Tiaca's brave new sustainable air cargo world... but will supply chain partners support?

© Tan Kian Yong

There is, quite frankly, a rather horrible, sick irony in the choice of the winner of The International Air Cargo Association’s (Tiaca’s) first sustainability award. 

Wings for Aid – which designed a cardboard box filled with humanitarian aid that can be safely dropped from an aircraft – is in a “growth market”, said general manager Barry Koperberg.

Climate change will increase humanitarian crises around the world, he said.  

But which industry is one of the single largest contributors to climate change? Air transport. 

It felt like an award to ...