The pace of e-AWB adoption has been steadily on the rise since 2014, according to IATA. August 2014 was the single fastest e-AWB growth in one month, with 2 per cent achieved globally. Adoption speed is now four times that of the same period last year, and this acceleration is felt across the board, with strong recent growth in Africa, Americas, Europe and North Asia. Twenty airlines have now achieved over 20 per cent e-AWB penetration – compared to only seven airlines at the beginning … [Read more...] about IATA: e-AWB adoption soars
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ABC wins a transport ‘Oscar’
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), a Russian scheduled cargo airline and part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has been awarded the ‘Best Cargo Airline’ Golden Chariot award at a ceremony in Berlin that is recognised as the ‘Oscars’ of the transport industry. The awards ceremony took place at the Kempinski Hotel in Berlin during the Onnotrans international transport exhibition, which attracted more than 100,000 professionals from over 140 countries. Andrey Andreev, ABC’s head … [Read more...] about ABC wins a transport ‘Oscar’
ABC wins a transport ‘Oscar’
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), a Russian scheduled cargo airline and part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has been awarded the ‘Best Cargo Airline’ Golden Chariot award at a ceremony in Berlin that is recognised as the ‘Oscars’ of the transport industry. The awards ceremony took place at the Kempinski Hotel in Berlin during the Onnotrans international transport exhibition, which attracted more than 100,000 professionals from over 140 countries. Andrey Andreev, ABC’s head … [Read more...] about ABC wins a transport ‘Oscar’
Delivered as promised? We think not.
Much has been said about the business of the integrators as the general air cargo industry psychoanalyses itself trying to figure out what happened to its once lucrative business. Modal change to ocean freight, yes indeed part of the equation, but as was so poignantly highlighted by FedEx chairman Fred Smith at last year’s Los Angeles World Cargo Symposium, its modal change to the integrators that the mainstream industry should most be worried about. Why? Because after four decades, … [Read more...] about Delivered as promised? We think not.
More consolidation for Euro carriers?
An interesting report caught my eye the other day. The Wall Street Journal carried a story on a report from the French export credit agency Coface that suggested Europe’s airlines may be preparing for what it described as a new “US-style merger round”. After the earlier round of mergers – Air France combining with KLM and Martinair; British Airways with Spain’s Iberia, BMI and Vueling; and Lufthansa with Swiss, Austrian and Germanwings – Coface says yet … [Read more...] about More consolidation for Euro carriers?
QA to implement paperless freight transactions
Qatar Airways Cargo and Qatar Customs have signed an MoU for the use of electronic air waybill (e-AWB). The document was signed by Qatar Airways chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann and Mohammed Ahmed Al Mohannadi, operations and risk analysis department manager of customs in the presence of senior officials from both companies. The milestone agreement will bring Qatar Airways one step closer towards electronic freight, also known as e-freight, with the intention to eliminate the … [Read more...] about QA to implement paperless freight transactions
