One week before the Barcelona summit, leading industry associations from Germany and France have come together to call on the governments of their two nations to abandon their reluctance to reform and take the lead in pushing forward the flagging liberalization process within the European Union.
Read MoreThe new firm generated by the merger of Schenker-BTL and Schenker Ltd operates a total of 18 branches in the United Kingdom with a staff of approximately 490. The company has stated that it is targeting an annual turnover of over GBP 92 millionIhe new firm has been named Schenker Limited.
Read MoreThe aviation industry has had a difficult year. As if a flattening out of economic activity, which resulted in lots of unoccupied space, were not enough, the events of September 11, 2001 reinforced the negative trend and put the air carriers under even more pressure: Airfreight volumes, according to Iata, decreased by 8%. The head of Lufthansa Cargo, Jean-Peter Jansen, spoke about the industrys future prospects.
Read MoreInternational Post Corporation (IPC) members maintained their high-quality delivery performance for international letters last year, despite disruptions to air transport and security alerts following the events of September 11.
During 2001, an average of 92 per cent of European air mail letters reached their final destination within three days of posting. According to quality of service monitoring results just released by IPC’s UNEX system, more Postal operators are now meeting EU targets on mail streams where few, or no direct transport links are available. During 2001, over three-quarters of the 306 country-to-country streams monitored by UNEX were achieving at least 85 per cent
of deliveries within three days, compared with just one-third in 1994 when monitoring began, and one half in 1997.
LUFTHANSA Cargo has come out with a confidenceboosting assessment of the medium- and long-term prospects for the global airfreight market.
Its views on the industry’s future are spelt out in a new, unique, worldwide study which the all-cargo airline conducted in cooperation with consulting firm MergeGlobal (MGI).
It predicts that the worldwide air cargo industry will experience a strong growth surge next year as it pulls out of the nosedive which started in 2000 and gathered pace last year.
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