Schiphol’s slot dilemma – and no end in sight

Leading airports focus strategically and economically on growth rather than contraction. An exception is Schiphol. There, the municipality of Amsterdam demands that the number...

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Trump decapitates TSA

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been without leadership since Monday (20JAN25). After Trump was sworn in as...

The ticking of the TikTok ban…

170 million U.S. TikTok users – many of them small businesses - are facing a potentially life-changing situation, today,...

Ostend becomes the center of the cargo world

At least temporarily, because on the initiative of Ostend-Bruges International Airport, this year's World Cargo Summit will take place...

JetSMART and ECS give cargo a new spin

In our last CFG issue, we featured the groundbreaking Total Management Contract (TCM) which the Paris-based ECS Group recently...
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Spotlight on… Denis Ilin, CEO, e-Smart Logistics

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series inspects a different area of the air cargo industry every week. In the past 5-10 years, the industry has...

Niedermeyer joins freight carrier AeroLogic

What is the world's least known air freight airline operating a fleet of more than 20 cargo aircraft? The answer is probably Leipzig-Halle-based AeroLogic....
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I want to be like Dieter

Exactly ten years ago, Ram Menen, Emirates SkyCargo's former visionary divisional senior vice president, exclaimed these words: “When I'm older, I want to be...

Hybrid eVTOLs on the Horizon

On 05NOV24, Aviation Business published an article highlighting a growing optimism surrounding eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) technology and suggesting that 2025 could...
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Newcomer Hungary Airlines receives AOC

The Hungarian Civil Aviation Authority, as part of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM), has issued an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and operating...

Time-critical logistics consolidation accelerates

What do DANX Carousel and logistics heavyweight, DSV, have in common? Both are based in Copenhagen, Denmark, are active in the transport sector, and...
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Spotlight on… ULDs across the world

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different area of the air cargo industry to the fore each week. Usually, we focus on people,...

Astral Aviation sticks to Boeing, intends to grow its fleet

After plans of operating Embraer 190 P2F converted freighter aircraft went to ashes, Nairobi-based Astral Aviation intends to grow its fleet by adding Boeing...

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CBP Agents confiscate counterfeit goods

For the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) watchdogs, 2025 began with two success stories. At the cargo warehouse in New York’s Champlain Port...

BER develops against the odds

Berlin (BER) Airport and long-haul traffic? According to most aviation experts, this was a hopeless venture. Regional pan-European operations yes, but intercontinental flights? Most...

The future’s coming – like it or not!

That was the message driven home by Germany’s best-known futurologist and director of Europe’s largest trend research institute, 2b AHEAD, Sven Gábor Jánszky, at...

Argentina to build South America’s first SAF plant

The province of Chubut in Patagonia is large in area (224,686 km²), but very sparsely populated, with only around 600,000 inhabitants. There, in the...

Achievements in Air Cargo Handling Logistics

The panel bearing the same title at the ACHL/Aviation Connect event in OCT24, covered a record number of topics in the brief half-hour accorded...

Spotlight on… Parveen Raja, Publisher & Owner, EVA International Media Ltd.

CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ series brings a different area of the air cargo industry to the fore each week, showcasing the vast sea of...

Change is in the air

This week, cargo veteran, Andrey Andreev joins CargoForwarder Global as a guest author, with his impressions gathered during a recent trip through Germany, Belgium,...

Six trends shaping patient-centric pharmaceutical logistics in 2025

Around 4% of all air cargo tonnage transported globally each year is made up of temperature-controlled pharmaceutical shipments. This highly valuable and sensitive air...

Aviation in the Baltic Sea region opts for Hydrogen

A total of 16 airports and aviation companies are involved in the H2 initiative, which was launched shortly before the turn of the year...

Drones are on the rise