Even volumes going the other way are on the rise. Chicago to South-east Asia has increased 20% in a week, according to TAC Index’s latest data, while Frankfurt to Shanghai is up near-40% in just a week. Inventory levels remain low. Add to that other key factors: shipping line schedule reliability ...

Measures introduced by governments to slow the spread of Covid-19 brought numerous unintended consequences for the delivery of cargo. Restrictions on movement significantly delayed the delivery of the bills of lading and led to an increased incidence of vessels arriving at the discharge port before ...

Each year it has progressively got worse, to the extent that it now stands at 100,000, due to a well-known combination of structural reasons – poor pay; long and unsociable working hours; poor working conditions; a lack of secure, off-road rest facilities; and generally abysmal treatment at the ha...

So, what is the answer? Airlines: The answer is product portfolios, dashboards through API solutions to all “principles” and, one common operational system geared to your own needs –  not the herd solutions that exist today. All must be managed throughout with a KPI/SLA by product type, f...

Most end-to-end transport actually engages multiple transport modes involving visits to several transport nodes. This then requires a high degree of collaboration between the involved actors both within and often across national borders. Big hopes are being placed on digitalisation as an enabler and...

It is an obvious fact – but not a leveraged one – that scheduled airlines that operate non-stop intercontinental flights have the fastest possible way in the world to move goods from one point to another. Very expensive aircraft assets that can provide an overnight next-day service are lite...

One of my colleagues, during a recent SASI project with a major airline to redevelop its airport hub facilities to cope with next-gen logistics and not just pallets, told the client: “Remember, whatever you do now, you will have to live with for 20 or 30 years – so take the time to get it right....

Not saying anything is a greater deceit than worrying about controversy. We need to understand that the owners of vast fleets of aircraft currently sitting idle, employees who have been let go and all the stakeholders, such as airports, handlers, beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) and others, deserve ou...

In a year when demand for air freight capacity grew exponentially in the second quarter, as governments booked-out flights to carry PPE and forwarders struggled to find capacity, IATA said the lack of bellies “led to a capacity crunch, with the industry-wide cargo load factor up 7.1 percentage poi...

Actions by government and large haulage firms over the past decade have tarnished the profession, and the press focus on Brexit, as the reason for the driver shortages, is sucking the oxygen from the true causes. This fixation on Brexit as the cause is a nonsense; the shortage is a long-running chro...