www.airlogisticsinternational.com August 2020 CARGO SCANNING 11 Southwest success MACHINE LEARNING 16 Forecast looking good DIGITAL PROGRESS Update on sector adoption AUGUST 2020 • AIR LOGISTICS INTERNATIONAL 20 POST COVID-19 30 Just what will the future hold? Joining up the dots LATAM Cargo profile Connecting the air cargo community ISSUE 4 / VOLUME 3 AUGUST 2020 CONTENTS 12 16 MANAGING EDITOR Alwyn Brice tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR Felicity Stredder tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] DESIGNER Heather Woodley tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] PRODUCTION 26 30 Sejal Patel tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] COMMMERCIAL MANAGER Anthony Smith tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] PUBLISHER Marc Young tel: +44 1322 221144 e-mail: [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Matt East & Beth Poole Air Logistics International is published in February, April, June, August, October & 5 Editor’s welcome 16 Machine learning December. Subscription rate per year applies to UK and overseas: Sanitisation: should we be washing our American Airlines’ cargo operations Qualifying subscription: £64 or ¤92 or US$100 Non-industry subscription: £170 or ¤240 or hands of it? reach a new high, notes Alwyn Brice US$250 7 Logistics update 18 Cargo data CDM for a better ground operation; Input from two industry sources: can Rhenus in strategic move; and an their findings help the sector predict? extended app from Nallian 20 Digital progress www.markallengroup.com 10 Cargo carrier focus A cross-section of the cargo The Editor interviews LATAM Cargo on community offer opinions - and advice Published by MA Business a Mark Allen Group Company the months leading up to the pandemic Hawley Mill, Hawley Road, Dartford, 25 Freight strategy Kent DA2 7TJ. Tel: 01322 221144 11 Cargo scanning Matt East of GHD considers COVID-19 in CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER MARK ALLEN GROUP Southwest’s low-tech idea has brought the light of a catalyst Jon Benson tel: +44 1322 221144 it many benefits. Alwyn Brice reports e-mail: [email protected] 26 Environmental update © 2020. All rights reserved. No part of Air Logistics International may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by 12 Charter update Is the sector moving towards a greener any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, As COVID-19’s grip has embraced the recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without future? The Editor thinks so permission in writing from the Publisher. world, so the charters have been in The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of the editor or the Air Logistics International. Advertisements in the great demand. The Editor looks back journal do not imply endorsement of the products or services 30 Post COVID-19 advertised. Cargo authorities look at what may lie Front cover courtesy of LATAM Cargo 15 E-commerce Print - ISSN 2633-2450 in store once the pandemic subsides Online - ISSN 2633-2469 Beth Poole of Ti believes that there has been a dynamic shift in the Printed by Pensord Press Ltd, NP122YA marketplace, as online sales take over 34 Cargo loader focus from the high street Alwyn Brice profiles CIMC Air Marrel www.airlogisticsinternational.com August 2020 3 Miami International Airport Driving Excellence in Pharma Transport • Largest CEIV Pharma Airport Community in the Western Hemisphere • Most on-airport refrigerated facilities for temperature controlled products in the hemisphere • Greatest access to Latin American and Caribbean Region markets • Founding member of PharmaAero. Learn more at www.Pharma.Aero Pharma gateway of the Western Hemisphere www.miami-airport.com iflyMIA | [email protected] EDITOR’S WELCOME Sanitisation he S word has been doing the rounds for some weeks now. Sanitising has become a mainstream word in the wake of TCOVID-19. The days of the 25 minute turnaround are already history: preparing a passenger aircraft now requires an hour or more. Likewise, cargo aircraft are subject to thorough cleaning measures as they rotate. But it’s not just about sanitising aircraft: there is a broader need for the world’s population to follow medical guidance and adopt safety measures (like masks) without question. That way, confidence will return to this beleaguered sector, as well as others. Yet daily I read of instances where certain sections of society, who clearly know better, ignore such medical advice, and carry on as if there were no viral threat. However, sanitising has extended beyond the present. I read earlier this month of the decision by the authorities at RAF Scampton in the UK to remove the headstone of a dog that died there in 1943, and replace it with another, reworded version. The dog in question was a black Labrador, the flight mascot that belonged to Guy Gibson, 617 Squadron’s Wing Commander. By MISSION contemporary accounts, it was very much one of the group and STATEMENT provided distraction at the airbase during a time when young pilots’ lives were typically measured in terms of sortie numbers. ALI comes from the same team responsible On May 16, 1943, Gibson led the squadron to attack the Mohne and for the well-established Eder dams in Germany in an effort to cripple that country’s industrial titles of Ground Handling strength. That same evening, the Labrador, whose name is now International and Ramp considered racially offensive, was accidentally run over and killed at Equipment News. As such, it builds on over the station. The incident was kept from the flight members for fear of it 20 years of industry being interpreted as an ill omen. experience and, with All of which raises the question: should we be sanitising the past? a comprehensive and skilled team of writers Or, perhaps, should we be learning from it in order to forge the based in both Europe future? and the US, aims to bring the reader up to date with the world of air transportation. Alwyn Brice, Editor www.airlogisticsinternational.com August 2020 5 Meet ECAC TSA Performance Qualified Standard ® EMIS EMIS 130200 FOR PALLETIZED CARGO AUTOMATIC SCREENING FOR NON-METALLIC CARGO INSPECTION OF PACKAGES AND PALLETS OF EMIS 8075 FOR PACKAGE INSPECTION ¬ Perishable goods and flowers ¬ Paper products ¬ Textiles and Clothing ¬ Plastic and wooden products AUTOMATIC DETECTION LOW COST NO DEDICATED AND HIGH THROUGHPUT OF OWNERSHIP OPERATOR T +39 0575 4181 E [email protected] W www.ceia.net/security/emis Threat Detection through Electromagnetics LOGISTICS UPDATE RHENUS’ Streamlining ground STRATEGIC operations RELOCATION s the air logistics industry struggles normally the agent loses control of the goods On May 11, Rhenus Air & Ocean back to resume its vital role, there is a once they leave the warehouse. The data moved from Herstal, in Belgium, Agreater than ever need to reduce costs can be shared to international airports and to its new location some 20 and for more transparency and effi ciency in handlers, thus helping to predict and track kilometres away at Liège airport. all aspects of the supply chain process. This the complete cargo process accurately.” The reason behind the move has is especially true of ground operations, where Congestion at large airports has become been that of the strategically cargo can often be delayed unnecessarily, a major cause of delays, increasing pollution advantageous position in the so- thereby creating expensive and unacceptable and cost. called Golden Triangle that links delays. The recent pandemic has thrown a “This problem of congestion on the Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. new light on air cargo operations and the forecourt is frequently discussed, one At the new branch, Rhenus Air & need for more effi ciency and digitisation. possibility being that of not allowing Ocean plans to offer multi-modal To deal with this pressing need for better trucks to enter the handling agent’s site solutions and expand Rhenus’ solutions, a recently launched innovative before registration and approval has been global airfreight network. collaborative decision making (CDM) completed. The message that the cargo is Handling more than 900,000 trucking platform offers transparency, ready for loading and the assigned door tonnes of transported goods a predictability and a slot allocation planning number can be received by drivers via the year, Liège is Belgium’s largest mechanism to streamline the loading CDM platform. Not only does this improve freight airport and the fastest and unloading process between trucking the fl uidity on the site, but the truck growing cargo airport in Europe. companies and handling agents. Handling driver can follow instructions without the A multitude of large airlines and agents can allocate timeslots and door intervention of the company’s management.” charters, like Qatar Airways, numbers and anticipate through real time The project has been launched initially in AirBridgeCargo and Ethiopian ETA update times from trucking companies’ the Netherlands with a view to expanding it Airlines, use Liège as their drivers, thus ensuring optimal effi ciency throughout Europe and beyond. Participating European hub and link it with and avoiding long delays. Raoul Paul, CEO pilot partners include AirBridge Cargo, numerous regions worldwide. and founder of CargoHub’s Trucking CDM Menzies World Cargo, Swissport, dnata, Jan “In addition to attractive platform, explains the thinking. de Rijk, Fast Forward Freight, supported by fl ight schedules, Liège airport “The main advantage of the CDM Air Cargo Netherlands. has excellent multi-modal platform is to share relevant connections, which will enable data and information between us to offer our customers more all stakeholders involved in the air and rail freight products in truck movement, enabling them addition to sea freight products in to make the best decisions to the future,” Frank Roderkerk, CEO avoid delays. This is especially of Rhenus Air & Ocean Northern important as it allows the Europe, notes.