CONSOLIDATORS INTERNATIONAL AND 2009
Three months ago when the stock market started to head towards meltdown and the export volumes so no pre Christmas season surge, the CII team realized we would have to make adjustments to our business model to accommodate declining freight volumes. For my colleague Peter Lamy and me who started the business sixteen years ago [...]
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 [...]






