FEBRUARY 2013 GROUND HANDLING INTERNATIONAL
THE 14TH
ANNUAL GHI CONFERENCE 55
and which cannot be easily (or quickly) inspected. With this in mind, Peter stressed the need for any impacts to be reported. Whilst this is common sense and laudable, handlers do not always do this; and where damage cannot be detected, it raises the question of who should take responsibility for declaring an aircraft unfit to fly. Clearly, some sort of analytical device would be required that could be used on the ramp to get around this situation but currently no portable device exists. Following hot on Peter’s heels was Peter Bishop, an aeronautical engineer, who had brought along a section of composite fuselage and proceeded to show some film footage in which this material was subjected to stress from a blunt object. The test was the equivalent of a large GSE impact at 7kph. His visual depiction echoed the verbal one of the previous speaker, and slightly worrying was the fact that rubber edged beltloaders and the like were not necessarily good news when employed in conjunction with this new material. Questions from the audience threw up the obvious one: what would be the
procedure on the ramp if a composite hull were to be impacted by GSE? Would the aircraft be grounded? Airbus said that it was in conversation with buyers on this subject and Peter Estele underlined again the critical nature of the reporting process in this connection. Without that, problems would ensue. Analytical tools were available to gauge the unseen damage but they required an expert who would not necessarily be on hand. Similarly, paint that changed colour after impact was also in the marketplace – but would the customer be happy with a (possibly) bedizened hull after a bad day on the ramp? It was a point that could be debated at length but clearly was one that Airbus (and Boeing, for that matter) have to sort out. Rounding off the trio of papers was Swissport’s Dominik Ebneter, who delivered a speech on risk management. The definition was the key thing here: Dominik stated that, in his mind at least, it equated to the reduction of uncertainty. Its purpose was simple: risk management served to protect the company’s assets. Within Swissport, enterprise risk management was a
company-wide application that identified and then contained potential risk; this, he felt, needed to be holistic and structured in its approach. In admitting that a small ground handler probably didn’t require an ERM scheme, he did add that in order to reduce risk it was important to have some sort of loss prevention process in place. Dominik also touched on the subject of risk finance in this context.
Freight and fate
The last session of the conference was given over to cargo and a panel was assembled to debate and interact with the audience on this topic. Immediately the question of IATA’s freight agenda came up: was this too big to absorb? It was said that establishing standards in this area was a difficult task. This point was echoed by AirBridge’s Natalia Ivanovskaya, who added that more co- ordination was required. Partnerships were deemed important and there was a need for handler and airline to work closely together. (One wonders how often that particular wish is
Dirk Kempeneer, TCG; Norbert Bielderman, NAHCO AVIANCE; Paul Craig, AVIANCE GHANA; David Laufer, LAUFER AVIATION - GHI
Sarita Rai, Wendy Loh & Tony Goh, SATS; Martin Meyer, ASA - AIRPORT SERVICES ASSOCIATION; Thomas Reichwein, LUFTHANSA GERMAN AIRLINES
Ashraf Gabr & Youssry Amir, EGYPTIAN AVIATION SERVICES; Joseph Suidan, INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
Wankumbu Sinkala, Harriet Nakazwe & Josiah Mvula, NATIONAL AIRPORTS CORPORATION
Hugo Ehrhard, GROUPE EUROPE HANDLING; Alexandra Grondin, CITYJET; Cyril Dreux, CHARLATTE MANUTENTION; Franck Romand, GROUPE EUROPE HANDLING; Michel Ragot, CSAE
Kayode Ojo; Sanya Onayoade; Ana Martinez- Atienza; Usman Musa Bello; Norbert Bielderman & Ikechukwu Nwachukwu, NAHCO AVIANCE
Michael Walsh & Lisa Walsh (spouse), FLIGHTCOM; Donna Jackson (spouse) & John Jackson, TUG TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Joerg Herbers, Uschi Schulte-Sasse & Tessa Vaasen, INFORM
Christian Hofmann, XL AIRWAYS GERMANY; Christian Noack, FLUGHAFEN HAMBURG; Peter Alpers, FLUGHAFEN HANNOVER- LANGENHAGEN
Ikechukwu Nwachukwu; Kayode Ojo & Usman Musa Bello, NAHCO AVIANCE; Adigun Olaniyi, SKYWAY AVIATION HANDLING COMPANY; Sanya Onayoade, NAHCO AVIANCE; Jacques Roux, TLD
Frederico Rangel & Joaquim Pedroso, PORTWAY; Ana Rowe (spouse) & Peter Rowe, AER LINGUS
Radoslaw Paruzel, LS AIRPORT SERVICES; Elzbieta Skatulska, LOT POLISH AIRLINES; Suju Bai, AIR CHINA; Konrad Gajda, LS AIRPORT SERVICES; Ying Sun, AIR CHINA; Jody Rong Di, BEIJING AVIATION GROUND SERVICES; Michal Kaczmarzyk & Radoslaw Gos, LS AIRPORT SERVICES
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