Munich — “If I walk around here trying to sell Hong Kong, I’m wasting my time,” Hactl CEO Mark Whitehead told Air Cargo World at this year’s Logistics Trade Show in Munich. “The airlines live in a complex, competitive business, and they will put through Hong Kong whatever tonnage makes sense to them, and I will handle as much of that tonnage as I possibly can.” Whitehead’s candor is reflective of Hactl’s pragmatic approach to operating in one of the most dynamic air cargo mar

Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ iconic An-124-100 freighters delivered 11 generators, weighing 57 tonnes a piece, to Madagascar’s capital city Antananarivo. The added juice provides a critical boost to the country’s power grid, where rolling blackouts triggered social unrest in 2014, and a cyclone that struck this March caused widespread power outages. A 2016 World Bank report found that access to electricity services in the country is low “by any standards. The estimated current elect

Source: Drewry Sea & Air Shipper Insight Picture Source: http://aircargoworld.com/april-drewry-price-index-indicates-ongoing-recovery/ Consider the airfreight recovery to be still alive and kicking. That’s the verdict according to th latest installment of the Drewry East-West Airfreight Price Index, showing airfreight rates continuing to recover through April. With an 8 percent year-over-year increase in monthly rates, Drewry’s numbers suggest that that demand for airfreight

A few months ago, Andres Perez worked at Estée Lauder, a vertically integrated company where demand for goods could be accommodated by adding a few more shifts and simply producing more. But now that he’s the new head of business development and customer experience at Swiss WorldCargo, Perez is working with defined volumes in a much more fragmented industry. While his shipper’s background is moving into the foreground, he is adjusting to the new limitations on the other side

Angola national airline TAAG Angola Airlines has renewed its long-term freighter lease deal with Network Airline Management. Picture Source: http://www.aircargonews.net/news/airlines/freighter/single-view/news/taag-angola-renews-freighter-lease-deal.html Operating a weekly scheduled service from Liege, Belgium, to Luanda, the capital of Angola, Network Airline Management provides a Boeing 747-400F factory-built freighter with nose door which carries up to 120,000 kilos of oil

Picture Sourcehttp://www.aircargonews.net/news/airlines/freighter/single-view/news/emirates-focus-on-vietnamese-perishables-bears-fruit.html Emirates SkyCargo has seen a near five-fold increase in the volumes of exports of fruits between Vietnam and Dubai over the last year. Collaborative efforts between Middle East carrier’s cargo arm and Vietnam’s Trade Promotion Agency Vietrade saw perishables exports to Dubai, including rambutans and lychees, touch a record close to 110 t

Frankfurt-based freight management startup CargoSteps walked away with this Karakaya (center) at ELEVATE 2016, Miami Picture Source: http://aircargoworld.com/frankfurt-based-startup-cargosteps-wins-frankfurt-founders-award/ year’s Frankfurt Founders Award, with their online freight management platform that simplifies logistics processes and makes them “more efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendly,” said Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldman. “The Frankfurt-based startup m

National Airlines and Navitrans USA announced plans to launch a weekly scheduled round-the-world freighter service utilizing a B747-400F, on June 1, 2017. The new route is a marathon of global freight hubs, touching down in O’Hare International Airport (ORD), Liège Airport (LGG), Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD), Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), Narita International Airport (NRT), Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) and then back to O’Hare. Pictur

Last week, during a panel discussion at Cargo Facts Asia, in Shanghai, speakers were asked to identify the weakest link in the air cargo supply chain, and, to no surprise, fingers were pointed at ground handlers. While no panelist offered a fix-all solution that could remedy the relationship between carriers and handlers, most agreed that airport cargo communities offered the best chances of doing so. Picture Source: http://aircargoworld.com/bru-looks-to- optimize-ground-hand

Last month, FedEx issued a report with much fanfare about the results of two initiatives that made them understandably proud. They had set baseline targets back in 2005 and were already close to hitting their goals. All told, the two initiatives saved FedEx a combined US$281 million dollars in cost savings in fiscal 2016 alone. But, surprisingly, the dollar figures for the projects were buried under a lot of other statistics. It took several click-throughs on the website to f