Air cargo groups set to disappear as industry plans shake-up
The air cargo industry will see a major shake-up over the next year which could spell the end of various industry groups, including Cargo 2000 (C2K) and GACAG, as TIACA looks set to simplify the...
View ArticleEricsson chief calls on forwarders to grant greater direct access to airlines
Forwarders preventing direct relationships forming between shippers and air cargo carriers stand accused of hindering greater efficiencies in the supply chain. Last week, at TIACA’s executive summit...
View ArticleDachser commits £23m as Multimodal opens with a bang
Birmingham, UK, 23rd April - Dachser announced on the eve of Multimodal that it is to invest £23 million in a major new integrated logistics centre close to its existing operation in Northampton, UK....
View ArticleHow air freight could prevent modal shift – by listening to its customers
The air freight industry could prevent further modal shift – and even boost volumes – if it responded better to the needs of the shipper, delegates at TIACA’s Executive Summit in Dallas heard last...
View ArticleFriday comment: why now’s the time for air freight to fight back
The air cargo industry is at a tipping point. It has a choice to make. It can either carry on as before, a forgotten and only partially relevant subset of its more glamorous and profitable passenger...
View ArticleCool Logistics Global
After two successful years in Antwerp, the Cool Logistics Global conference moves to Rotterdam in 2013, home to one of the biggest reefer ports in the world. The move coincides with the planned...
View ArticleMarie-Christine Lombard on Geodis’ new strategy, and why she left TNT
Geodis Wilson is to market a new strategy to customers in September, chief executive Marie-Christine Lombard told The Loadstar at the Transport Logistics event in Munich. Since joining SNCF Geodis in...
View ArticleUK retailers look to rail for lower emissions and better efficiencies
UK shippers are switching from road to rail in a bid to cut emissions and increase efficiencies, despite the “challenge” in rail matching the cost of road, visitors to Multimodal heard in Birmingham...
View ArticleShippers and carriers move a step closer to legally binding contracts
Big box shippers are increasingly looking at developing more formal contractual arrangements with container shipping lines, delegates at this year’s Multimodal show in Birmingham have learnt. The era...
View ArticleLatest cranes arrive – but London Gateway stays tight-lipped over first line
This week saw two more of the largest container cranes in the world delivered to London Gateway, the final two in a fleet of five that will be serving the port’s first ships when it opens in the final...
View ArticleBoost for UK air freight as it joins Multimodal 2014 – plus 2013 photos
The UK’s air freight industry will finally have its own exhibition next year, when it will be included at Multimodal’s trade show at the NEC in Birmingham. Multimodal, which will be celebrating its...
View ArticleCarriers claim innovation can beat the trade-off between quality and price
The debate over whether ocean freight shippers are sacrificing quality of service in the hunt for ever lower freight rates may not be as straightforward as a simple trade-off between cheap prices and...
View ArticleDamco chief outlines new operating model for “pockets of growth”
Global freight forwarders are entering a new phase in which growth markets will be increasingly hard to single out, Damco chief executive Rolf Habben-Jansen told The Loadstar in an exclusive interview...
View ArticleEmirates set to announce Ram’s successor as SkyCargo chief
Those executives in the air cargo business still hoping for that call from Emirates, which is currently without a divisional senior vice president cargo since the retirement of Ram Menen, should...
View ArticleGlobal standards for service quality could pull air cargo out of its downward...
Only real and urgent progress on quality will save the air freight industry from further decline, delegates at the Air Cargo Handling conference in Lisbon were told last week. Ambitious plans to...
View ArticleOil and gas firms call on logistics sector to up its game as opportunities knock
Forwarders have failed to add value to oil and gas shippers, while the high costs of exploration and shifting locations mean there are good opportunities for the air freight industry, delegates at the...
View ArticleNarrowbodies emerge as the new threat to freighters
There will be a marked shift towards narrowbody belly capacity in the airfreight market, delegates heard at the packed Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku this week. While some hand-wringing over the...
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