It’s not the kind of Monday motivation we look for. But it’s true, we should be worried. We’re under attack. New tech start-ups, ‘game-changing’ market entries from the big guys, aggressive competition from our long-term suppliers, all chipping away at the market share we work so hard to m...

One year into his job as CEO, Drew Crawley has brought ideas and direction which will have a direct impact on customers. IAG has in the past had a sense of impenetrability: defensive, closed, costly. While Mr Crawley’s predecessor Steve Gunning brought in processes and ideas which sharpened the pr...

What the author is telling us is that averages only provide value where outliers are not only rare but also insignificant, if or when they do occur. Far closer attention should be paid to instances where outliers could have a significant impact. A good example of this is the 2016 air cargo market. O...

Trade growth is living down to our expectations, and rather than 2016 being the year where the industry saw some sort of recovery it is now feared that, instead, it marks a new normal where growth in containerised trade is slower than overall economic growth. It is certainly the case that container ...

Even fewer were aware that one of the dangerous goods regulations changes introduced on 1 January relates to classification requirements for the transport of explosives . If those involved with these products are not aware of the new regulations, problems will inevitably follow. Changes to...

They put in the shade other notable events, such as the opening of the enlarged Panama Canal in June, mandatory weighing of all loaded containers (VGM) from 1 July and the record scrapping of some 700,000 teu of redundant container tonnage. It was a year of reckoning for an indus...

The presence of such index-based pricing allows buyers and sellers to focus their conversations on the required steel quality – as the price is derived from the relevant index. The latter must sound like nirvana to sales staff at forwarders and airlines alike, as their meetings often focus on pric...

In the first increase since 2012 (when fees went up 100%), TIACA has added 5% to the rate – or $100. One former member told Logistic-News he was concerned for smaller companies. “The impact of the last increase was devastating to TIACA’s finances when membership dropped substantially....

Nobel Prize winners and the air cargo industry might seem as distant as Stockholm is to Shanghai. However, these theories explain some key dynamics in the air cargo industry. In the case of asymmetric information, one contracting party has more – or better – information than the other, which put...

Others – the expansion of Heathrow, for example – seem more likely to happen following the decision to exit Europe. Harder to tell is the recent positive boost in maindeck capacity. Following AirBridgeCargo’s decision to put freighters into Heathrow, comes the news that Etihad – thought to b...