JFK International Airport’s new specialized animal handling facility – Th e Ark – is ramping up its preoperational business phase, with staff identification, employment and training, as well as additional outreach to clients, end-users and other stakeholders. Earlier this year, after executing a 32-year lease agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, ARK Development took over Cargo Building 78, performed selective demolition and began … [Read more...] about JFK’s new animal handling facility coming together
Qatar Airways plans door-to-door courier service
Qatar Airways has announced its intention to tap the surging e-commerce business by getting into door-to-door courier delivery. Speaking to cargo media in Doha, Qatar Airways chief executive, Akbar Al Baker said the new QR Express product announced today, was aimed squarely at the growing global ecommerce logistics business. “We want to get into the courier business which is high yield and high margin business,” Al Baker said. “We are very keen on this and this is the first … [Read more...] about Qatar Airways plans door-to-door courier service
Qatar’s Al Baker on the Chinese ‘sleeping giants’
When asked by Payload Asia in Doha recently about the largely quiet role of Chinese carriers, in what some refer to as the ‘sleeping giants’ of the air cargo sector, Al Baker said: “I agree, the Chinese carriers are sleeping giants. In my mind China is the economic superpower and they have huge growth potential.” But there is one aspect of these sleeping giants that is seldom discussed within the industry, or by those in the US and Europe who are engaged in the fierce state … [Read more...] about Qatar’s Al Baker on the Chinese ‘sleeping giants’
Multi-modal threats and opportunities
Crucial to any discussion of the future of air cargo is Asia, reminded Andrew Herdman, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) as he highlighted the significance of the region to the sector. In particular, he noted that a third of the cargo industry now touches China in one way or another. “Th e future’s continued growth will be in Asia, it’s a huge market, so Asia is going to be at the forefront of those developments both in terms of the sourcing front, but also … [Read more...] about Multi-modal threats and opportunities
A-P carriers’ profitability up despite challenges
The AAPA’s director general, Andrew Herdman, said that in order to gain further momentum in achieving improvements to financial results, airlines from the region would greatly benefit from governments adopting a more light-handed approach to the industry, rather than taking actions that involve more regulatory hurdles, additional legislation and unfair taxation. Th e importance of effective oversight of safety standards has once again become a key issue of concern to AAPA, since the … [Read more...] about A-P carriers’ profitability up despite challenges
No freighters for Garuda for a least 5 years
Garuda Indonesia will hold off any thoughts of adding maindeck capacity for at least five years, the airline’s president and CEO, Arif Wibowo told Payload Asia on the sidelines of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) 2015 Assembly of Presidents in Bali last month. Wibowo said that the combination of lacklustre international cargo markets, a still developing Indonesian industrial base and ample belly capacity in Garuda’s domestic market meant there was no immediate need to take on … [Read more...] about No freighters for Garuda for a least 5 years
