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MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Gateway to Miami, to Florida and to the Americas www.miami-airport.com facebook.com/iflymia @iflymia ASK US ABOUT ASIP4, OUR MOST INNOVATIVE AIRLINE INCENTIVE PROGRAM 8`ic`e\ZXi^fi\gfik Encouraging signs and risk factors PARVEEN RAJA ;\X[c`e\cffdj Publisher ACC3 security solutions ONWARDS [email protected] G_XidX]XZkfi New GDP rules tighten cool chain Forwarder focus Regional reports What the customer really wants Asia + Europe, Russia & CIS JGI@E>&JLDD<I)'(+NNN%:8I>F8@IGFIKJ8E;J<IM@:<J%:FD & UPWARDS! ROSA BELLANCA s you may have noticed, Cargo Airports & Services Commercial Director has become Cargo Airports & Airline Services (CAAS). [email protected] But as you will hopefully also notice when you read A the magazine, our editorial focus remains essentially MAX RAJA unchanged. Sales Manager Aiming to examine key challenges, opportunities and best [email protected] practice from around the world, CAAS will retain its focus on all aspects of the airport cargo environment, from infrastructure design and management, to cargo handling quality, standards BHAVI ATUL Conference Coordinator and processes, and from airline cargo outsourcing and hub <;@KFIËJEFK< [email protected] management to human resources and information and communication technology. Indeed, I think it is fair to say the magazine is recognised as the leading provider of independent SHELDON PINK editorial coverage of the worldwide air cargo operations sector – a Graphic Designer/Production [email protected] reputation that we intend to maintain. This re-branding is intended to underline the extensive coverage of airline cargo operational issues within the magazine and the SHOBHANA PATEL obviously central role airlines play in all aspects of the air cargo Head of Finance handling chain – including as carrier, cargo handling service fi [email protected] provider, revenue generator, outsourcing decision-maker, and customer to airports, RFS operators, and third-party cargo handlers CHARLOTTE WILLIS and other suppliers. Events Administrator 5HÁHFWLQJ WKLV VLQFH RXU ODXQFK WKUHH \HDUV DJR HDFK LVVXH [email protected] has included an Airline Focus interview article with a senior airline executive with responsibility for operations and handling. This will continue in CAAS, although future issues are likely to contain two such airline interview articles per issue, in response to positive feedback from our readership about the value that they place on these articles. Address changes and subscription orders to: [email protected] 7KLV FXUUHQW LVVXH DOVR LQFOXGHV RXU ÀUVW $LUOLQH &DUJR 5HSRUW ISSN 2054-8958 examining some of the latest airline cargo trends that affect the airport cargo operations environment. Our intention is to repeat this EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR in next year’s Spring/Summer issue, as a complement to the Top Martin Roebuck Cargo Airports Report that we feature in our Autumn/Winter issue. Elsewhere in the magazine, CAAS will continue to view the most pressing issues affecting this sector from multiple perspectives, via PUBLISHED TWICE A YEAR BY EVA International Media Ltd analysis, surveys and in-depth interviews with airports, airlines, cargo 25 Burcott Road, Purley handlers, freight forwarders, trucking companies, technology and Surrey, CR8 4AD, UK Tel: + 44 (0) 20 8668 9118 infrastructure providers, and other suppliers to the sector. 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Essen- were discovered en route to the US. tially, this was a series of promises to the looming, Thanks to Saudi intelligence, explosives civil aviation authority of an EU member Martin Roebuck packed in computer printer cartridges, state (and this by extension to the whole which had travelled on both passenger EU) to the effect that cargo would not be looks at the aircraft and freighters without detection, accepted unless it was fully secured and challenges and were intercepted at stopovers in Dubai the carrier was aware of what the shipment and at East Midlands Airport in the UK. was, where it originated and what had hap- implications of The narrow escape led, just 10 months lat- pened to it in transit. compliance – and er, to the adoption of Regulation EU1082, EU1082 enters into force on 1 July. known to those carriers affected as ACC3. )URPWKLVGDWHDFDUULHUZLOOEHDEOHWRÁ\ non-compliance The acronym stands for “air cargo or mail cargo into the EU only if an independent + :8I>F8@IGFIKJ 8@IC@E<J<IM@:<JJgi`e^&Jldd\i)'(+ We’re dedicated to your success Schiphol’s expert Cargo team provides total support to its industry partners, facilitating and creating a competitive and streamlined logistics marketplace. Through our intensive understanding of logistics, and by connecting the industry with government and researchers, we bring value and opportunity to your business. Creating connections www.schiphol.com/cargo J<:LI@KP validator, accredited by a member state, KDV FRQÀUPHG WKDW WKH FDUULHU·V RSHUD tions meet required security standards at DQ\DLUSRUWWKDWLVDÀQDOSRLQWRIGHSDU ture for Europe. 6SHDNLQJ DW D PHGLD EULHÀQJ LQ 'H For many months after the adoption of EU1082, nothing was done about recruiting and training cember, Mike Woodall, project leader for the small army of validators that were going independent validation and regulatory to be needed engagement at IATA, said this was likely to be a less complex issue for non-European carriers that typically operate to Europe – even if it is to multiple locations – from a single hub or a small number of major airports. However, European carriers are in the reverse position, and will have to validate most of the stations across their networks from which they operate into their home hubs. IATA believes more than 1,000 stations are likely to be affected immediately by EU1082, while a consultancy that made its own assessment on behalf of the Eu- URSHDQ &RPPLVVLRQ DUULYHG DW D ÀJXUH RI 700 airports requiring validation this year, and 2,700 more by 2019. Exemptions There are exemptions. Woodall, who is on a two-year secondment to IATA from his role as head of security regulation at the 8.·V 'HSDUWPHQW IRU 7UDQVSRUW H[SODLQV that airports in countries that are outside the EU but in the European Economic Area forwarders that provide screened or se- this process and the company is now re- (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), plus cured cargo to carriers to volunteer to be peating the exercise at the new Dubai World Switzerland, which is outside the EEA but independently validated in their own right Central airport, where it hopes to be vali- has a similar agreement with the EU, are instead of multiple times by each carrier, dated by May.