OUR FIRST CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR TO SELL FREIGHT
President Peter Lamy left Los Angeles last Saturday night headed for Melbourne Australia. He literally stepped off the plane and was making his first sales call fifteen minutes later. His task over the next ten days is to pound the pavements of Sydney and Melbourne to extract replacement kilograms lost since November from new customers. [...]
ONE OR TWO AIRLINES STILL HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE CLOUDS
The airline who doesn’t wish to recognize that pricing is now reflecting our economic times, will rapidly lose its customer base. One carrier to the South Pacific has become quite arrogant in its attitude whenever the question has been raised over the past three weeks for a spot rate. “You have our contract rates and [...]
WHAT’S WRONG WITH A LITTLE PROTECTIONISM AND ISOLATIONISM?
The United States of America is abundant in resources (give or take a few billion barrels of oil), has the most productive workforce in the world and is far and away the most innovative nation on earth. Seeing the country is already flooded with Central Americans, both legal and illegal, why can’t we make a [...]
WE’RE HANGING IN THERE!
Thanksgiving was responsible for light tonnages moving over the past seven days, but we’re out there trying our hardest to move any “scrap” of freight we can find. No, we have no giveaway rates to Mexico or Brazil, but we’re dealing to the market we know best, the South Pacific. More than ever it is [...]






