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“As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach go from bad to worse we now have LAX at a near breaking point with airfreight storage in some cases costing at 24 hours after arrival in excess of $1.00 kg per day. “Hang on as this is going to get much more chaotic before it gets better.” The speaker is Peter Lamy President of Intelligent Supply Chain Management (iSCM) and American Worldwide Agencies (AWA) based in Hawthorne, California. Cargo facilities at most U.S. airports are inadequate for what’s ahead! Since 2000, cargo improvements at most U.S. airports were almost nil until E-commerce and a pandemic sparked new interest. Resolving the gaps is far more difficult in mature markets where development comes up to the fences. Airports like Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) on 14,000 acres are rare. Don Lamy was a force of nature when we knew him as top man in the Americas at Air New Zealand Cargo, the airline he served and became famous for building in the U.S.. From Los Angeles Don had that cargo o

Bill Boesch is a true air cargo pioneer having served at top posts for Seaboard World, Pan American, American Airlines, Emery, DHL and elsewhere. One of my fondest memories is Bill inside a container with Julie Kupersmit at the TIACA Show in Manhattan 40 years ago drawing sketches for a new container on scrap paper. Little wonder that later that Bill was a force behind Envirotainer. Here Bill who delivers the unvarnished truth about things, and is still quite active with military transport, talks about the state of the airlines today. Mike White told Los Angeles Air Cargo Association (LAACA) luncheon meeting:  "Due to the stuck in the mud bureaucracy that maybe it is time that TSA not be the agency in charge of air cargo security and maybe taken over by CBP who has more capabilities and understanding of transportation logistics." Au Revoir Laurent A great pioneer of air cargo in France, and beyond that a genuinely lovely human being, Laurent Bernet died July 7 in Paris of cancer that he had been battling

Escape From The World Trade Center The Jim Larsen Story As the twentieth September 11th since the World Trade Center tragedy in New York City is upon us, somber memorial services and recollections continue around the world recalling that terrible day. We remember being at home when the doorbell rang on September 13, and there stood our friend Jim Larsen, Manager of Air Cargo Business Development for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. We were so glad to see him, we hugged, and poured him a cup of coffee. After a few minutes he produced a manuscript of how he escaped from the 65th floor of the World Trade Center, minutes before Tower One came crashing down. Our FlyingTypers issue today tells Jim's epic story  with some pictures of him in our kitchen September 13, 2001. Our FlyingTalkers Podcast today  allows you, the listener, a word picture and some extra observations. Jim, not only got out, but cool as a cucumber he saved lives as well. It's a tale of courage and hope from someone w

Last week attendees in Miami at the 30th Annual Cargo Network Services (CNS) Partnership, the American-based pioneer air cargo organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between airlines and forwarders, were introduced to a new look as CNS met its new President Frédéric Leger. Frédéric Leger has held several inside jobs at IATA and is referred to as a “right hand man” to IATA DG Willie Walsh. Both are based and will continue to operate from Geneva . “I’m very proud to walk in Tony Calabrese’s footsteps, but also the footsteps of successes as we open this 30th edition of The CNS Partnership Conference.” Nothing To Lose But the Wait Boston Logan International Airport air cargo stakeholders have some congestion challenges, but help is on the way as Massport, the airport operator have teamed up with Kale Information Solutions, the wunderkind company with the Airport Community System (ACS) that streamlines the entire export and import process for all airport cargo stakeholders. “Get ready for the Massport Air

As CNS gets underway this weekend in Florida, (August 29-31) featuring Willie Walsh, Director General of IATA, on his first public mission with gravitas after his appointment, I would gladly ask him questions regarding the IATA approach. Starting with Air Cargo, is One Record the totem for which IATA decided to ditch its IATA FIATA program? Was the entire IATA FIATA negotiation just a straddle strategy? Time to celebrate 30 years of the CNS Partnership recalling the people that made the "Partnership" go Meet Francesco Parisi Up Close & Personal When Parisi went into business in 1807 Napoleon was alive and signed a peace treaty with Russia; Ludwig von Beethoven debuted his Symphony Number 4 and Robert Fulton launched his first steamboat on the Hudson River in New York. Today in 2019, the quiet and unassuming Francesco Parisi (third generation) is a constant force for good as former President of FIATA and active builder of global transportation. Sad to report our colleague Steve Prince of Woodstock, Georgia

Fall Ahead In New York 22 carriers at Newark Airport's main air cargo handling Buildings 339-340 are about to be displaced and right now are scrambling for space as walking papers are sure to follow the deal the airport operator Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has made allowing Amazon complete control of those buildings—it might be useful to look at some numbers to see how goes the cargo business EWR and JFK . . .  High Road To Casablanca “Royal Air Maroc is into development of more streamlined, digitized processes, the promotion of our Charter operations using our Freighter and Preighters, and the pursuit of excellence in the handling of pharmaceutical and healthcare products.  Royal Air Maroc has joined the Cargo iQ community in 2019. The Cargo iQ initiative intends to determine and put in place quality standards for the Cargo industry. Joining this collaborative enterprise is part of our plan to reach operational and customer service excellence." Play it again Fayed . . . Nation

Amazing Inception Need Meditation Amazon is cooking up a deal with the New York New Jersey Port Authority that, if enacted, could end up turning over 23 acres or the heart of Newark International Airport Air Cargo handling via Buildings 339 and 340 to one company, Amazon, leaving almost every other cargo operator at the airport including 22 airlines, whistling in the wind. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

The International Air Cargo Association Summit scheduled for San Francisco for November 8-10 will now take place on March 22-25 in San Francisco. We could not find a location for this meeting but you can check for further developments & location @www.tiaca.org. When Air Canada Cargo put out the news late last month underscoring the best air cargo quarter the airline has ever seen, we sat up and took immediate notice. Now with freighters getting ready to extend the Air Canada Cargo brand this Fall 2021—high, wide and handsome around the world, Matthieu Casey, Senior Director, Cargo Global Sales and Revenue Optimization tells it like it is in today's edition of FlyingTalkers. It's Summer 2021 and what is old is new again as air cargo sets records for delivery of both life-saving serums during the global pandemic and income to the airlines. Here we make the case for greater industry involvement in advancing air cargo, whilst recalling the first breakthrough for air cargo—The Berlin Airlift of 1948.&nbs

Dr Yang Yuntao was born in Changchun, in Northeast China. Changchun means “Long Spring” in Chinese.  During his 20 years serving as the head of legal affairs in Sinotrans, Dr Yang lead the legal work of various milestone events, such as the initial public offering, litigation and arbitration cases, both at home and abroad, bankruptcy reorganisation of listed shipping subsidiaries, etc. Dr. Yang Yuntao has a simple and natural criterion for being a General Counsel, i.e. serving the company in a practical and down-to-earth manner, so that the leadership and his business colleagues can recognise and confirm the company’s values. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

We can never forget that irresistible determined picture of some comely, nice- looking people masked up out on the ramp and inside Virgin Atlantic aircraft bringing life to otherwise empty passenger cabins .When you think about it, very early in the pandemic Virgin Atlantic Cargo made it clear that the red coats were going to take the bull by the horns and damn the pandemic they stepped out brilliantly with an aggressive, well thought out strategy to move cargo upstairs on aircraft seats, before anybody else. Oh! By Golly Here Comes Kale...Amar More CEO Kales Logistics: “You never know what you can do until you are pushed in the corner.” If two years back someone would have told me that you can still create world class software with all ! your employees working from home, you can implement systems in as far as North America, South America, Europe, Middle-east, Africa; sitting in India; I would have laughed my heart out. If someone would have said, people can move cargo in and out of large air cargo hubs based

Twenty five years ago on July 17, 1996 230 people were lost, when Trans World Airlines Flight 800 bound for Paris from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City exploded above East Moriches, Long Island and fell into the Atlantic OceanI This past weekend more than 200 people gathered in Smith Point County Park near the crash site that contains a  black tablet wall inscribed with the names of all those aboard the doomed aircraft. Will The Real Hong Kong Stand Up Please? For some time now quite a rather large cross section of the world’s media has bemoaned loss of freedoms in Hong Kong in what is often described today as a Mainland China-controlled city. So with Hong Kong as the air cargo driver that it is in the world today, with the busiest air cargo enterprise anywhere, we thought it might be good to talk to someone on the ground who is also a well-known and respected air cargo specialist, someone who lives and work there. The Best GSSA In The World You cannot mask that, during these lockd

Member of the FIATA Board of Directors, Turgut Erkeskin is a seasoned, yet youthful, energetic and quietly confident presence. But make no mistake about it, he is all there, albeit just below the radar, a most interesting transportation executive from Istanbul. Turgut doesn’t shout for attention. In fact, a major force in Turkish cargo as a long time shaker and mover of UTIKAD, the high energy forwarder association of Turkey, Turgut is best known for his advanced thinking and respected as a reasoned consensus guy. Perhaps the key quality about Turgut, when you talk to him is that he actually listens, and is able to pivot and broaden his thinking to move things forward. Turket Erkeskin, as the pandemic finally begins to subside in 2021, emerges as an enlightened force for good in transportation and increasingly FIATA’s man for all seasons. Sullivan's Travels Hot Summertime Backroom  Buzz Brendan Sullivan confirmed as new IATA Head of Cargo. His Linked-in page states that Brendan delivers “20 years of expe

Meet Jason Berry Vice President Cargo at Air Canada. Exciting news last week that Air Canada Cargo is adding freighters to its fleet is some very positive news of the impact and impression  of air cargo to the world in 2021.So now with its first freighter due to arrive sometime early in Q4 of 2021, we thought the man carrying the responsibility to make the future Air Canada Cargo plan work might share some insights and industry views as his mighty all -cargo fleet is building. Summer Rewind ....The Latin words " Speas Ultima Dea " translate in  English saying  "Hope is the last Goddess". Marco Sorgetti served as Secretary General for FIATA during a period from 2011 until 2017 serving the 92-year old Swiss-based organization representing the largest group of global freight forwarders. During that time FIATA emerged from what can be described as a self-imposed veil of secrecy, gaining wider attention and acceptance in many transportation  circles as a vital force.. In truth FIATA has al

During the last year, the industry has seen quite a change in individuals at key organizations that represent the airline industry. Many senior people have left the associations for other positions. What is worse, we have not seen anyone filling these positions that right now are more important than ever, for an industry that is in a state of dramatic growth. As if the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) having a lot of people chasing their tails including Importers, Exporters, Carriers, and Freight Forwarders out front of that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) security edict that takes effect June 30th for 100% screening of all international all-cargo flights was not enough, well look again. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Will CNS Finally Disappear? The backroom whispers have always been there, even as legendary Tony Calabrese founded Cargo Network Services (CNS) thirty years ago as a landmark U.S. organization with the mission to create a middle ground between airlines and forwarders and shelter the partnership from anti-trust legislation in the U.S. “IATA doesn’t really like CNS.” Well, what goes around comes around in 2021, as the industry learned Thursday that Cargo Network Services (CNS) financial roadmap to tomorrow took an unexpected detour as new management at CNS dusted out PayCargo in a slash and cut job just days after a web-based CNS Advisory Board meeting made no recorded mention to that assemblage that the impending action was anticipated. In other words, IATA fired PayCargo without consulting the CNS Advisory Board, which apparently was given notice of the action after the fact. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

What became small during the opening stages of the pandemic and is getting bigger now as COVID-19 fades in some places? Why are some publishers and trade show companies and organizations insisting size matters and live meetings are needed in 2021 whilst lockdowns continue in places all over the world? World Environment Day: Projecting a ghastly reality ahead. Here's hope . . . Dan Muscatello knows as much about airport marketing as anyone on the planet. Stay tuned as he offers a glimpse ahead of what is in store for cargo at world gateways post-pandemic. One From The Heart: Lord love a nurse as Karin Krestan retired from Lufthansa Pharma Frankfurt. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Good thing Sri Lankan Airlines has made some moves to ramp up cargo as COVID -19 has closed almost everything else in the island nation down. FIATA took a  look  in the crystal ball at the rest of 2021 and decided discretion is the better part of valor, nixing its plan to hold its big annual conference in Brussels come September. It's June this week as 2021 is moving rapidly toward being half over. We wish we could say the same thing about COVID-19 but the simple fact is people still cannot travel from country to country in some parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world notably India, the aforementioned Sri Lanka and now Japan.. Question is when will IATA(CNS & WCS) and TIACA still scheduling live events for 2021 , wise up and do the same thing?  As Memorial Day in USA is celebrated as the official opening of Summer 2021 begins ,Jim Larsen and Dan Muscatello  share some thoughts about a summer day 20 years ago on September 11, 2001.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm

Was I born in this India?  Every morning you wake up with hope that soon fritters away when you look at the newspaper, your WhatsApp group chats that speak of yet another death and extended family members, friends and acquaintances falling prey to Covid-19. There is, perhaps, no family that has remained untouched. I lost a dear cousin and another in a few days. Added to that was the fact that the first cousin’s son and daughter-in-law along with their two kids also contracted the dreaded sickness. The son had to be sent to hospital and later ICU. Pumping Traffic Air Cargo News Roundup ...ACI Europe notes that another 2,000 air routes have ceased operation just this year and estimates that European airports could lose another €29 billion in revenue this year with passenger numbers not set to recover to 2019 levels until 2025. Listen and Weep Dept.: If you are tied up in any to a 2020 trade show, like it or not the event is probably scheduled later this year. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/

Reality is that COVID-19 is the demon, and that demon still impacts life and is a danger in some manner or form more or less in various places as you move around the world. Being together is something we all want. But jumping the gun is both ill-informed and irresponsible. Indian aviation is passing through its most difficult phase. In a financial crunch even before the pandemic started, this time around with the second run of Covid, the aviation sector is predicted to see possible downsizing or as Reuters put it "have their planes repossessed by lessors as a surge of COVID-19 infections roils travel". What then about cargo? IndiGo that referred recently to it’s cargo activity below decks as life in the “underworld”  is keen to ramp up its cargo operations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Often people ask-"Hey FlyingTalkers why not do some short news items?"  Must admit that item news that my friend and early colleague, the late Tony Funnel branded Pumping Traffic News & Comment for us in 1975, which appeared in our newspaper Air Cargo News until 2010 and then online in our E-Zine Flying Typers for the past decade, has gone missing from FlyingTalkers. Truth be told in the click bait race for readers to jack up otherwise meaningless mass readership claims, others in our profession actually spend all day generating item news that is dispensed like popcorn filling up in boxes with a brand of reporting that clogs up systems and cloud minds. So why bring Pumping Traffic back?  Maybe we don't know everything, so let's try it for a while in addition to our longer story format, is our thought. Love to hear your thoughts. Speed Gibson Is Back. Early on we played episodes from the 1938 radio classic Speed Gibson. A few listeners have asked what happened to the rest of the series of 12