Digitally native forwarder Beacon announced a funding round, accompanied by familiar claims of disrupting the trillion-dollar freight industry. And while the logistics industry certainly has room to advance, the announcement also brought a familiar indignant response. The reality, of course, is more...

In this concluding white paper from SASI, re post Covid-19 recovery, I would like to start with a brief recap of some facts, some new, and some from previous papers. As a team, and me in particular, we have always been known for straight-forward honest viewpoints. Not saying anything is a greater de...

“What are you writing?” says a colleague. “That PR on PayCargo and IBS?” “No. Another one on the future of air cargo and how you make it work.” “Ha! You’ve been writing that one for about 20 years, it should come easily by now.” And there’s the rub. Some 20 years later – and ye...

Having the right level of staffing, with the appropriate blend of skills, abilities and attitudes, is a strategic issue in itself – because only with appropriate staffing can other strategies be implemented. That is truer than ever as firms fight through, and hopefully out of, the Coronavirus-indu...

Perhaps unsurprisingly for air cargo observers, Volga-Dnepr yesterday failed in its attempt to gain a temporary restraining order preventing Boeing re-marketing the aircraft – in fact, it won not a single legal argument. Both parties claimed the other was trying to take advantage of the ‘Covid g...

After a few months in which demand tumbled around the world, the re-opening of some shops, with more expected in the coming weeks, has resulted in a sudden jump in demand, especially as there are large numbers of vessels out of the market following the void sailing measures by carriers. However, the...

Some may say it’s a little late in the day, but credit where it is due… There are few details as yet, but Fiata said it would involve “several projects to promote a freight-forwarders trusted network, share and distribute standards such as the FBL in a digital world and finally foster interope...

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The passenger airline industry news these days is unremittingly bleak: Commercial flights decreased 74% globally in April 2020 compared with April 2019.[1] Passenger traffic has declined even faster: by the end of April 2020, the number of US air passengers had fallen 94% compared with the previous...

“These state subsidies are destabilising the global airline industry and threatening to undermine our nation’s entire system of trade enforcement,” they said. “Left unchecked, they send a signal that other countries can ignore our trade deals and trample upon our workers without consequences...