The aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake has presented aid organizations with one of their biggest and most logistically complex relief efforts in recent
times. Chapman Freeborn’s offices worldwide had chartered 106 flights as at mid-February, 34 of them directly coordinated from our US headquarters here in Fort
Lauderdale, FL.

GSAs report a modest increase in airfreight volumes since last fall. But when it comes to the rate they’re getting for the job, they will tell you only what “cannot” or “must not” happen this year.

The under-performing economy has reduced freight volumes across all sectors of the transportation industry, and the express trucking industry is no different.

David Congdon is a third-generation trucker. And that’s what gets him up every morning.

To describe Jim Armour, who heads up UK operations for global logistics solutions provider Aramex, as a maverick would be something of an understatement.

As North America faces an uncertain economic future this year, most forecasters have been humbled by the economic crisis — leading many to be skeptical about the reliability of forecasting. Seabury Cargo Advisory, the cargo consulting arm of the Seabury Group, sees four ways to improve the value of air freight projections and explains what they tell us about industry growth in 2010 and beyond.

Airlines around the globe are jumping on the cold chain bandwagon to chase a complex niche with dazzling growth prospects: shipments of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.

The long-mooted merger between $1.5 billion loss-makers Iberia and British Airways is as irrelevant as it is late.

A review of the freight forwarding industry by the UK-based research company Transport Intelligence (TI) suggests a tactical shift is underway in the sector now "in the eye of a recessionary storm."

Tianjin airport, the designated air cargo gateway for northern China, has been humming in recent weeks. Volumes have been rising, both in inbound and departing traffic, and airlines have responded by boosting their flights at the airport.