BUSINESS HOLDING UP AT CII
One great thing about airfreight and a slow down in the economy, companies look immediately to reduce inventories and thus airfreight very quickly benefits! Think about it, airfreight is the best way for companies to top up on those inventories and get the replacement stock onto the shelves as quickly as possible in the same [...]
HOW THE AIRFREIGHT INDUSTRY HAS CHANGED
You may be aware I have never understood the logic of the airlines in keeping their surcharges separate from their general rating structures literally since the day they first applied them as an add on. Now that fuel may return to levels before the surcharge was ever thought of, the forwarding industry is going be [...]
GLOBAL RECESSION AND INTERNATIONAL AIRFREIGHT
For years the CII team worked so hard at trying to break into the China market. At one point for a short while it accounted for 10% of our activity. Thanks to the bankruptcy of Winn-Dixie and the loss of another customer, our China business reverted back to being export driven. Today 95% of our [...]
How The Industry Has Changed Over The Past 25 Years
This week I was corresponding with an old “Kiwi” mate, whose friendship spans the thirty-eight years I have been in the industry. We both started in transportation around the same time in Auckland. He was lamenting how the industry has changed and not for the better. It started me thinking of the good ol’ days [...]
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