Zimmer New ATC CEO

     ATC Aviation, a leading Cargo GSSA and member of the World Freight Company Group named Ingo Zimmer (46) as Chief Executive Officer.
     Ingo succeeds Daniel Graf, company founder and CEO who has retired.
     Ingo – who opened the first small office of ATC in Frankfurt, exactly 20 years ago was promoted from COO on July1, 2009. Daniel Graf (left), who operated ATC Group from Zurich where the company was founded, is pictured with Ingo at the announcement.
     Head office of the GSSA is now located in Frankfurt, Germany.
     In the ATC fold are Asiana Airlines, Continental Airlines, Etihad Crystal Cargo, Ethiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc and Turkish Airlines.
     Ingo Zimmer “learned” airfreight during his apprenticeship with Danzas, an international forwarder, joining ATC from Roehlig & Co. in November of 1989.
     Ingo is married and father of three children.
GFM

The Adorable Child

       The adorable child on the cover of Forward, The USA Airforwarders Association’s Summer 2009 publication got us thinking about tomorrow and the kind of world we are leaving to our kids.
    Specifically, we were considering the heft of glossy paper and ink that went into Forward, and wondering about its impact both on the environment and the people who read it.
    The publication is heavy and glossy, over the top like a promo brochure on steroids, lavish layouts littered throughout with chock-a-block graphics and pictures.
    There is a little bug in the lower left hand corner attesting the publication’s Certified Fiber Sourcing from a group frequented by printers and furniture makers, The Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI).
    Our concern is not where Forward sourced the materials to print their quarterly, but rather, what is the message being sent to the ever environmentally conscious reader?     In an age of online magazine subscriptions, paperless checking and the Kindle, is there really a need for such a heavy, glossy footprint when it comes to getting out a message? Yes, the SFI stamp is there, but it seems like a small skip over a rather large lake. Why not get on the digital boat and avoid getting your feet wet altogether?
    This is 2009. The world, and certainly the air cargo industry, has become increasingly aware of the need to engage in greener solutions.
    Forward might be unwittingly dating itself as a vanity piece through the excessive use of a dwindling resource in a time when multitudinous options are available.
    We like Forwarders Association and think it has been doing a great job of lobbying for an even playing field for the agents, especially with TSA regulations.
    We also dig Brandon Fried, AFA President, a sincerely nice guy who reminds us a little of a wonderful character in the 1950’s black and white TV era named Mr. Peepers, created by Wally Cox.
    Air cargo just needs to get on the same page about social responsibility to the environment.
    As a spotlight industry, we must be increasingly aware of the message our actions send, whether it be how we run our warehouse, handle our aircraft, or keep our recycling bins. Every little bit counts.
    The answer here might be for Forward to lighten the load a touch; take it online. It did wonders for us.
Geoffrey

Mondial Markets Avient

     Avient Aviation has appointed Frankfurt-based Mondial Airline Services as new general sales agent for the German market with immediate effect. Avient operates a number of DC-10 freighters out of their European hub Vatry in France.      
     From there the aircraft serve as many as ten destinations in Africa, among them Entebbe, Lagos, Kinshasa, Accra, and Abidjan. In Lagos Avient has based an Ilyushin freighter IL-76 used for regional feeding and de-feeding services.

      Two routes to Tripoli in Libya and Iraq’s capital Baghdad complement the network. “Most of these places still offer very healthy rates,” stated Mondial’s Managing Director Germany Aytekin Saray when approached by ACNFT. By organized scheduled road feeding services Mondial guarantees the steady flow of goods from the German market to the DC-10s at Vatry, emphasizes manager Saray.
     Avient was established 1993 in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. The aircraft still fly under a Zimbabwean license but are operating out of Europe. The carrier’s management is based in London where all major activities are coordinated and operational decisions taken.
HS

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July 7:   UPS to cut carbon emissions of airline only by 20 percent by 2020. http://www.responsibility.ups.com/sustainability.

July 7:   Pakistan wins at Cricket T20 in London June 21 lifts Karachi Airport as hero Shahid Afridi (picutred) says victory is “gift of smiles for the nation.”

July 7:   Employees union said, BA's cost-cutting drive is "an opportunistic use of the recession" to cut jobs, offering freezing pay for two years with a limited voluntary redundancy plan.

July 7:   Import of iron ore and crude oil saw Ports in China handle 546 million tons of cargo in May, up 5 % over 2008 as domestic trade grew 5.1 % to 364 million tons and exports by 4.7% to 182 million tons, MOT said.

July 7:   EKCargo Sky Chain IT now paperless for filing claims etc. Pradeep Kumar SRVP Revenue Optimization: “Users have total online transparency."

July 7:   Back To Batavia! Garuda said it will fly to AMS early 2010 now that EU has lifted safety ban on the carrier. Route once was KLM’s longest.

July 6:   U.S. carrier Spirit buys Air Jamaica according to newspaper Jamaica Gleaner citing gov't source. Privatization study had just been completed.

July 6:   Aramex inks a deal with Air Arabia to utilize carrier’s cargo terminal at Sharjah base to set up an express shipment sorting center.

July 6:   Frontier Airlines began from Denver 15 years ago July 5—now operates in bankruptcy. Republic Airways has bid $109 million for the carrier.

July 6:   DAX-Dependable AirCargo Express opens air cargo & ocean facility in Amman, Jordon.Military Iraq plays into this but DAX expects big things ahead in oil.Dependable Hawaiian Express big in Hawaii has its HQ near Long Beach, California.

July 6:   British Airways slashing capacity, grounding airplanes and delaying delivery of A380s as business continues in the tank for UK carrier.

July 5:   Wall Street Journal talks LAN Airlines, says with a virtual monopoly at home LAN managed impact of falling passengers/cargo on its results.

July 5:   Airlines still name aircraft after people, places, events. SWISS now has an A320 named Arosa. “We are delighted," Vincenz Vital, (pictured right) Mayor of the Swiss resort town said.

July 4:   Air China's first direct flight between Beijing and Lhasa, begins July 10 via daily Airbus A330.

July 4:   Bare essentials. Saying its fares have nothing to hide, ANZ creates safety video with crew clad only in body paint. http://bit.ly/13Wmy3

July 3:   Flying Deuces as two Emirates A380s 7/2 opened service to opposite ends of the earth - from DXB to BKK (daily) and YYZ 3X weekly.

July 3:  Carbon emissions of Kenyan flowers by air cargo to UK six times lower than Dutch flowers grown in heated greenhouses, government report says.

July 3:  Martinair Cargo now to Chennai. B 747F goes Hong Kong /Chennai/Sharjah/Amsterdam Thurs/Sat. Pelican Air Private Limited (PAPL) is GSA India.

July 3:  West St. Louis looks East to China raising money for cargo facility at Lambert Field (pictured left). Midwest Hub Offices open in St. Louis & Beijing.

July 3:  JAL Cargo rates up 30% average 7/15 as demand returns to Shanghai, Taiwan, Guangzhou. North America US$2.40-$5.32 kilo Europe $4.20-$5.63.

July 3:  Emirates adds flights to Colombo and Malé from Dubai resuming the Malé - Colombo route. EK offers 18 a week to Sri Lanka, 14 to Maldives.

July 2:  Turkish A340 now five weeklies from IST to PVG direct. Beijing-Istanbul extended to Shanghai in 2000. Round trip US$420.

July 2:  China Postal Airlines all cargo Shandong Province capital Jinan 6 times weekly. Mail now delivered to northeastern-central China overnight.

July 1:  Denver Airport named Parsons Transportation as manager for new South Terminal Project. Santiago Calatrava is architect.

July 1:  Cargo B, the Brussels based carrier partnered by Nippon Cargo Airlines bit the dust Wednesday (June 30) and is out of business.

July 1:  Solar Impulse airplane powered by photovoltaic cells flies 24/7 with no fossil fuels. Prototype HB-SIA shown in Dübendorf, Switzerland.

June 30:  Pluto’s sniffer critical as TSA adds dog teams at MCO & MIA. Dogs provide flexibility in searching air cargo and pay is a pat on the head.

June 30:  JF17 Pakistan future fighter components air cargo from China now building Aeronautical Complex at Kamra, Punjab. First flight by year’s end.

June 30:  Top former Boeing engineer say B787 should not be certified, built primarily out of composites. Plastic Planes www.hd.net/danrather.html.

June 30:  OCS is new name for merged next day to neighboring Asian countries cargo business of All Nippon Airways from August 1.

June 30:  Air Asia launches Kuala-Chengdu and Xi'an with A330s four times weekly. Kunming Airlines to go Chengdu soon as well.

June 30:  Good news for Air India workers—they got paid June salary on July 3, instead of July 15. Employees' union said strike July 1, if no pay.