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…

IT IS encouraging that a significant number of operators within the air cargo industry have now accepted — embraced may be going too far — the realisation that only with new technologies will they have a fighting chance of remaining competitive in an increasingly volatile business environment. It is disappointing…

THE GAPING fissure that lies between air and sea transport employees and their bosses is being made even more stark by the latest string of record-breaking second-quarter 2022 financial results declarations. Profits and revenues may be on the up but, at the same time, job and pay satisfaction is in…

THE JUXTAPOSITION of a string of record-breaking second-quarter financial results — reported by some major airlines and large freight forwarders — could not be more ironic than when compared with the current industrial unrest at sea ports and strikes of disgruntled ground staff at airports, and even some pilots, depending…

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…