CoverINT 12/21/06 3:00 PM Page 1 WWW.AIRCARGOWORLD.COM JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2007 INTERNATIONAL EDITION The Air Carriers2007 Directory Eastern Airports • Cargo Security • Building ABC COV2,001:SHIPMaster 12/20/06 8:09 PM Page 1 www.boeing.com COV2,001:SHIPMaster 12/20/06 8:10 PM Page 2 The new 777 Freighter is a powerful extension of Boeing’s leadership in providing over 90% of the world’s freighter capacity. In addition to more than 100 tons of payload, the 777 offers operators unmatched freighter efficiency and range. Enabling customers to fly more cargo to more places, more profitably. To take their freight business further every day. 02TOCINT 12/21/06 2:01 PM Page 2 INTERNATIONAL EDITION JanuaryMonth Year 2007 CONTENTS VolumeVolume 10, #, NumberNumber 1# COLUMNS 10 North America Under the new Democratic 2007 majority control, its likely a bill Carrier requiring 100 percent screening Directory of all belly cargo will pass Con- gress • Domestic slips The 2007 Guide to Air Carriers includes the why, 12 Europe where and how for the Volga-Dnepr now lays claim world’s air cargo carriers to being Russia’s largest cargo carrier, showing remarkable 19 growth of its two-tiered opera- tion • Naming Spohr Photo by Rob Finlayson 16 Pacific China may still be the growth king, but Vietnam’s potential as center for commerce is attract- Eastern ing a lot of attention from manu- facturers and air cargo interests Airports With runways pointed to a mature trans-Atlantic mar- ket, Eastern U.S. airports see their greatest cargo 32 prospects in Asia DEPARTMENTS 4 Edit Note 6 News Updates 42 People 44 BACK Aircraft Report 46 The Bottom Line 48 Events 10 Cover photo courtesy WWW.aircargoworld.com Kansai International Airport Air Cargo World (ISSN 0745-5100) is published monthly by Commonwealth Business Media. 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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: LOCAL CUSTOMER SERVICE, WWW.ALITALIACARGO.COM 02EditorialINT 12/21/06 2:59 PM Page 4 Editor’s Note International Trends & Analysis Editor Paul Page • [email protected] Managing Editor Robert Moorman • [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 (202) 355-1170 • Fax: (202) 355-1171 GROUP PUBLISHER Assets Noreen Murray • (973) 848-7082 • [email protected] he air cargo industry in 2007 flies into a market marked by Publisher important and growing gulfs between businesses and moves Steve Prince • (770) 642-9170 • [email protected] Advertising/Business Office Tby several operators to rebuild business models that are at 1080 Holcomb Bridge Rd. • Roswell Summit the very foundation of the freight business. Building 200, Suite 255 • Roswell, GA 30076 (770) 642-9170 • Fax: (770) 642-9982 The year just ended brought the industry aircraft a slew of new names, a se- New England & Reprints, Classified Sales ries of aircraft that have never flown before and businesses with models that Laura Rickman • [email protected] are even now being refined and redefined. (770) 642-8036 International Advertising Offices On the surface, the idea that companies named CEVA Logistics and Agility Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East David Collison • +44 192-381-7731 will be buying up large swaths of space over the next couple of years on 777 [email protected] Japan and 747-8 freighters shouldn’t be too surprising; the names keep changing, Masami Shimazaki • +81-3-5456-8230 but the principles are still the same. [email protected] Thailand Chower Narula • +66-2-641-26938 Yet there are bigger changes behind the names. CEVA is the [email protected] result of one of the more drastic and assured changes of busi- Taiwan Ye Chang • +886 2-2378-2471 ness model in the cargo industry in recent years, a dramatic [email protected] Australia, New Zealand shift by TNT aimed at the most basic questions of the freight Fergus Maclagan • +61-2-9460-4560 [email protected] industry and the logistics industry. They may be two indus- Sri Lanka Jaiza Razik • +94-133-3424 tries entirely intertwined, but they are two entirely distinct in- [email protected] Korea dustries, said TNT. Mr. Jung-won Suh • +82-2-3275-5969 That came as two of TNT’s competitors, UPS and Deutsche [email protected] Administrative Assistant Post-owned DHL, struggled to integrate acquisitions they made Susan Addy • [email protected] to broaden geographic reach and service portfolios, taking Display Advertising Traffic Coordinator Tracey Fiuza • [email protected] them even closer to a “one-stop-shop” ideal. But the asset- (973) 848-7106 based business of operating planes and trucks is where the money is as far as the Electronic Rights and Syndication Barbara Ross • [email protected] Dutch mail and express giant is concerned, and enabling supply chains may (973) 848-7186 make a fine academic research papers but can be a drag on the bottom line. CUSTOMER SERVICE OR TO SUBSCRIBE: (888) 215-6084 That’s long been the case at FedEx, where founder and Chairman Frederick W. Smith finds his profits growing not through managing inventory but in moving the inventory, especially in moving it fast. FedEx made what looks at first to be a relatively basic, albeit high-profile decision to switch from the A380 freighter to 777s. 400 Windsor Corporate Park 50 Millstone Rd., Suite 200 But a closer look says the deal is more than just a swap in aircraft. The A380 East Windsor, NJ 08520-1415 was to be FedEx’s main trunk carrier, a massive hauler of big volume on long (609) 371-7700 • (800) 221-5488 President and CEO Alan Glass routes that would feed smaller regional paths. The 777 is smaller and more Senior Vice President, CFO Dana Price flexible, giving FedEx the ability to shift operations around to meet changing Vice President, Magazine Group Peter Tirschwell market demand. That’s a big advantage, of course, but presumably it’s one Group Publisher Noreen Murray President, PIERS Brendan McCahill FedEx weighed when it pressed Airbus to launch the A380 freighter alongside Vice President, Directory Databases Amy Middlebrook the passenger version. Vice President, Human Resources Kenneth P. Slivken Vice President, Now, FedEx appears to be looking at the international cargo market in a dif- Production & Manufacturing Meg Palladino ferent way. New equipment and new players in the market will do that to a Director of Circulation John Wengler Director of Creative Services John White business model. President, BACK Aviation Steven G. Casley 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 website at www.aircargoworld.com 4 AirCargoWorld January 2007 Project5 2/7/06 11:55 AM Page 1 06NewsUpdateDOM 12/21/06 2:49 PM Page 6 UpdatesNews UPS may be better off waiting for Airbus to cancel the freighter pro- gram. Such a plan would most likely guarantee UPS compensation for its unrealized A380 orders. Airbus did get some goods on the plane last month. The U.S. Depart- ment of Transportation certified the plane in a Toulouse ceremony at- tended by Federal Aviation Adminis- trator Marion Blakey so operators will be able to fly the plane into the United States, including cities such as Louisville. And two major carriers endorsed the passenger version last month. Singapore Airlines put in a new order for nine of the planes and Qantas, which has been critical of Airbus for production delays, boosted its orders Freighter’s Hard Landing from 12 to 20.