NEWS\\\ Questions, questions EMEA, American Airlines
Tristran Koch joined American Airlines Cargo at Heathrow in 2011 and is responsible for all the carrier’s cargo activity across UK, Europe, Africa and Middle East - including specialist products such as Expedite TC and its GSSA network. Prior to that, he spent eleven
years with British Airways in a number of senior positions. He has an MSc in Environmental Economics.
Q. What was your first job? (In any industry, not necessarily freight or transport)
A. Policy advisor at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Q. How did you first get involved in the freight industry? A. A friend was working at British Airways and alerted me to a job that might be suitable.
Q. Did you plan to get involved in freight – did you have much notion of the industry before you got involved in it ? A. Absolutely not.
Q. What’s been the biggest achievement or high point of your career in the freight industry?
A. Taking control of sales for the region at American Airlines Cargo.
Q. Any low points? A. The way the fuel surcharge issue has been handled by the industry.
Q. If you had the undivided attention of the Secretary of State for Transport for ten minutes, what would you tell him?
A. Well funnily enough, I used to have that privilege on a daily basis. If I met him now I would say, forget the politics and just make a decision about the third runway at Heathrow.
Q. What’s the biggest challenge facing the air cargo industry today? A. Its inability to embrace modern technology. The industry simply doesn’t utilise all the technology that’s out there to maximise performance. In turn that means we hardly have any joined up systems across the modes. We all need to get on and focus on the synergies and make them work to our advantage.
Q. Where do you see the industry in 12 months time ? A. In a not dissimilar position to where it is today.
Q. - and in 50 years time ? A. I think there will be more regionalisation. I believe there will be a step away from total globalisation as the world sees the need to be more self-sufficient which means looking more towards your own region and more reliance on your own region of the world. The goods will still be required on a time-definite basis so the need for airfreight will still be there, just in a different way.
Q. When you meet people from outside the industry, how easy is it to explain to them what you do ?
A. Oh, they get it quite easily. It’s not complicated or difficult to understand, but it is hidden which means they often have to stop and think for a moment, but once they think about it, it’s pretty clear.
Tristan Koch - managing director cargo sales
Issue 7 2014 - Freight Business Journal
Kenya fruit and veg trade at risk as EU hikes duties
The EU is imposing higher import duties on vegetables and flowers from Kenya aſter negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the East African Community (EAC) missed a vital deadline. The EU has signed EPAs with most groups of countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states, but not with the EAC, due to internal differences between the latter’s members and the 1 October deadline has now passed. While this does not affect the other EAC members - Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda – which, as Least Developed Countries will continue to enjoy low-tariff access to the EU market, more prosperous Kenya is not an LDC. Duties of between 8-12% will now be applied to imports from Kenya, putting at risk trade worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
Business is picking up in Felixstowe
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Port of Felixstowe volunteers have cleaned the beach at the John Bradfield Viewing Area next to the port. The annual litter pick was part of the Hutchison Port Holdings’ Recycling Begins & Ends with You campaign and is in support of the Marine Conservation Society’s Beachwatch campaign.
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