ACHL 24 Archives - The Loadstar Making sense of the supply chain Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:41:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 31889032 Air cargo capacity squeeze could linger ‘until the end of the decade’ https://theloadstar.com/air-cargo-capacity-squeeze-could-linger-until-the-end-of-the-decade/ https://theloadstar.com/air-cargo-capacity-squeeze-could-linger-until-the-end-of-the-decade/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:22:38 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=284005 Air cargo’s capacity shortage “will not be resolved any time soon”, and could linger “until the end of the decade”, exacerbated by ICAO’s 2028 sustainability targets, delegates at Aviation Connect in Istanbul heard this week. 
Martin Drew, chief strategy and transformation officer at Atlas Air, said: “Certainly from a capacity perspective, there is a severe shortage of widebody freight capacity. 
“Without doubt, demand is outweighing supply, and that’s thanks to companies such ...

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]]> https://theloadstar.com/air-cargo-capacity-squeeze-could-linger-until-the-end-of-the-decade/feed/ 0 284005 Airlines need speed and efficiency on the ground to keep etailers happy https://theloadstar.com/airlines-need-speed-and-efficiency-on-the-ground-to-keep-etailers-happy/ https://theloadstar.com/airlines-need-speed-and-efficiency-on-the-ground-to-keep-etailers-happy/#comments Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:54:09 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=283889 “The need for speed is on the ground”, and airlines need to facilitate communication across all parties during ground handling, especially for ecommerce shippers, delegates at this week’s Aviation Connect event in Istanbul heard. 
As global supply chains shift towards a consumer-driven B2C industry, speed-and-efficiency trumps cost as the best way an airline can compete, according to Guillaume Halleux, CCO of handler Swissport. 
“First, I want to rule out price, because a ...

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]]> https://theloadstar.com/airlines-need-speed-and-efficiency-on-the-ground-to-keep-etailers-happy/feed/ 1 283889 Air cargo carriers need to ‘think items, not pallets’ to profit from ecommerce https://theloadstar.com/air-cargo-carriers-need-to-think-items-not-pallets-to-profit-from-ecommerce/ https://theloadstar.com/air-cargo-carriers-need-to-think-items-not-pallets-to-profit-from-ecommerce/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:12:30 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=283761 The misalignment between what e-tailers expect and what airlines provide “needs to be addressed” in order to stay competitive in a shifting air cargo market, according to delegates at the Aviation Connect event in Istanbul this week. 
Denis Ilin, CEO of end-to-end logistics platform for e-tailers, e-SmartLogistics, told The Loadstar, on the sidelines of the conference, there was “an extreme misalignment of mentality of expectations on an e-com site, and what ...

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