CoverINT 8/25/06 11:54 AM Page 1 WWW.AIRCARGOWORLD.COM SEPTEMBER 2006 INTERNATIONAL EDITION CargoCargoTopTop 5050 AirlinesAirlines Freighter Forecast • Southeast Asia • Canada Project1 8/17/06 9:57 AM Page 1 swissworldcargo.com We care for your cargo. For every consignment, we have a commitment: special care. Due to our know-how and highly skilled staff we guarantee that your cargo will arrive safe and sound. And, of course, exactly on time – at more than 150 destinations in over 80 countries. 01TOCINT 8/25/06 11:48 AM Page 1 INTERNATIONAL EDITION September 2006 CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 7 COLUMNS Top Cargo 10 North America Airlines Guenter Rohrmann is retiring 22 The annual ranking of after 47 years at the forefront of the world’s top 50 cargo car- changes in the air forwarding in- riers by traffic, with aircraft dustry • Forward Air up orders and cargo revenue. 12 Europe Azerbaijan’s role in global trade is a couple of millennia old, but Baku’s airport is seeking a place in modern air cargo lanes • Schiphol jumps Freighter 16 Pacific Forecast Japan Post is seeking com- From the Boeing World fort in All Nippon Airways’ reach Air Cargo Forecast, a look at now that a deal with TNT is where upper-deck lift is go- falling away • India’s customs ing over the next two decades. Southeast Asia 30 Tranquility is a hallmark of much Southeast Asian culture, but airline moves in the freight market are any- DEPARTMENTS thing but tranquil thanks to volatile fuel prices. 2 Edit Note 4 News Updates 44 Cargo 52 People 54 Bottom Line Canada Canadian air trade used 56 Events to be built on bellies but open skies and global trade are boarding cargo on the 38 upper deck. WWW.aircargoworld.com Air Cargo World (ISSN 0745-5100) is published monthly by Commonwealth Business Media. Editorial and production offices are at 1270 National Press Building, Washington, DC, 20045 USA. Telephone: (202) 355-1172. Air Cargo World is a registered trademark of Commonwealth Business Media. ©2006. Periodicals postage paid at Newark, NJ and at additional mailing offices. Subscription rates: 1 year, $58; 2 year $92; outside USA surface mail/1 year $78; 2 year $132; outside US air mail/1 year $118; 2 year $212. Single copies $10. 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POSTMASTER and subscriber services: Call or write to Air Cargo World, Customer Care Department, 400 Windsor Corporate Park, 50 Millstone Rd., Suite 200, East Windsor, NJ 08520-1415, USA; telephone (888) 215-6084 September 2006 AirCargoWorld 1 02EditorialINT 8/25/06 1:45 PM Page 2 Editor’s Note International Edition Editor Paul Page • [email protected] Contributing Editors Roger Turney, Ian Putzger Mike Seemuth Art & Production Director Jay Sevidal • [email protected] Editorial Offices 1270 National Press Bldg., Washington, DC 20045, U.S. Terrorism +01 (202) 355-1170 • Fax: (202) 355-1171 he airline industry furor following the announcement in Lon- PUBLISHER Steve Prince • +01 (770) 642-9170 • [email protected] don that a horrific terror plot had been foiled wasn’t directly about freight transportation but the security alert will rever- U.S. Business and Advertising T 1080 Holcomb Bridge Rd. • Roswell Summit berate across the air cargo industry. Building 200, Suite 255 • Roswell, GA 30076 U.S. +01 (770) 642-9170 • Fax: +01 (770) 642-9982 The first impact, of course, came in London as airlines scrambled to re-route Assistant to Publisher freight shipments while carriers and forwarders tried to determine whether new Susan Addy • [email protected] limits on carry-on baggage would lead to restricted cargo capacity in bellies. But International Advertising Offices Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East David Collison • +44 192-381-7731 the longer-term impact on freight shipping became clearer as the security talk [email protected] Japan in the United States turned from hair gels to cargo. Masami Shimazaki • +81-3-5456-8230 The complaints that most freight shipments placed in the belly holds of pas- [email protected] Thailand Chower Narula • +66-2-641-26938 senger aircraft are not physically screened came quickly and [email protected] they resonated more than ever across the country as this Taiwan Ye Chang • +886 2-2378-2471 month’s fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. [email protected] Australia, New Zealand Of course, there have been plenty of calls from politicians for James Tonkin • +61-2-4385-1746 Sri Lanka full physical screening of cargo on passenger aircraft but those Jaiza Razik • +94-133-3424 [email protected] generally have fallen flat as U.S. security officials have pursued a Korea Mr. Jung-won Suh • +82-2-3275-5969 layered approach that includes the known shipper rule, random [email protected] Classified Advertising and Reprints screening and targeted searches. There’s a growing recognition Tamara Rodrigues • [email protected] among transport industry officials, however, that the way air +01 (770) 642-8036 Display Advertising cargo is handled and screened will have to change. Traffic Coordinator The good news for shippers and air operators is that there is Tracey Fiuza • [email protected] rapid progress on the technology to screen freight shipments and the speed and +01 (973) 848-7106 Electronic Rights and Syndication efficiency so important to carriers is a prominent part of the research. Barbara Ross • [email protected] Cargo is being screened at London Heathrow and at Amsterdam Schiphol. And (973) 848-7186 a promising research effort will begin in October at San Francisco International CUSTOMER SERVICE OR TO SUBSCRIBE: +01 888-215-6084 Airport, where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin a pilot pro- gram to screen cargo for explosives in a project directed by the Lawrence Liver- more National Laboratory working with experts in other federal research groups. 400 Windsor Corporate Park The $30 million Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Program will take place 50 Millstone Rd., Suite 200 at SFO and at two unnamed airports will be added later. East Windsor, NJ 08520-1415 Researchers will “seek a better understanding of the economic impact of (609) 371-7700 • (800) 221-5488 these changes on the air carriers and how they do business,” the Livermore lab- President and CEO Alan Glass Senior Vice President, CFO Dana Price oratory said in announcing the program. Vice President, Magazine Group Peter Tirschwell That is critically important in freight transportation because the methods President, PIERS Brendan McCahill used in baggage screening simply cannot be moved to the freight business. Vice President, Directories Group Amy Middlebrook Screeners of industrial shipments aren’t simply looking for the outlines of guns Vice President, Human Resources Kenneth P. Slivken Vice President, and knives. Production & Manufacturing Meg Palladino What screeners are looking for is a sense of real security. When they find that Director of Circulation John Wengler President, BACK Aviation Steve Casley in London or San Francisco, airlines other carriers and other shippers will feel much more secure. POSTMASTER: Send address change to: Air Cargo World, 400 Windsor Corporate Park, 50 Millstone Road, Suite 200, East Windsor, NJ 08520-1415. © 2006 Commonwealth Business Media Inc. — All Rights Reserved For more information visit our Web site at www.aircargoworld.com 2 AirCargoWorld September 2006 Project2 8/17/06 10:11 AM Page 1 04NewsUpdateINT 8/25/06 1:46 PM Page 4 UpdatesNews gage took away some cargo capacity in the days after the alert but that they expected to adjust in coming weeks. Critics of cargo security, meantime, said the threat demonstrated gaping holes in aviation security and said they would revive efforts in the Unit- ed States to require full physical screening of all cargo transported on passenger jets. Wall Suspends he rapid ascent of freighter star- Ttups in China took a sharp step backwards with the grounding of Great Wall Airlines amid a contro- versy over sanctions imposed by the United States. Screening New Airline Threats Great Wall, the Chinese cargo car- rier backed by Singapore Airlines new threat of bomb attacks on trans-At- that began 747 freighter flights in lantic passenger flights from England June, suspended operations last sent the world’s aviation system into month after the U.S. imposed sanc- Aturmoil, sending dozens of airlines tions reportedly linked to missile scrambling to redirect cargo out of one of the shipments to Iran. world’s largest freight gateways and raising the The sanctions against the China specter of longer-term changes and new security company with a controlling interest directives. in the airline was the latest evi- The arrests of members of an alleged terror cell in the London area a month dence of increased U.S.