ACF2010Review All’s well at Cargoitalia


Cargoitalia is doing pretty well, says the Milan-basedMD-11 freighter operator’s commercial director, Roberto Gilardoni. “We definitely want


to expand the fleet,” was themessage Car- goitalia tried to emphasise at ACF 2010. He is looking at


adding a fourth 90- tonne payloadMD-11F to the fleet, perhaps at the beginning of next year’s summer season, with a fifth similar freighter possibly to come by the end of 2011. Gilardoni said that “deep analysis” suggests that


Industry agrees to pull together


The final day of Air Cargo Forum 2010 began with a press confer- ence to announce the formation of a new industry advisory group comprising The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), the InternationalAirTransportAssoci- ation (IATA), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and the Global Shippers’ Forum(GSF) rep- resentative body. Michael Steen (pictured centre),


Gilardoni: “we definitely want to expand the fleet”


conditions in themarket and aircraft availabilitymeans a planned acquisition of A330-200 freighters will not be taking place in the near future. “We will see how things are in a while,” he remarked. What does look likely is Cargoitalia opening up the


Indianmarket with its fourth, soon-to-be-acquiredMD- 11F. The airline is already talking to potential Indian general sales agents about possible flight destinations in the country.


WFS attracts the visitors


BarryNassberg, executive vice president and chief operating officer at cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), describes TIACA’sAirCargo Forumgathering as “a keymarketing event”. “We’ve always participated in ACF. It’s the one time we really


get to meet our customers in one place, with our senior management team here too,” he said. WFS chose to focus onitsAfrica


operations as a theme for the event, he said. The continent is “underserved by cargo handling companies with global experi- ence”, he remarked, noting that WFS was keen to highlight its pres- ence in the Dube TradePort facility at Durban’sKing Shaka International airport. “There are opportunities for us to bring our experience andmar-


ketpresence toanumberofAfricanairports.Durbanis just the start – our gateway toAfrica,”Nassbergmaintained. Eager to spread theword,WFS brought in the caterers to enter-


tain the company’s guests and by lunchtime on every day of the show the company’s stand was thronged with visitors as they enjoyed a fine spread of foodwith a SouthAfrican flavour.


vice chairman of TIACA; Des Vertannes (left), global head of cargo of IATA; and Jean-ClaudeDelen (president of FIATA) signed a letter of intent “commit- ting to work towards the formation of an industry advisory group facilitated by TIACAto ensure the air cargo industry has


a strong, unified voice in dealing with worldwide regulatory authorities and other bodies whose decisions directly impact on air cargo”. The subjects of freight security, Customs reform, e-commerce and the environment


were all singled out as particular issues of concern for the new grouping,with the events of recent weeks certainly placing the first of these items very much in both an industry and wider news spotlight. Steen confirmed that each of the


independent bodies would con- tinue to represent their own members, but the new deal looks at combining their “strengths, contacts and resources” in order to create “the most powerful grouping of all parties involved in


the air cargo supply chain”. Vertannes hopes the intention to work


together now dispels any idea that the industry is disjointed and he believes that the coalition will help to move the “key industry agenda” forward.


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Copenhagen’s new freighters


Lars Korup, head of cargo at Copenhagen airport, was at ACF 2010 eager to reveal that two newfreighter ser- vices were about to start operations from his airport. “BA is adding a weekly freighter with DHL to East


Midlands airport and Singapore Airlines Cargo is ready to start a B747-400F five times a week via Chennai to Singapore,” he informed. “With these new services, we will have seen five new


freighter connections start up at Copenhagen in the last six weeks,” Korup enthused.


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