Life’s a Beach! The Belly Ache department of Payload Asia would like to apologise for being a bit tardy in getting these Belly Ache items off our overworked chests. Considering the IATA World Cargo Symposium (WCS) – Ooops, we mean the World Cargo Symposium since IATA has boldly stripped its name off the trademark event in an act of industry warm fuzziness à la GACAG (something that is hopefully more convincing than that other rather lame attempt to de-brand the IATA … [Read more...] about Life’s a Beach!
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Garuda steps up its cargo game
Speaking at a press briefing in Singapore, Garuda Indonesia president and CEO, Emirsyah Satar, said the carrier plans to add three A330-200 freighters – “we are very conservative,” he says – from end-2013 as part of its expansion plan which will see its overall fleet grow from 92 aircraft currently to 194, although 50 of those aircraft will be operated by its low cost subsidiary Citilink. Citilink was established in 2001 as the low-cost subsidiary of Garuda running … [Read more...] about Garuda steps up its cargo game
‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
According to the plan, the entire deal is set to be accomplished by the end of September this year, should regulators give the green light. If so, it will be a completely new ball game for the industry with the global express business dominated by only three competitors – DHL, UPS and FedEx. By adding Dutch TNT Express to its portfolio, ‘Big Brown’ not only inherits a massive European road network and some 480,000 staff, but also gets a significant air cargo capacity boost by … [Read more...] about ‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
Asia continues to percolate
The air cargo market almost always never fails to surpise. In this most recent global air cargo market decline Asia surprised many by the reversal of its role as the mainstay of cargo demand, suffering the industry recession worse than most other regions. But despite this, interesting developments in the Asian region continue to bubble away. In this issue of Payload Asia we feature two particularly good examples of this Asian dyanamism – Garuda Indonesia and AirAsia. Two very different … [Read more...] about Asia continues to percolate
‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
According to the plan, the entire deal is set to be accomplished by the end of September this year, should regulators give the green light. If so, it will be a completely new ball game for the industry with the global express business dominated by only three competitors – DHL, UPS and FedEx. By adding Dutch TNT Express to its portfolio, ‘Big Brown’ not only inherits a massive European road network and some 480,000 staff, but also gets a significant air cargo capacity boost by … [Read more...] about ‘Big Brown’ takes on an orange hue
GACAG: An industry unites
It’s now one year on from the official inception of the unprecedented coming together of virtually the entire air cargo supply chain as represented by four major industry associations – IATA, FIATA, TIACA and the GSF. A major step forward for the industry and one virtually unheard of in any global industry, the new body has been hard at work fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. Donald Urquhart reports. GACAG: Have you heard of it? It’s entirely likely that although … [Read more...] about GACAG: An industry unites
