Tag: Air Transport

British Airways has launched a competition for new longhaul aircraft by issuing tender documents to aircraft and engine manufacturers.

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

Airbus and Boeing, and engine manufacturers, Engine Alliance, General Electric and Rolls Royce plus other key component suppliers, have been invited to bid. British Airways’ CEO, Willie Walsh, said: “For the past four years, we have grown capacity by using our aircraft more efficiently.

In order to continue to grow our longhaul business we now need additional longhaul aircraft. We remain committed to generating an economic return for our shareholders. Launching the competition highlights the need for us to address our GBP 2.1 billion pension deficit.

With a combination of firm orders and options, we are planning for both growth and fleet replacement into the next decade. Environmental performance will be one of the key criteria in our choice ensuring greater fuel efficiency, reduced noise and emissions.”

Walsh said that the first aircraft to be replaced are the 20 B747s and 14 B767s, which will be around 25 years old. Subject to the outcome of the RFP competition, orders are expected to be placed during next year. Aircraft being considered for the airline’s longhaul fleet are the A330, A350, A380 and B787, B777 and B747-8. www.ba.com

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Shanghai overtakes Tokyo as top city for CPS bookings, Unisys Says

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

Shanghai, South China’s major air logistics hub, moved slightly ahead of Tokyo in September as the city from which forwarders are making the most air cargo bookings on Unisys-operated Cargo Portal Services (CPS). Tokyo forwarders had previously led as early adopters of CPS, so this change demonstrates that their performance can be replicated elsewhere.

The 5 top cities generating the most CPS air cargo bookings after Shanghai were Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, Beijing and Los Angeles. Unisys had reported on Tokyo’s previous top position in April 2006 (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/news_a_events/04288654.htm).

“These results demonstrate the value of a global multi-carrier booking portal like CPS and the willingness of forwarders, especially in Asia and North America, to make bookings electronically,” said Christopher Shawdon, vice president and partner, Logistics Solutions at Unisys.

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Kerry Logistics expanding their network to India

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

Following the expansion in Central Europe in September, Kerry Logistics (hereafter called “KL”) has just acquired 51% share of Reliable Freight Forwarders Pvt Ltd (hereafter called “RFF”) in India and will be renamed as “Kerry Reliable Logistics Pvt Ltd. “.

Established in 1996, RFF is an Indian-based freight forwarding company. On top of the head office located at Chennai, RFF has 5 branch offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Tirupur and Tuticorin. Riding on its solid foundation, RFF offers value-adding supply chain management solutions and provides comprehensive logistics services in India, including international sea and air freight forwarding, local transportation with self-operated trucking fleets, inland container depots, container freight stations, shipping agency, contract and project logistics.

China and India have been identified by the global economists as the “Asia Power Houses” in the recent years. Kerry Logistics has already established a comprehensive Pan-China Network with 120 self-owned offices and over 100 cargo facilities in Mainland China. With the new venture in India, KL’s Asian network is further strengthened for empowering their global/regional customers to rise to the challenges of their supply chain in Asia.

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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings and DHL to form strategic partnership

Posted by | Oct 16, 2006 | |

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (AAWW), leading provider of global air cargo services, announced today that its subsidiary, Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc., has executed a letter of intent for DHL to acquire a 49% equity interest, including a 25% voting interest, in the scheduled-service business of Polar Air Cargo, Inc. (Polar), in exchange for USD150 million in cash.

The proposed transaction includes a strategic 20-year commercial arrangement that will ensure DHL access to aircraft capacity in key global markets, while providing the AAWW companies with a valuable, long-term customer and potential revenue stream in excess of USD3.5 billion over the full-term of the agreement, although there are certain early termination rights at five-year intervals. In addition, DHL will have access to available additional aircraft capacity from AAWW’s subsidiary Atlas Air, Inc. (Atlas).

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Retailers in dogfight for air cargo space

Posted by | Oct 13, 2006 | |

The retail war has now moved to the skies. Retail companies are fiercely competing against each other to acquire cargo aircraft in a bid to put their backward logistics in place.

The proposed retail models being pursued by the retailers would demand speedy transportation of perishable goods, for which all agri hubs across the country need to be well connected.

This move by the retailers is also expected to throw up new opportunities for the airline companies in the cargo business. Several airline companies including low cost carriers like Air Deccan and Go Cargo among others are drawing up plans of expanding the cargo infrastructure.

While upcoming retail ventures like Reliance and Bharti are already in talks for striking long term strategic alliances with some international as well as domestic cargo fleets, others like Tatas, Birlas and RPG are learnt to be mulling similar options.

On the other hand, to leverage opportunities that this may throw up, some prominent low cost airlines are also venturing into dedicated cargo fleet. Experts say low cost airlines, already marred by increasing losses would want to leverage their existing infrastructure to grab a pie of the burgeoning retail sector.

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