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25 No. 38 Thursday
September 3, 2026 |
Where Best Is Like The Wurst
Today September 3, 2026, the 11th Air Cargo Conference concluded its final day at the Congress Center at Messe Frankfurt.
The Air Cargo Community in Frankfurt reportedly gathered about 400 attendees at the event.
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India Airports As Transshipment Hubs
India is moving to make its airports more competitive as air cargo transit hubs, expanding a transshipment network after a pilot project demonstrated that removing mandatory re-screening can cut cargo transit times dramatically.
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Getting To Know You At EMO Trans
It’s always energizing to see what happens when a sales leader steps out from behind the screen and goes straight to where the work is happening.
This week let’s talk about a great example of that: a business trip across the United States by Patrick Radtke, EMO Trans Head of Sales Germany, visiting multiple locations and meeting teams and customers on the ground.
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Chuckles For September 3, 2026
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Air Cargo Community Frankfurt Smiling Faces Going Places
Say hello to the 2026 hosts of Air Cargo Conference FRA and the Board of Directors & Management at Air Cargo Community Frankfurt eV.
Pictured from left: Patrik Tschirch (LUG), Susanne Klingler-Werner (UPS SCS), Christian Riege (Riege Software), Grit Engelbart (MD, ACCF), Michael Hoppe (BARIG), Felix Toepsch (CEO of ACCF), Dietmar Focke (Fraport Airport).
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25 No. 37 Tuesday
August 25, 2026 |
Logistics Mourns Klaus-Michael Kühne's Passing
Klaus-Michael Kühne, the logistics pioneer and majority shareholder of the freight multinational Kuehne+Nagel, passed away in Schindellegi, Switzerland on August 24th 2026, at the age of 89.
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QR Cargo To HEL & Back
Helsinki just got a dedicated freighter connection, not just more space in the belly of a passenger plane, but an actual cargo aircraft designed for air cargo and lots of it!
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India Reimagined: A Global Transshipment Hub
For years, India has spoken of becoming a global air cargo hub. It has the geography, a rapidly expanding manufacturing base, a huge domestic market and a growing network of modern airports. Yet it has still not been able to perform the role that Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong have built into the architecture of global trade.
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Heartline Calling For Colombia
Latin America stepped up with planes, experts and supplies for the earthquake that hit Colombia earlier this month, reinforcing regional ties, as nations work to safeguard a fragile tourism rebound.
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25 No. 36 Thursday
August 20, 2026 |
FIATA Celebrates 100 Years In October
Can we tell you a story of spirit and centenary and a homecoming?
In 2026, FIATA, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations in English, (its acronym comes from its original French title: Federation Internationale des Associations de Transitaires et Assimiles) turns 100 years old, and it’s celebrating this October 9th in Milan, Italy.
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PayCargo Accelerates Menzies Quick Pay
In air cargo, that tiny delay can ripple out fast. A truck misses a slot, a warehouse backs up, someone’s customer starts calling. It’s wild that something as basic as paying an invoice can hold up freight that already crossed an ocean by air or by sea.
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Happy National Aviation Day Orville
Every year on August 19th, the U.S. pauses to mark the story of flight and how everything changed because humans figured out how to leave the ground on purpose.
The date isn’t just a nice spot on the calendar. It’s Orville Wright’s birthday, officially set aside back in 1939 by proclamation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
So here’s what we couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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25 No. 35 Thursday
August 13, 2026 |
Jan Krems Retiring Chris Busch Appointed
Blockbuster mid-summer 2026 news from United Airlines Cargo, as Andrew Nocella, United’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer announced that Jan Krems, President of UA Cargo is retiring.
Chris Busch currently Managing Director, Cargo Americas, has been appointed Vice President, Cargo.
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Quikjet India's Invisible Airline
Captain Preetham Philip runs an airline most Indians will never notice — and he's fine saying so. "If all my aircraft were grounded tomorrow, nobody would know," says the CEO of Quikjet Cargo Airlines, India's only scheduled all-cargo carrier outside express giant Blue Dart. "A package would arrive three days later. That's all."
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Chuckles for August 13, 2026
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Rick Elieson What is Great Leadership?
Welcome. It’s summertime, and you know what that means in our journal—reruns.
But not the lazy kind. The kind where you go back, read again, and realize, this actually hits harder now.
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25 No. 34 Tuesday
July 28, 2026 |
NMIA Readiness Comes Under Scrutiny
What appeared to be a straightforward migration of freighter operations from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) to the new Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) has become considerably more complicated. What was initially presented as a carefully planned transition is now raising questions about infrastructure readiness, international treaty obligations and the practical realities of moving one of India's busiest cargo gateways.
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Faces That Helped Lift Venezuela
When terrible trouble strikes, it's reassuring to have some bright, competent and hopeful faces jump to the rescue.
That's exacty what happened as Avianca Cargo and DSV - Global Transport and Logistics teamed upto move 58 tons of donated humanitarian aid from Miami to Caracas in support of communities affected by the June 24 earthquakes there.
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They Drive Miles & India Smiles
Thinking about truckers, we always come back to the vision of the lady from Kale Logistics Solutions, Donna Mullins.
When COVID hit America, out on the truck line at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Donna (shown here) with the milk of human kindness turned a "dwell from hell" for truckers, who were barely able to get out of their rigs to use the facilities. There she was at the truckers' queue, handing out chicken dinners that she secured locally, to help people who were keeping the supply chains open, whilst they had nowhere to go for basic necessities.
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India Three-Point Cargo Strategy
India’s air cargo sector could be on the cusp of one of its biggest transformations in decades after Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu unveiled a sweeping reform agenda aimed at boosting cargo volumes, reducing dwell times and lowering logistics costs.
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25 No. 33 Tuesday
July 21, 2026 |
Mammen Mans Up As TIACA DG
Mammen Tharakan steps in as TIACA’s next Director General on August 1, 2026, succeeding Glyn Hughes, and as a structured change with everybody onboard to insure it go smoothly. The hope is this move will be too cool for school.
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Logistics China Turns A Page
In the morning I often listen to “Prima Pagina”, which is an Italian radio programme that is now 50 years old. A different journalist each week reads the headlines of several Italian newspapers, then hosting comments and phone calls. It is an interesting window on the way Italians see themselves and the rest of the world. Italy is not doing well in independent journalism, as we rank 56th in the list, almost last in Europe, but Prima Pagina is better than the average.
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Chuckles For July 21, 2026
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Ivelina Stoyanova The Princess Of Logistics
Visiting Romania is a special experience. There is a friendly and familiar atmosphere everywhere, everybody is smiling and you are guaranteed to have decent food and entertainment. All good? Yes, if you had had no knowledge of the existence of Dracula.
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25 No. 32 Thursday
July 2, 2026 |
Qatar Airways Advances FIFA Fourth USA
If you’ve ever thought a big sports event is just ninety minutes of action and then a long ride home, today’s story might completely change your picture of what “going to a match” can mean.
Because right now, with the FIFA World Cup experience stretching across North America, it’s not just a tournament.
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Celebrating 250 Listening To The Music
As America creeps up on its 250th birthday, I keep circling one question: what does this country sound like when it talks about itself? Not in speeches, not in textbooks: in the stories it sings. That’s a big question.
So where do you even start? Maybe with a detour, a musical timeout, because sometimes two songs can tell you more about a nation than a shelf of history books. And today, I want to put two tracks side by side, like two riders moving through two totally different landscapes.
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Bridge To Tomorrow
Looking at this wonderful picture of the George Washington Bridge (GWB) connecting New York City above The Hudson River to New Jersey, all lit up birthday cake style for the 250th Fourth of July celebrations this upcoming Saturday, we were reminded of our dearest friends, the late Cary and Tim Peirce.
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