Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ hands the mic to an individual working in a particular segment of the air cargo industry, to demonstrate just how varied careers here can be. For example, did you know that much of...
Board member Pierre Dominique Prümm will leave airport operator Fraport AG on 30JUN26. Neither he nor Fraport’s press office has disclosed a reason for this surprising move. His employment contract would have remained valid for several more years, but...
This maxim has held true since the days when Albert Ballin was CEO of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line. In him, the globalization of trade and the exchange of goods found an early and staunch advocate. That was more than...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ examines a specific section of the air cargo industry through the eyes of someone working there, to illustrate the many different careers it offers. One important link in logistics are cargo handlers –...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global shines its ‘Spotlight On…’ a particular segment of the air cargo industry to show just how many factors interact with each other to move shipments across the globe. General Sales and Service Agents (GSSA) act...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ gives the stage to an individual working in a particular segment of the industry, to showcase their function and demonstrate how varied career paths can be in air cargo. Airlines naturally play a...
When you sit down with your cup of coffee or tea and swipe through the articles in your air cargo publication of choice, do you ever stop to think about how these news outlets make money? If and how...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ highlights the many different paths into and across the air cargo industry. An airport’s air cargo volumes and attractiveness to air freight operators is largely dependent on what it offers by way of...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ showcases a specific segment of the air cargo industry, to illustrate the many functions contributing to international logistics. Air cargo logistics plays a crucial role in the transport of life science and pharmaceutical...
Torsten Wefers, the former VP Marketing & Sales at Liège Airport, has been appointed Head of Cargo Commercial Europe at the airport service provider Swissport in Frankfurt. FRA is Swissport’s largest branch in Germany and one of its busiest...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ shows just how varied careers in air cargo can be, and how different the many business structures are. Company sizes can range from organizations employing over 100,000 people across the globe, to just...
Following IndiGo’s CEO, Pieter Elbers recent resignation, the next helmsman of an Indian carrier has quit his job: New Zealand-native Campbell Wilson. He steps down from his post at Delhi-based Air India after accomplishing the privatization and merger of...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ picks out a specific segment of the air cargo industry, passing the mic to someone working there, to illustrate their function. In such a fragmented industry where so many different aspects need to...
Every week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ highlights a specific aspect of the air cargo industry as an illustration of just how many functions are involved in global air freight logistics. Aside from the physical aspect of building up and...
Glyn Hughes, Director General of TIACA, is stepping down at a moment when the air cargo industry is under pressure to evolve. After more than four decades in the sector - and five years leading the association - his...
There are women running cargo terminals at some of the world's busiest hubs. Women negotiating significant freighter contracts. Women writing the code that underpins digital cargo booking platforms, and women mentoring the next generation of aviation logistics professionals. Yet...
Eric Malitzke has been named new Chief Operating Officer (COO) Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). WFS is the leading global handling agent and, since SEP22, member of the Singaporean SATS Group. In his...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ examines a different area within the air cargo industry, showcasing the many, varied career paths it offers. In an industry that is literally constantly on the move and where its processes are ultimately...
On Friday (13MAR26), Cargo chief, Torsten Wefers stepped down from his post as Vice President Sales & Marketing at Liège Airport (LGG). The manager had moved from Cologne Airport in 2022, and held the position at LGG for exactly...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ showcases a particular area within the air cargo industry, to demonstrate the wide variety of careers it offers. Digitalization is the absolute foundation for safe, secure and efficient cargo processes, these days, enabling...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ brings a different segment of the air cargo industry to the fore, to illustrate the many functions involved in carrying cargo from A to B. Without pilots, there would be no air cargo....
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) launched a tsunami of press releases last week, in the wake of its media web-conference on 04MAR26. While the press conference detailed a great many points from member growth, through to white papers...
CargoForwarder Global’s ‘Spotlight On…’ looks at a different aspect of the air cargo industry each week, to illustrate the huge variety of careers available. Given the ongoing struggle to find new air cargo talent and the managers of tomorrow,...
Every Sunday evening, CargoForwarder Global publishes a ‘Spotlight On…’ a particular contributor to air cargo, to illustrate the many different careers and roles this industry offers. Alongside traditional stakeholder posts at airlines, airports, freight forwarders, handling agents, ground service...
Each week, CargoForwarder Global shines its ‘Spotlight On…’ a specific segment of the air cargo industry. So many different people and processes all need to interact and function well in order to ensure safe, efficient, flowing air cargo logistics....
