NewsWeek Heavyweight looks southward


HENRY Miller, director of business development at air cargo services provider Heavy- weight Air Express, points out that the company has enjoyed quite some success in the North American market and achieved “measured growth”. Moreover, the company


opened an office in São Paulo in August last year, its first Latin American presence and a wholly-owned Heavyweight branch. Buoyed by the success of


this office – which handled an on-line freighter operator from day one – Heavyweight is now preparing to open the doors of a branch in Buenos Aires and another in Santiago de Chile. Expected to be trading by


the beginning of July, every- thing is on track and going to


Miller: “we want to create new opportunities”


plan, Miller noted. These new branches will be looking to sell “premium services”, he said. There is no future in any


market for handling general freight with a low commission


GRANDSTAR Cargo Inter- national Airlines, the all-cargo carrier jointly owned by Chi- nese freight


forwarder


Sinotrans and Korean Air Cargo, is to go into liquidation amid mounting losses and poor prospects in the air freight market. A statement from Korean


Air said that the liquidation of Tianjin-based Grandstar was an inevitable decision owing mainly to low demand for freight capacity and higher costs from rising oil prices.


Grandstar Cargo calls it a day “Despite possible losses


from the liquidation, we regard partnership with Sino- trans as a valuable asset and plan to continue to seek new business opportunities in China, including expansion of routes,” the South Korean flag-carrier said. Grandstar began operations


in 2008 with a B747-400F serving destinations in Europe. It launched flights to Seoul


in July last year before recently grounding its aircraft as busi- ness slumped.


on low rates, he added. Thus, Heavyweight will concentrate on specialised offerings, including the perishables traf- fic that dominates so many South American exports, and on handling charters. Miller stated that the GSSA


will not merely be trying to take business from existing air- lines on existing sectors. “We want to create new


opportunities and new traffic streams,” he insisted. “We’re about creativity.” Miller also does not rule


out further expansion across Latin America. “Uruguay and Bolivia are ones to watch for example,” he said of the mar- kets there.


KUEHNE + NAGEL Japan has been granted a medical device manufacturing (packaging, labelling and storage) licence by the Chiba Prefecture Government for its logistics facility in Ichikawa.


TURKISH FORWARDER Planet Air Cargo intends to estab- lish a new office in China with its US partner, according to general manager Aziz Sam.


WESTJET HAS LAUNCHED a daily non-stop service link- ing Chicago O’Hare International airport with the Canadian gateways of Calgary and Vancouver.


ANA MOVED 514,200 tons of cargo on international ser- vices during its 2011-12 financial year, the 12 months ending 31 March. This was up by 4.1 percent on the previous year.


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