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Issue 8 2013 Freight Business Journal Russia extends TIR ban yet again
Russia’s Federal Customs Service has further extended its restrictions on TIR guarantees to the North Caucasian and Southern Customs Regions, as well as the airport Customs offices of Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo. This was despite a ruling by the
country’s Supreme Arbitration Court about a fortnight ago that the Customs Service’s actions were illegal.
Russia had been planning to effectively withdraw the TIR system throughout its entire territory in mid-August, before postponing the move twice, first to mid-September and then 1 December in a dispute over 20 billion roubles-worth of duty (about £400 million) owed to the customs service by carnet- issuing authority, the Association of International Road Carriers. However, since then Russian
customs has progressively withdrawn TIR guarantees from individual customs offices, including those in the Far Eastern, Siberian, Ural and Volga Customs regions. Offices affected by the latest ruling
are: Dagestan, Mineralvody, Severo- Osetinskaya, Severo-Kavkazskaya Operativnaya (all North Caucasus region); Astrakhan, Krasnodar, Millerovskaya, Novorosiysk,
Rostov, Sochi, Taganrog, Yuzhnaya Operativnaya (all Southern Customs region); plus the airport customs at Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo. Although the full extent of
these measures is not yet known, Customs offices may refuse to open the TIR procedure in the absence of additional guarantees, says the International Road Transport Union.
Caspian can be exasperating, says Coyne
Customs red tape and costly airport charges are hampering airfreight potential, Coyne Airways director told the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on 29 October. “We sometimes experience
a series of frustrating obstacles that make doing business here expensive,” she said. “Traffic rights can be an issue and airport
costs are sometimes “baffling and exorbitant,” she added. Airports in the area could learn
a lot from Coyne’s Caspian hub, Tbilisi, in neighbouring Georgia, from where Coyne operates services to 14 destinations in the region. “Tblisi is the beneficiary of its
open policy,” she said. “It has a good Customs regime, reasonable
First meeting for Welsh freight group
The first meeting of a new Ministerial ‘Task and Finish Group’ on freight transport in Wales took place on 31 October. It is chaired by former president of the Wales TUC, Brian Curtis, and has been set up to advise the Transport Minister Edwina Hart on what needs to be done to better support freight transport to help meet the Welsh Government’s economic priorities. The new group will focus on the key demand and capacity areas and interventions needed to support the development of Enterprise Zones and business centres more widely. The group will report back to the Minister in the spring.
Other members of the group
include Ian Davies, Stena Line, route manager for the Irish Sea South region, Ian Gallagher, Freight Transport Association, head of policy, Wales and Southwest England, Mathew Kennerley, ABP Ports, director South Wales, Neil McDonald, DB Schenker Rail, managing director industrial, Nick Payne, Road Haulage Association, regional director Wales, Robin Smith, Rail Freight Group, Wales representative, Paddy Walsh, Irish Ferries, UK Ports Manager, Holyhead Port and Peter Willey, Network Rail, senior freight route manager, Wales, Western and Wessex region.
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airport costs, and doing business is easy. “The downside is too much capacity.” Coyne said her wish
list for the region would include fewer restrictions on flight permissions, more transparency in airport charges, a reduction in transit charges for trucking, a reduction in Customs red tape and other
restrictions in line with World Customs Organisation (WCO) guidelines, and investment in infrastructure. Laura Coyne was on a panel
on the oil and gas industry and air cargo in the CIS, part of the three-day Caspian Air Cargo Summit 2013, organised by Euroavia International and Silk Way Airlines.
Liverpool study
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IAG Cargo reported commercial revenue down 14.1% against the same period last year in its Q3 results (July to September), at €256 million. The Iberia-BA joint venture blamed the strengthening of the Euro against other currencies over the last year for some of the reduction. At a constant exchange rate, Q3 revenue would be down 9.4%.
IAG Cargo, the cargo business of British Airways and Iberia, is flying an additional air freighter service from London Stansted to Hong Kong, bringing its frequency from the Territory to six a week from 31 October, plus its regular passenger flights. IAG Cargo managing director, Steve Gunning said the additional capacity would help businesses gear up for the peak Christmas season. IAG said the flight would operate “for the foreseeable future”. The additional flight will be serviced by a Boeing 747-8 freighter departing Hong Kong airport at 0605 on Saturday mornings, outward to Hong Kong via Frankfurt and returning to London via New Delhi.
Cargolux has added a new weekly 747 freighter flight from Luxembourg on Wednesday to Viracopos, Brazil and Buenos Aires, returning via Latacunga, Bogota, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and Manston in the UK.
David Binks has been appointed the new president of FedEx Express’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region based at the company’s EMEA headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.He has been with FedEx since 1983, most recently as senior vice president of European operations and will succeed Gerald Leary, who is retiring aſter 39 years’ service. Current FedEx UK chief executive officer, Michael Holt is to become the new senior vice president, European operations.
Air Partner Freight has moved 250 tonnes of urgent cosmetics from Paris to New York on a series of chartered IAG Cargo 747-8 freighter flights. The broker’s client urgently needed to transport 1,200 non- stackable pieces (1,500 cubic metres) from Paris to New York, to meet an urgent deadline. Thanks to the 747-8’s larger capacity, the movement with cleared in only three flights, compared with four for the older 747-400.
Emirates SkyCargo has taken delivery of a tenth Boeing 777 Freighter aircraſt, ahead of the move of its freighter operations to Dubai World Central’s Al Maktoum International Airport in May 2014. The aircraſt is capable of carrying 103 tonnes and its main cargo deck is the widest of any freighter aircraſt at 3.7 metres.
BMT has completed a series of studies for the Port of Liverpool’s new ‘Liverpool 2’ (L2) container terminal. Its subsidiary companies, BMT ARGOSS and BMT Isis were commissioned by Peel Ports to assess the effect of vessels of up to 13,500teu at the L2 development including analysis of the associated traffic and safety management issues, as well as the operability of the new terminal and to provide a conceptual design for the mooring system. Manoeuvring simulations and studies into the wave and water level conditions were also carried out.
Emirates has started four times a week flights (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, departing 07.20, returning 15.25) from its Dubai hub to Conakry, Republic of Guinea, on the Atlantic coast of Africa. The Airbus A340-300 aircraſt offer nearly 13 tonnes of cargo capacity per flight. Traffic is expected to include fresh fish, fruit, vegetables, rock and oil samples, and imports of general cargo, pharmaceuticals, textiles, mobile phones and electronics, mining equipment and machinery.
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