CoverINT 12/19/07 1:29 PM Page 1 WWW.AIRCARGOWORLD.COM JANUARY 2008 INTERNATIONAL EDITION TheThe GreeningGreening ofof AirlinesAirlines 2008 Air Carriers Guide • Pearl River • Northwest Cargo ANA_International 12/4/07 10:29 AM Page 1 01TOCINT 12/19/07 1:01 PM Page 1 INTERNATIONAL EDITION January 2008 CONTENTS Volume 11, Number 1 COLUMNS Greening 10 North America the Fleet New freighters and new 18 No longer a novelty, trans-Pacific routes are just a environmental concern for few of the growth plans of the air freight fleets worldwide revitalized Northwest Airlines is becoming an accepted Cargo part of the business. 12 Europe Fresh organic produce shipped by air could be curtailed significantly if one UK association has its way • Gulf Partners 16 Pacific Pearl Despite the adverse affects River Delta of high fuel-costs, Vietnam’s potential as a center of cargo 26 Already a center for grows as production increases manufacturing, the Pearl • Targeted Buy River Delta is becoming one of the faster growing gateways for cargo in China DEPARTMENTS Air Carrier 2 Edit Note 31 Directory 4 News Updates The 2008 Guide to Air Carriers includes the who, 44 People where and how for the 46 Bottom Line world’s cargo-carrying airlines, as well as capacity 48 Events in the air and in the pipeline. 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Vice President, It may surprise some that the aviation community has been wrestling with Production & Manufacturing Meg Palladino Director of Circulation John Wengler the issue, and making strong progress, for years. In fact, you might call that an President, BACK Aviation Steven G. Casley inconvenient truth. 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The World Connected 04NewsUpdateDOM 12/19/07 1:28 PM Page 4 UpdatesNews by air freight and used ocean instead earlier in the fall,” he said. “When they found their stocks short, they started ordering by air, but that just created a bubble in November that didn’t last. It was an ‘on-off’ peak, one that was delayed and then short-lived.” The big impact, he said, wasn’t necessarily in the daily market for common carriage but in charter, a big money-maker for many carriers that took an early holiday break in 2007. Qantas Pleas antas Airways pleaded guilty Qand will pay a $61 million fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix rates for international air cargo, becoming Freight’s ‘On-Off’ Peak the third carrier to reach a plea et fuel prices looked something like a horror movie to air- agreement with the U.S. Depart- lines toward the end of 2007, but some in the industry wor- ment of Justice. ry that they may have been merely a coming attraction. “Qantas’ guilty plea sends a clear JWith fuel surcharges running at record levels right behind message that those who engage in the increases at the pump, carriers and air forwarders face the price fixing and other forms of ille- prospect of dramatically high operating costs heading into the gal collusion will pay a heavy price first quarter, suggesting the period’s traditionally slow demand for their crimes,” said Thomas O.