One year as a freight-only carrier 
On 19 March 2020, United operated its first flight carrying cargo without passengers on board. While the passenger cabin was empty, its cargo hold was completely full, carrying more than 14.5 t of commodities from Chicago to Frankfurt. A year later, United Cargo has operated... more
First female COO
Constance von Muehlen will become Alaska Airlines’ first female chief operating officer on 3 April 2021. As a member of the executive committee, she will report to Ben Minicucci, who will assume his position as CEO on 31 March 2021. Von Muehlen succeeds current COO Gary Beck,... more
A continental network
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) have entered into a merger agreement, under which CP has agreed to acquire KCS in a stock and cash transaction representing an enterprise value of USD 29 billion. Following final approval from the surface... more
ANA Cargo: more transpac capacity
Starting in exactly one month, on 23 April 2021, All Nippon Airways (ANA) will employ B777F on cargo flights between Los Angeles and Tokyo NRT. The Japanese carrier opted to use the Triple Seven for this service because ot its maximum load capacity at roughly 100 t,... more
Finance guru for growth in Asia
Emergevest, a private equity investment group with holdings that include EV Cargo, one of the largest private logistics companies in UK, has appointed Lawrence Lim as director with responsibilities for investment origination, execution and portfolio management. Lim joins... more
New routes for holiday airlines
In April, Swiss will be using A340s operated by its holiday airline Edelweiss on unusually short routes: the wide-bodied aircraft are to be deployed around 20 times between Zurich and London Heathrow, carrying only cargo rather than passengers. More such flights are planned... more
Nola delegates communications executive
Erin Burns, who has been director of communications at New Orleans airport (MSY) for three years, has been elected to serve on the steering group of the marketing, communications & customer experience committee of Airport’s Council International-North America (ACI-NA).... more
EVP to expand intermodal segment
Milestone Equipment Holdings, which offers transportation equipment leasing solutions, has hired Phil Shook as executive vice president, domestic intermodal, effective immediately. He will lead the expansion of Milestone’s domestic intermodal segment and oversee other marketing... more
Alliance to ship vaccines
The global airline alliance Skyteam Cargo has launched "V Excellence", which covers the transport of Covid-19 shipments moved under the members' product family "customised vaccines", offering priority handling, and "specialised pharma", the solution... more
Crew crisis on the rise again?
Shipping companies fear that the number of seafarers affected by the crew change crisis is on the rise due to travel restrictions imposed by governments to combat the new variants of the virus. The latest industry analyses show that 200,000 seafarers are currently affected, a... more