As this year draws to a close there is at least some comfort in the fact volumes have picked up in the last few months and yields have stabilised. It’s a bit of cold comfort, but at least things don’t look to get any worse. Most in the market seem reasonably confident that the current situation will continue through the beginning of the new year and hopefully things will improve from there.   At least one of the underlying factors – the massive infusion of belly capacity – are not going … [Read more...] about Another challenging year

In this special edition of Payload Asia we’re very pleased to bring you coverage of our 5th annual Payload Asia Conference & Awards.   Having successfully wrapped up the annual event in Hong Kong for the first time in end-September we would like to extend a very big thank you to all the companies who participated in the awards, to those who voted for them, the judges who graciously volunteered their time to assess the companies for the Industry Choice section and to all who attended … [Read more...] about Special edition

This issue of payload in a large part reflects the nature of the global air cargo industry, with specialised products – particularly pharmaceuticals – being a key focus. The cover story of this issue details the latest moves by the world’s largest air cargo carrier, Emirates SkyCargo, in its increased focus on high-yield pharma traffic. Of course in true Emirates-style, where everything is big, the carrier’s latest facility at Dubai International Airport (DXB) joins its facilities at its … [Read more...] about The pharma pulse

In this issue we bring you a snapshot of the US and Canadian air cargo market with our annual Americas Supplement. With a sampling of airports and carriers we hope you find it informative. Their situation in that part of the world is really not that different than elsewhere, other than the fact that for the carriers there, they either luckily or cleverly (depending how you see things) made the transition out of freighters well before the capacity glut hit the industry. As such they haven’t … [Read more...] about North America snapshot

As this issue of Payload Asia closes the voting in our annual annual Payload Asia Awards has closed, with a record number of votes cast this year. The industry judges too have wrapped up their assessments and both sets of data have been passed to the auditing firm for verification and confirmation that the process was clean and transparent. We are very excited here at Payload as the annual event never fails to bring some much needed excitement, recognition and pride to the industry. And let’s … [Read more...] about The votes have been cast!