Archive for December 2019

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo 2020: a combination of luck and strategy to sort the best from the rest theloadstar.com 2019 is not going to go down in history as a year anyone in air freight will particularly want to […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES IATA’s ‘ONE Record’ rushing through development, but is it worth it? theloadstar.com IATA’s effort to create a standard for a single record of a shipment that can be used by all parties along the supply chain is […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   United Airlines Inaugurates Non-Stop Cape Town Service simpleflying.com The Points Guy reports that flight UA1122 was the first time that any airline has operated a non-stop service from North America to the South African legislative capital. […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Air cargo optimism for 2020 tempered by hazy crystal ball freightwaves.com It has been a rough year for the air cargo industry overall and prospects for a rebound in 2020 are murky because experts say the […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   More confusion ahead for lithium battery shippers theloadstar.com Shippers of lithium batteries will face a new hurdle from 1 January, thanks to new transport regulations. The United Nations’ Committee of Experts, which creates the framework for […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Industry Steps Up Efforts Against Rogue Lithium Battery Shipments   iata.org Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA), in partnership with the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Industry Steps Up Efforts Against Rogue Lithium Battery Shipments iata.org Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA), in partnership with the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and the […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Is airfreight killing time? freightwaves.com The underlying operating model of airfreight is broken and needs fixing if customers are to receive the premium service they pay for. That was the stark message heard by air cargo […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Air Cargo Peak Season off to Slow Start, Annual Demand down 3.5% in October iata.org Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES   Struggling flag carriers on three continents are running out of options freightwaves.com Three financially strapped flag carriers — Air India, Alitalia and South African Airways (SAA) — are running out of options to remain aloft. After […]