Posted by julian on Sep 17, 2009 in
Airlines,
Export,
Import
In my opinion not for a long, long while. Many mature countries like the United Kingdom for instance has for many years seen a shrinking air export market. Sure until a year ago this was offset by surging imports (the bulk of which were from China) but now that the bubble has burst there, U.K. [...]
Tags: 727, 747, Air France, AirFreight, Brambles, CH Cargo Handling, China, DC10, DC8, DHL, Fliway, KLM, Mayne Nickless, MD11, Simpac, TNT, UK, VIP, Wall Street
Posted by julian on Jul 23, 2009 in
Airlines,
Export
Over the years we have been supporters of both companies, but last year Pete and I decided there was no future dealing with the bureaucracy that envelopes UPS. Once upon a time many of us couldn’t trust the USPS and in fact, FedEx was born out of the gross inefficiency and unreliability of the Post [...]
Tags: AirFreight, FedEX, Fred Smith, IBM, UPS, USPS
Posted by julian on Apr 30, 2009 in
Airlines,
Company News
Capacity continues to shrink as airline permanently ground large chunks of their fleet. Today Delta announced all seven of the old 747-200 North West cargo fleet will shortly make their last flight; to that graveyard in the Mojave Desert. Only UPS and Kalitta will be left flying the old 747-200 workhorse. The decision of carriers [...]
Tags: 747, AirFreight, Apia, Australia, CII, Delta, Kalitta, Pago Pago, Samoa, UPS
Posted by julian on Apr 22, 2009 in
Company News
Airfreight volumes still continue to decline with some trade lanes in free fall. Cathay Pacific has announced it is reducing freighter capacity by 11% and many other combination carriers will follow suit. The other day I found in a drawer the 2005 Boeing report on airfreight trends. 2009 was all about double digit growth with [...]
Tags: AirFreight, Boeing, China, TSA