The best today is from a digital agency, trying to reassure us all that AI won’t take our jobs. The agency’s AI, primed with “the best bits from 999 of the world’s greatest love songs”, has created a song called: “Downtiration, Tender Love”. With lines such as   “I ask...

Could this general subdued feeling explain why recent talk on the state of our air cargo industry was needlessly blue? WorldACD recently reported that the global air cargo market in 2018 grew by 2.2% versus the “bumper” year of 2017. Fair enough, those sorts of growth numbers might not put a big...

Year-to-date costs have risen by 17% and are considerably above any corresponding increases in revenue, but part of this is inevitably from the additional 300,000 teu carried. The company has its eye firmly on fuel cost recovery and implemented a new bunker surcharge for December – at&nb...

He remains, with his two co-founders of Blue Dart, the only person to have launched a successful freighter airline in India. He started it with $1,000 in 1983, sold a 51% stake to DHL for Rs4.2bn in 2004, then worth about $44m, and remains chairman of the board. But Mr Jani is also group chairman of...

There has been a great deal of speculation over the success – or otherwise – of TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum (ACF), its biennial cash cow, which can tide it over financially until the next show. But this year, following years of losses, heavy competition in the events market and a second-...

Between shrinking delivery timelines, the demands of omnichannel fulfilment and global trade uncertainties, managing a modern supply chain is more complex than ever. Recent US-Chinese tariffs have many supply chain professionals scrambling to import goods before the duties take effect, leading to re...

And the airlines have responded with new products. This week, Flydubai launched a live animal transport service and Delta Airlines announced it had teamed up with CarePod, a pet technology start-up that has developed “new standards of safety and care for pet air travel”. However,&...

Yesterday, the European Commission reopened its investigation into the block exemption that currently applies to container shipping, and which allows them to operate alliances on trades that serve the EU. Brought into law in 2010 – following the EU’s decision to outlaw the old conferen...

Let’s work backwards. To make it for Christmas, goods need to be at point of sale by mid-December at the latest. A container supply chain would commonly require around a week for a box to be moved from arrival port to an inland distribution centre where it is unstuffed and the goods forwarded. Giv...

A personal note on the antitrust investigations that rocked the air freight industry. The weather on the day that I visited prison was perfect for the occasion: it was grey, dreary, cold. Along the interstate leading up to the ‘correctional facility’ stood countless small churches with lar...