IN ONE fell swoop, Coronavirus up-ended global society. The virus radically altered how we live and, for the foreseeable future, changed the dynamics of world trade by forcing nations to shut their borders without warning, impose severe quarantine restrictions and place lockdown measures on their people. The effect of the…

MORE investment in transportation infrastructure — especially at airports and border crossings across the world — are critical for the cost-effective and timely distribution of inbound and outbound e-commerce shipments, a report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reveals. The report entitled: COVID-19 and E-Commerce: A…

THE GLOBAL e-commerce juggernaut is creating a split two-tier system between those airfreight businesses that are well-prepared to grab a healthy slice of the booming market — and those which are clearly not. E-commerce can no longer be dismissed by airfreight companies simply as ‘not traditional air cargo’, especially in…

A COMPANY’s output is only as good as the staff it hires, trains, respects and protects. Aircargoeye.com editor Thelma Etim, reveals how two randomly chosen air cargo businesses have been prioritising the welfare of their employees around the world and throughout the pandemic. Her research shows that the impact the…

WHAT a digital difference two years of global health pandemic has made to the air cargo industry’s manual, paper-based, legacy ways of conducting business, observes Thelma Etim, editor of aircargoeye.com. Findings from digital disruptor Freightos Group’s second comprehensive survey on the subject of air cargo digitalisation — its first was…

THE SPECTRE of a shortage of critical commodities in Europe and beyond is looming large on the economic horizon as the latest severe COVID lockdowns imposed in China are resulting in local labour shortages that are now disrupting manufacturing outputs and threatening air cargo exports from the region, freight experts…

Thelma Etim reflects on a year of havoc, change and heroics WHAT can the air cargo industry expect in 2022? … without doubt, more logjams and bottlenecks at sea and airports, further cargo capacity crises, unprecedentedly high prices and personnel shortages. …

I AM an optimist. I never tire of reading about ideas that are both progressive and which also benefit humanity in some way, writes Thelma Etim. It is for this reason that, today, I often find myself writing about the significance of every incremental step in the modernisation of the…

INNOVATIVE, resilient, efficient, prudent and transparent… is a list of crucial characteristics which continue to separate those who are only managing the challenges of the global health pandemic from those in the air cargo industry that are truly excelling. Amidst the global spectre of uncertainty, soaring prices, border closures, capacity…