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EMIRATES
SKYCARGO LANDS TOP HONOUR FROM
AIR TRANSPORT WORLD
 Airline
Receives Award for Innovation and
Record-Breaking Performance
Photo:Ram
Menen (right), Emirates Divisional Senior
Vice President, Cargo, accepts the "Cargo
Airline of the Year" award from Air
Transport World Senior Editor Aaron Karp
(left) at the 2007 Airline Industry
Achievement Awards gala.
DUBAI,
U.A.E. Emirates, one of the world's
fastest growing international airlines,
has been awarded "Cargo Airline of the
Year" by the editors of Air Transport
World, a leading monthly magazine serving
the global airline
industry.
"Emirates
is delighted to win the esteemed ATW Cargo
Airline of the Year award and be
recognized by experts in the airline and
cargo industry," said Ram Menen, Emirates
Divisional Senior Vice President, Cargo.
"At Emirates SkyCargo, we have aimed to
achieve the highest standards of product
quality and customer care. We are
honoured that Air Transport World has
identified us as one of the top airlines
that has characterized itself through
outstanding performance and
service."
Last
year, for the first time in its history,
Emirates SkyCargo carried more than one
million metric tonnes of cargo and
generated more than $1 billion in revenue.
"Beyond the strong growth rate, SkyCargo
is distinguished by its ongoing innovation
in air cargo transport, developing systems
and strategies that reverberate beyond
Dubai," Air Transport World editors said.
Emirates
Airlines
TIACA
SELECTS AMSTERDAM AIRPORT SCHIPHOL TO HOST
ITS AIR CARGO FORUM IN 2010
EL
AL CARGO AWARDS HANDLING CONTRACT TO WFS
AT LONDON
HEATHROW
CARGO
2000 and IATA e-freight join forces to
simplify business of air
cargo
IATA
e-freight and Cargo 2000 will coordinate
their energies for the benefit of the air
cargo industry. They have committed to
work together on common industry process
and standards, built on a unified campaign
to drive quality and complete industry
coverage for electronic data
interchange.
Continued
Calgary,
Alberta Canada Hosts Air Cargo Forum and
Exposition
Check for
new location for 2007. The International
Air Cargo Association's vision of creating
a neutral forum for stimulating
discussions and solutions among all
segments of the air cargo industry has
created a biennial event recognized
internationally as the world's premier air
cargo event. The 2006 edition will be held
in Calgary, Canada, September 12-14.
Attendees at ACF events in Bilbao, Hong
Kong, Paris, Washington and other
crossroads of international commerce since
1962 have not come "simply to do
business." They gather biennially to
analyze the state of the industry; discuss
its problems challenges; and network
together to solve problems and maximize
opportunities. Discussions and decisions
made at biennial Air Cargo Forums are far
reaching only into the commercial world
but into governmental policy making as
well as academia. Web
site:http://www.tiaca.org/content/acf2006/history.asp
South Africa
attracts world project cargo experts in
March 2007. More
->
Boeing Forecast
Sees Air Cargo Strength Continuing
Industry
Will Rely Increasingly on Large
Freighters
SEATTLE:
The global air cargo market, currently
showing significant strength through a
flurry of new freighter orders, is poised
for strong 20-year growth, during which
The Boeing Company forecasts that the
world freighter airplane fleet will double
from 1,760 to 3,530
airplanes.
In
West Coast Air Cargo,YVR Vancouver Ranks
Number Two
by
Dave Frank
 The
final numbers are not in yet, but it is
sure looking like a dramatic milestone
will soon be cracked by YVR - we're about
to be "Number Two." There are six key
international gateway airport on the West
Coast of North America: Portland,
Anchorage, Seattle, Vancouver, San
Francisco and Los Angeles. The significant
changes one sees in the terminal and cargo
areas of YVR reflect Vancouver's goal of
being the best gateway airport in that
list. That gateway airport strategy has
been paying off and in a couple months
every one's going to notice. YVR will move
into second place in international
passenger movements.
Let
me put that another way; LAX and YVR will
be the two leading passenger gateways on
the West Coast of North
America.
From
a personal perspective, I find this very
exciting. Remember when the Airport
Authority took over stewardship of YVR,
people talked about our city's position
versus Seattle? At that time, if one even
hinted that maybe before 2000 YVR would be
passing a powerhouse airport like San
Francisco in terms of international
passenger traffic, the response would have
been "are you feeling okay?
x
n
,,
Thanks
to Shane
Holland
at VISTAS, a quality number-tracking kind
of guy, it is clear that as of the end of
October 1998, the score was YVR 6,293,680
international transborder passengers to
5,6934,164 at San Francisco. In previous
years YVR's had the lead before going into
the year end but slipped behind at the
last moment. But 1998 looks like it has a
pretty good lead to me. As well, YVR is
almost ahead in weekly flights to Asia
(YVR, 98, San Francisco + 100 departures
this Summer)
So, about March expect many people to
start chanting "We're number two' Why is a
cargo person writing about YVR's
international passenger traffic? The cargo
and passenger businesses are inseparably
linked. Where travellers go, cargo goes.
The more people passing through YVR, the
more flights and options the cargo
industry has for moving freight. The
better positioned Vancouver is as a
gateway linking international markets ,
the more business there is, and the more
freight there is. It's not rocket science.
but it sure is important.
In
fact, I bet some sharp person could
probably show that the developments at the
airport - passenger and freight - and our
increasing role as a gateway between North
America and international markets have
kept the province out of being in a
recession. The economic impact of
passenger traffic is unbelievable. Job
creation from freight development is even
higher. We're Number Two I wonder if I
could get away with suggesting that we are
now looking at becoming Number
one?
Dave
Frank is managing director of the ICC
International Commercial Centre - Canada's
leading foreign trade zone and YVR's
fastest-growing. Dave was one of the first
persons we contacted when founding Air
Highways Magazine. He has been a speaker
at our Air & Marine Tourism
Conferences and was active in the efforts
to create the Open Skies transborder air
agreement between Canada and the
USA.
Phone
ICC International Commercial Centre:
604.244.3144, fax 604.244.3104
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