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During the last year, the industry has seen quite a change in individuals at key organizations that represent the airline industry. Many senior people have left the associations for other positions. What is worse, we have not seen anyone filling these positions that right now are more important than ever, for an industry that is in a state of dramatic growth. As if the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) having a lot of people chasing their tails including Importers, Exporters, Carriers, and Freight Forwarders out front of that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) security edict that takes effect June 30th for 100% screening of all international all-cargo flights was not enough, well look again. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Will CNS Finally Disappear? The backroom whispers have always been there, even as legendary Tony Calabrese founded Cargo Network Services (CNS) thirty years ago as a landmark U.S. organization with the mission to create a middle ground between airlines and forwarders and shelter the partnership from anti-trust legislation in the U.S. “IATA doesn’t really like CNS.” Well, what goes around comes around in 2021, as the industry learned Thursday that Cargo Network Services (CNS) financial roadmap to tomorrow took an unexpected detour as new management at CNS dusted out PayCargo in a slash and cut job just days after a web-based CNS Advisory Board meeting made no recorded mention to that assemblage that the impending action was anticipated. In other words, IATA fired PayCargo without consulting the CNS Advisory Board, which apparently was given notice of the action after the fact. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

What became small during the opening stages of the pandemic and is getting bigger now as COVID-19 fades in some places? Why are some publishers and trade show companies and organizations insisting size matters and live meetings are needed in 2021 whilst lockdowns continue in places all over the world? World Environment Day: Projecting a ghastly reality ahead. Here's hope . . . Dan Muscatello knows as much about airport marketing as anyone on the planet. Stay tuned as he offers a glimpse ahead of what is in store for cargo at world gateways post-pandemic. One From The Heart: Lord love a nurse as Karin Krestan retired from Lufthansa Pharma Frankfurt. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Good thing Sri Lankan Airlines has made some moves to ramp up cargo as COVID -19 has closed almost everything else in the island nation down. FIATA took a  look  in the crystal ball at the rest of 2021 and decided discretion is the better part of valor, nixing its plan to hold its big annual conference in Brussels come September. It's June this week as 2021 is moving rapidly toward being half over. We wish we could say the same thing about COVID-19 but the simple fact is people still cannot travel from country to country in some parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world notably India, the aforementioned Sri Lanka and now Japan.. Question is when will IATA(CNS & WCS) and TIACA still scheduling live events for 2021 , wise up and do the same thing?  As Memorial Day in USA is celebrated as the official opening of Summer 2021 begins ,Jim Larsen and Dan Muscatello  share some thoughts about a summer day 20 years ago on September 11, 2001.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm

Was I born in this India?  Every morning you wake up with hope that soon fritters away when you look at the newspaper, your WhatsApp group chats that speak of yet another death and extended family members, friends and acquaintances falling prey to Covid-19. There is, perhaps, no family that has remained untouched. I lost a dear cousin and another in a few days. Added to that was the fact that the first cousin’s son and daughter-in-law along with their two kids also contracted the dreaded sickness. The son had to be sent to hospital and later ICU. Pumping Traffic Air Cargo News Roundup ...ACI Europe notes that another 2,000 air routes have ceased operation just this year and estimates that European airports could lose another €29 billion in revenue this year with passenger numbers not set to recover to 2019 levels until 2025. Listen and Weep Dept.: If you are tied up in any to a 2020 trade show, like it or not the event is probably scheduled later this year. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/

Reality is that COVID-19 is the demon, and that demon still impacts life and is a danger in some manner or form more or less in various places as you move around the world. Being together is something we all want. But jumping the gun is both ill-informed and irresponsible. Indian aviation is passing through its most difficult phase. In a financial crunch even before the pandemic started, this time around with the second run of Covid, the aviation sector is predicted to see possible downsizing or as Reuters put it "have their planes repossessed by lessors as a surge of COVID-19 infections roils travel". What then about cargo? IndiGo that referred recently to it’s cargo activity below decks as life in the “underworld”  is keen to ramp up its cargo operations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Often people ask-"Hey FlyingTalkers why not do some short news items?"  Must admit that item news that my friend and early colleague, the late Tony Funnel branded Pumping Traffic News & Comment for us in 1975, which appeared in our newspaper Air Cargo News until 2010 and then online in our E-Zine Flying Typers for the past decade, has gone missing from FlyingTalkers. Truth be told in the click bait race for readers to jack up otherwise meaningless mass readership claims, others in our profession actually spend all day generating item news that is dispensed like popcorn filling up in boxes with a brand of reporting that clogs up systems and cloud minds. So why bring Pumping Traffic back?  Maybe we don't know everything, so let's try it for a while in addition to our longer story format, is our thought. Love to hear your thoughts. Speed Gibson Is Back. Early on we played episodes from the 1938 radio classic Speed Gibson. A few listeners have asked what happened to the rest of the series of 12

After many long years of start and stop between the giant association of the airlines IATA and the 100 plus year old international association of freight forwarders FIATA, it looks like that deal we announced and delivered a key-note speech for in Dublin a few years back (2016) is toast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

My colleague and very best friend Joachim "Jo" Frigger Chairman of EMO Trans died on Monday April 19. Here is the press release from EMO Trans. Later, after the shock of this sudden and great loss for people all over the world has passed our time of mourning, we will share with you our story of a decades-long friendship and alliance with this truly remarkable air freight forwarding pioneer. Jo Frigger Inspired Freight Forwarding Speaking of forwarders . . . Spend a few minutes with FIATA’s Director General Stephane Graber. Stephane delivers the entire package of what’s up and ongoing at FIATA in 2021. Included will be some words describing FIATA's new global agreement with PayCargo. The settle-up will never be the same is our take. Today it's FIATA Up To The Minute Finally hang onto your hats as we wonder if the Air Cargo Agents Association of India (ACAAI) will accept the decision that went in IATAs direction after a nine-year old battle that had been going on at the Competition Commission of India (CCI)?

As Women's Month Marched along and the world celebrated International Women’s Day March 8, Jennifer Frigger Latham, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at EMO Trans based in Long Island, New York was hard at work away from the spotlight from home with her husband Paul and the couple’s two small children creating a counterpoint as the faces of love in the world of air and ocean shipping. What Jenni experienced up close and personal makes for an interesting study of discovery and appreciation of life in the new world that is emerging post pandemic. How she manages to raise two small children whilst carrying forward her duties at EMO Trans and also giving back, whilst thinking big thoughts serving as an active member of the Airforwarders Association Board is another story altogether. Slew of latest numbers underscores slow return to normal, continuing to challenge industry otherwise, opening back up. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

This episode of FlyingTalkers is about performance and hope. We have been aware of the stellar performance of Brandon Fried, President of the U.S-based Airforwarders Association for some time now. Here we try and make the case why this man and his hardworking association deserve your support. Lost & Found Speaking from our recent experience when we finally came around to thinking about life after the two shot vaccination was drilled into our arms, we found ourselves at Max a German restaurant in Astoria, an old neighborhood which is now a very hip area filled with young people under 40 in Queens near LaGuardia Airport. Talk about the rebirth of simple pleasures. There we were sitting at an outside cafe table with Lulu under the bench, with her water served before our drinks by a waiter that gets it right away about dogs. Speaking of drinks, as other tables were being served those big quart sized glasses of Koelsch the outstanding draft beer from Cologne, the sun moving across the sky reflected through the

Francesco Parisi's view on the strategic potential of the port of Trieste cannot be clearer: he sees the Adriatic like an enormous navigable canal to the heart of Europe, cutting transit times to the east by almost a week. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Here we share stories about some interesting new leadership in air cargo that has emerged during the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that our conversations were conducted with women, we suppose, fits nicely into the ongoing International Women's Month celebrations. But we have been sharing these stories since we began publishing in 1975. The fact that the story can now involve many more women in positions of power than when we began is testimony to the expansive thinking going on right now in air cargo. From Europe we share some thoughts from Dorothea von Boxberg, CEO of Lufthansa Cargo, who as it turns out leads the powerful and important German air cargo resource as the first woman in the top cargo position since Lufthansa carried its first package aloft in 1926. Later a few words with the  ‘Helicopter Lady’ Chaitaly Mehta, Director, EKF Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Next we share some thoughts with Jessica Tyler. Doubt that you have missed that she was named President of American Ai

Will Live Meetings & Trade Shows Come Back? The quick answer is, of course they will. Right now while you hear this story, COVID-19 vaccines continue to arrive in doses by the millions almost everywhere on earth. At the same time eager cargo events are reaching out entreating us to join a webinar or attend a trade show convention or a regional meeting. The voices, like crickets in summer, will only continue to rise and fall on the wind with greater urgency as populations reach herd immunity, and life thankfully drifts back to normal. Anette Palm, a Director at Worldwide Convention Specialists (WCS) based in Krichenbach, Germany to the rescue. No Silence For Bad Behavior So you are a woman today in a professional business situation, or out for a walk and an aggressive unwanted someone decides to hit on you. What will you do? Say hello to Priyanka Ann Saini. “Yes, there have been overtures that have not been appreciated and initially, I did not know how to deal with them as we are taught not to make a big d

Indication that the COVID-19 pandemic has heated up the investment community for air cargo and especially folks deep dish into digitalization is acknowledged as M33 Growth, a Boston-based venture capital firm showed up at SmartKargo with a suitcase full of investment money. Globalization In Real Decline? As long as there is cheap labor and low environmental requirements overseas, don’t expect offshoring of supplies to stop anytime soon. An India Air Handling the vaccines is Cargo Service Center’s (CSC). Along with Mumbai, CSC operates cargo terminals at Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Kannur.  Tushar Jani, Group Chairman pointed out that “as far as CSC and Mumbai airport are concerned, we are already the biggest vaccine temperature-controlled air cargo handler in India. “Our infrastructure was ready and with enhanced capacity and use of new technology for CSC and Mumbai airport, it was a smooth process to accept this challenge." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

One From The Heart “We benefit from her self-awareness, empathy and social skills that helps to navigate complex situations. “She is the heart of our company,” Ingo Zimmer, CEO ATC Aviation Services says of Dagmar Hanau. Why Guillaume Halleux Guillaume Halleux Chief Cargo Officer at Qatar Airways is a Frenchman, who decades prior began his air cargo career from a split hangar in London that Air France operated with half full of Concorde parts and the other half full of air cargo. Guillaume, who has since served as an expatriate air cargo builder in several posts around the world, began his climb working nuts and bolts inventory for the Concorde SST section of that hangar in London, where eventually he became fascinated with air cargo. Greatest Commercial Aviation Historian REG Davies, who served as a historian at Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, D.C. longer than anybody else, died a decade ago on July 30, 2011 in Shaftsbury, England. He remains today the greatest and most

“People have space in their ultimate sanctuary, their homes, allotted for living. “To make the transition from the office easier and more familiar we handed over office equipment, including ATC laptops and personal computers and also even office furniture for use at home," said Ingo Zimmer, CEO of ATC, the world's leading GSSA. Too Cool At a time in life when everything is changing, the McCools, both father Sean and son Ian have collectively been a constant of the Irish air cargo scene for more than 70 years. Today their company established by Sean in 1989, International Airlines Marketing Ltd. (IAM) is Ireland’s largest Air Cargo General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA), responsible for over 20 percent of all airfreight traffic from Ireland. Women's Day Just in time for International Women’s Day March 8, Dorothea von Boxberg , Chairperson of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa Cargo is also the happy face amongst us reporting 2020 delivered the best results in history for air cargo ai

In aviation the letters spoken as a word reporting flying conditions is WOXOF. "Weather: Overcast, Ceiling Obscured, Visibility Zero in Fog." Pronounced like it looks: "WOXOF”  when spoken most often gets the same response from everyone, especially pilots: “You're not getting me up in that.” Here in COVID-19 2021 as the year progresses and Spring begins, through the fog, there are some questions with everyone working at maximum overdrive, whilst delivering life-saving vaccines worldwide.  WOXOF-“Where Are We Now?” Lord Love A Nurse Karin Krestan stepped  down February 17 taking early retirement as Head of the Lufthansa Cargo Cool Center in Frankfurt. The lady pioneer of critical air cargo handling, who once served as a nurse’s aide at a hospital in nearby Darmstadt, Germany, joins an unusually large number of transportation professionals that seem to be taking early retirement everywhere across our industry just as demand for top line professionals increases. Voyage of Discovery From the mailb

Basil Pietersen Brings The Rainbow To FIATA As COVID-19 has severely limited public events for the past fourteen months , you may have missed that late in 2019  at it's World Congress in Cape Town FIATA elected  Basil L.S. Pietersen, the former Chair and longtime director of the South African Association of Freight Forwarders to serve a two-year term as President of the global organization.As we celebrate Black History Month here in America and elsewhere around the world, it’s important to share that Mr. Pietersen at FIATA in 2021 is one of the very few African born top executives to serve at any global transportation association in the world. Where The Nights Are Brighter Than Day Why are we so interested in Qatar? Well, it’s the airways, dear… The airways are the carriers of innovation and prosperity for the world, what else? Qatar Airways has been turning the moon to gold for the “Night Animal”, as the air cargo industry has been referred to in some quarters for the past 80 plus years. So t

Last week Turkish Cargo Talks a three- hour webinar went out worldwide. We watched it. Here is our take. The event opened with about five minutes from host Smilin’ Sam Chui. Chui is a reality star who flies around and eats dinner in first class on everybody’s airline and shares the experience with his large global audience living vicariously every mile aloft. We Remember Boubby Once upon a time in Amsterdam KLM Cargo was operated by a team of people the stars fell on. This group went out and changed air cargo all over the world and their impact endures yet today at KLM and elsewhere. There was Jacques Ancher, the top cargo executive blazing new trails, and there was Boubby Grin a marketing and strategy guru, the likes of which our industry had never before encountered, and may never see again. Jacques is OK, safe at home in Netherlands as you read this. Boubby Grin died of cancer in Leiden at age 74 on January 28, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support