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Airlines need speed and efficiency on the ground to keep etailers happy

Alex Lennane — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:54:09 +0000

“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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Air cargo carriers need to ‘think items, not pallets’ to profit from ecommerce

Charlotte Goldstone — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:12:30 +0000

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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Using Amazon Air services ‘a win-win’ for ‘absolutely satisfied’ K+N

Alex Lennane — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:41:35 +0000

Amazon Air has received a ringing endorsement for its airfreight services from Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), after it opened its capacity to third parties.
In the Swiss forwarder’s Q3 earnings call yesterday, CEO Stefan Paul revealed that K+N’s Asian subsidiary, Apex, which focuses on the transpacific and intra-Asia with an emphasis on ecommerce fulfilment, is using Amazon aircraft.
“I have to say we are absolutely satisfied with the service offered by Amazon ...

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China’s ecommerce giants revamp strategy to get round new US rules

Alex Lennane — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:12:19 +0000

The ecommerce titans are quickly adapting their business models in the face of greater regulatory oversight and heavy competition.
Executive action, announced by the White House last month, to tighten scrutiny of ecommerce and de minimis shipments has triggered changes by Chinese platforms – although implementation of some new rules has been delayed.
Law firm Sandler, Travis & Roseberg last week noted the plan to reject “vague cargo descriptions” in Air Cargo ...

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Shippers warned de minimis rule changes could ‘cost them millions’

Alex Lennane — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:39:59 +0000

Shippers have been warned that the White House’s recent executive order on de miminis exemptions could cost them “millions”, with changes potentially on their way before the Black Friday bumper online shopping weekend.
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen warned: “If your brand is importing goods into the US duty-free under de minimis rules, last week’s executive order is going to be a big deal that may cost you millions.”
The de minimis rules, ...

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Ecommerce drives growth at Liege, as Lufthansa Cargo doubles down on China

Alex Lennane — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:42:24 +0000

European fears of the sharp rise in Chinese ecommerce imports has not stemmed the flood.
Liege Airport, a key hub for ecommerce into Europe, said tonnage was up 15% in the first half of this year, to 566,117 tonnes, with cargo movements up 12%, to 12,987.
Last year, the airport, home to Challenge Group and a favourite of many cargo players, saw 1,005,676 tonnes, and H1 24 figures indicate that the airport ...

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The danger in degrading de minimis for US supply chains, consumers and businesses

Alex Lennane — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:42:47 +0000

Several legislative proposals have been introduced in US Congress over the past few months that would degrade the de minimis tax exemption. Put simply, de minimis exempts goods in the US valued below $800 from paying duty. All other US enforcement laws apply to de minimis, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has repeatedly stated that it enforces all other laws.
But policymakers should understand that degrading de minimis, now the ...

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Airlines add transpac capacity as flood of ecommerce traffic continues

Alex Lennane — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:34:21 +0000

Airlines are boosting their transpacific capacity in the face of continued strong ecommerce volumes.
Etihad Cargo said today it was increasing its presence in the US. It currently offers 500 tonnes of capacity to North America each week, but is introducing another 250 tonnes, with flights to New York, Chicago, Washington, Boston and Toronto, with connections via European gateways including Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome, in partnership with network airlines.
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EU ecommerce traders demand ‘level playing field’, as Liege rebuilds its image

Alex Lennane — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:34:50 +0000

Cross-border ecommerce may be air cargo’s ‘golden egg’ currently, generating buoyant demand and boosting the business of airlines, forwarders and logistics companies alike. But the mood is far less upbeat among Europe’s online traders and shippers.
They claim the sector is inadequately policed when it comes to the activities of their non-EU counterparts.
Ecommerce Europe, an EU lobby group representing firms selling goods and services online domestically, has alerted decision-makers, enforcement authorities ...

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Ecommerce player Great Vision signs $116m deal with Cargojet

Alex Lennane — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:40:45 +0000

Ecommerce fulfilment platform Great Vision has signed a three-year charter deal with Canada’s Cargojet.
The deal will give Great Vision, which has operations in China and Canada, services between Hangzhou and Vancouver on 767-300Fs, which began last month with three flights a week, but it could scale up.
Cargojet said the revenue from the deal was estimated at C$160m (US$116m) over the full term.
There is little public information about the China operations ...

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