Munich Airport greets the A-380, whose arrival in the industry will mean changes to airlines’ economics. IATA is optimistic of a nearly 10 per cent growth in earnings for the airline industry this year, but lowered its estimate for next year. … [Read more...] about GATEWAYS

With the fi rst issue of Payload Asia under my belt I look forward to working with the air freight and related industries on futureissues of Asia’s best read air freight specialist magazine. While much of my reporting career has focused on the business of sea freight, many of the issues share signifi cant commonalities– headhaul versus backhaul imbalances, over-capacityissues, terminal congestion, to name only a few. Other issuesare virtually carbon copies between the sea and air … [Read more...] about From sea to air

Starting with this October issue, Don Urquhart (44) has taken over the overall editorial responsibilities of Payload Asia magazine. He joined the magazine as editor on September 1. Canadian-born Urquhart is very familiar with the transportation industry, having worked as transport reporter for the Singapore Business Times (BT) for 7 years where his primary beat was to cover the shipping industry with a secondary focuson the logistics and commercial aviation sectors. During that time he won … [Read more...] about Donald Urquhart joins Payload Asia as editor

On the passenger side, All Nippon Airways (ANA) has always been known for its strength in the Japanese domestic market, and until recently much the same could have been said of its cargo business. Unusually for a mainstream carrier, its cargo revenue was split about 50-50 between the domestic andinternational. Though the carrier obviously had some belly cargo on its long-haul 747- 400 passenger routes, it also regarded Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) – in which ANA had a 27.6 per cent … [Read more...] about ANA spreads its cargo wings

Is the Indian market boom being held back by a lack of infrastructure? That was the fi rst topic to be considered by an expert round table panel in the fi nal session of Air FreightAsia 2007. Launching the discussion Jay Shelat, vice president cargo at Jet Airways, offered the gloomy view that infrastructure put India 25-30 years behind China, and said unions and the government were “working together toprevent progress”. But he said that the only solution for an airline … [Read more...] about What's holding India back?

India and China will “change the landscape” of the global logistics market in the coming years, said Essa Al-Saleh, president and CEO of Agility Global Logistics, opening a session entitled “LongLive Logistics”. “These two very important countries represent 40 per cent of global population but currently only 7 per cent of GDP,” he told delegates. “That status is bound to change, and they will demand sophisticated solutions for their supply chain … [Read more...] about China and India – tomorrow's logistics giants