US political heavyweights voice their support to the air cargo industry

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Well, it looks as if the air cargo industry has finally got the high-level recognition it has been demanding for years.

The International Air Cargo Association (Tiaca) managed to entice not just the commerce and freight-loving Mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed, to speak at its biannual shindig in Atlanta, but it also managed to pull off the coup of getting the US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, to make a key note speech – no mean feat some 34 days before ...