NewsWeek TIACA recognises Crane’s achievements


FRANKFURT-BASED time-critical shipping specialist time:matters has launched a Europe-wide ‘Harvest Season Weekend Service’ for customers needing to move highly urgent spare parts for the agricultural sector at weekends or during national holidays.


BOEING COMMERCIAL Airplanes has delivered the 50th B767 freighter to UPS. The express services giant operates the world’s largest fleet of B767Fs.


AIRBERLIN HAS REPORTED on a successful first quarter of this year, adding that its ‘Shape & Size’ efficiency pro- gramme has begun “clearly producing results”. Both sales and earnings were up year-on-year for Germany’s second-biggest carrier.


THE FORMER publisher of Air Cargo News, Ray Crane, was enrolled into the Hall of Fame of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) last Thursday. His recognition by the


industry body was made offi- cial at a reception and dinner held in the Royal Hall of Moscow’s Hippodrome as part of TIACA’s Executive Summit and Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Russia. Prior to launching Air


Cargo News in 1983, Crane spent 11 years with Canadian publisher Maclean Hunter, where he worked on the Air- trade publication.


Crane notes the continuing importance of the press today


In his acceptance speech, Crane referred to the current


difficult economic climate, but also to how businesses can benefit from the Internet and online news offerings. He also thanked the


TIACA executive committee for understanding the impor- tant role in the air freight industry played today by the press. TIACA’s Executive Sum-


mit and AGM was held between 22 and 24 May, with the Hall of Fame dinner on the final night. It represented the culmina-


tion of a programme that included conferences and presentations scheduled to involve numerous industry


leaders such as Michael Steen (TIACA chairman), Alexey Isaikin (president of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group of Com- panies), Stan Wraight (managing partner of Strate- gic Aviation Solutions International), Oliver Evans (TIACA Industry Affairs chairman) and Tatyana Arslanova (executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines). The next big industry event


organised under the TIACA wing will be the Air Cargo Forum (ACF) conference and exhibition, to be hosted by Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport in early October.


Unified CHAMP moves forward


FELIX Keck, managing direc- tor of CHAMP Cargosystems GmbH, the German edi (elec- tronic data interchange) specialist within the CHAMP group, is delighted with the way that CHAMP and Traxon have quickly fused together. Keck, former head of Trax-


on, points out that CHAMP’s acquisition of Frankfurt-based Traxon took place as recently as 9 November last year but by 1 April the process of integrat- ing the two companies had been officially completed. This was a “pretty fast” pro-


cess, he says, given that it involved not just a merger of two firms but a radical reor- ganisation of the whole. The acquisition was sup-


ported by both sets of shareholders and senior man- agement, Keck added. It was a bringing together of two of the leading compa-


Keck – coming together of two companies with a similar ethos


nies in their respective areas of expertise, he believes, and the two companies share the same ethos – providing top-quality products; being a good partner to their customers; and being committed to pushing back the boundaries of the industry in their particular sectors.


CATHAY Pacific saw its cargo traffic figures for April fall once again compared to the same month of a year ago. Cathay and sister carrier Dragonair carried 124,532 tonnes of cargo and mail in April, down by 11 percent year-on-year. Traffic as measured in cargo


tonne-km fell by 13.7 percent so, with capacity only having been reduced by 6.8 percent, the cargo load factor fell by 5 points to 63.3 percent.


Cathay’s problems continue into April Cathay general manager


cargo sales and marketing James Woodrow noted: “After the temporary surge in busi- ness in March, driven by large shipments of hi-tech products from mainland China, demand softened again out of our key markets in April. “The general air cargo mar-


ket remains soft, especially to Europe, although intra-Asia traffic is holding up better,” he advised.


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