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INTERNATIONAL EDITION

REGIONS

10 North AmericaDHL looks to recover from

the troubled integration of itsUnited States air hub

12 EuropeNew versions of the AN-124

freighter are expected to lift theoutsize cargo sector

16 Pacific Australia’s new customs

clearance systems had a hugeimpact on shipments, but notquite what was planned

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What, where and whenin the 2006 Air Cargo Worldguide to the world’s air car-go carriers.

ModernMoscow

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PlannedIt is a Tuesday during the peak shipping season, just hours be-

fore a fleet of UPS aircraft begin descending to Louisville Inter-national Airport for the nightly 11:30 pm to 3:30 am sort, and

the talk in the UPS Global Operations Center focuses on a bird inPhiladelphia and freezing rain in Rockford, Illinois.

A UPS aircraft landing in Philadelphia earlier in the day took a birdstrike.Maintenance workers are assessing the damage. Back in Louisville, Mike Bow-man, UPS’s contingency operations manager, is talking with his staff aboutthe options if the Philadelphia plane is unavailable for the rest of the night.

They sit in a conference room before large, high-tech electronic world mapsthat show colorful weather systems shifting about. Just down the hall, UPS’sin-house meteorologists are monitoring a winter storm expected to hit Rock-ford, a UPS regional hub, later that night.

“This is continuous, rolling 24/7,” says Bowman. “The storynever really starts and never really ends.”

Bowman and his staff manage the movements of 260 UPSplanes flying around the world. “Picture a large chess board,”he says. “Move this here, that there, this necessitates thatmove. The essence of the job is to make these kinds ofchanges and customers don’t realize anything went on.”

There is something of a Wizard of Oz element to expeditedfreight transport. Air cargo is defined by fast movement andrapid change. But those getting the packages on the doorstep

are largely oblivious to the planning and coordination behind the curtain.As 2006 dawns, the air cargo industry finds itself at a critical juncture. Busi-

nesses and consumers expect seamless, overnight delivery of any and all man-ner of goods from anywhere in the world. The click of a computer mouse onMonday leads to the delivery of a package on Tuesday.

But such expectations for express shipping in all quarters of the world alsomeans growing challenges for infrastructure and for regulators.

Are airports in China and India, for example, up to handling skyrocketingvolumes of cargo? Are customs regulations consistent and clear enougharound the world to allow for the ever-faster movement of goods? And howwill security rules in the United States and elsewhere affect the flow of cargo?

All the high-tech, behind-the-scenes planning is impressive. But it’s fair toask whether it will be enough to keep expedited cargo moving in a tradingworld impeded by crushing red tape and overcrowded airports.

Air cargo players need to explain to the pubic and government officialsthat, despite appearances, packages just don’t show up magically. A failure tokeep pace with growing demand through the modernization of infrastructureand regulatory reform could prove far more problematic than birds and freez-ing rain.

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rope that FedEx was interested in tak-ing in TNT and its strong Europeanexpress network. In a move to makeany potential buyout more expensive,TNT bought back millions of its ownstock and canceled the shares.

FedEx long ago made its decisionthat transportation, not logistics, wasits destiny and TNT CEO Peter Bakkersaid industry consolidation was a fac-tor in the decision to jettison the lo-gistics unit, making the competitiontougher and the returns harder tocome by.

Logistics “will no longer fit withour strategic focus going forward,”said Bakker. “The exit of logistics willallow simplification of our organiza-tion. ... We are focused on creatingvalue for our shareholders both inthe short and in the long term.”

TNT Logistics revenue was up 14.8percent year-over-year to $1.3 billionin the 2005 third quarter. But TNT’slogistics operating income was just$15.3 million, compared with $113million from express, and $173 mil-lion from mail.

“Generally speaking, logistics ser-vices is a low-margin business and dri-ving profitable growth is becomingincreasingly difficult,” said AdrianGonzalez, director of ARC AdvisoryGroup’s Logistics Executive Council.

Merging Ops

Deutsche Post World Net is mov-

ing quickly on the largest merg-

er integration ever in the logistics

business and already warning that

pushing together the former Exel

operation and DHL Danzas will take

two to three years.

With a combined $20 billion in

revenue and 150,000 employees

worldwide, it will be the largest for-

warding and logistics business on

Shifting Logistics Priorities

The changing landscape of global logisticsis shifting yet again, this time with a newtwist. Rather than joining its peers in therecent trend toward consolidation among

logistics giants, TNT is looking to get leaner andfocus more closely on its delivery services byselling off its $4 billion logistics business thisyear. The Netherlands-based operator says its ex-press and mail units offer better returns.

Logistics is a big revenue producer for the company, but TNT raised newquestions about the whole move toward expansive “one-stop shop” servicesthat cross traditional business borders by pointing to the low profit margins inthe logistics trade. The logistics business produces about a third TNT’s overallrevenue but made up only about 5 percent of its operating profit in the 2005third quarter.

The TNT announcement was part of a year-ending tremor of activity in theseismic changes underway in the logistics market that reach deep into the airtransport field.

Deutsche Post World Net ended the year by completing its $6.7 billion pur-chase of Exel, turning the parent of DHL into an umbrella for $65 billion inmail, express, freight transport and logistics business. And Deutsche Bahn waspreparing to complete its buy of BAX Global, which included the sale of BAX’scertificated airline business.

TNT itself was the subject of takeover rumors in November, when Germaninvestor Cornelius Geber said he was considering buying the express transportpower. TNT dismissed the speculation, but there were suggestions across Eu-

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the globe, and part of a $65 billion

Deutsche Post transport and logis-

tics empire.

DPWN says the logistics business

will operate under the DHL brand,

using DHL’s red and yellow colors,

and will be divided into two sub-

brands: DHL Exel Supply Chain and

DHL Global Forwarding. But it will

also have a decidedly Exel hue, with

Exel CEO John Allan running the

combined division out of Exel’s

home base near London.

“Strategically, this acquisition is a

good fit as both organizations were

looking to increase their geographi-

cal footprint to meet the challenges

of globalization and growth in out-

sourcing,” says Allen. “Now we will

be able to provide customers with

an even wider range of products and

value-added services.”

Deutsche Post CEO Klaus

Zumwinkel says the DHL and Exel

management teams will be able to

merge “in a rapid and efficient man-

ner.” Industry sources say the com-

bination of organizations has already

pushed some executives out, and

competitors have been openly cir-

cling the business to pick off talent

and customers.

BAX Global, meanwhile, is busy

selling off its Air Transportation In-

ternational subsidiary to meet U.S.

regulatory requirements and clear

the way for its purchase by Deutsche

Bahn. ATI, which operates 18 aircraft

to support BAX’s North American

heavyfreight network, will be sold to

Cargo Holdings International.

CHI will operate DC-8 and 727

freighter aircraft for BAX/Deutsche

Bahn on a contract basis. BAX says

not owning its own aircraft will give

it more flexibility and that its for-

warder network will not be affected

by the change.

Ordering Boeing

Boeing capped a strong 2005 bydelivering its first 747-400 con-

verted freighter to Cathay Pacific lastmonth, unveiling a plane aimed atmaintaining the aircraft manufactur-er’s leading role in international all-cargo operations.

The delivery in Xiamen, China,came as Boeing totaled more than 30firm orders for the converted versionof the jumbo aircraft with options for30 more. The manufacturer has alsoreceived more than 30 firm ordersand options for its new 747-8freighter, and recently won thelargest order ever for the 777 aircraftfrom Emirates.

Overall, the manufacturer had 827aircraft orders through the first 11months of 2005, giving it a 140 air-craft order lead over rival Airbus. TheEuropean manufacturer had surpassedBoeing in aircraft orders for the firsttime in recent years but appears setfor a second place finish for 2005.

Emirates, a leading A380 customer,gave Boeing a big boost by ordering42 777s, including eight freighter ver-sions. Even with the Airbus superjumbo on the way, Boeing aircraft ap-pear firmly rooted in airlines’ futurecargo plans.

Industry sources say Airbus officialsare considering conversion programsfor its longer-haul aircraft, with mostof the interest focused on the A330.The twin-engine has the range, flexi-bility in operations and cubic capaci-ty to make it an attractive freighterbut it was launched in the mid-1990sand so remains a young aircraft inmany passenger fleets. A freighterconversion is likely several yearsaway. Engineering work has not start-ed yet on a conversion program, ac-cording to aircraft industry officialsfamiliar with the discussions.

Meanwhile, the Taikoo Aircraft En-gineering Company in Xiamen isbuilding up capacity to do more Boe-ing conversion work. Taeco has fourhangars able to accommodate eightwide-bodied aircraft at a time, and afifth hangar is slated for completionby 2007. Taeco is now doing only747-400 conversions but plans tostart converting 767-300s once Boe-ing reaches agreements with airlinesfor converted freighter orders forthose aircraft.

Striking Korean

Forwarders and shippers in South

Korea withstood their second

strike in a matter of months when

Korean Air pilots walked off their

jobs last month in a pay dispute.

The four-day strike at the world’s

largest combination cargo airline hit

large parts of KAL’s freighter sched-

ule and affected some 9,700 tonnes

of cargo, according to the airline. Ko-

rean Air said it lost about $65.5 mil-

lion in cargo business because of the

walkout.

Pilots returned to the job only after

the government intervened, invoking

emergency powers to get the coun-

try’s trade-dependent economy back

on track. Seoul had used the same

powers last summer to end a walk-

out by pilots at Korea’s No. 2 carrier

Asiana Airlines pilots after 25 days.

In last month’s strike, Korean Air

kept some operations moving by

consolidating traffic from various

flights. But the airline canceled at

least half its freighter flights a day

before the government acted.

Bumpy World

The financial turnaround at WorldAirways is hitting some turbulence.

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The airline’s parent World AirHoldings says it will have to restateits financial results for the secondquarter because of problems in theway it accounted for the expenses ofits new North American Airlines sub-sidiary. World says the problems in-cluded the way expenses were allocat-ed to the financial periods, as well aschanges in accounting for a profit-sharing plan and for fuel expenses atwet-lease carrier World Airways.

World bought North American inApril in a bid to diversify an airlinebusiness that had been hit hard bythe impact of September 11.

Freighter operations have helpedturn things around but the companyalso faces new trouble on other fronts.Its unionized pilots recently rejected acontract offer, the second rejection inas many years by flight crews repre-sented by the Teamsters union.

World asked the U.S. National Me-diation Board to get involved in talks,which have been ongoing for two-and-a-half years but have not produced anew contract. In a sign of growing acri-mony between the sides, World pilotsbegan picketing last month outsidethe airline’s Atlanta headquarters.

World says the reclassification offinancial results should reduce ex-penses and revenue at North Ameri-

can. It will also reduce depreciationexpense at World Airways. The com-pany originally reported a $4.2 mil-lion net profit in the second quarter.

World also delayed the release ofits third quarter financial report to re-view its financial accounting.

Ground Grows

The United States’ expedited

transport market should see a

boost in 2006 but don’t expect it to

come in the air.

The Colography Group research

and consulting firm is forecasting ex-

pedited business in the country

should grow 7.6 percent this year to

just short of $98 billion. But domes-

tic air cargo growth will be “muted,”

with truckers that have been push-

ing more overnight and second-day

services on longer routes getting

most of the growth.

“The secular factors driving traffic

off airplanes and onto trucks will re-

main intact in 2006,” said Cologra-

phy Group President Ted Scherck.

Scherck predicts overnight enve-

lope traffic, hit hard by electronic

funds transfers and e-mail growth,

to fall 0.6 percent next year and the

greatest growth in air to come in

the deferred categories.

“Businesses are increasingly reluc-

tant to pay a premium for overnight

air service, and continue to build

their inventory and distribution

models around more economical,

time-definite deliveries moving in

ground parcel, LTL and truckload,”

he said.

EGL Charges

Eagle Global Logistics repaid theUnited States Department of De-

fense $1.14 million in overcharges thecompany billed the government forlogistics work in the Middle East andis trying to limit damage that couldrun to millions more in penalties.

The Houston-based forwarder saysthe overcharges were for war risk sur-charges that EGL claimed in bills todefense contractor Kellogg Brown &Root, a Halliburton subsidiary that isa major contractor to the U.S. mili-tary in Iraq.

EGL says it also fired two employ-ees it says breached the companycode of conduct.

The announcement was a setbackfor an important line of shippingbusiness for EGL, which stressed itcooperated fully in the investigation.Government investigators said they“will make no recommendation to

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the DOT for debarment of EGL fromfuture DOD contracts” as part of asettlement, EGL said.

Industry observers say EGL willhave to do more than settle the case,however, to maintain its U.S. militarybusiness.

“While the proposed settlementdoes not preclude (EGL) from futuregovernment work, it does representanother mark against (EGL’s) credibil-ity and internal controls,” said JonLangenfeld, an investment analystwith Baird Equity Research.

Kuijpers Handles

Rob Kuijpers is back in the cargo

business and the former head of

DHL International appears to be

preparing for an even greater role in

European air shipping.

Kuijpers this month became

non-executive chairman of leading

European ground handler Aviapart-

ner Group, quickly jumping back

into the industry after a bumpy

ending last year to his tenure as

head of passenger carrier SN Brus-

sels Airlines.

He immediately signalled he is ea-

ger to make the business bigger,

suggesting that the consolidation,

expansion and service extensions

that have marked operations on the

ramp will accelerate.

“In the current passenger and

cargo handling market, there is a

tremendous potential for growth

and we have a bright future ahead

of us,” Kuijpers said in a statement.

“I’m looking forward to working

with (the) management team on the

further expansion of the Aviapart-

ner Group.”

Kuijpers, 67, was chairman of

startup SN Brussels Airlines before

leaving in a board shakeup in Sep-

tember. He was also a leader of

DHL during the 1990s, and headed

Brussels-based DHL International in

the period leading up to Deutsche

Post World Net’s takeover of DHL.

Aviapartner has plenty of backing

for any expansion plans — the com-

pany is owned by 3i, a private equi-

ty firm focused on buyouts. ■

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in which even DHL officials conced-ed that their promises to the marketoutpaced their capabilities.

ServiceDisruption

The company report presented toWall Street showed service levelsfalling to as low as 67.7 percent inmid-September before getting con-sistently back above 90 percent byearly October.

One representative of a large phar-maceutical shipper, speaking on con-dition of anonymity, said on-time de-livery of its critical medical ship-ments fell below 50 percent as thecompany struggled to blend the air-lines, containers, packages, workersand information systems from twohubs. The problems came as DHLmoved its operations atCincinnati/Northern Kentucky Inter-national Airport into the former Air-borne Express hub in Wilmington.

The troubles came at a critical timefor DHL, with new mass market ad-vertising stressing service reliabilityfollowing a push last year that, as

company officials haveconceded, brought in

more business than the company’sstill-building infrastructure couldreadily handle.

“DHL is really in a defensive pos-ture right now,” said Tim Sailor of

DHL is looking to raise its returns on United States oper-ations that are bleeding red ink but customers aremaking clear that the carrier will also have to raise itsservice levels after some dramatic missteps in its

growth plan. At a meeting with investors in New York, DHL disclosed plans to raise rates

for some of its customers in North America even as the express carrier revealedthe extent of the financial damage from severe problems the company had inthe integration of its U.S. hub operations at Wilmington, Ohio.

Delays and disruptions that cascaded across the DHL network cost the com-pany some $280 million worth of annual business volume as customers, in-cluding several large package shippers, abandoned the company.

DHL told analysts it won back about 48 percent of the lost vol-ume after the September foul-ups, with only about 10 percent of that businessrecovered with discounts.

But it was a sharp blow to an operation that has lost hundreds of millionsof dollars in the United States since buying Airborne Express and a black eyefor a company that has promoted itself as a high service provider after a year

Hubbing LossesDHL is sticking with its United States profit forecast but the real

focus is on recovery from its hub integration troubles

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Navigo Consulting, a consultant toshippers. “The service disruptionswith the hub integration have reallyhut them.”

Still, DHL officials, includingNorth America chief John Mullen,also insisted to Wall Street that thecompany remains in sight of theprofitability that it has promised bythe end of 2006.

“Despite inevitable temporary set-backs, the progress being made in theU.S. leaves us confident that our over-all strategy and direction are correct,and that long-term objectives can bemet,” Deutsche Post said in a state-ment released at the presentation.“Trading conditions remain competi-tively tough but relatively stable.”

DHL would not comment specifi-cally at the event on its earlier fore-cast to break even, however, citing se-curities rules relating to DeutschePost’s takeover of British logisticsfirm Exel. Deutsche Post has forecasta $350 million loss in the UnitedStates in 2005 after losing more than$600 million here in 2004.

Raising RatesWall Street analysts at the New

York presentation said DHL plannedto raise rates between 2 and 8 percentin 2006, but a spokesman said the in-crease would be more targeted evenas DHL seeks to improve its yield.

“We will look to increase pricing bysome 2 to 8 percent over the comingmonths for some DHL customers whohave been historically priced at aloss as part of a focus on establishingmargins in line with the enhancedservices DHL is providing,” saidspokesman Jonathan Baker. “This isnot a statement of our planned ratesfor 2006, however. Our general pric-ing policy is to remain competitive,

but aligned with the market.” According to industry analysts,

DHL has sought rate hikes from up to90 large customers and seen almost athird of them leave.

But the company now faces thechallenge of winning lost customersback even as it tries to raise pricesgenerally and improve the yield onaccounts long accustomed to thebargain basement rates of AirborneExpress.

“It shows that there are a lot ofvery high barriers to entry to the U.S.domestic air express market,” saidSatish Jindel, a parcel industry con-sultant. “It certainly helps explainwhy a company like TNT has chosento stay out of the market. While theU.S. is a large market it is not an easyone to establish yourself in. You haveto have a longer time horizon. FedExand UPS have infrastructure that is somuch larger than what DHL has,even with the expansion they are un-dertaking.”

… Briefly

ABX Air, the sub-service freighteroperator for DHL in the UnitedStates, saw revenue grow 27.6 percentin the third quarter to $369.9 mil-lion, including a 31.9 percent in-crease in revenue from non-DHL cus-tomers to $9 million. Bankruptcy fil-ings from two non-DHL customerscut profits in that category to $1.5million, however, while the overallnet profit grew 4.1 percent to $7.4million. … Cathay Pacific Air-ways named ASIG as its cargo han-dler for new three-times-weeklyflights to Hartsfield-Jackson At-lanta International Airport. …Target Logistics nearly doubled itsprofit in the quarter ending Sept. 30,earning $477,078 on $36.1 million in

gross revenue, a 9.4 percent increaseover the same period a year ago. TheBaltimore-based company says it has$14.2 million in cash and availablecredit that it can use for “strategic ac-quisitions in a fragmented market-place.” … Atlanta-based courier ACDLogistics agreed to acquire a con-trolling interest in Telesis Expressand will make that operation part ofa new company, ACD LogisticsSouthwest. … ABX Air and Innova-tive Solutions & Support woncertification for a flat panel displayretrofit they will offer operators of757s and 767s. … Pakistan Inter-national Airlines asked for theright to add a third weekly passengerflight between Toronto and Pakistan.… An immigration court in Miamigranted asylum to a Cuban womanwho entered the United States bystowing away in a DHL crate flownon a freighter from the Bahamas toMiami. … King County, Wash.,turned down requests from South-west Airlines and Alaska Air-lines to move their operations fromSeattle-Tacoma InternationalAirport to Boeing Field, where cargocarriers and others are seeking to op-erate because of high fees and con-gestion at Sea-Tac. … United Air-lines, Delta Air Lines and othersapplied for new new authority to addflights to Mexico starting in February.… Cincinnati/Northern Ken-tucky International Airportopened a 8,000-foot runway. …Southwest Airlines will start ser-vice to Denver. … Cargo traffic atSan Francisco International Air-port grew 7.3 percent in the firstnine months of 2005, with domestictraffic up 14.7 percent. Internationalcargo traffic was down 13.5 percentat SFO in September, including an18.1 percent slide in exports. ■


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expected to generate aircraft sales onthe order of $6 billion. The new ver-sions are to be built over the nexttwo decades at a list price of around$100 million to $110 million apiece.

“We as a specialist operator of thistype of aircraft need this level pro-duction and the market in generalneeds this level of production if weare to meet expected demand,” saysPivovarov. “The market for outsizeand heavyweight cargo has grownsome 28 percent a year for each ofthe last four years and growth isforecast to continue at a rate of atleast 15 to 20 percent between nowand 2010.”

Market ShareVolga-Dnepr controls a 54 percent

share of the global outsize market,operating a fleet of 10 AN-124-100aircraft. It took delivery last year ofits tenth, a new-build providing a 30percent increase in payload that

takes the aircraft’s lift ca-pability up to 150 tonnes.

A separate business project signedbetween the Russian and Ukrainiangovernments has been put in place toupgrade the rest of the Volga-DneprAN-124 fleet to a 150 tonne capabili-ty over the next five years. The newAN-124-100M-150, as the aircraft’smoniker suggests, also feature a 150-tonne payload offering.

The AN-124-100 freighter remains a species of comparativerarity, much discussed but seldom seen. That is all aboutto change with the start of an intensive production pro-gram that could see more than 60 new versions of the air-

craft built. Far from living out its dog days as an ex-Soviet militaryair-lifter, the faithful AN-124 is to be rejuvenated, reborn and re-launched as a modern commercial freighter.

A joint Russian and Ukrainian initiative will see a modernizedversion of the hulking aircraft enter into serial production at theAviastar aircraft manufacturing plant in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The key co-leadersin the project will be the aircraft’s Ukrainian originator, Antonov Design Bu-reau, and Russian cargo power Volga-Dnepr.

In the initial stages, an upgraded version, the AN-124-100M-150, will beproduced in Ulyanovsk, with the first aircraft to be rolled out in 2008. Serialproduction will commence in 2010, although with only three aircraft expect-ed to be produced each year, it will hardly be conveyor belt stuff.

But according to Gennady Pivovarov, director operations for Volga-DneprAirlines, an investment of $407 million in the Ulyanovsk production line is

Heavy LiftingNew versions of AN-124 freighters will add capacity to a growing

outsize air cargo market

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By Roger Turney


But with this sudden avalanche ofnew build capacity coming onstream, will Volga-Dnepr not effec-tively be killing its own goose by in-creasing availability, lowering ratesand even encouraging new outsizedoperators? “It will not work likethat,” says Pivovarov. “We believethe existing outsize operators, in-cluding ourselves, will quickly swal-low-up this new capacity as it comeson stream.

“We are also confident that thehuge barriers to entry to this special-ized market will preclude any new-comers.”

He confirms Volga-Dnepr will bein line to order at least five of thenew AN-124s, with options for fivemore. Fellow outsize operator PoletCargo Airlines has indicated itwould place orders for three of thenew AN-124 aircraft. As well asbreathing a new life into the AN-124, Pivovarov also expects tobreathe new commercial potentialinto the aircraft. “We are discussingthe potential of building a fire-en-gine version of the aircraft andNATO wants us to look at the possi-bility of producing a field-hospitalversion of the aircraft,” he says.

Pivovarov also notes the originalfleet of AN-124s will soon begin toreach retirement age and will need tobe progressively replaced. “The exist-ing AN-124 fleet has been designedwith a lifespan of about 24,000 flyinghours, which at an average rate of1,200 to 2,000 hours a year, will soonbe reached for many of these air-craft,” he says.

The project to re-launch the AN-124 into serial production may bebased on sound commercial judge-ment, but some question the long-term political efficacy of a joint Russ-ian-Ukrainian venture. After all, the

two states are not exactly on the bestof terms. But Pivovarov dismissessuch talk. “Let me confirm to youthat this project has been sanctionedat the highest levels and has got thepersonal backing and assurances ofboth the presidents of Russia andUkraine,” he says.

In fact, such is the confidence ofproject backers that even before theAN-124-100M-150 has flown its firstair mile plans have already been initi-ated for a next generation.

The follow-up AN-124-300 is setto be rolled out in 2018, with serialproduction slated to begin in 2020at a rate of three aircraft a year. Thisultimate version of the aircraft, it isenvisioned, will for the first time fea-ture an aircraft fully-loaded withWestern engines and avionics, al-though it is likely the payload willnot reach much above the current150 tonnes.

Big LogisticsBesides getting into serial produc-

tion of the AN-124, Volga-Dnepr alsowants to get into serial contracting ofthe aircraft.

According to Tony Bauckham,managing director of Volga-DneprAirlines UK, the outsize market re-mains firmly fixed in the ad hoc stateof mind. “We want to shift that per-ception and build up a more regularflow of long term contract work,” saysBauckham. “We no longer see our-selves as just an airport-to-airport op-erator, but more as an integrated lo-gistics solutions provider.”

Volga-Dnepr claims a 30 percentshare of the existing long-termheavylift and outsize contract mar-ket. “We are now beginning to seethe first effects of a more concertedeffort on our part to drive the market

in that direction,” says Bauckham.The carrier expects to sign a con-

tract with Boeing to fly parts be-tween Japan and Seattle for produc-tion of the new 787 aircraft. The pro-duction run could use the resourcesof up to four of Volga-Dnepr’s AN-124s. If Airbus sets up offshore pro-duction in China, Bauckham sug-gests a similar contract could be setup with the European aircraft manu-facturer. And the delay in producinga new European military heavyfreighter is also expected to mean thebreach will be filled with ex-Sovietmilitary capacity.

“You can see now where our ca-pacity is beginning to be eaten-up,”says Bauckham. “This is why we needreassure the commercial market thatwe can meet the expected growth de-mand from all business sectors.“

… Briefly

Cargo traffic for European air car-riers grew 2.1 percent in Octoberand for the first 10 months of 2005.But almost all the growth came onFar East routes, where the Associa-tion of European Airlines saidfreight traffic grew 5.4 percent inOctober and 5.2 percent in the Janu-ary-October period. … TNT Ex-press is opening a station at Al Ainin the United Arab Emirates and ex-panding facilities in Abu Dhabi in a$810,000 investment in larger opera-tions in the Gulf region. The expan-sion includes new connections forTNT’s Middle East Road Network. …Cargo tonnage on freighters at Ams-terdam Airport Schiphol fell 4.1percent in October, the secondstraight monthly decline in the all-cargo business at the key Europeangateway. Schiphol’s overall volumewas down 0.7 percent for the month


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but up 2.5 percent in the first 10months of the year. … Cargoluxtook delivery of its 14th 747-400freighter. … Virgin Atlantic Car-go appointed GSA Internationalas its general sales agent in the Re-public of Ireland. … Cargo traffic atBrussels International Airportgrew 11.9 percent in October,sharply up from previous months,and tonnage was up 5.7 percent inthe first 10 months of 2005. … Eti-had Crystal Cargo named Air-line Cargo Resources as its salesagent in South Africa for newfreighter flights to Johannesburg andsaid it is considering expanding thetwice-weekly service. ... Amsterdam-

based Atrax International Logis-tics joined the Bellville Rodairgroup of forwarders. Marc Stroosmaremained head of the business, re-named Bellville Rodair Interna-tional. ... Cargo traffic at BritishAirways fell 1.9 percent in Novem-ber and was down 1.9 percent in theperiod from April to November. ...Kuehne + Nagel won a contract tohandle global export logistics fromEurope for United Biscuits. … RoyalJordanian Airlines started twice-weekly service between Amman andMilan. … Ghana InternationalAirlines appointed Macair Cargoas its cargo general sales agent forLondon-Accra passenger service and

said it planned to upgrade capacityfrom a 757 to a 767. … General salesrepresentative Aviareps says itsturnover in the six months endingSept. 30 grew 65 percent over thesame period the year before. … Nor-way Post bought temperature-con-trolled logistics specialist Frigoscan-dia. … General sales agent IAM han-dled more than a million kilos offreight in September, the first time ithas broken that figure in a singlemonth. … Eastern Air Cargo, a re-gional freight service owned by theCentral German Airports Group,named Sky-XS Aircargo Net-work as its general sales agent inAustria and Eastern Europe. ■


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system seven days before it came intoaction, he noted. Nor was it helpfulthat the system was unleashed duringthe peak season, leaving little slack insupply chains to adjust.

According to McNamara, customshad been deaf to all suggestions andwarnings from the industry when thesystem was devised and introduced,making it what the logistics industrysays is a model for how not to roll outnew systems and what is certainly anexample of the gap between govern-ment action and commercial execu-tion. “The whole thing was put to-gether by bureaucrats more interestedin building a monument to their egosthan developing a working system,”he said. “It’s about five times morecomplicated than what we had be-fore, and it doesn’t do any more.”

Clearing BacklogsThe shiny new set-up, whose

price tag ballooned from the origi-nal $26 million bud-get tabled four yearsago to $165 million

at implementation, takes in andmatches data from the various linksin the transportation chain (for-warder, carrier, customs broker,etc.), each having to complete some28 to 30 data fields.

Any discrepancy – even by one digit– between those entries causes the sys-

Australia has some world-famous, awe-inspiring sights –natural phenomena like the Great Barrier Reef and Ulu-ru (or Ayer’s Rock, as the monolith in the Outback usedto be called) as well as man-made wonders like Syd-

ney’s opera house. And then there is the the Australian CustomsService’s new Integrated Cargo System, which may not be quite aswell known outside the world of cargo but certainly has packed alot more punch in its young life than Sydney’s tem-ple to Verdi and Wagner.

Against the urgings Australia’s international trading indus-try, which had pleaded for a phased introduction to weed out the bugs, cus-toms rolled out its gleaming new set-up in one fell swoop Oct. 12 and nearlybrought imports to a complete standstill. Sydney’s container port was likelyone day away from grinding to a halt because it couldn’t take any morefreight, and the airport fared not much better, said Peter McNamara, manag-ing director of air freight wholesaler AMI and chairman of the Australian Fed-eration of International Forwarders until last year.

It did not help that customs released the software requirements for the new

Australian StandstillAustralia’s customs overhaul has been a model for the world,

but hardly the model forwarders had in mind

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By Ian Putzger


tem to reject the consignment, whichmeans the shipment is held at the air-port or port until the mistake hasbeen corrected, which can take days.

Predictably, handling facilitiesfilled up rapidly with stranded ship-ments waiting for clearance.

By some estimates, it may take un-til January or even February to clearthe backlogs, although McNamarabelieves many forwarders were ontop of their import traffic by earlyDecember. Cargo agents and customsbrokers regularly clocked up 65-hourworking weeks since mid-October.

Richard Dexter, a director of Mel-bourne-based forwarder Bluefreight,reported his company had to hireadditional staff and work longerhours to keep up with traffic. “Ittakes four hours to do what wecould do in 10 minutes for customsclearance,” he said.

“Customs brokers were left out ona limb when the system crashed butonly following the disaster did Cus-toms boost the system’s capacity,”the company said in a statement.

“So what should have been a bigjump forward for customs clearanceprocedures in Australia has sent lo-gistics companies back to manualclearances, a huge step in the wrongdirection.”

‘Beat-Up’Customs top brass have not dis-

cussed the issue with the press, hav-ing earlier characterized the whole af-fair as a “media beat-up.”

A statement the authority releasedin November was cited in local reportsas blaming users for the problems.

Combined pressure on the govern-ment from logistics companies andimporters has since led to the estab-lishment of a joint committee of rep-

resentatives from industry and cus-toms with a mandate to identifyproblems and find solutions forthem. Customs has even indicated itwill consider claims for compensa-tion for overtime storage while ship-ments are held up, providedclaimants can show that the agencywas the source of the delay.

McNamara is not inclined tospend time on such efforts, figuringthat the time and cost involvedwould probably exceed the amountAMI might recover. Which is not tosay that the costs for forwarders havebeen negligible.

“Our direct cost from this is gettingclose to ($75,000), and we’re not ahuge company. For some bigger com-panies, this is a huge disaster,” he said.Importers see no reason why theyshould pay for the extra work, he said.

… Briefly

Freight traffic for Asian airlinesgrew 1.9 percent in October, accord-ing to the Association of Asia-Pa-cific Airlines, and was up 3.2 per-cent in the first 10 months of 2005on a 5.3 percent gain in capacity. …China and Singapore signed a newair services treaty that lifts restric-tions on capacity, routing and air-craft type. … Singapore’s industrialproduction jumped 17.6 percent inOctober … The Chinese governmentapproved applications of ShanghaiAirlines and Yangtze River Ex-press to start freighter services be-tween Shanghai and Los Angelesthrough Anchorage. … Japan-basedKintetsu World Express said itwill expand its network in Vietnamfurther after opening an office inHanoi last month, its third in thecountry. … Freight tonnage at Sin-gapore Changi Airport was up

5.5 percent in October and 2.4 per-cent for the first 10 months of 2005.… DHL will spend $110 million todouble the capacity of its expresshub at Hong Kong InternationalAirport. … Japan Airlines joinedthe Oneworld passenger airline al-liance. … Hong Kong Interna-tional Airport began airfield en-hancements to accommodate theA380 aircraft. … Varig BrazilianAirways is ending its service fromRio de Janeiro to Tokyo through LosAngeles. … Singapore-based Maple-tree Logistics Trust Manage-ment will buy the Ouluo LogisticsCenter near Shanghai Pudong In-ternational Airport for US$14.8million. … DGX, sister company toDHX-Dependable Hawaiian Ex-press, opened its first full-service of-fice in China, a Shanghai station thatwill be run by Simon Su. … Drago-nair’s cargo traffic measured intonne-kilometers performed grew15.2 percent in October but tonnagefell 0.1 percent as intra-Asia business,particularly trade with Japan, laggedbehind expectations. … The Centrefor Asia-Pacific Aviation consul-tancy named Dragonair its cargoairline of the year for the region, cit-ing the Hong Kong carrier’s “prudentnetwork capacity decisions,” andEmirates the overall airline of theyear. … Yangtze River ExpressAirlines became the first cargo air-line from China to launch scheduledservices at Singapore’s Changi Airportwhen it commenced 12 weekly flightsfrom Shanghai via Nanning. … IJSGlobal’s new Hong Kong-based airand ocean forwarding subsidiary, IJSGlobal China, plans to establish na-tionwide operations across China af-ter receiving a “Class A” freight for-warding license from the Beijing gov-ernment. ■


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Handling companies don’t usuallyrun trucks inside their warehouses,after all, but Hong Kong Air CargoTerminal did not let that get in theway of offering trucking services aspart of its service portfolio.

Commanding some 80 percent ofthe cargo volume that movesthrough Hong Kong InternationalAirport, it is not surprising thatHACTL felt compelled to establishlinks to the markets in the Pearl Riv-

er Delta to prevent a migration of airfreight from Hong Kong to other air-ports in the region.

From the moment the first truckrolled across the border, HACTLmanagement has never looked back.

This past year, its wholly-ownedsubsidiary Hong Kong Air Cargo In-dustry Services launched a scheduledroad service to Dongguan, whichmarked the seventh point in Chinathat the outfit serves by truck.

Like handlers around the world,HACTL is looking to protect its busi-ness and even grow. But the impactof such moves are rippling across theindustry as forwarders and airlinesare finding that the stopping pointat the airport, once seemingly a hur-dle to be overcome, can become aseamless part of a service chain.

Trucking has also become part ofthe menu offered by a growing

number of handling agents aroundthe world.

Outfits such as Swissport andServisair have been operating sched-


Airlines for years have looked at ground handlers aslevers to squeeze cost out of their cargo opera-tions. The handlers themselves, however, haveother plans. Increasingly looking to spread theirservices in new directions, the operators at air-ports are breaking through the fence and redefin-ing their role in the expedited supply chain.

Some are doing it by going global and many are findingnew business paths by becoming virtual transportationcompanies themselves, forging new possibilities for ship-

pers and forwarders and allowing airlines to push their own services beyondthe airport-to-airport world.

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uled trucking networks in Europe forsome time now. In the UnitedStates, companies such as AircraftService International Group orAeroground have well-establishedtrucking networks in place.

For Swissport, the main focus ofthis activity so far has been on Ger-many, France and the United King-dom, chiefly for Asian carriers.

“If you want to offer handlingthere (in some European markets),you need to offer trucking,” ob-served David Harman, vice presidentof cargo for Europe, the Middle Eastand Africa of Swissport. This is typi-cally done through subcontractingwith scheduled truck operators.

“More and more customers areasking for seamless service, especial-

ly for import distribution. Exportsseems to be more in the hands ofGSAs,” Harman said.

Swissport is looking to expand itstrucking activities. Eastern Europeand Scandinavia are likely targets,Harman revealed. “Pan-European dis-tribution would be a logical step, pro-vided you get critical mass,” he said.

But for HACTL, the service does-n’t end with trucking.

The handler also advises clientsthat its staff can break down incom-ing cargo and re-label the individualshipments for collection. And it of-fers customs clearance as part of itstransborder trucking activities, anactivity that is normally covered byforwarders or customs brokers.

However, Harman has reservations

about getting into customs clearanceother than for personal effects,which is done at most Swissport sta-tions. He does not want to encroachon the domain of forwarders, whomhe regards as customers.

Increasingly, Swissport has been ap-proached by cargo agents to providewarehousing. Harman notes in Franceand Germany groups of forwardersare seeking to reduce costs by farm-ing out their on-airport warehousing.

The broadening scope of activi-ties that handlers are prepared

to take on is reflected in their infor-mation technology investments insystems that extend well beyondcore warehouse and build-up/break-bulk functions.

In the main, this is driven by air-lines’ desire to draw handling intotheir performance measurement andservice level initiatives and the needto ensure seamless data flow for op-erational as well as regulatory re-quirements, such as security regula-tions and customs links.

Servisair is rolling out a freightmanagement system in North Amer-ica that interfaces with customs to

New strategies at cargo handlers aretaking services beyond the fence,turning a chokepoint for freight intoan integral part of the supply chain


meet government security require-ments and has an alert function forcargo from unknown or infrequentshippers. Equipped with a host offunctions, such as a billing module,the set-up can be tailored to fit indi-vidual service level agreements, saidKerry Galegher, vice president of car-go for the Americas.

He hopes to have the rolloutacross North America completed bythe summer. Servisair now providesfreight handling at six American air-ports and is looking to expand itsNorth American footprint. Vancou-ver, Toronto and New York’sKennedy Airport are under consider-ation, as are airports in Mexico.

After launching its new cargo sys-tem in Canada and Europe, Swiss-port is rolling it out in the U.S.,starting with Chicago.

In line with carrier requirements,the system is Cargo 2000 compliantand allows airlines to pick betweenfour and eight measuring points inthe process. As defined event dead-

lines approach, alerts are triggeredautomatically to alert staff that itmay be necessary to allocate addi-tional resources to the task in ques-tion in order to avoid delays.

“The idea is to alert staff of anevent before you run into a poten-tial failure,” said Christian Saaner,regional operations manager for Eu-rope, the Middle East and Africa.

Last year Swissport introduced anInternet-based tracking tool fed byEDI messages to enable airline cus-tomers to track traffic through thehandler’s system.

EDI messages are also used fortracing shipments that move bytruck between Swissport stations atdifferent airports. This type of trafficconstitutes the bulk of the handler’strucking activities in Europe, but in-creasingly Swissport is asked to de-liver the cargo to the final con-signee, provided the consignee has abonded warehouse.

“We’re also taking over classicalfunctions like booking, loading,

planning,” Harman said. This allowsthe handler to treat trucks as flightsand provide a seamless service. “Itsaves the airlines cost. They don’thave to open a bond.”

Just as they reach down the sup-ply chain toward the consignee,

handlers can also extend their activi-ties in the opposite direction.

Servisair’s portfolio includes cargosales. “We can manage the cargoproduct for a carrier to the pointwhere we become a virtual cargo di-vision for them,” said Galegher.

Although legacy carriers are inter-ested in outsourcing a greateramount of activities than in the past,the prime airline candidates for suchan approach would be budget pas-senger airlines, he said. To date, bud-get airlines in North America havenot embraced this philosophy, butsome of their European counterpartshave farmed out their entire cargooperations and he believes U.S. play-ers will eventually follow suit.

“The time has come to look at anall-inclusive product. We’re willingto listen to anything that a customerwould bring to the table. If we don’ttake a hard look at this, we mightmiss some opportunities,” he said.

Servisair is not likely to rush at anysuch opening, however. Mindful of




possible concerns from airline cus-tomers that their handler could com-pete with them, Galegher said, “It hasto be the right opportunity and theright carrier; there has to be confiden-tiality, and there has to be trust.”

For the legacy carriers, cost con-siderations have been the chief en-gine driving their move to outsourcemore work to handling agents. Butthat also can carry peril.

Faced with an inexorable rise ofred ink, the idea of farming out itscargo handling looked vastly appeal-ing to United Airlines Cargo back in2003. Management figured that giv-ing the handling at its major sta-tions to third-party operators couldreduce its costs by $100 million. Theairline ultimately reached that goal,but the road proved rockier than ex-pected. Initial performance prob-lems caused an exodus of customers,so UAL was forced to spend a lot

more energy on quality levels thanhad been anticipated.

Today, the airlines are still facingheavy financial pressure, but the

way they eye their handling agentshas shifted from cost reduction to amix of lower spending and addition-al services which can attain betterquality levels.

“I believe the legacy carriers arecoming to the realization that ifthey want profitability, they have topay for product quality,” said DaveSummers, director of cargo opera-tions for the Americas of Servisair.

All of this is a far cry from thedays when the local or regionalmanager of an airline would pickhandling agents for individual sta-tions. “We do see a trend towardsmore professional procurementprocesses at the airlines. Increasinglythey have buying teams that look af-

ter these matters,” Harman said.The alignment at head office level

is also reflected in the growing num-ber of multi-station or corporatehandling agreements.

Besides leveraging an airline’s vol-umes, this can open the door to moreforward-looking undertakings. Swiss-port recently signed a joint venturedeal with AirBridge Cargo and KrasAirto develop a cargo hub in Krasno-yarsk. Air Bridge is using the Siberianairport as a transfer point for cargofrom Europe and China to Sakhalinand intends to mount freighter ser-vice from Krasnoyarsk to the US.

“We committed to supporting Air-Bridge and KrasAir to develop a hubto international standards. Everything— from EDI messaging to loadingtimes and security aspects — will bethe same as in Anchorage, orHeathrow or wherever,” said Harman.

In the initial phase, the handlersupports the existing infrastructure,provides equipment and improvesprocesses and IT.

At the same time, it is involved inthe design and development of a hubnew facility that will replace the exist-ing structure used by KrasAir and beable to handle AirBridge’s 747s. ■


The time has come to look at an all-inclusive product. We’re willingto listen to anything that a customer would bring to the table.


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Aeroflot Cargo’s freighter activi-ties suffered a serious setback threeyears ago when its fleet of eight IL-76 freighters became unwelcome inEurope and the rest of the Westernworld. The older planes became vic-tims of the International Civil Avia-

tion Organization’s new Chapter111 noise restrictions. Even thoughthe Russian carrier had been serveddue notice of the impending fate ofits entire freighter fleet, it was un-able to find immediate replacementcapacity.

Oleg Korolev, the carrier’s region-al cargo manager Europe, admitsthere was an uncomfortable hiatusin freighter activities for the airline.

“It was not as easy as it mightsound to go out and suddenly re-place an entire freighter fleet, partic-ularly when you knew what sort ofcapacity you were looking for,” hesays. Aeroflot was looking, for thefirst time, at Western built capacityand, in particular, for DC-10freighters.

With no ready-made optionsavailable, the airline went the con-version route and brought in ex-pas-senger capacity with four DC-10-40converted freighters. Today, thoseplanes provide the backbone of

Region Focus:Russia

Evidence that Russia is becoming a force in scheduled aircargo services comes from the expedited growth of rivalsAeroflot and AirBridge Cargo. Both carriers are developingoperations that aim to conform to the highest Western stan-dards and freight is at the heart of the effort. Aeroflot hasupgraded its freighter fleet and established a European hub,while start-up AirBridge is preparing to launch freighterflights between the U.S. and China via Russia.

Both carriers are taking great efforts to demonstrate that Russian air-lines can operate with modern efficiency in air freight sectors beyond

the outsize arena for which the country is so well known in the cargo world.

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Aeroflot’s rejuvenated freighter fleet,which has also served as the driverto bring the airline’s entire cargo op-eration up to Western standards.

One of the most significant movesin that endeavor was to shift the fo-cus of the carrier’s cargo businessaway from the “old practices” of Mos-cow and create a new hub in WesternEurope. After a brief stopover in Lux-embourg, that hub has now firmlybeen established at Frankfurt-Hahn,the ex-U.S. military base on thedoorstep of mighty Frankfurt Airport,give or take an hour’s trucking.

“Hahn has proved ideal for us,”says Korolev. “There are no night-time restrictions so we have completefreedom of operation, which is im-portant to us. Before we would havefreighters sitting in Moscow waitingfor the European airports to open.”

Korolev says it means the airline

can also work its DC-10 freighters allthe harder. “We can implement amuch more intensive operation withthe aircraft, achieving an average ofmore than 12 hours flying time aday,” he explains.

The airline operates 14 freighterflights a week out of Hahn, first toits “secondary” hub of Moscow


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Sheremetyevo, but more important-ly, beyond to China and Japan, withBeijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong andTokyo the key points served.

Not that Moscow is by any meansa tech stop. “We have a trucking op-eration which feeds into Hahn fromacross Europe,” says Korolev. “This isall traffic destined for Moscow andthe Russian market.”

Such is the strength of AeroflotCargo on the route that it can nowclaim a 72 percent share of all trafficmoving between Germany and Rus-sia. Much of Aeroflot Cargo’s capaci-ty is sold on the basis of block spaceagreements.

“We have some very strong agree-ments in place with major serviceproviders such as Schenker, Kuehne& Nagel and Nippon Express, whichI believe reflects the high standardof service we are now able to provideour customers,” says Korolev.

Aeroflot Cargo has managed torecover and rejuvenate its busi-ness to Western standards in

very short order, but now faces thedilemma of where to go from here.“In some respects we have been toosuccessful,” says Korolev. “We arequickly running out of lift and theability to provide our customerswith the capacity they want.”

That means Aeroflot Cargo findsitself back where it was four yearsago, urgently in need of suitablefreighter capacity. In this case it is amatter of upgrading from DC-10freighters to MD-11 freighters.

“Again, we know exactly what weare looking for in terms of specifica-tions,” says Korolev. “But unfortu-nately you cannot turn on the tapjust like that. We have had to lookat converting passenger aircraftagain, so even after purchase there is

a further delay in order to negotiateconversion slots with Boeing.”

But Aeroflot believes it has solvedthe problem, and Korolev says thecarrier will take delivery of its firstMD-11 freighter conversion in thenext few months. “From that pointon we plan to progressively replacethe entire DC-10F fleet to the extentthat by 2008 we will be operatingeight MD-11Fs,” he says.

Not that the airline has complete-ly turned its back on the use of homegrown lift.

Becoming more wily in its West-ern ways, the airline has spotted thatDHL is using three TU-204 freighterson nightly rotations between Brus-sels and Moscow. “These aircraft areflown at night and then sit aroundall day doing nothing,” says Korolev.“We have now negotiated a separate

deal with Russian aircraft manufac-turer Aviastar-Tu to make use ofthese freighters during the day.”

According to Korolev, the 27-tonne capacity freighters will beused mainly to serve the Siberian oilfield business.

But those Russian planes notwith-standing, Aeroflot Airlines is increas-ingly taking a more global approach.The passenger side of the airline willformerly join the SkyTeam alliancelater this year. However, that doesnot necessarily mean Aeroflot Cargowill also walk up the alliance aisle atthe same time.

“We are not so sure that we needto join the SkyTeam Cargo allianceand are certainly not obliged to justbecause the mother airline is join-ing,” says Korolev. “At AeroflotCargo we would rather look at bi-lateral agreements and from thatpoint of view carriers such asBritish Airways World Cargo mightbe the preferred choice.”

Besides, he adds, why try and fixsomething which is pretty muchfixed. SkyTeam Cargo leading playerAir France Cargo has a major truck-ing hub at Hahn and as such neigh-bors Aeroflot Cargo at the airport.

“We have developed quite a closeworking relationship with Air FranceCargo at Hahn,“ says Korolev. “Theytruck a lot of North American andother traffic from Paris to Hahn toconnect with our Moscow services.So who needs an alliance to do whatwe are already doing very well?”

Growing proof that Aeroflot Car-go is very much in charge of its owndestiny comes with the confirma-tion that the airline’s cargo divisionhas recently been granted indepen-dence from the parent airline.

“We will not become a separatecompany, but we will be a recog-


Region Focus:Russia

“We have some verystrong agreements in

place with major serviceproviders such as

Schenker, Kuehne & Nageland Nippon Express,

which I believe reflects thehigh standard of service

we are now able toprovide our customers.”

“We have some verystrong agreements in

place with major serviceproviders such as

Schenker, Kuehne & Nageland Nippon Express,

which I believe reflects thehigh standard of service

we are now able toprovide our customers.”

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nized self-controlled subsidiary ofAeroflot Airlines,” says Korolev.

“This will enable us to make ourown decisions regarding product de-velopment, aircraft operations andin general become much more flexi-ble and responsive in our approachto the air freight market.”

But, unlike just a couple of yearsago, Aeroflot Cargo faces com-petition in its home market.

AirBridge Cargo, Russia’s first sched-uled all-cargo carrier, has grown instrides in just its first 18 months ofoperation.

Having just taken delivery of itsthird 747 freighter, AirBridge is hoton the trail of a fourth aircraft andhas even bigger fleet plans on thehorizon.

Stan Wraight, in his role of vicepresident of scheduled services forVolga-Dnepr, the parent of the Russ-ian start-up, is confident he has adeal in the bag.

“We expect to take delivery of thefourth aircraft in March at whichtime it will enable us to start servicebetween the U.S.-Russia-China forthe first time,” says the Canadian-born executive. “The aircraft will op-erate across the North Atlantic to acombination of Atlanta and/orHouston to service the oil market,with additional service to NewYork,” he confirms.

Ideally, AirBridge would want toserve the United States via the quick-est route possible over the NorthPole, but that will not happen untilOctober 2007 at the earliest. That iswhen the airline will take delivery ofthe first of two new-build 747-400ERfreighters, with a second coming inFebruary 2008.

“Only at that time will we havethe range capability to take on such

a long haul,” says Wraight. “But itdoes mean that at that time we willbe able to offer the quickest routebetween the U.S. and China, withtypically a timing of just 14 hoursbetween Shanghai and New York.”

At about the same time, AirBridgewill take delivery of its first Russiannew builds in the form of two IL-96freighters — an aircraft akin to theMD-11, with an equivalent tonnageto fill in long-haul routes. The air-line is also considering options onanother Russian aircraft — thefreighter version of the TU-204, oth-erwise known as the 757 look-alike.

In the meantime, Wraight is notoverly concerned about servicesacross the North Atlantic. “These willdovetail neatly with our current oper-ations out of Frankfurt, for which wewill have full traffic rights on theNorth Atlantic,“ he says.

As well as oil-related traffic,

Wraight is expecting a strong flow ofAmerican goods into the Russianmarket. On the return sector, Air-Bridge will probably look to bringback traffic from Europe. He says healready has a deal penciled in with amajor forwarder to take up most ofthe U.S.-bound space.

The airline, with its third 747-200freighter in place, operates dailyflights out of Frankfurt and fourtimes a week from Amsterdam withnine flights operating to Shanghaiand three to Beijing.

AirBridge adopts a policy of sellingby block space agreements out ofChina, but out of Europe tends towork on general tonnage agree-ments.“We have established strongrelationships with the major serviceproviders in the market,” saysWraight. “We are happy to work themarket anyway they want to play it.”

Certainly, the airline appears to bewinning general market approval forits business approach. “I just heardthat we are among the top three car-riers into Europe out of Beijing andin the top five out of Shanghai,” saysWraight. “That is not bad for an air-line that is just 18 months old. Andmore to the point, it looks like weare going to end this year in profit.That is not bad going for a start-up.”

A number of the China flights op-erate via AirBridge’s chosen secondRussian hub of Krasnoyarsk. Wraightdescribes the Siberian port of call as astep towards establishing a system ofhubs across the Russian Federation.Importantly, Krasnoyarsk is onlyabout two hours flying time fromsecondary points in China. AirBridge,working with ground handling part-ner Swissport International and localcarrier Kras Air, is building a 21,600-square-foot cargo handling facility atKrasnoyarsk


Region Focus:Russia

“There is plenty of cashand the Russian

consumers not only want to buy the latest

Western goods, they alsowant the other trappingsof Western consumerism

like fruit, vegetables and fresh flowers flown in

year round.”

“There is plenty of cashand the Russian

consumers not only want to buy the latest

Western goods, they alsowant the other trappingsof Western consumerism

like fruit, vegetables and fresh flowers flown in

year round.”


“We are now exam-ining the potential ofoperating regionalfreighter services intoChina from Krasno-yarsk,” says Wraight.To that end, he hasadded an Airbus A300-B4 freighter to hisshopping list for pur-chase any time soon.

Bountiful thoughthe China marketmay be to Air-

Bridge, the carrier iskeenly aware of thedanger of becoming aone-trick pony.

“What happens whenwe hit Chinese New Year?”says Wraight. “There issure not a lot going to behappening.“

To diversify its port-folio, the Russianfreight carrier recentlysigned an agreementwith Japan’s NipponCargo Airlines, whichwill jointly market ca-pacity on two 747freighter flights a weekbetween Nagoya andEurope via AirBridge’sKrasnoyarsk hub.

“NCA is a class act. Ihave been a closefriend of TakuroUchiyama, president ofNCA, for many years now,” saysWraight, referring back to his to histime with KLM Cargo when a simi-lar deal was struck with the Dutchcarrier.

“We see these kinds of bilateraldeals with major cargo carriers as theway forward and are certainly the

way we want to expand our portfo-lio,” he said.

At the moment AirBridge also hasinterline deals over Amsterdam withKalitta Air and Martinair and withAir Canada over Frankfurt. WithAmsterdam and Frankfurt now firm-ly established as the key European

hubs, after a short-livedtryst with Luxembourg,Wraight says the plannow is to add a thirdorigin and destinationpoint in Europe thisyear, although this willnot become a third hubfor the carrier.

In the meantime, theonly real difficulty Air-Bridge continues to ex-perience is in its ownbackyard at its homebase of Moscow’sSheremetyevo airport.Originally, the airlinestarted operating out ofMoscow’s other airport,Dormodedovo, but for-warder pressure per-suaded the airline toshift across town toSheremetyevo

“There are still han-dling issues at Shreme-tyevo which do notmake conditions ideal,“says Wraight, steppinggingerly. “But we areworking round themthe best we can and thesituation is improvingslowly, but surely.”

But an ebullient Russ-ian market helps easethe pain. “Right now wehave a consumer marketin Russia which is in fullcry,” says Wraight.

“There is plenty of cash and theRussian consumers not only want tobuy the latest Western goods, theyalso want the other trappings ofWestern consumerism like fruit, veg-etables and fresh flowers flown inyear round. We can’t get the stuff tothem quick enough.” ■


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Aeroflot Cargo is making great strides in its effortsto modernize and has expanded its reach by es-tablishing a hub at a former U.S. military air basein Germany. The airline speaks glowingly ofFrankfurt-Hahn Airport and plans to expand itsoperations there.

There is, however, one fly in the ointment. Or,as it were, one small bat in the ointment.

Hahn has proved an ideal European location for thecarrier in every respect, except for the amount of con-crete the U.S. military poured when it first built the air-field. The runway length of just over 9,900 feet puts a re-striction on Aeroflot flying out with a fully loaded DC-10 freighter. Runway length could be even more limitingwhen the airline launches planned MD-11 freighterflights at the airport.

Aeroflot wants all the concrete it can get at Hahn orits moves at ramping up capacity will be pointless.

Aeroflot Cargo is Hahn’s most important cargo cus-tomer so the airport was eager to add runway length. In-deed, it is now adding an extra 800 meters to the air-port’s main runway, which is expected be ready in plen-ty of time for the arrival of Aeroflot Cargo’s first MD-11freighter.

The final hurdle preventing runway expansion wascleared recently with an out-of-court settlement betweenFrankfurt-Hahn Airport and the German nature conser-vation association NABU, which had opposed lengthen-ing the main runway and filed a lawsuit against the air-port’s operators.

The organization claimed the expansion would in-fringe upon the habitat of barbastelle bats that maketheir home near the airport. The airport authority hasagreed to take “contingency measures” as part of the ex-pansion that the conservation group says will help topreserve the bats’ habitat. ■

Batty Expansion


2006Air Cargo World Corporate Outlook

World Airways

January 2006

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Company MissionTo meet our customers’ needs, while continually striving to improve our performance.

A Committment to ExpansionThis past year has been an exciting and profitable one for World Airways and World AirHoldings. World Airways is in the position of having its entire cargo aircraft fleet placed onlong-term ACMI contracts with world-class customers. We have also committed toexpanding our cargo fleet by one additional MD-11F. This aircraft will join our cargo fleetduring the second or third quarter of 2006.

Another milestone that occurred this year was World Air Holdings Inc.’s purchase of NorthAmerican Airlines, an operator of B-757 and B-767-300 passenger aircraft. As a result,World Airways and North American Airlines Inc. are now sister companies, each with itsown chief operating officer, functioning under the general management of World AirHoldings.

We are looking forward to the next year as being just as equally (if not more) challengingand exciting as it was in 2005. We continue our search for new ways to expand our cargooperations with additional aircraft, new and/or repeat customers, new markets and newequipment types.

We feel strongly that the worldwide cargo market will continue to grow, and there will be acontinuing demand from carriers and other customers around the world for our services.Looking back on our 58 years-plus history of continuous service is the validation of the highlevel of customer service World Airways provides its customers, and we are particularlyproud of our repeat customers that remain with us each year.

Contact Info

World Airways Inc.101 World DrivePeachtree City, GA 30269Tel: (770) 632-8316E-mail: [email protected] site: www.worldairways.com

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World Air Holdings Inc.

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ABX AIR 145 Hunter Drive, Wilmington, OH 45177. Phone: 937-382-5591; Fax: 937-382-0896 E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. abxair.com Contact: Beth Huber. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Fleet: 767 (23), DC-8 (18), DC-9 (74). Comments: ABX Air is an FAA-certi-fied repair station able to provide contractmaintenance for airlines.

AER LINGUS CARGOCargo Terminal 1, Dublin Airport, Dublin, Ireland.Phone: +353 1-886-2974. Fax: +353 1-886-3876.E-Mail: [email protected]: Robert Bullock, Cargo ManagerU.S.: 538 Broadhollow Road, Melville, NY 11747.Phone: 631-577-5675. Fax: 631-577-5683.E-Mail: [email protected]: William Mercado, Cargo SalesManager, N/ARoutes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America. (Through) Europe.Door-to-Door Service: NoNon-Scheduled Charter: NoSpecial Services: One World AllianceFleet: Passenger A320, A321, A330 (Total 32)

AEROFLOT - RUSSIAN INT’L AIRLINES 37/9, Leningradsky Prospect., Moscow4411969 Russia. Phone: +7 095 578 7940 or +7 095 737 6060 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. aeroflot.ru U.S.: 1384 Broadway, New York, NY 10018.Phone: 212-944-2300; Fax: 212-944-5200 Contact: Sergey Gudkov, Cargo Mgr . Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Indian/Subconti-nent, Middle East, North America, Russia/CIS, Southeast Asia (Through) Europe,Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No Non-Scheduled Charter Service: YesFleet: Freighters: IL-76 & DC-10 (total 14).Passenger: IL-86, IL-96, 767, A319, A320, TU-154 (total 67).

AEROMEXPRESS Av. Texcoco S/N Esq Av. Tahel, Col. Penonde los Banos, Mexico City, DF 15620, Mexico Phone: +5 133 0265; Fax: +5 133 0232 Contact:Ing. Alberto Gomez Obregon, President. U.S.: 222 N. Sepulveda, Suite 1755, El Se-gundo, CA 90245. Phone: 310-662-1960; Fax:310-662-1964 Contact: Steve Connolly, VicePresident, Cargo. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)

South America, Mexico; (Through) Caribbean,Europe, Pacific Rim. Door-to-Door Service:No. Fleet: Freighters: 727-200 (1). Comments: Member SkyTeam Cargo.

AIR CANADA 5100 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, PQH4A 3T2, Canada. Phone: 514-205-7115; Fax: 514-205-7158 Contact: Claude Morin, President & CEO/ACCargo. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. aircanadacargo.com U.S.: O’Hare Int’l Airport, Building 515B,Chicago, IL 60666. Phone: 773-686-3622; Fax:773-686-0424 Contact: Steven Gibbs. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Indian/Sub-continent-Del, Middle East, North & SouthAmerica, Pacific Rim. Door-to-Door Service: Yes, Canada, U.S. &FRA. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: AC Priority, ACAirfreight & AC Express Int’l.

AIR CHINA CARGO No. 46, Xiaoyun Road, Beijing 100027,People’s Republic of China. Phone: +86 10 8448 0053; Fax: +86 108668 0053 Contact: Ms. Zhang Yue, PR Mgr.E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. airchina.com.cn U.S.: 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 427,South San Francisco, CA 94080.Phone: 650-737-0888. Fax: 650-727-0818Contact: Stephen Ma, Deputy GeneralMgr/Cargo Sls Ops.Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Japan, HKG (China).Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter Service: Yes. Total ’04 Tonnage: 64,200,000. RTK: 2.03 RBM.Fleet: Freighters: 747-400, 767-200 (Total 5);combis: 767-400 (8).Comments: Carriers with which cargo bilat-eral interline agreements are in effect are:AC, AI, BR, ER, EX, KA, NX, PK, SQ, LM, RG,AA, LX, FI, AY, JU, EK, JS, CU, BU,TX, LA,KN, KU, SA, FM, JL, JD, KE, NH, OZ.

AIR FRANCE/KLM CARGO PO Box 7700, NL-1117 ZL Schiphol, TheNetherlands.Phone: +31 20 649 4688; Fax: +31 20 648 8310 Contact: Communication Mgr.

E-Mail: [email protected] WWW.afklcargo.com U.S.: 618 S. Access Road, O’Hare Interna-tional Airport, Chicago, IL 60666. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Indian/Sub Conti-nent, Middle East, North America, PacificRim, Russia/CIS, South America, SoutheastAsia, French Polynesia (domestic) Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter:Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Equation,Variation, Dimension, Cohesion. Total ’04 Tonnage: 14,774 million ATK, 10,078million RTK. Fleet: Freighters: Air France -Boeings (81), Airbus’ (170); KLM – Boeings(95), Airbus’ (2), MD-11 (10), Fokker (51). Comments: Member Skyteam Cargo.

AIR FRANCE CARGO Batimenk Jupiter/Roissy Pole, 1 Place deLondres, BP 11201, Tremblay-en-France,Roissy CDG, France. Phone: +33 1 74379166. Fax: +33 1 48643902.Contact: J. C. Raynaud, Press Relations Officer

E-Mail: [email protected].: JFK International Airport, New York, NYPhone: 718-995-5915 Contact: J.Y. Cap, Car-go Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected] Routes Served From Home Country:(Direct)Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Indian/IndianSubcontinent, Middle East, North America,Russia/CIS, South America, Southeast Asia.(Through) Australia, Pacific Rim.Door-to-Door Service: Yes Worldwide (onrequest). Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes (onrequest). Cargo Branded Services: Equa-tion, Cohesion, Variation, Dimension. Total ’04 Tonnage: 5,452,74 tonnes.Fleet: Freighters & Passenger: Total 250.Comments: Member Skyteam Cargo.

AIR HONG KONG4/F South Tower, Cathay Pacific City, 8Scenic Road, Hong Kong Int’l Airport, Lan-tau, Hong Kong. Phone: +852 2761-8444; Fax: +852 2761-8428 Contact: Terence Tsui, Mgr/Airline Planning. E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No.Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.

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Total ’04 Tonnage: 62,239 tons RTK: 152,740,713. Total ’05 Estimated Ton-nage: 81,472 tons RTK: 193,253,642. Fleet: Freighters: A300-600 (7).

AIR INDIA Cargo Division Terminal 1, Mumbai Airport,Mumbai Phone: +91 22 615 7777; Fax: +91 22 615 6730. Contact: A. Shinde, Dy Commercial Mgr. U.S.: Cargo Bldg 86, JFK Int’l Airport, Ja-maica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-632-0132; Fax:718-244-0847 Contact: H. Rana, Cargo Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America,Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Combi: 747-300 (2); Passenger: 747-400, 747-200, A310, A300, (total 23).

AIR JAMAICA Norman Manley International Airport,Kingston, JamaicaPhone: +876 924-8796; Fax: +876 924- 8400 Contact: Simone Barnes-Loi, Mgr. Jamaica& the Caribbean. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. airjamaica.com U.S.: 1701 NW 66th Ave,, Bldg. 709, Miami,FL 33122. Phone: 305-526-2390/91; Fax: 305-871-0093 Contact: Orville Hart, Sales Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country:(Direct ): Caribbean, Europe, North America.(Through): Africa, Australia, Indian/Subcon-tinent, Middle East, South America, PacificRim, Russia/CIS, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter Service: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Fast Pak. Fleet: Freighters: 767 (1). Passenger: A340,A320, A321 (15 total).Comments: Operates logistics support, reg-ular ground handling service for freightersand ad hoc charters.

AIR NEW ZEALAND 21st Floor, Quay Towers, 29 Customs StreetWest, Auckland, New Zealand.Phone: +64 9-336-2168; Fax: +64 9 336-2982 Contact: Paul Reid, GM-Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected]

WWW. airnz.com/cargo U.S.: 1960 E. Grand Avenue, Level 9, El Se-gundo, CA 90256. Phone: 310-648-7006; Fax: 310-648-7019 Contact: Sal Sanfilippo, Reg Mgr-Cargo. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, North America, PacificRim, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes Cargo Branded Services: Express, ExpressPlus, Exclusive, Export. Fleet: Freighters: MD-11 (3 leased); Passen-ger: 747-400 (8), 767-300 (9), 767-200 (3), A320(10), 737-300 (19).

ALASKA AIRLINES PO Box 68900, Seattle, WA 98168. Phone: 800-225-2752; Fax: 206-392-2641 E-Mail: Matt Yerbic, Mng Dir/Cargo.E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Door-to-Door Service: Yes.Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Special Ser-vices: Goldstreak, Priority, General Freight.Total ’04 Tonnage: 99,737; RTK 117,348,800.Total ’05 Estimated Tonnage: 104,723; RTK:124,975,620. Fleet: Freighters, Combis, Con-vertibles: 737 (18); Passenger: 737/MD80 (107).

ALITALIA CARGO Via Alessandro Marchetti 111, Rome 00148,Italy. Phone: +39 6-6562-6604; Fax: +39 6-6562-2280 Contact: Grotti Francesco, Mktg. Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. alitaliacargo.com U.S.: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast, North America, Russia/CIS, SouthAmerica, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Special Services: A member of theSkyTeam Cargo Alliance. Cargo Branded Services: Equation, Varia-tion, Dimension, Cohesion. Fleet: Freighters:747-200 (3); Combis: MD-11 (5); Passenger:777 (6), MD-11 (3), M1M (5), 767 (13), A321(23), A320 (11), A319 (9), MD-80 (89).

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS 36th Floor, Shiodome City Center, 1-5-2, Hi-gashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7133, Japan. Phone: +81 3 6735 1920; Fax: +81 3 6735 1905 Contact: Yuji Hirose, Asst Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. ana.co.jp U.S.: Bldg 79 North Boundry Road, JFK Int’lAirport, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-632-6470; Fax: 718-632-6459 Contact: Ichiro Yamauchi, Mgr.Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Southeast Asia,East Asia (Korea, China, Taiwan). Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: PRIO Express,PRIO Freight, PRIO Cool, PRIO Sensitive. Total ’04 Tonnage: 227,341 RTK: 1,068,700,689. Fleet: Freighters: 767-300ER (1), Passenger:16 types of aircraft (Total 185). Comments: Member Star Alliance. Addingthree 767-300ER freighters 2005-2006, forplanned destinations in North America, Eastand Southeast Asia. Will establish freighteroperation company with Japan Post.

AMERICA WEST 4000 E. Sky Harbor Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85034. Phone: 480-693-8888 E-Mail: [email protected]. hpcargo.com Contact: Ron Cook, Director Cargo Sales. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Passenger: A320, A319, 757, 737.

AMERICAN AIRLINES 4255 Amon Carter Blvd., MD 4431, Dallas FtWorth Airport, TX 75165. Phone: 817-967-2421; Fax: 817-931-1159WWW. aacargo.com Contact: Mark Najarian, VP/sls & mktg.Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America, Caribbean, Europe, PacificRim, South America, Southeast Asia;


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(Through) Africa, Australia, Middle East,Russia/CIS, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast. Door-to-Door Service: AA Cargo Plusin Domestic U.S. only. Cargo Branded Services: Priority ParcelService Expedite fs, Confirmed fs. Fleet: Passenger: 777 (43), 767 (70), 737 (113),757 (115), A300 (34), MD-80 (352).

AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL 2800 S. Andrews Avenue, Ft Lauderdale, FL33323. Phone: 305-593-5500E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. amerijet.com Contact: Carlos Gonzalez, Dir of Sales. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, North & South America;(Through) Europe. Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: 727-200 (6).

ANTONOV AIRLINES 1, Tupolev Street, Kiev 03062, Ukraine.Phone: +380 4444 30018; Fax: +380 444426124 Contact: Valeriy Kulbaka, CommercialDirector. E-Mail: [email protected]. antonovaircargo.com U.S.: 1633 South Eagle Ridge Drive, Renton,WA 98055. Phone: 425-227-8075; Fax: 425-227-8076 Contact: Jim Minty, Business Dev. Dir. Routes Served From Home Country: World-wide Charter. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Freighters:AN-124-100 (8), AN-12 (3), AN-22 (1).

ARROW AIR PO Box 026062, Miami, FL 33102. Phone: 305-871-3200; Fax: 305-871-4232 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. arrowair.com Contact: John Long, VP Mktg. Sls & Svc.Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Caribbean, Europe, North & SouthAmerica, Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Freighters: DC-8-62 (8), DC-8-63 (8), L-1011 (2).

ASIANA AIRLINES Asiana Town Gang Seo, PO Box 98, Seoul157-600, KoreaPhone: +82 2 2669 5131; Fax: +82 2 2669 5130 Contact: Chul Kee, General Mgr. CargoSales Planning. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. asianacargo.com U.S.: 5758 W. Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90045. Phone: 310-642-0310; Fax: 310-642-0319Contact: Kevin Cummisky, General Mgr. Car-go Sls/Mktg. Routes Served From Home

Country: (Direct) Australia, Europe, Indian/In-dian Subcontinent, North America, Russia/CIS, Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes to Korea & North America.Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: 747 (5), 767 (1); Combis: 747(6); Passenger: 747 (2); 777 (5), A330 (1), 767(10), A321 (15), A320 (2), 737 (16).

ATA CARGO7337 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN46231. Phone: 317-282-7567; Fax: 317-282-4227.Contact: Nick Whalen, Director/Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. atacargo.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, North America, Europe, MiddleEast. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Express, General,Deferred, Charter. Fleet: Passenger: L-1011 (5), 767 (1), 757 (6),737 (20).

ATLAS AIR 2000 Westchester Avenue, Purchase, NY10577. Phone: 914-701-8400WWW. atlasair.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North & South America, PacificRim; (Through) Africa, Indian/ Subcontinent,Middle East, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: Partnership Pro-gram. Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 and 747-400.

AUSTRALIAN AIR EXPRESSCnr Grant & Service Road, Melbourne Air-port, Victoria 3043, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9241 6559; Fax: +61 3 9241 6603 Contact: Wayne Dunne, GM. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. aae.com.au U.S.: 401 N. Oak Street, Inglewood, CA90302. Phone: 310-674-8429; Fax: 310-674-9749 Contact: Ray A. Vidal, Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes between Aus-tralia/USA and within Australia. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Total

’04 Tonnage: 170,000. Cargo Branded Ser-vices: Australia and Aust Region. Fleet: Freighters: 727-200 (5), BAE-146 (3),MetroIII (4); Passenger: 767-300 (21), 767-200(7), 727-400 (22), 727-300 (16), BAE-146-200 (6). Comments: Joint Ownership by: Qantas Air-ways Ltd and Australia Post.

AUSTRIAN CARGO World Trade Center, 4th Floor, A-1300 Vien-na Airport, Vienna, Austria.Phone: +43 1 7007-65500 Contact: Franz Zoechbauer, VP Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. auacargo.com U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Cargo Area B, CargoBldg 21, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-995-2274; Fax: 718-995-5007 Contact: Peter Schleinzer, Area MgrCargo/the Americas. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Africa, Australia,Europe, Caribbean, Indian/Subcontinent,Middle East, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, South-east Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: XPS Priority,Cool/Medical, Standard, Mail.Total ’04 Tonnage: 65,129. Total ’05 Estimat-ed Tonnage: 75,000 + Fleet: Freighters: Antonov 12 (1); Passenger:Airbus A340, A320, A330, A319, 777, 767, 737,Dash/CRJ/Fokker (total 16 wide body, 82narrow body).

AVIATECA AIRLINES Ave. Incaple 12-22, Zone 13, Guatemala CityGuatemala. Phone: +502 360 5813; Fax: +502 360 5843Contact: Emilio Barrios, Cargo Dir. E-Mail: [email protected].: 1751 BW 68th Avenue, Bldg 706, Mia-mi, FL 33132. Phone: 305-871-8222; Contact: Jaime Silva, Cargo Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, North & South America, PacificRim; (Through) Africa, Indian Sub-Continent.Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: DC-8, 747, DC-10.

BLUEBIRD CARGO Building 10, Keflavik Airport PO Box 40, IS-232 Keflavik, Iceland. Phone: +354 535 4100; Fax: +354 535 4101. Contact: Skuli Skulason, Commercial Direc-tor. E-Mail: [email protected]. bluebirdcargo.com . Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe. (Through) North America. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: 737-300 (5), 757-200 (1).

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bmi BRITISH MIDLAND Donington Hall, Castle Donington, Derby,East Midlands DE74 2SB, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 208 990 7979; Fax: +44 208 9907965 Contact: Neil Vernon, Cargo Sales Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. bmicargo.com U.S.: 3 Colby Road, Port Washington, NY11050. Phone: 516-883-9382; Fax: 516-883-9595.Contact: John Ryan, Cargo Mgr-Americas. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW.bmi-cargo.com. Routes Served From HomeCountry: (Direct) Caribbean, Europe,Indian/Indian Subcontinent, Middle East andNorth America. Door-to-Door Service: No.Non-Scheduled Charter Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: 236 Cargo, 236Courier, 236 Pers and 236 Mail.Total ’04 Tonnage: 32,000.Fleet: Passenger: A330 (3), A321 (8), A320(11), A319 (6), ER4 (13).Comments: Star Alliance Member, CoolChain Member.

BRITISH AIRWAYS WORLD CARGO London Heathrow Airport, Carrus Cargo CtrPO Box 99, Hounslow Middlesex TW6 2JS,United Kingdom.Phone: +44 208 610 597. Fax: +44 208 738 4076. Contact: Andy Warwick, Sr Mgr Global Mktg. WWW. baworldcargo.com U.S.: 75-20 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights,NY 11370. Phone: 347-418-4980; Fax: 347-418-4919 Contact: Robert Kujala, Sr VP TheAmericas. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, IndianSub-Continent, Middle East, North & SouthAmerica, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, SoutheastAsia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: Various (leased as re-quired); Passenger: 747, 777, 767, 757, A319,A320, 737.

CARGO AIRLINES (CAL)11 Galgale Haplada Street, Herzliya 46722.Israel.Phone: +972-9-9526666; Fax: +972-9-9513232 Contact: Michael Gat, VP/Commercial. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. cal.co.il

U.S.: Mercury Air Cargo, Bldg 77, JFK Int’lAirport, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 954-205-9099; Contact: ZackVernikovski, GSA. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Africa. Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Services: Trucking, Own ware-house in Belgium. Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 (2).

CARGOJET AIRWAYS 350 Britannia Road East, Unit 5, Missis-sauga, ON L4Z 1X9, Canada.Phone: 905-501-7373; Fax: 901-501-9494 Contact: Pauline Dhillon, VP Mktg & PR;Ralph Zilipin Payne, Sr Dir/Flight Ops.E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] WWW. cargojet.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct& Through) North America & Canada. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: 727-200AF (10). Comments: Interline agreements with: BA,Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Varig, Air Cana-da, Swiss, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines,Eva Air, Korean Air.

CARGOLUX AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL Luxembourg Airport, Luxembourg L-2990,Grand Duchy of LuxembourgPhone: +352 4211-3925; Fax: +352 4211-3692 Contact: Domenico Ceci, director capacitymgmt. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. cargolux.com U.S.: 1900 NW Corporate Blvd #W105, BocaRaton, FL 33431. Phone: 561-988-1868; Fax: 561-988-1012 E-Mail: [email protected]. Con-tact: Pier Curci, Mgr Route Dev. RoutesServed From Home Country: (Direct) Africa,Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, Middle East,North & South America, Southeast Asia, Pa-cific Rim. (Through) Australia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes (Europe). Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes Fleet: Freighters: Boeing 747-400 (14).

CATHAY PACIFIC CARGO 9/F South Tower, CX City, 8 Chun Wan Road,The Lantau, Hong Kong.Phone: +852 2747 7228; Fax: +852 2753 5751 Contact: Tom Wong, Mgr Cargo Sls Dev.WWW. cathaypacificcargo.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Europe, Indian/Subconti-nent, Middle East, North America, Northeast& Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No.Cargo Branded Services: AAX, Airport-to-

door, Website Booking. Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 and 747-400 (12)Passenger: 777-200, A340-300, 777-300, 747-400, A330-300, A340-600 (68).

CHINA AIRLINES 7F, No. 131, Nanking East Road, Sec 3,Taipei, Taiwan. Phone: +886 2 2514 5666; Fax: +886 2 25145664 Contact: Mike Lee, VP Cargo Sales &Mktg. E-Mail: [email protected]. china-airlines.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct):Australia, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent,North America, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (15), MD11 (1);Passenger: 747-400 (13), A340 (7), A330 (2),737-800 (12).

CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES Hongqiao Airport, 2550 Hongqiao Road,Shanghai 200335, China.Phone: +86 21 6255 8899; Fax: +86 21 62689895 Contact: Yuan Dong Fa, Mktg. WWW. 206.170.104.72/ U.S.: 618 S, Access Road, PO Box 66608,O’Hare Int’l Airport, Chicago, IL 60666.Phone: 312-686-0207; Fax: 312-686-0125 Contact: Sidney Chan. Routes Served From Home Country: Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Ser-vices: Livestock, perishables. Fleet: Freighters: MD-11 (1); Passenger:A340 (5), A300 (10), F-100 (5), MD-11 (5), MD-82 (13), MD-90 (6).

CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES 278 Airport Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong,P.R. China 510405 Phone: +86 773 601 880;Fax: +86 773 601 8866 Contact: Huining Li, GM-Chicago office. WWW. cs-air.com/en U.S.: PO Box 66208, Chicago, IL 60666-0208Cargo Building 517 A.M.F., O’Hare Int’l Airport. Phone: 773-601-8800; Fax: 773-601-8866 Contact: Susanna Lam, Sales Mgr.E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Middle East, North Ameri-ca, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, Southeast Asia.Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Airport-to-AirportExpress, Express Handling, Road Feeder.



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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 1600 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002. Phone: (800) 421-2456 or (281) 553-5050. Fax:713-324-7601 E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. cocargo.com Contact: Jack Boisen, VP; Jim McKeon,mng. dir., global sales and marketing. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Indian Sub-Continent, Pacific Rim, North & South Amer-ica, Southeast Asia, Middle East (Tel Aviv). Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Services: Human remains, danger-ous goods, live animals, high value ship-ments, climate secure service. Cargo Branded Services: QUICKPAK, CMR,2ndDay8am, lnternational General Freight. Total ’04 Tonnage: 260,016 tonnes FTK: 1,333million. Total ‘05 Tonnage Estimated: 262,500tonnes FTK: 1,335 million. Fleet: Passenger: 777-200ER (18), 767-400ER(16), 767-200ER (10), 757-300 (10), 757-200(41), 737-900 (12), 737-800 (96), 737-700 (36),737-300 (48), 737-500 (63).

COPA AIRLINES Copa Airlines Building, Costa del Este, Busi-ness Park, Panama. Phone: +507 238 4290; Fax: +507 238 4223 WWW. copacargo.com U.S.: 6450 NW 22nd Street, Building 710, Mi-ami, FL 33122. Phone: 305-871-1783; Fax: 305-871-1785 Contact: Domingo Montalvo, Mellie Barral. E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, North & South America;(Through) Europe, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: No.Cargo Branded Services: Airport-to-Airport,

Proirity Cargo, Consolidated Cargo, Integrat-ed Cargo. Fleet: Passenger: 737-700/800.

COYNE AIRWAYS Roberts House, 103 Hammersmith Road,London W14 0QM, United Kingdom.Phone: +44 207 6056881. Fax: +44 2076029474. Contact: Larry Coyne, CEO.E-Mail: [email protected]: Ray Wach Phone: 703-822-5872U.S.-West: Terry Coyne Phone: 281-812-7200Routes Served From Home Country: Europe,Middle East, Russia/CIS.Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Traffic: Total ’04 142 million RTKs.Fleet: Freighters: AN-12, IL-76 (Leased andchartered as required)

CSA-CZECH AIRLINES CARGO Letiste Ruzyne - Terminal Cargo, 16008 Pra-hag 160 08, Czech Republic.Phone: +420 2 20113512; Fax: +420 2 2428 1035 Contact: Kamil Slavik, Dir/Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. csacargo.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Indian Subcontinent,North America, Middle East, Russia/CIS.Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: Equation, Dimen-sion, Variation, Cohesion. Fleet: Passenger: (35). Comments: Member of Skyteam Cargo.

DAS AIR CARGO U.S.: 2466 W. Sandlake Road, Orlando, FL32809. Phone: 407-240-7787; Fax: 407-240-3963. WWW. dasairusa.com. Contact: Terry Phipps, President. Routes Served From Home Country:(Through) Africa, Indian/Indian Subconti-nent, Middle East, Russia/CIS.Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Service: Yes.Total ’04 Tonnage: 4,827,376 kilos. Fleet: Freighters: DC-10 (8)

DELTA AIR LOGISTICS 1600 Aviation Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30320. Phone: 404-714-5777; Fax: 404-714-5021 WWW. deltacargo.com Contact: Ben Darnell, Mg. Dir. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, Europe, North & South America,Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS; (Through)Indian/Subcontinent, Middle East. Door-to-Door Service: Yes – Domestic &Small Packages. Cargo Branded Services: Dash, Priority

First, Equation, Dimension, Variation, Cohe-sion. Fleet: Passenger: 737, 767, 777, MD-88,CR5, 757 (total 838). Comments: Member Skyteam Cargo alliance.

DHL EUROPEAN AIR TRANSPORTBuilding 4-5, Brussels National Airport, B-1930, Zaventem, Belgium.Phone: +32 2 718 1430. Fax: +32 2 718 1555.E-Mail: [email protected] Contact: StanWilski, Mgr Charter & Contract Svcs.Door-to-Door Services: No. Non-Scheduled Charter Services: YesFleet: Freighters: 757, A300-B4-203 (total 46)

DRAGONAIRDragonair House 11 Tuog Fai Road, HongKong Int’l Airport, Lantau, Hong Kong. Phone: +852-3193-2888; Fax: +852-3193-2889 Contact: Albert Yau, GM-Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. dragonair.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, China,Japan, Taiwan. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Freighters: 747-300 (3); Passenger:A330 (8), A321 (4), A320 (8).

EGYPTAIR Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt. U.S.: 159-11 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11424. Contact: Joseph Scumaci, Cargo Sls Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected]: 718-656-8627; Fax: 718-949-6410 Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America, Africa (Through) Europe, In-dian/Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, Pa-cific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter: YesTotal ’04 Tonnage: 1,100 tons. Fleet: Freighters: A300-B4 (3); Passenger:767, 777, 747, A300-B6, A340, A330, A320,737.

EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES Ben Gurion Airport, Ben Gurion Airport70100, IsraelPhone: +972 3 717 514; Fax: +972 3 717 595 WWW. elal.co.il/cargo U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Cargo Bldg 83, Ja-maica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-244-3167; Fax: 718-244-0500 Contact: David Kilstein, Cargo Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Southeast Asia;(Through) Australia, South America, South-east Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 (2); Convertibles:747-200 (3).

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EMIRATES Emirates Group Headquarters, PO Box 686,Room No 7, 3rd Floor, ‘A’ Entrance, Dubai,United Arab Emirates.Phone: +971 4 203 3436; Fax: +971 4 295 4049 Contact: Prakash Nair, Mgr Network CargoSls Dev. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. skycargo.com U.S.: c/o NCA Bldg 79, JFK International Air-port, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-533-6900; Fax: 718-533-7326 Con-tact: Edward Chism, President. Routes Served From Home Coun-try: (Direct) Africa, Australia, Europe, IndianSub-Continent, Middle East, North America,Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, Southeast Asia.(Through) South America. Door-to-Door Service: To select destina-tions (Europe, Africa, Gulf & Middle East, FarEast, West Asia Pacific Rim, Indian Sub-continent. Cargo Branded Services: Emi-rates Priority Plus, Emirates Priority. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (3), 747-200 (1),A310-300 (1); Passenger: A310-300 (1), A330-200 (29), 777-200 (9), 777-300 (12), A340-300(8), A340-500 (10).Total ’04 Tonnage: 838,400, RTK: 8,649.

ESTAFETA CARGA AEREA Centro de Intercambio EstafetaAeropuerto Internacional de San Luis Poto-sí, 78430 San Luis Potosí, MéxicoPhone: +52 (444) 834-8000Fax: +52 (444) 834-8016E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. estafeta.com.mxContact: José Villagómez, V.P. - Commer-cial. Diana Nájera, Mgr.- Sales Administra-tion. Routes Served: Domestic within Mexi-co (10 destinations); International Service toMiami and Dallas-Ft. WorthDoor-to-Door Service: Yes (check availability)Fleet: Freighters: 737-200 (4).

ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES PO Box 1755, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Phone: +251 1 178402; Fax: +251 1 615 271 Contact: Mr. Ayenew, Div Cargo Mktg. OrMr. Fitsum Abadi DPM Cargo Pricing & Ca-pacity Mgmt. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. ethiopianairlines.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Cargo Branded Services: Perishables, TimeBound Cargo, General Cargo, Courier. Fleet: Freighters: 757 (1), 707 (1), AN-12 (1),DC-8 (1); Passenger: 767-300 (5), 757-200 (4),737-700 (4), 737-200 (1).

ETIHAD AIRWAYSEtihad Crystal Cargo, PO Box 35566, New Air-port Road, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Phone: +971 2 509 1177; Fax: +971 2 509 1234. Contact: Mohamed Sherief, cargo sales co-ordinator worldwide. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. crystalcargo.ae U.S.: GSSA Platinum Air Cargo – Houston19115 Lee Road, Suite 180 Humble, TX 77338.Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast, North America, Russia/CIS, SoutheastAsia.Door-to-Door Service: No Cargo Branded Services: Belly Hold, AllCargo, Charters.Total ’04 Tonnage: 20,000. Total ’05 Estimat-ed Tonnage: up to 100,000.Fleet: Freighters: A300-600 (2), A310-300 (1).Passenger: A330-200 (4), A340-300 (1), A330-200 (4), 767-300 (1).Comments: Planned Routes: Muscat, Doha,Jeddah, Paris, Manila, Jakarta, Manches-ter, New York, Shanghai. All Cargo: Almady,Dhaka. Planned passenger aircraft (5 777s).

EVA AIRWAYS 376 Hsin-Nan Road, Section 1, Luchu,Taoyuan Hsien 338, Taiwan ROC. Phone: +886 3-351 6246; Fax: +886 3-351 0026 Contact: Angus Chi, Asst Mgr. WWW. evaair.com U.S.: 6851 W. Imperial Highway, Los Ange-les, CA 90650. Phone: 310-646-5088 x113; Fax: 310-215-5350. E-Mail: [email protected] Contact: Simon Liu, Manager. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Middle East, North Ameri-ca, Pacific Rim. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo BrandedService: Express, Regular. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (4), MD-11 (12);Combis: 747-400 (9); Passenger: 747 (6), 767-300ER (4), 767-200 (4), A330-200 (2), MD-90 (4).

FEDEX EXPRESS PO Box 727, Memphis, TN 38194. Phone: 901-434-5416; Fax: 901-434-6508 WWW. fedex.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)

All. Serving 215 countries. Door-to-Door Service: Yes. Special Services: US Domestic, Internation-al Time-Definite, Door-to-Door Express De-livery Service. Fleet: Freighters: 727-100 (25), 727-200 (94),DC-10-10 (45), DC-10-30 (17), MD10-10 (22),MD10-30 (5), MD-11 (42), A330-600 (43),A310-200/300 (51).

FEDEX CUSTOM CRITICAL AIR EXPEDITE1475 Boettler Road, Uniontown, OH 44685. Phone: 800-468-8029. Fax: 234-310-4118. Contact: Carl Haines, Mgr Air Expedite. E-Mail: [email protected]. customcritical.fedex.comRoutes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, Europe, North & South America.(Through) Africa, Australia, Indian/Subconti-nent, Middle East, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS,Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes.Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Comments: Exclusive use cargo charter ser-vice arrangement. Premium air freight.

FINNAIR Rahtitie 1, Helsinki Airport, Finland 01053.Phone: +358 50 3935400; Fax: +358 9 8185408 Contact: Antero Lahtinen, Sr VP & Mng Dir.E-Mail: [email protected] U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Cargo Bldg 151, EastHangar Road, Cargo Area A, Jamaica, NY11430. Phone: 718-656-7663; Fax: 718-244-7758 Contact: Anthony LaRusso, Area Dir TheAmericas. Routes Served From Home Coun-try: (Direct) Europe, North America, Rus-sia/CIS, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes, Finland. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: 2. Total ’04 Tonnage: 74,000 tons, RTK: 399 mil-lion. ’05 Estimated Tonnage: 81,000 tons,RTK: 433 million.Fleet: Passenger: MD-11, A321, A320, A319,E70, ATR, B757(total 69).Comments: Member of OneWorld.

GARUDA INDONESIA AIRLINES Garuda Cargo Center Building, Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Indonesia.Phone: +62 21 5500123; Fax: +62 21 5500128 Contact: Bagus Y. Siregar, General Manag-er. E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Middle East, Southeast

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GEMINI AIR CARGO 44965 Aviation Drive, Suite 300, Dulles Int’lAirport, Dulles, VA 20166. Phone: 703-260-8360; Fax: 703-260-8267 E-Mail: [email protected]. geminiaircargo.com Contact: BrianDaggett, VP; Paul Woolley, VP Asia Pacific. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, Pacific Rim, North & South Ameri-ca. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Freighters: DC-10-30 (11), MD-11 (4). Comments: ACMI specialist.

GULF AIR PO Box 138, Mauharrage, Bahrian.Phone: +973 338 218; Fax: +973 338 786 Contact: Girma Wake, Head of Cargo. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. gulfairco.com/cargo.U.S.: 600 Bayview Avenue, Inwood, NY 11096.Phone: 516-371-1241; Fax: 516-371-6431 Contact: Farouk Salehjee, Cargo Mgr-U.S. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Europe, Indian/Sub Conti-nent, Middle East. Door-to-Door Service: No. Fleet: Passenger: A340, A330, A320, 767 (To-tal 35).

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES 3375 Koapaka Street, Suite G350, Honolulu,HI 96819. Phone: 808-838-6765; Fax: 808-838-6746 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. hawaiianair.com Contact: Darcelle Chan, Sr Dir Cargo. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Door-to-Door Service: No.Fleet: Passenger: 717-200 (13), 767-300ER (14).

HORIZON AIR 19521 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98188. Phone: 800-523-1223 x 239; Fax: 206-392-2641 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. alaskaair.com Contact: Janet Osburn, Cargo Mktg Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Door-to-Door Service: Yes(North America).Cargo Branded Services: Goldstreak, Econ-omy Air Freight. Fleet: Passenger: CR5 (8), Dash 8-400 (17),Dash 8-200 (28).

JAPAN AIRLINES 4-11, Higashi-shinagawa 2-chrome, Shina-gawa-Ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan. U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Building 151, Ja-

maica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-656-9602; Fax: 718-656-9647 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. jal.co.jp/jalcargo Contact: Mr. Satoshi Imamichi, Dir./Cargo. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent,North & South America, Pacific Rim, Rus-sia/CIS, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Ser-vice: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: WOW, J Products.Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 (10); Passenger:747, 767, 777, 737, MD-80, A300 (268).Comments: Member of WOW alliance

KALITTA AIR818 Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, MI 48198. Phone: 734-484-0088; Fax: 734-484-3630 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. kalittaair.com Contact: D.C. Sanderlin, VP/Gen Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, Middle East, North America, PacificRim. Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Services: One nose loader aircraft. Fleet: Freighters: 747-100/200 (11).

KITTY HAWK AIRCARGO/KITTY HAWKCARGO 1515 West 20th Street, PO Box 612787, DFWAirport, TX 75261. Phone: 800-486-3780 Fax: 972-456-2350, 972-456-2227. Contact: Toby Skaar, or RobbieBarrow, VP and COO. E-Mail: [email protected];[email protected]. WWW. khcargo.com Routes Served From Home Country: Direct:Caribbean, North America; Through: Africa,Australia, Indian sub-continent, Middle East,Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, South America,Southeast Asia. Cargo Branded Services: Overnight,Overnight/Two Day Air, Overnight-Five Day

Guarantee, Hazardous/Live, HighVolume/Security. Door-to-Door Service: Yesto all regions. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Total’04 Tonnage: 174 million lbs. Fleet: Freighters: 727 (20) and 737-SF (7). Comments: Scheduled air and ground net-work specializing in custom, hazardous, andmisson-critical overnight air, second morn-ing air and two to five day deferred grounffreight services.

KOREAN AIR 1370 Gonghang-dong, Gangseo-Gu, Seoul,Korea.Phone: +82 2 2656 5877; Fax: +82 2 2656 5900 Contact: Soo-Yeon Kim, External Comm Mgr. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. cargo.koreanair. com U.S.: 6101 W. Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles, CA90045. Phone: 310-417-5223; Fax: 310-417-3051 E-Mail: [email protected]. Contact: HeeDo Lee, Mktg. Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Indian/Sub Continent,Middle East, North America, Pacific Rim,Russia/CIS, Southeast Asia. (Through)Africa, Caribbean, South America. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Equation, Cohe-sion, Variation, KAL-SkyBridge. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (15), 747-200 (3),MD-11 (3); Passenger: 747, 777, A330, 737,F100. (total 97). Comments: Member Skyteam Cargo.

L.A.B. FLYING SERVICE 390 Main Street, PO Box 272, Haines, AK99827. Phone: 907-789-9160. Fax: 907-766-2734. Contact: Peggy Ormasen, Marketing.E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America. Door-to-Door Services: No.Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Fleet: Freighter,Combis, Convertibles, Passenger (total 27).

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LOT POLISH AIRLINES Cargo & Mail Bureau, 1, Zwirki 1Wigury Street, 00-906 Warsaw,Poland. Phone: +48 22 606 8406; Fax: +48 22606 9817 Contact: Iwona Korpalska, Cargo & MailBureau Dir. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. lot.com/cargo U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport-Building 21B, Ja-maica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-656-2674; Fax: 718-656-6063 Con-tact: Marek Kasiak, Cargo Dir for the Ameri-cas. E-Mail: [email protected] Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, Middle East, North America, Rus-sia/CIS. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Cargo Branded Services: Charters, Priority,Express. Fleet: Passenger: 767 (6), 737 (13), EMB170(6), EMB145 (14), ATR42 & ATR72 (13).

LUFTHANSA CARGO Flughafen Bereich West, FRA F/CI. Tor 25,Ges. 451, 60546 Frankfurt, Germany.Phone: +49 69 696 91123; Fax: +49 69 696 91185 Contact: Nils Haupt, Dir Corporate Commu-nications. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. lufthansa-cargo.de U.S.: 3400 Peachtree Road NE, Lenox Tow-ers, Suite 1225, Atlanta, GA 30326. Phone: 404-814-5312; Fax: 404-814-5300 Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian Sub-Continent, MiddleEast, North America, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS,South America, Southeast Asia. (Through)Australia, Caribbean. Door-to-Door Service:No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes Total ’04 Tonnage: 1,75 million tons.Fleet: Freighters: MD-11 (19); Passenger: allothers (total 330). Comments: Member of WOW cargo allianceand several bilateral partnerships. Intercon-tinental joint venture with DHL. Foundingpartner of Jade Cargo International in Shen-zhen, China.

LYNDEN AIR CARGO6441 South Airpark Place, Anchorage, AK99502. Phone: 907-249-4126. Fax: 907-245-0213. Contact: Bob Barndt, Mgr of Sls or GarryWhite, VP/Charter Ops.E-Mails: [email protected] [email protected]

WWW.lac.lynden.comRoutes Served From Home Country: Alaska(domestic). Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. ’05 Estimated Tonnage: 28K. Fleet: Freighters: L-100-30 Hercules (6).MALAYSIA AIRLINES 33rd Fl., Bangunan MAS, Jalan Sultan Is-mail, Kuala Lumpur 50250, Malaysia. Phone: +60 3 8777 1711; Fax: +60 3 8787 1542 Contact: Mr. Shahari Sulaiman, GM BusnDev & Sls. E-Mail: [email protected] Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Europe, Indian/Subconti-nent, Middle East, North America, PacificRim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Total ’04 Tonnage: 368,326,815 RTK:2,645,915,993. ’05 Estimated Tonnage:357,558,024 RTK: 2,620,395,477. Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 (leased 6); Passen-ger: 747-400 (17), 777-200S (17), A330-200s(6), A330-300 (11), 737-400 (24), 560 (10),DHC6 Twin Otters (5).

MARTINAIR PO Box 7507, Havenmeesterweg 201, 1118ZG Schiphol, the Netherlands.Phone: +31 20 601 1301; Fax: +31 20 601 1348 Contact: Meta Ullings, VP Sls & Mktg. E-Mail: [email protected]. martinaircargo.com U.S.: 5550 Glades Road, Suite 500, Boca Ra-ton, FL 33431. Phone: 561-391-6165; Fax: 561-391-8186 Contact: Roy Linkner, VP Cargo Sls. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, MiddleEast, North & South America, SoutheastAsia, Pacific Rim; (Through) Indian/Subcon-tinent, Russia/CIS. Door-to-Door Service:No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Total ’04 Tonnage: 266,875,300 CTK:3,363,081. ’05 Estimated Tonnage:270,000,000 CTK: 3,385,000. Fleet: Freighters: 747 (4), MD-11 (7) Convert-ibles: 747 (2), MD-11 (4); Passenger: 767 (76),MD11 (Max 2) and A320 (3).Comments: Alliance majority interest inTampa Airlines (Colombia). We specialize in

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MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES Airport Blvd., PO Box 206, Beirut, Lebanon. Phone: +961 1 628 888. Fax: +961 1 629 260. Contact: Sami Abisaad, Head of Cargo.WWW.mea/com.lbU.S.: 362 5th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York,NY 10001. Phone: 212-244-6858; Fax: 212-244-6851 Contact: Mr. Adib C. Kassis, Mgr USAE-Mail: [email protected] Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Middle East. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: No.Fleet: Passenger (total 9).

NATURE AIR CARGOHangar 27, Tobias Bolanos Airport, Pavas,Costa Rica. Phone: 506-220-3054; Fax: 506-232-2516. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. natureair.com Contact: Derrek H.Khajavi, Dir of Project Dev.Comments: Both scheduled and charter car-go operations in Costa Rica, Nicaragua andPanama. We from both improved and unim-proved strips in Central America with our sixaircraft. We are an IATA airline and are theNational Airline of Costa Rica.

NIPPON CARGO AIRLINES Shiodome City Center 8F, 1-5-2 Higashi-Shin-bashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7108, Japan.Phone: +81 3 67355740; Fax: +81 3 67355749 Contact: Yoji Miyabe, Sr VP. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. nca.aero U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Cargo Bldg 79, NorthBoundry Road, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone:718-632-6420; Fax: 718-632-6418 Contact:Terrence M. McDonald, GM Sls & Mktg. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW.nippon-cargo.com Routes Served From Hom.e Country: (Direct)Europe, North America, Pacific Rim, South-east Asia (Through) Australia, Caribbean, In-dian/Sub Continent, Middle East, SouthAmerica. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Brand-ed Services: PRIO Express, PRIO Freight,



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PRIO Sensitive, PRIO Super Sensitive, PRIOSpace, PRIO Cool, PRIO Art, PRIO Vehicle.Total ’04 Tonnage: 362,900 RTK: 2,469,000. Fleet: Freighters: 747 (10). Comments: Oversized cargo, dangerousgoods, temperature controlled, live animals,priority shipments, extensive through ser-vice to China.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES CARGO 7500 Airline Drive,Minneapolis, MN 55450. Phone: 612-726-4132 Contact: Douglas Rose,Dir Sls Strategy & Admin.E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. nwacargo.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent,North America, Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia;(Through) Africa, Middle East, Russia/CIS.Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services:Equation, Select 100, Select 300, Select 500.’04 RTK: 3.4 billion. Fleet: Freighters: 12 747-200s, expanding to14 in 2006; Passenger: More than 600. Comments: Member of SkyTeam Cargo.

OCEAN AIRLINESVia dell’Aeroporto 34, 25018 Montichiari (BS) Italy. Phone: +39 30 9657379. Fax: +39 30 9657145. Contact: Michele Useli, Commercial. E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country:(Through) Southeast Asia. Door-to-DoorService: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Fleet: Freighters: 747-200 (2)

OLYMPIC AIRWAYS GA 96 Siggiou Avenue, AthensPhone: +30 210-936-5546; Fax: +30 210-936-5444 Contact: Mike Psaroudis, Cargo Opera-tion Services. E-Mail: [email protected] Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America,Russia/CIS; (Through) Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Ser-vices: XPS Cargo, Cargo Terminal Services.

PACIFIC AIR CARGO 5761 W. Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles, CA 90245.Phone: 310-645-2178; Fax: 310-645-4876 Contact: Tabitha Carnow, Dir/Sales. E-Mail: [email protected]. WWW. pacificaircargo.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America, (Through) Pacific Rim (Oth-er) Guam, Pago Pago Am Samo. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: Must Ride, Gener-

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PAKISTAN INT’L AIRLINES PIA Building, Jinnah Int’l Airport, Karachi,Pakistan.Contact: Sean Hayat, sales executive.E-Mail: [email protected].: JFK Int’l Airport, Cargo Bldg 77, Ja-maica, NY 11430. Contact: Doveen Davine, sales executive. Phone: 718-656-4040 x224; Fax: 718-656-4703 E-Mail: [email protected] Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian Sub-continent, Mid-dle East, North America, Russia/CIS, South-east Asia. Total ’04 Tonnage: 1,958,192 tonnes. TotalEstimated ‘05 Tonnage: 2 million tonnes. Fleet: Combis: 747-200 (2); Passenger: 747-300 (6), 777-200ER (3), A310 (12), 737-300 (7).Comments: Maindeck service to Pakistan,Delhi, Mumbai, Manchester. 132 FTK 7,143.

POLAR AIR CARGO 2000 Westchester Ave. Purchase, NY, 10577Phone: 914-701-8000; Fax: 914-701-8001. WWW. polaraircargo.com E-Mail: [email protected]: Richard Nuttall, VP of Sales/TheAmericas. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, North & South America,Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia, Indian/SubContinent, Middle East. (Through)Caribbean. Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Services: Dangerous goods, perish-ables, live animals (horses), jet engines, pri-ority services, Polar X & Polar Priority serv-ing worldwide locations. Many interlineagreements connecting South America tothe rest of the world. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (8), 747-200 (2),747-100 (2).

POLET CARGO AIRLINE123, Prospekt Truda, 394019 Voronezh, Russia. U.S.: 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2805, New York,NY 10118. Phone: 212-279-3707; Fax: 212-279-6499 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW.poletairlines.com Contact: Alexey Ozerov, VP. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes.Special Services: Specializing in transportof oversized and heavy cargo. Fleet: Freighters: AN-124-100 (6).

QANTAS 203 Coward Street, Qantas Centre, Bldg C,

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ROYAL JORDANIAN AIRLINES Housing Bank Commercial Complex, QueenNoor Street, PO Box 302 Amman, Jordan.Phone: +962 6567 8336. Fax: +962 656 2902. Contact: Fathi Hamoud, Head of Cargo Sls.E-Mail: [email protected].: Cargo Sales JFK Int’l Airport, CargoBldg 67, Room 3251, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-632-4740; Fax: 718-632-5285 E-Mail: [email protected]

WWW.rja.com.jo. Contact: Daniel Durso, Cargo Sls Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Sub Continent, MiddleEast, North America, Russia/CIS. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Fleet: Freighter: A310 (2), Passenger: A340(4), A310 (4), A320 (5), A321 (2), DH8 (3).

SANTA BARBARA AIRLINES CARGOU.S.: 2461 NW 66th Avenue, Bldg 702, Suite204, Miami, FL 33122. Phone: 305-871-7777; Fax: 305-871-0100 E-Mail: [email protected]. Contact: Adolfo Moreno, President Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Carribean, Europe, North America, SouthAmerica. (Through) Southeast AsiaDoor-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter: Yes. Fleet: Passenger: 757, 727,767, ATR-42 (total 17).



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SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES Saudia City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Phone: +966 2 686 4374; Fax: +966 2 686 2791 Contact: Hatem M. Zarea, VP Cargo Sales &Services. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. saudiairlines.com U.S.: JFK Int’l Airport, Bldg #78, Cargo Ter-minal, Jamaica, NY 11430. Phone: 718-995-9033; Fax: 718-915-4370 Contact: Barry Lennihan, Reg. Mgr CargoSls & Svc. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast, North America, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Special Services: New weekly cargo flightbetween Saudi Arabia and HKG, DAC, ADD. Fleet: Freighters: 747-268 (1), MD-11 (4); Pas-senger: 747-400 (5), B743 (9), 747-100 (7), 777(23), A300-600 (11), MD-90 (29), 727 (1).

SINGAPORE AIRLINES CARGO 05-J, SATS Airfreight Terminal 5 (Superhub1) 30 Airline Road, Singapore 819830. Phone: +65 6541 6603; Fax: +65 6546 3798 Contact: Mr. Nazim Ros, Asst Mgr IndustryAffairs. E-Mail: [email protected]. siacargo.com Door-to-Door Service:No. Non-Scheduled Charter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Swiftrider. Total ’04 Tonnage: 1,132 FTK 7,143. Fleet: Freighters: 747-400 (15),); Passenger:747-400 (27) 777 (58), A34-500 (5). Comments: Member WOW Alliance.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CARGO PO Box 36611, Dallas, TX 75235. Phone: 800-533-1222; Fax: 214-792-4199

WWW. swacargo.com Contact: Cargo Sales & Service Center. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)North America.Door-to-Door Service: Yes, available uponrequest. Non-Scheduled Charter: No Cargo Branded Services: NFG (Next FlightGuaranteed); RUSH Priority Freight, FREIGHT. Fleet: Passenger: 737-300 (194), 737-500 (25)737-700 (219).

SPIRIT AIRLINES 2800 Executive Way, Miramar, FL, 33025. Phone: 800-438-3071; Fax: 954-447-7875 Contact: Bill Jones, Cargo Dir.E-Mail: [email protected]. spiritair.com Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Caribbean, North America. Door-to-Door Service: Yes all regions. Non-Scheduled Charter: No. Fleet: Passenger: Airbus/MD-80 (32).Comments: New Airbus equipment will ex-pand destinations to Nassau, Puerto Rico,Santo Domingo, Punto Cana, St. Thomas,Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos.

SWISS WORLD CARGOSWISS INTERNATIONAL AIR LINESPO Box 8058, Zurich Airport Phone: +41 1 564 5050; Fax: +41 1 564 5001 Contact: Bernd Maresch, GM-Mktg. E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. swissworldcargo.com. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Europe, Indian/Subcontinent, MiddleEast, North America, Russia/CIS, South Amer-ica, Southeast Asia; (Through) Pacific Rim. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: Swiss GeneralCargo, Swiss X-presso, Swiss Valuables,Swiss Perishables, Swiss Argus, Swiss Mail. Fleet: Passenger: A319, A320, A321, A330,A340.

TAMPA AIRLINES CARGO Hangar de Aerolinea Tampa, Terminal de-carga Aeropuerto IntlJose Maria Cordova,Rionegro-Antioquia, Colombia. Phone: +57 1 439790, Contact: Liborio Cuellar Araujo, VP Sls/Mktg.WWW. tampacargo.com U.S.: 1650 N.W. 66th Avenue, Bldg 708, Suite206, Miami, FL 33152. Phone: 305-526-6720. E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Pedro Pulido. Routes Served FromHome Country: (Direct) Caribbean, North &South America; (Through) Europe. Door-to-Door Service: No. Cargo Branded Services: T-Cargo, T-Charters, T-Express. Fleet: Freighters: DC-8-71 (3), DC-10 (1).

THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL 89 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Bangkok 10900,Thailand. Phone: +662 535 4727; Fax: +662 535 4728 Contact: Mr. Chanchai Singtoroj, Mng Dir. E-Mail: [email protected]. thaicargo.com U.S.: 6501 W. Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles,CA 90045. Phone: 310-670-8591; Fax: 310-670-1057 E-Mail: [email protected] Contact: Geof-frey Gilbert, Cargo Mgr USA. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Europe, Indian Sub-Continent,Middle East, North America, SoutheastAsia, Russia/CIS. (Through) Africa,Caribbean, Pacific Rim, South America.Door-to-Door Service: Only domestic ship-ments. Non-Scheduled Charter: No. Cargo Branded Services: TGForce (TGX),TGFresh (TGF), ThAIpac. Total ’04 Tonnage: 432,000 RTK: 1,839 (mil). Fleet: Passenger: 737-400 (7), A300-B6 (21),A330 (12), A340-500 (3), A340-600 (5), MD-11(4), 777 (14), 747-400 (2), 747-400 (18).Comments: Star Alliance Member. BlockSpace agreements with Air France freighter(BKK-CDG), Emirates freighter (BKK-DAC-DXB-AMS). Cargo warehouse serviceprovider at Chittagong Airport inBangladesh.

TURKISH AIRLINES Ataturk Havaliman Kargo Terminal, KargoBaskanliai S-Kat, Yesilkoy-Istanbul 34830,Turkey.



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UNITED AIRLINES PO Box 66100, WHQSA, Chicago, IL 60666 Phone: 847-700-4939; Fax: 847-700-6787Contact: Neel Shah, VP Sls & Mktg; E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. unitedcargo.comRoutes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Caribbean, Europe, North & SouthAmerica, Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: Yes North America –Global Small Package (Time Matters), U.S. Cargo Branded Services: TD Guaran-teed Worldwide, Global SP International,SPD domestic U.S.General Freight World-wide. Total ’05 estimated tonnage: 2 billionton miles. Fleet: A319/A320 (152), 737 (134), 747 (31),757 (97), 767 (43), 777 (52) Total Aircraft (509,not including United Express).

UPS AIR CARGO8203 National Turnpike, Louisville, KY 40214. Phone: 502-380-3103; Fax: 502-380-3101 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. aircargo.ups.com Contact: Dion DeMasters, Marketing & Pric-ing Mgr. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Indian/SubContinent, Middle East, North & South

America, Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No. Non-ScheduledCharter: Yes. Cargo Branded Services: Air Cargo Priority,Air Cargo Reserved. Fleet: Freighters: 747, MD-11, A300F4-600R,767, 757, DC-8, 727 (total 269).Comments: UPS Air Cargo Priority Servicecarries the 100 percent money-back guar-antee on U.S. origin cargo.

VARIG BRAZILIAN AIRLINES Av. Almte Silvio De Noronha, No 365, Blo-co A Sala 427 CEP 20025 010, Rio DeJaneiro, Brazil.Phone: +55 21 814 5012; Fax: +55 21 814 5732. E-Mail: [email protected]. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Europe, North & South America, PacificRim. Door-to-Door Service: Yes (Brazil).Special Services: Live Animals, Perish-ables, Express. Fleet: Freighters: DC-10-30 (2), 727-100 (5)Passenger: MD-11 (13), 767-200/300 (12),727-300/700 (36), 727-200 (13).

VIRGIN ATLANTIC CARGO Unit 1, Satellite Business Village, FlemingWay, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9ND,United Kingdom.Phone: +44 129 374 4580; Fax: +44 123 974 4536

Contact: John Lloyd, Dir/Cargo. WWW. virgin.com/cargo U.S.: 1983 Marcus Avenue, Suite 100, LakeSuccess, NY 11042. Phone: 516-488-5007; Fax: 516-516-5075Contact: Jack Fiol, Sr VP Cargo NA. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Caribbean, Indian/Sub Continent,North America, Southeast Asia; (Through)Europe, Middle East, South America.

WORLD AIRWAYS 101 World Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Phone: 770-632-8381; Fax: 770-632-8052 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW. worldair.com Contact: Joe Fralick, VP Cargo. Routes Served From Home Country: (Direct)Africa, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Indi-an/Subcontinent, Middle East, North Ameri-ca, Pacific Rim, Russia/CIS, South America,Southeast Asia. Door-to-Door Service: No.Fleet: Freighters: MD-11 (5), DC-10-30 (2);Passenger: MD-11 (9), DC-10-30 (1). Comments: Sixth MD-11 freighter to be de-livered in second quarter 2006. ■

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AirBridge Car-go: The scheduled747 freighter divisionof the Volga DneprGroup namedRobert Song re-gional director andarea manager for theAsia-Pacific, replac-ing Peter Yap, whois retiring. Song, 38,had been with AirNew Zealand Cargoat its regional head-quarters in Shanghaiand has 10 years ex-perience in interna-tional cargo. Yap re-tires after more than 25 years in air-line cargo management, including se-nior positions at China Airlines andAtlas Air.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo: The air-line appointed James Williams tothe new position of head of Asia Pa-cific based in Hong Kong. Williamshad been cargo manager for WesternAustralia for Emirates SkyCargo forthe past two years but earlier workedin Virgin Cargo’s commercial depart-ment in London for over four years.

Skyteam Cargo: The U.S. CargoSales Joint Venture arm of the airlinealliance named J.D. Cha of KoreanAir chief executive officer, succeedingBernard Frattini, who returns toAir France-KLM Cargo. Cha had beenvice president of sales and marketingfor the SkyTeam Cargo U.S. joint ven-ture. Alain Pages, Air France’s cargooperations manager in the UnitedKingdom, replaces Cha as vice presi-dent of sales and marketing.

LAN Cargo: The Chilean carriernamed Steven Leonard regionalsales director for Florida. Leonard has

12 years experience in shipping outof South Florida with companies in-cluding Aerofloral and Daymark Lo-gistics and joined LAN four years ago.

Aloha Airlines: The airlinenamed Richard Scholl vice presi-dent of maintenance and engineer-ing. He was most recently in chargeof maintenance at Polar Air Cargo,where his division won the FAA Dia-mond Award for maintenance safetyand training two years in a row.

Qatar Airways: The carriernamed Bruce Gillette general man-ager for cargo worldwide. Gillette hadbeen at Atlas Air since 2001, first asvice president of products and ser-vices and later as vice president ofsales and marketing. Before that, hewas United States operations directorof LAN Cargo.

Integrators

DHL: The carrier made three ap-pointments to its United Arab Emi-rates operation. Ian Price, a 30-yearveteran of the British police and theSpecial branch of the London police,was named security manager for thecountry. Ben Dart, formerly of theVideo Networks in the United King-dom, was named manager of the DHLUAE call center. And AlexanderHoughton, who had headed costingand yield management at DHL Aus-tralia, was named manager of pricingand business improvement.

Third-Parties

Kuehne + Nagel: The Switzer-land-based forwarder named MartinKolbe chief information officer and amember of the management board.Kolbe, 44, was head of informationsystems at DHL Express in Europe andbefore that was managing director

and CIO of DHL Express in Germany. U-Freight: The Hong Kong-based

forwarder bolstered its Japan opera-tion by naming Minoru Saito chiefof sales in Tokyo and Hiroshi Aodaichief of sales and customer service. U-Freight also promoted Yuji Shutofrom the company’s Osaka office toassistant general manager for EasternJapan. Saito had been at Exel in Tokyofor four years in customer service.

Business Post: The Europeancompany appointed Terry Richardsmanaging director of the UK Palletsoperation it acquired in 2003.Richards replaces Paul Sanders, whoresigned. Richards had been managingdirector of Business Post TechnicalCouriers and before that held seniorposts at TNT and NFC. Business Postalso promoted Simon Hazelgrove,from UK Pallets sales and marketingdirector to deputy managing director.

FIATA: DanielBloch joined thestaff of the interna-tional freight forward-ing association andwill oversee the AirFreight Institute, theCustoms Affairs Insti-tute, and the Adviso-ry Body Information Technology atthe FIATA Secretariat. He will replaceSandro Consoli, who is retiring inApril. Bloch, 42, started in the logisticsdepartment of an electronics manu-facturer and later worked as theSwitzerland representative of a Euro-pean airline, cargo manager inSwitzerland for another carrier.

Cargo Connection Logistics:The New York-based company namedDavid Quach, vice president of busi-ness development for the Pacific Rimand said it would open an office inCalifornia to expand its reach beyondits New York base. Quach has been in-

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volved in electronics, real estate de-velopment and international tradingconnected to Asia and advises orga-nized trade groups in Asia.

Lynden International: TheSeattle-based forwarder named Mar-tyn Hughes a manager in the com-pany’s project group in Eurasia, over-seeing key operations in Russia. A 20-year industry veteran, he was basedin the Middle East with Logenix In-ternational. Also, Lynden namedRobin Johnson district sales managerin Los Angeles. He was most recentlyaccount manager at DHX.

Mallory Alexander Interna-tional Logistics: The Memphis,Tenn.-based company named CareyTreadwell a global business devel-opment director focused on nationalaccounts. Treadwell was director ofbusiness development at MeridianIQ, the logistics arm of Yellow Road-way. Before that he held sales posi-tions with Direct Container Line.

Crown Relocations: The execu-tive relocation and logistics companynamed Steve Marshall has beenworldwide managing director of glob-al mobility services. Marshall hadbeen managing director of global mo-bility for Crown in Europe, the Mid-dle East and Africa since 2002. Crownalso named Kay Kolakowski itsChicago-based national sales groupmanager for global mobility services.

Mallory Alexander Interna-tional Logistics: The Memphis,Tenn.-based company named CareyTreadwell a global business devel-opment director focused on nationalaccounts. Treadwell was director ofbusiness development at MeridianIQ, the logistics arm of Yellow Road-way. Before that he held sales posi-tions with Direct Container Line.

F.S. Mackenzie: The Britishfreight forwarder named Peter

Stockham manager in Dover, a sta-tion specializing in surface trailertransport between the United King-dom and Eastern Europe. Stockham,43, had been with Laser Transport In-ternational for 10 years in positionsincluding regional sales and develop-ment manager.

Pilot Air Freight: The forwardernamed Heinz Lange director of in-ternational sales for the West Coast,based in Seattle. He has more than 20years’ experience in transport sales atcompanies including NYK andColumbus Line in the maritime in-dustry and Airborne Express and DHLDanzas in forwarding.

Con-Way Now:The critical shipmentsubsidiary of CNFnamed Michelle M.Potter president.Potter, 36, joined thecompany in 1996 asan administrative as-sistant, became a su-

pervisor shortly after and advancedthrough other positions to becomevice president of operations in 2002.

Airlink: The Singapore-based gen-eral sales agent named Tay BengSwee as its commercial manager. Hehas more than 30 years’ experience inthe airline industry.

Ground Handling

ASIG: The Orlando, Fla.-based avi-ation services company named MikeConrad vice president, sales and cus-tomer services. He had been regionalvice president for operations in theWest, overseeing 14 airports. A 39-year industry veteran, he worked ear-lier at sister company Signature FlightSupport. Replacing him is AnthonyMazza, who was with DHL for 12years, most recently as senior director

of customer operations for the West-ern division. Before that, he workedwith TNT and People’s WorldwideDistribution. The company alsonamed Gene Roy vice president ofsales and customer service. A 25-yearcompany veteran, Roy was a regionalvice president of operations. ASIGalso named David ReDavid vicepresident for the South-Central re-gion. He had been a region vice presi-dent for AirNet Systems and workedfor nine years at Airborne Express.

Technology

OAG World-wide: OAG namedMike Navin directorof its Cargo Servicesdivision, a unitaimed at technologyservices for the aircargo business. Basedin the United King-dom, the air freight industry veteranis former global program director ofair logistics at Syntegra.

Global Freight Exchange: GF-Xnamed Jeremy Young head of itsAsia-Pacific operations following thedeparture of Soren Starup as vicepresident for Asia-Pacific and theMiddle East. Young had led theworldwide air freight booking portal’soperations in Hong Kong. ■

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Jan. 23-25

Dubai: World Air Cargo Event2006, at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, aTabmag Publishing event bringing to-gether global cargo leaders, includingtop officials from Emirates, Etihahand Cargolux. For information, call+44 178 425 5000 or e-mail:[email protected]

Feb. 14-17

Shanghai: Air Freight Asia2006, at the Shanghai-Pudong Inter-national Conference and ExhibitionCenter, the Payload Asia event looksat China from a global perspective.For information, e-mail:[email protected].

Feb. 28-March 1

Washington: FAA AviationForecast Conference, the annualevent includes detailed looks at Unit-ed States air traffic and a luncheon ad-dress by Southwest Airlines ChairmanHerb Kelleher. For information, call(202) 267-7924 or visit: www.apo.faa.gov/conference/welcome.htm

March 8-10

Geneva: International Forumon Aircraft Finance and Com-mercial Aviation, at the Hotel Presi-dent Wilson, the event includes 120speakers from the capital world andairline operations, including LufthansaCargo chief Jean-Peter Jansen. For in-formation, call +44 207 915 5101 orvisit: www.icbi-aircraftfinance.com.

March 12-14

Bal Harbour, Fla.: Air Cargo2006, at the Sheraton, the annual

meeting of the Airforwarders Associa-tion, Air & Expedited Motor Carriersand Air Courier Conference of Ameri-ca. For information, call (703) 519-0335 or visit: www.airforwarders.org.

March 12-14

Boston: International BostonSeafood Show, at the conventioncenter, for shippers of great scale. Forinformation, call (972) 620-3040 orvisit: www.bostonseafood.com.

March 20-22

Vienna: 9th Annual EuropeanPostal Services Conference, at theRenaissance Penta Vienna Hotel, theInstitute of Economic Affairs eventlooks at changes in competition andstrategy in Europe’s postal sector. Forinformation, call +44 (0)20 7608 0541or visit: www.marketforce.eu.com/eupost.

March 26-28

Orlando, Fla.: ISTAT 23rd An-nual Conference, the annual meet-ing of the International Society ofTransport Aircraft Trading. For infor-mation, call (703) 978-8156 or visit:www.istate.org/conferences.

April 9-11

Beijing: International Air Car-go Association Annual GeneralMeeting, TIACA’s high-level yearlygathering looks at air freight direc-tions in aircraft, Asia and fuel. For in-formation, call (786) 265 7011 orvisit: www.tiaca.org.

April 24-26

Seattle: Freighter AircraftWorkshop, at the Grand Hyatt, the4th annual Air Cargo ManagementGroup event examines the cargo air-craft market. For information, call(206) 587-6537 or visit: www.cargo-facts.com.

April 30-May 2

Las Vegas, Nev.: Cargo Net-work Services 2006 PartnershipConference, At the Hyatt Lake LasVegas, the largest yearly gathering ofthe international air freight business inNorth America. For information, call(516) 747-3312 or visit: www.cnsc.net.

May 11-12

Paris: World Express and MailEuropean Conference, at the Sofi-tel Forum Hotel, hosted by La Poste,uniting the private and postal worlds.For information, call +44 870 9507900 or visit www.triangle.eu.com.

May 23-25

Houston: 2006 InternationalAir Cargo Conference, at BrownConvention Center, including an ex-hibit hall. For information, call (321)783-0088 or e-mail: [email protected].

Sept. 12-14

Calgary, Alberta: Internation-al Air Cargo Forum, at theRoundup Centre in Stampede Park,TIACA’s bi-annual gathering is theglobal air cargo industry’s largestevent and lands this year in NorthAmerica. For information, call (786)265 7011 or visit: www.tiaca.org. ■

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Employment Opportunities

AIR CARGO WORLD CLASSIFIEDAir Cargo World, the industries leading air cargo magazine, is launching a classified section in the International Edition. You canplace an advertisement in the Business Partnership section in every issue for as little as $1,500 per year. Don’t miss the opportunity of putting your name in front of the largest requested readership of any air cargo magazine. For more details onadvertising in the Business Partnership or general classified section contact:

David Collison • 44 1923 817731 • [email protected]

Join the team that has made Hong Kong’s own airline an international leader in the aviation industry.We are looking for talented people who are smart, dynamic, enthusiastic and keen to share our dreamsand realize their own.

Cathay Pacific provides a work environment that encourages excellence and continuous improve-ment; as well as a unique, flexible employee benefits package; including generous air travel conces-sions, designed to help promote a better lifestyle.

Join the team. Share the dream.

Cargo Terminal Planning Manager

The airline wishes to appoint a suitably qualified person to oversee the design and planning of a largeair cargo infrastructure project to accommodate specific operations and services requirements.

The candidate will co-ordinate the main building contractor and the automated mechanical handlingsystem contractor to design and fine-tune layout design, workflow and operation procedure. The can-didate will also provide subject matter expertise in tendering process. In addition, the candidate willdevelop the requirements of the operational systems and design the training programme.

To be successful, you should have extensive experience in air cargo services/operations/systems.Knowledge in logistics building design or operations, flow and routes in conjunction with heavy auto-mated equipment will be definite advantages.

Cargo Terminal Engineering Manager

The airline wishes to appoint a suitably qualified person to coordinate, organize and supervise multi-disciplinary contractors/suppliers for the installation of automated mechanical handling systems(AMHS).

The candidate's primary responsibility is to integrate the AHMS into the infrastructure design. Thecandidate will design and write specifications for the AHMS, define cargo flow and routes, and assistin the preparation of the AHMS tender and contract. In addition, the candidate is responsible to estab-lish an engineering department and set up maintenance programme and procedure for the AMHS, andtrain up engineers for the AMHS preventive and emergency maintenance

To be successful, you should have a relevant engineering degree and possess extensive experience inproject cost/time/quality control which involve multi-contractors/suppliers. Experience in logisticsbuilding design, flow and routes with programmable logistic control is also required. Knowledge inheavy automated equipment installation and maintenance will be a definite advantage.

Both positions are Hong Kong based and will initially be on a 2 year contract. In addition, you mustbe an effective communicator to interact with people at all levels with polished interpersonal skillsand good command of both spoken and written English. You should be a self-motivated team playerand confident leader with excellent people management skills.

To apply, please send before 20th January 2006 your confidential resume with date of availability andexpected remuneration to: The Personnel Manager HKG Ground Staff, Cathay Pacific AirwaysLtd., 6/F., North Tower, Cathay Pacific City, 8 Scenic Road, Hong Kong International Airport,Lantau, Hong Kong. Alternatively, you may e-mail to: [email protected] orapply on-line at http://careers.cathaypacific.com.

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our personal datapolicy and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within 8 weeks can consider theirapplication unsuccessful and all related information will be kept on our files for 24 months. A copyof our Personal Information Collection Statement can be provided upon request by contacting ourData Protection Office at the above address

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Shipping Channels

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140,000

120,000

100,000

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Forecast of Worldwide Television Unit Shipments by Display Technology (Thousands of Units)

Shipping EGL

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Expediting Traffic

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Airbus forecast freighter demand, 2004-2023

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Union By Brandon Fried • Executive Director • U.S. Airforwarders Association

The State of the Union 2006: Just how strong is the state ofthe air cargo industry?


It’s a long-running joke in political circles thatin his annual State of the Union address theUnited States president must say, “The state

of our union has never been stronger,” even ifthe ”state” shows some wear around the edges.Those of us in the airforwarding world know thatwe need an honest assessment of the state of ourindustry, not a catchphrase. And, as we begin2006, forwarders are under increased scrutinyfrom regulators and from lawmakers.

This year, the state of our union will be based on howwell we respond to challenges and rise to the occasion.

This grading has already begun in earnest in one of thecargo industry’s most pressing areas: security.

Screening InsecurityIn November, the Government Accountability Office

released their report on air cargo security to much fanfare.The title of the report says it all — “Federal Action Neededto Strengthen Domestic Air Cargo Security.” The inves-tigative arm of the government recommended that theTransportation Security Administration speed the imple-mentation of air cargo rules, development of ways to ana-lyze indirect air carrier compliance with the rules, and as-sessment of vulnerabilities and assets related to air cargo.

These recommendations are not particularly critical ofthe industry, at least not directly. Forwarders face the is-sues of security and compliance on a daily basis and in-direct air carriers have been a positive force involved inincreasing security, working with government agenciesand officials since the birth of cargo regulations in theearly 1980s.

However, the wider public debate over the report isvery troubling.

Stories about the report quoted critics who decried the“gaping holes” in aviation security with scarcely athought or explanation of what security procedures are inplace and what actions have been undertaken since Sep-tember 11. The known shipper program was dismissed asmere paper pushing and other components of the TSA-

implemented, successful layered approach to cargo securi-ty were completely ignored.

Another performance review of homeland security fol-lowed in December.

The former 9/11 Commission, now known as the 9/11Project on Public Discourse, issued a report card that cov-ered many aspects of security. But it gave the category of“passenger and cargo screening” a D. This grade, coupledwith the TSA announcement of permitting sharp objectsback on planes, set off another wave of concern about car-go security.

Unfortunately, screening and security have becomesynonymous in the public debate about airlines and anti-terror efforts and that should not be the case.

In 2006, we face increased scrutiny, pending TSA rulechanges on cargo operations and security against a back-drop of midterm elections in one of the most politicallydivisive eras in recent memory. We are tasked with theseissues after a long year of fuel surcharges, airline financialinstability and airport cost-cutting measures.

Unified ApproachDespite these challenges, I believe that the state of air

freight forwarding is strong. Forwarders have risen to the occasion with determina-

tion and professionalism time and time again and I amconfident our industry will continue to deliver efficient,secure and reliable service while always striving for effec-tive and economical security measures.

Although we may no longer have the sole responsibili-ty for assessing the state of our industry, we do have thepower to make our businesses, and the forwarding in-dustry, the strongest they can be. To do that, we mustrecognize that, while we are competitors, we are all inthis together.

If we as professionals are united, present a united frontto Congress and educate the public on how vital our in-dustry is to the American economy, the state of our unionwill stay strong. Unity is a New Years resolution we mustall keep. ■

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ACF exhibitors span the logistics chain, supplyingproducts and solutions to airlines, airports, forwarders,manufacturers, and safety, IT, material handling, environmental and security companies.

ACF global attendance continues to grow, drawingparticipants from 82 countries.

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