Posted by julian on Mar 5, 2010 in
Airlines,
Company News
The TSA division of the Department of Home Security is moving forward in implementing 100% screening of all air cargo by year’s end. Last year we invested $hundred’s of thousands in screening equipment and this year we trained six specialists in our security screening department in Los Angeles. Many of our brethren forwarders are scrambling [...]
Tags: ATL, CII, DHS, Forwarders, Jeremy Vergara, JFK, LAX, Peter Lamy, screening, TSA, Zachary Zemby
Posted by julian on Feb 10, 2010 in
Company News
For the third time in our seventeen year history we recorded a profitable January. Business was strong into American Samoa and even though it was holiday time in New Zealand and Australia we saw a 20% jump in revenues over 2009. Graham Burford, our VP sales and marketing, has made two trips to Texas and [...]
Tags: American Samoa, Australia, CII, Graham Burford, Greg Melissinos, Kelly Osbourne, Maggie Martinez, New Zealand, Obama, Ozzie Osbourne, Peter Lamy
Posted by julian on Jan 12, 2010 in
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After seventeen years working out of the same office on 8900 Bellanca Ave I had had an epiphany; let’s get the hell out of Dodge City and start the new decade in smarter premises. It became my New Year’s resolution; a change is as good as a rest. We could take advantage of the tanked [...]
Tags: CII, Peter Lamy
Posted by julian on Nov 25, 2009 in
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When I arrived in Los Angeles in 1988 my first visit to an airline was to Flying Tigers on World Way. I checked my Thomas Guide and promptly went to World Way which happened to be where the airline passenger terminals were. I drove around and around for thirty minutes trying to see a Flying [...]
Tags: CII, FedEX, Flying Tigers, Gary Runyon, Jim Haggerty, Mike Scanlan, Ron Labac