Jan Krems—Attributes Of A Great Leader As March 2025 marks the beginning of our 51st year of publishing, we recall some favorite pictures and stories that it has been our pleasure to share during our half century on the air cargo beat ..read more

Airportz A Poppin' At Air Cargo 2025        Heading to one of our favorite conferences, we’re reminded of some past events and efforts that shaped the event known this year as AirCargo 2025 which is hosted by Airports Council International – North America, (ACI-NA), the Airforwarders Association (AfA) and the Air & Expedited Motor Carrier Association (AEMCA ..read more

     My name is Tom, Thomas Bayes actually, Vice president Asia at Emo Trans in the USA. I shall try to tell you why succession is a success element at EMO Trans. Please let me show you that the alliteration is not out of place this time ..read more

De Inside Scoop On De Minimis       Let us start our in-depth consideration of the de minimis regime with a quote published by Ms. Cindy Allen, CEO of “If the option to utilize de minimis was eliminated for goods, large marketplaces may structure the transactions differently for transportation, sale, and entry declaration to reduce costs. They would consolidate the merchandise on one entry per conveyance. They would establish a U.S. based entity, and a U.S. warehouse location, which some of the large online companies have already done. They would then structure the sal ..read more

      Here’s an early Valentine from Ingo Zimmer, CEO of ATC Aviation Services, AG pictured last year when ATC completed 35 years of service with Ingo at the helm ..read more

      “2024 was a transformational year as we brought Hawaiian Airlines into Alaska Air Group and began our journey to unlock $1 billion in incremental pretax profit over the next three years,” said Ben Minicucci, Alaska Air Group President and CEO ..read more

      Anyone who lived in Brussels for some time has been attracted, sooner or later, by the vast shores of the North Sea between Zeebrugge and De Panne, a wonderful beach challenging the winds, a few miles west of the shore where the Allies landed on June 6th 1944, D-day ..read more

      The man who has been the singular Pied Piper of local air cargo clubs, trade associations like AfA and IATA, CNS and now FIATA and seems to always be there for everybody else, Airforwarders Association’s Brandon ..read more

      Even if the public at large had not yet panicked for the anticipated strike in the east coast of the USA at the start of the New Year, those who work directly in logistics and international trade were more than alarmed. They had seen at other times the troubles and the inevitable disruptions propagating all over the international trade, with consequences both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond ..read more

Flying By The Trillions In 2025       Quoting a commercial to start this article is more than unexpected for me, but this one suits the purpose in so many ways that it is probably worth making an exception. In about one minute, you realize the of air travel: you just want to multiply the figures you hear from Singapore Airlines in their BBC ad by the unimaginable number of connections worldwide to understand the magnitude and impact of modern aviation.   ..read more