Air Canada Cargo is in the process of deploying an ultrahigh-frequency RFID solution to manage shipments as they move through its five hubs, or when they enter or leave one of the larger cargo-transfer stations it operates around the world.
Although a new study by Google and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek projects the Southeast Asian e-commerce market to reach $200bn by 2025, the region's air cargo capabilities remain underdeveloped, according to Cainiao, the logistics unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.
The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index saw a marginal month-on-month decline in its May results, as an improvement in air freight confidence was negated by a slightly greater decline in sea freight.
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the aviation leasing and financing arm of GE, is underway with its inaugural 737-800NG passenger-to-freighter conversion with Miami-based Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI).
Isn't modal shift toward the ocean, using "hibernation technology" inside sea containers, supposed to be the scourge of the perishable air cargo industry?
Now that the first quarter of fiscal 2016 is in the past, results are in from IATA's most recent airline business confidence survey, and gauging from the responses of airline CFOs and cargo heads surveyed - their outlook is bullish for the remainder of the year, despite a perceived weak first quarter.