Friday comment: why now's the time for air freight to fight back

03/05/2013

The air cargo industry is at a tipping point. It has a choice to make. It can either carry on as before, a forgotten and only partially relevant subset of its more glamorous and profitable passenger sister. Or it can become its own industry, with its own lobbying power, investment, trained staff and strengthened relations across the supply chain.

This has, of course, been debated endlessly – but thankfully, the debate now seems to have stopped, and action has started.

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Bart Jan Haasbeek
May 03, 2013 at 1:37 pm
That’s why we love the LOADSTAR!

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Alex Lennane
May 03, 2013 at 1:44 pm
🙂

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Anand Medepalli
May 09, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Excellent piece Alex. I agree, TIACA felt a turning point was in the offing, let us hope the industry does take that turn for the better. I’d add to your list that the industry can and should adopt e-freight with an urgency and change the business model of how they conduct business with the forwarders. As was clear at TIACA, unless a greater collaboration between all parties took place, Air Freight’s place in the supply chain will continue to be that of neglect.

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