very high level already.
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Bangaranga Rhythms At SEEFF
This week Bucharest, Romania is hosting FIATA for the first time since 2005 as the 100-year old, leading freight forwarder-driven organization in the world is in town with participants from 22 countries for The South Eastern Freight Forwarders Association Congress (SEEFF).
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25 No. 25 Monday
May 18, 2026 |
Lady Puts A Slammer On CNS SFO
Reporters and other maniacs of the so-called fourth estate often jump to placing emphasis on the important or memorable breaking news in a story by ending the sentence or paragraph or headline or proclamation with "A Slammer"; ie-news talk for an exclamation point!
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Chuckles for May 18, 2026
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AS Alaska Launches Seattle/London
Time moving forwrd and keeping things simple saw a goodbye last month, and a bit of a tweet-tweet farewell for the 97 year old Flight Code "HA" at Hawaiian Airlines.
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Sunrise For Riyadh Cargo
Move over as the cargo division of the great new airine of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Air, makes significant strides in its international expansion by appointing General Sales and Service Agents (GSSAs) in three key markets: Egypt, India, and the United Arab Emirates.
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25 No. 24 Wednesday
May 13, 2026 |
FIATA Has A Truly Global Training Mission
Let me start this new section about FIATA’s HQ with the picture of the FIATA Logistics Institute (FLI) session, where FIATA’s initiatives in training and education were presented. Second from left of the screen you can see Inessa Platonova, Chair of the Management Committee of the FIATA Foundation, who pierced not only the screens, but also our hearts, with her report on Ukraine’s teaching:
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Chuckles for May 13, 2026
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GMR Setting Standards At Delhi International Airport
In the high-stakes world of international air cargo, diplomatic tensions rarely spill onto airport aprons. Yet at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), geopolitics and logistics have become closely intertwined. In a move that signals a new phase for India’s busiest aviation hub, GMR Airports Limited (GAL) has emerged as the winning bidder to modernize and manage Cargo Terminal 1.
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The Quiet American At Saigon's Continental Hotel
You know that strange, almost physical moment when you come across a photo and, without warning, you find yourself thrown back decades in time?
One image and everything comes rushing back. A face, a street, a smell. So, what’s the photo here?
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Where Do The Children Play?
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25 No. 23 Thursday May 7, 2026 |
Six For American Airlines Cargo
On April 28, Brandon was heads up participant at an American Airlines Enterprise Council meeting.
Kudos to AA Cargo for including AfA with Brandon, the leading advocate in Washington for air cargo forwarding, who undoubtedly at this gathering offered his view of the general air cargo legislative landscape.
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Chuckles for May 7, 2026
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Speedy Wonder Cargo By Water
Picture New York the way it used to feel. Before every curb became a loading dock. Before double-parked trucks turned whole avenues into a slow-motion argument. It’s funny, because the city has always had a highway system that never needed paving water. All around us.
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Buffalo Says Skol To Sweden
Wee Willie Keeler was a baseball player in right field for Baltimore during the 1920s.
He was a great contact hitter, tough to strike out averaging over 60% at bats between whiffs.
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When Most Of Pan Am Became United
41 years ago, on April 22, 1985 we were gathered upstairs in the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport situate for a prayer meeting at our North Beach Club (NBC) overlooking the main runways just next to our Air Cargo News offices in Room 1219.
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25 No. 21 Wednesday
April 29, 2026 |
Brandon (AfA) 2026 Channels Dylan 1947
At times, yesterday is today as we experience events going in our world of logistics.
Take the case of the Airforwarders Association (AfA) call-out of the U.S. government’s investment failure as a puny excuse for flight cuts from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. |
Chuckles for April 29, 2026
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Dire Straits Watch On The Elbe
Hapag-Lloyd AG monitors the status of cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz on a screen last week.
This week just as the ocean’s most famous chokepoint is in the crosshairs of world attention, here came an intensive two-day April 28-29 close encounter that began face-to face as World Trade Dialogue Hamburg 2026 opened with a keynote by Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche, offering a high-level political perspective on European economic security and resilience.
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Intermodal South America Innovative
Intermodal South America, held in Sao Paulo, wrapped up another historic edition reinforcing its offering as a heavyweight logistics trade show.
Intermodal in 2026 is the largest annual logistics event in the Americas and the second largest in the world when it comes to cargo transport, logistics, intralogistics, and foreign trade.
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Frosti The Cargo Man
For Hactl - Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited comes Frosti Lau, as new Chief Executive.
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25 No. 20 Friday
April 24, 2026 |
My Friend Frigger
Five years ago on April 19th, 2021, the phone rang . . . And even now, I can tell you exactly what the air felt like in that moment . . . Connie Ash, Executive Assistant for Jo Frigger, the Chairman of EMO Trans Trans Global Logistics was on the other end of the line, and she said words that didn’t seem possible: “our great friend, “Jo” Frigger, is gone.”
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25 No. 19 Wednesday
April 22, 2026 |
Brokers And Forwarders Lit Up San Antone
Nice to see Donna Mullins, Vice President at Kale Logistics Solutions and a true pioneer amongst women in air cargo out on the hustings, where she was smack-dab in the middle of the action as the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc. (NCBFAA since 1897) gathered in San Antonio, Texas for their annual meeting April 12-15, 2026.
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Chuckles for April 22, 2026
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Shadow Over India's Skies
The conflict in Iran is causing problems for India's export industry. Air routes are being changed, which means shipping is getting more expensive. This also shows how much India relies on Middle Eastern routes for trade.
As the conflict worsened, airlines in West Asia operated fewer flights because of airspace limits and worries about safety. Airlines in the Gulf, which usually handle a lot of India's cargo, are the most affected. This results in a shortage of space for air freight.
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Piston Pounder Meets B777Fs
Here Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways Cargo in YellowKnife, Canada, the carrier that flies an assortment of DC3s, C-46s whoops it up with Christopher Alf, CEO of National Airlines celebrating National’s new Boeing 777-200 Freighter delivery this week in Seattle.
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American Celebrates 100
As American Airlines celebrates 100 years, we invite friends and celebrants and people that may know or care very much about the airline to spend a few minutes reading about the man in modern times who led American Airlines to its greatest triumphs. Robert Crandall, (born 1935), the former Chairman and CEO of American Airlines (1985–1998), who, among other things, actually revolutionized the entire airline industry with loyalty programs and yield management.
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25 No. 18 Tuesday
April 13, 2026 |
FIATA's President Thomas Sims Talk To FT
At the end, when all was said and done, we were all invited to the Italian Night, where Mauro Da Ros, President of the Fedespedi’s Organizing Committee, gave a short and effective speech highlighting – were it necessary – the opportunities offered by the congress in Milan. Fedespedi was congratulated for the quality of the reception, which was remarkably good. This was the auspicious end for this year’s HQ session and I mean auspicious because everyone is expected to gather again in Milan at the beginning of October to celebrate the centennial from FIATA’s foundation, which took place on May 31st 1926, precisely one hundred years ago.
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Noida Airport The Jewel Of Jewar
The landscape of South Asian air logistics just underwent a seismic shift. Following the successful grant of its aerodrome license by India’s aviation regulator, the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar (70-80 km away from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport) was officially inaugurated on March 28, 2026 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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At 80 SAS Raises High Times
SAS Scandinavian Airlines just unveiled a refreshed livery, and it’s not just a paint job. It’s a birthday card in flight form, marking 80 years since the airline landed in USA with flights in the post–World War II era.
And when you think about SAS at its boldest, it’s hard not to picture that early leap across the Atlantic into New York—when international air travel still felt like a high-stakes expedition.
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Chuckles for April 13, 2026
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25 No. 17 Wednesday
April 1, 2026 |
Flying Blind At FIATA —The Airfreight Session
I am now writing during my second day of the FIATA HQ meetings in Geneva about the events that happened on the first day. Everything happens so fast here you would need one thousand hands to keep up, within the meeting and outside . . . Just reading a message from Drewry: “Drewry invites you to a webinar briefing on Wednesday 15 April 2026 to discuss the impact of the Middle East conflict on the container shipping market and its various stakeholders. This webinar will also provide insight into how the industry is adapting to a fast-moving story and what lasting effects it could have to reshape the way it operates in the future, as well as providing guidance on what cargo owners can do to protect themselves from rising costs.”
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25 No. 16 Tuesday
March 31, 2026 |
FIATA Meets As War Continues
My dear readers,
As I told you at other times, FIATA is always FIATA, and let me please add, fortunately!
Most of the usual suspects were here, some excuses caused by personal reasons were noted, but no visible disobedience or disappearances. Some excuses due to the situation in the Middle East were duly noted. Obviously there is always a lot to talk about, and a lot of ambitions that manage to surface here or there. Let’s face it, if you are somebody in FIATA you feel you are actually working for making international trade better, a feeling that is partly truthful. But making international trade better seems to be a tall order these days.
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25 No. 15 Monday
March 30, 2026 |
FIATA At 100 Meets In Geneva
Logistics matters, it is essential in our life, making everything available and possible. I daresay it is the main enabler of our civilization: nothing of what we use would exist today without logistics. Looking at the FIATA HQ in Geneva this week, which is all about logistics and freight, I was wondering what else was happening in Switzerland. Well, precisely in Geneva one event surprised me because it tells us that logistics not only matters, but it can actually antimatter, too. Please forgive my gag. I could not resist: it was such a stupid joke I had to write it down…
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Chuckles for March 30, 2026
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As Global As You Can PayCargo
PayCargo recently published a press release that made us think. Are we witnessing the inception of an entire new concept in logistics, we wondered . . . ? Is PayCargo launching a new global initiative? Maybe. Let me explain, please.
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25 No. 14 Monday
March 23, 2026 |
Michelle DeFronzo Air Cargo Facilitation Made Easy
Michelle DeFronzo is both Founder and President of ImEx Cargo, a leading logistics service provider that manages to proudly write on its front website page: “At the heart of ImEx Cargo is a simple promise: to make logistics simple, reliable, and stress-free. Our customer-first approach means tailored solutions, proactive communication, and a commitment to excellence — every step of the way.”
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New Detroit Air Cargo Club
This could be the start of something big!
You know that feeling when you hear aircraft engines in the distance and your attention snaps toward the runway before anything even appears?
That’s the mood around Detroit right now.
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25 No. 13 Tuesday
March 17, 2026 |
Boston Seafood Show Hooks Airlines
Today we're heading straight into that busy intersection where logistics, air cargo, and yes, seafood all collide in the best possible way.
With nearly everybody casting a wary eye at the uproar in the Middle East, the best bet for March for our money is in Boston now where a great commercial trade show for securing high yield perishable cargo consignments is taking place.
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Kelly & The McCools
Today as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we are thinking about people we care about.
While the voice of John McCormack (1984-1945) is warbling across the room i recall my great friend and hero of global air cargo from Ireland, the late, great Sean McCool (above photo right, with son, Ian); a lovely man and air cargo pioneer.
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25 No. 12 Wednesday
March 11, 2026 |
Scale And Structure Of United Cargo
There is really no need to introduce Jan Krems to our readers, but for the record he is President of United Airlines Cargo. Jan has been our guest so many times we cannot even remember, yet there is always something new and interesting in listening to what he has to tell us. In this complex period, we had the privilege of talking to him informally and we are delighted to report the essence of the conversation in these pages.
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Brandon Fried Talking Points For The Next Meeting
After announcing his retirement earlier this year, you might expect Brandon Fried, Executive Director of USA-based Airforwarders Association (AfA) might be in Lima this week at IATA WCS for a cameo appearance on a panel followed by some R&R at Machu Pichhu.
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That Was The Celebration That Was
As Lunar New Year celebrations have passed, in the afterglow it is nice to relive February 17, 2026 at midnight when The Snake slithered out of life in Hong Kong and the Fire Horse galloped in, bringing with it a great deal of optimism for the year ahead.
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United Celebrates 100 Years
Our friends at United Airlines are celebrating 100 years of service during 2026.
Air cargo, airline, and airports history have always been a sweet spot; our inspiration, figuring if you really want to know what lies ahead, why not learn all you can from the past?
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25 No. 11 Monday
March 9, 2026 |
War And Peace In World Trade
Here at FlyingTypers we wanted to reflect on what is happening to our world of services and logistics in this period. So let us start by noting that in January 2026 the word ‘peace’ has been named Oxford Children’s word of the year 2025. As we know this happened while bombs were falling in many places and more bombs were about to fall in other places where so many children were about to be killed. One could argue this is not a smart way of starting an article, probably others could argue that this start is just the understatement of an uglier truth.
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War Cargo Gets India ACAAI Plan
In Mumbai, during the last week of February, the air cargo industry gathered at the air cargo india conference with the optimistic hope for a great 2026 business year propelled by its dozens of awards and recognitions and corporate projections of boom times at India’s doorstep.
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International Womens Day Give To Gain
March 8 marked International Women’s Day 2026 (IWD 2026), under the theme, “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”, calls for action to dismantle all barriers to equal justice: discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, and harmful practices and social norms that erode the rights of women and girls.
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25 No. 10 Monday
March 2, 2026 |
Tej Mayur Contractor In FIATA Future
India has made a loud and clear announcement on the worldwide logistics landscape with the successful election of two Indian delegates to the top leadership posts of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) during its World Congress in Hanoi.
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Chuckles for March 2, 2026
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BLR-FRA Ink Pact @ BOM
At the recent Air Cargo India show in Mumbai (BOM), a significant partnership has been formed between Frankfurt Airport AG (FRA) and Kempegowda Airport (BLR) in Bengaluru. Simone Schwab and Alexander Laukenmann from FRA, along with Girish Nair, Chief Operating Officer of BLR, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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The Man Who Changed Color On The Bridge
If you want to learn about August Martin, the great air cargo pilot who flew for Seaboard World Airlines during the 1950’s, the name August Martin as an internet search, most often comes up as “August” 28, 1963, the day “Martin” Luther King whose birthday we celebrated on January 19, delivered his never to be forgotten “I Have A Dream,” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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