FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

Those who were in Munich recently for Transport Logistic Munich know that international trade, which is the main engine behind global logistics, is thriving on one side, whilst running its greatest risks at the same time. Clearly some of those in the attendance were not comfortable with the ‘elephant in the room’, others simply ignored it. Fact is trade negotiations 2.0 have started and nobody really knows where they are heading.

Transport Logistic takes off June 2-5, at Munich Trade Centre,with Air Cargo Europe, the icing on a giant logistics confab as a partner event, whichmanaged to combine different interests in logistics in order to attract large crowds from all over the world. No one is quite sure how much audience spillover occurs between the venues, which in the case of air cargo organizersclaims more than 262 exhibitors from 46 countries in a gigan...

I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful andloving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our localsuper business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazinead for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a DorothyDress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. Thepicture here tells you the story better than a thousand words.

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GeoffreyArend of  Air Cargo News (that’s me, folks!) met Jeffrey Van Haeften, Senior Vice Presidentof Commercial, Emirates SkyCargo, just before IATA’s WCS in Dubai in thespringtime. 
     Originallyit was an interview, but in the end it became something more thoughtful andunexpected and it is best told as a short essay. With our readers’ support wegive you Van Haeften’s views on air cargo, trade events and beyond, in firstperso...

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After a long journey, as both Italian andSwiss railways decided that this Sunday was the best day for network and equipment maintenance, I arrived in Geneva after dusk.

On Monday 17th ofMarch at 9 o’ clock, as sharp as a Swiss clock, the FIATA Headquarters’ meeting began with a rather ambitious programme, harbouring the desire to “provide participants with key market trends and trade developments as well as an external outlook in c...

Come April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump will becelebrating a “liberating day” because, as he stated, “we’re getting back someof the wealth that very, very foolish Presidents gave away because they had noclue what they were doing.”

Is India ready to counter the U.S.’s reciprocal tariffs?

As April approaches, the pressing question is not just aboutthe effects of these tariffs, but how to remain protected when PresidentTrump’s r...

Let us start our in-depth consideration of the de minimis regime with a quote published by Ms. Cindy Allen, CEO of Tradeforcemultiplier: “If the option to utilize de minimis was eliminated for goods, large marketplaces may structure the transactions differently for transportation, sale, and entry declaration to reduce costs. They would consolidate the merchandise on one entry per conveyance. They would establish a U.S. based entity...

• Here I am between James Brooks the Long Island artist who in 1940-42 painted a huge mural titled, “Flight” affixed on Belgian Linen on the upper walls of The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport and Laurance Rockefeller who put up the money to save the mural after he learned it was painted out of sight (read on) in 1952.Once upon a time I was hell bent for leather working with my air cargo publication Air Cargo News ...

When Building 260 originally appeared in 1962 at Idlewild Airport Cargo (today JFK) in New York the place heralded a new era for air shippers with all the bells and whistles to advance air cargo to an unheard of new plateau.  

When that very same building empty and unused for decades bit the dust and was removed a while back, air cargo romantics lamented the final chapter in the the rich history of the pioneering all cargo airline,...

The man who has been the singular Pied Piper of local air cargo clubs, trade associations like AfA and IATA, CNS and now FIATA, and seems to always be there for everybody else, Air Forwarders Association’s Brandon Fried is pictured in an endearing moment at home with Rhodes, the grandson blessing delivered to Brandon and Kim 14 months ago.

But while “baby its cold outside” this week and into the foreseeable future Brandon Is ...

Dear Hearts & Gentle People
Here are a group of people that everyone should know about when the question is asked ,”where in the world does air cargo reach out and help others asking for nothing in return?”.
This recent snapshot includes some folks serving on the board of Cargo Human Care (CHC). They are (from left) Dr. Thomas Berger, Gerhard Meyke, Dr. Wolf Cyran, Fokko Doyen, Sieglinde Reinhard, and Arno Pfeiffer.
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Getting stuck at the airport is often an interminable experience. It’s enough to pass through the welter of airport security, losing shoes and sometimes dignity to an impassive TSA crew, only to find oneself with few options for food aside from boiled-in-a-bag offal or questionable, plastic-entombed sandwiches. The culturally bereft limbo that exists between security’s point of no return and one’s boarding gate is a difficult terra...

Hi I am Flying Typers Executive Editor Flossie Arend.Every year around this time, we struggle to find new words to offer to our loyal Flying Talkers Broadcast listeners.

I am not immune to the warm responses inspired by our annual Christmas story, and I would be posturing if I said it doesn’t feel good to know it is so well received. However, the pressure mounts to say something new; to not rehash the things you already know; to p...

Express Yourself At Christmas 2024 …

Welcome to Flying Talkers Broadcast.

We loved looking at a picture we just received from Paris France Express Cargo that among other efforts serves 17 African destinations via Tunis

Express imagines a care free Christmas delivery creating a “look up into the sky” moment.

Here with all good wishes, International Air Transport Association tells its tale and  Air Forwarders Association Brandon Frie...