Logging onto an air cargo web site to book space for your shipment is so 2010s. Forwarders and airlines looking for speed and efficiency are plugging directly into each other’s systems to match loads.
API, or application programming interface, may soon become a common three-letter word in the air cargo space by making the booking experience similar to shopping on Amazon.
CHICAGO – After transforming its under-performing passenger operation over the past decade into one of the best managed and profitable global carriers, Delta Air Lines [NYSE: DAL] is now focused on improving other aspects of its business, including cargo. The company’s capital expenditures in cargo-related technology and systems are paying off in improved service and […]
Radiant Logistics posts a good quarter, but warns that peak shipping season isn’t shaping up heading into the holidays.
Air Transport Services Group (NASDAQ: ATSG) reported a 219% increase in third-quarter operating profit of $105 million. The outsourced provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com’s Prime network and other customers generated $366 million in revenue, up 79% from the same period in 2018. The gains mostly came from one-time occurrences: earnings from operations benefited […]
North America has surpassed North Asia (China) as EXPD’s highest revenue region.
Airline’s Pacific and Atlantic routes hardest hit as trade wars continue to take a toll on air freight volumes and yield.
Read what Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is doing to stay relevant and its importance to U.S.-international trade.
Shawn Cole spotlights Delta’s large-scale cargo operations, which is bigger than you might expect.
The world’s second-largest 3PL does not expect a rebound in air cargo markets until the second half of 2020.
Market expert Jesse Cohen writes about the 2019 air cargo market to date, and industry personnel look ahead to 2020.
The next FreightWaves Live event has added air cargo to the range of topics discussed, with a variety of expert speakers who can help attendees understand factors influencing today’s market. The conference is November 12-13 in Chicago at the McCormick Place convention center. The agenda is packed with content on freight brokerage, on-demand app-based freight […]
Freight shipments and expenditures declined on a year-over-year basis again in September according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report. The firm now believes that the index is “signaling an economic contraction.”
Big air trade drops with major trading partners leaves industry looking for backfill
The International Air Transport Association said Wednesday that overall global demand for airfreight declined at a faster rate in August than July, contracting 3.9% compared to 2.4% the month before. And international airfreight volume fell 4.6% year-over-year versus the 3.3% decline in the previous month. The July figure is a revision from the previously reported […]
Pilots donned oxygen masks and returned to Vancouver after shipment of durian filled the 767 with the fruit’s notoriously noxious aroma.
FreightWaves adds more depth and market insight to the existing tender volume and air freight data, along with new weather forecasting details, in its SONAR platform.
Transparency has become something of a buzzword in the logistics industry, and that is exactly what Hangar A hopes to provide shippers with its new SaaS-based solution.
“Flight shaming” campaigns failed to recognize that airlines only account for 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
