Air Freight Logistics

Demand too low for new US cargo hubs

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Demand too low for new US cargo hubs A consultant tasked with helping determine the future of DHL’s former Wilmington air hub has said that the key will be to look within a 50-mile radius for key new tenants or other air park users instead of starting by looking far afield or in other countries. If one of those local companies can be secured, then the air park is already ahead of competitors, according to air cargo and logistics planner Daniel Muscatello of Landrum & Brown Worldwide … [Read more...] about Demand too low for new US cargo hubs

Playing with fire: Undeclared dangerous goods

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Playing with fire: Undeclared dangerous goods Despite the dramatic rise of battery-related freight and baggage fires over the last 20 years, the shipment of lithium batteries is simply one example of the thousands of potentially dangerous goods that are shipped without properly being identified. A stark illustration of how dangerous goods can cause a catastrophe if they are not prepared for transport in accordance with strict International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) regulations … [Read more...] about Playing with fire: Undeclared dangerous goods

Cargolux stuns industry with B747-8F rejection

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Cargolux stuns industry with B747-8F rejection Luxemburg-based all-cargo carrier, Cargolux stunned Boeing and the air cargo industry in general last month when, only a handful of days before it was due to take delivery of the first of 13 of Boeing’s new B747-8 freighters it has ordered, it announced it was rejecting the first two aircraft. The carrier informed Boeing by letter on 16 September, calling off the handover and three-day celebration scheduled for 19-21 September, citing what … [Read more...] about Cargolux stuns industry with B747-8F rejection

Freighters Supplement in November issue

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Freighters Supplement in November issue The upcoming issue of Payload Asia will feature a special supplement on freighters and will take a look at the current aircraft options available to the industry. With two new freighters that have, or are about to come on the market – Airbus’s A330-200F and Boeing’s new B747-8F – alongside a raft of conversion options, carriers have a number of choices when deciding on capacity expansion. And with the Antonov Company teaming up … [Read more...] about Freighters Supplement in November issue

Interesting times… the reprise

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Interesting times… the reprise I know in the four years I’ve been doing this job as Editor of Payload. I’ve surely worn out the observation that the air cargo industry seems to perpetually ‘live in interesting times’, but having spend a great deal of my journalistic life covering the ocean shipping industry, I can’t help but be driven to that same observation time and time again. The whole drama that is the dispute between Cargolux and Boeing simply … [Read more...] about Interesting times… the reprise

Air Niugini Cargo takes off

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Until only a few short years ago, this ambition of the 38-year old state-owned carrier would have not only seemed impossible, but probably would have been as well. Air Niugini’s current CEO, Wasantha Kurasiri came on board nearly four years ago and from that point began the development of the carrier that now uplifts over a million passengers and 11,000 tonnes of cargo each year with a fleet of 21 aircraft. Owing to the nature of the country – extremely rugged and mountainous with … [Read more...] about Air Niugini Cargo takes off