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CAAS Winter 2022

The latest phase in the recovery from Covid, bringing the return of significant levels of passenger air services and cargo bellyhold capacity, is positive news in most respects. But it comes with additional complications, and airports and their cargo stakeholders have been juggling numerous challenges, including handling staff shortages, as highlighted in the Europe report on pages 20-29.
For cargo-specialist airports, a lowered requirement for freighters has led to a slowdown of growth, although the renewed focus of big metro airports on passenger services has reminded freighter operators of the benefits of cargo-focused gateways....

The return of passenger air services has particular implications for Schiphol and its cargo community, and Schiphol has also been responding to a further lowering of annual flight movement limits and restrictions to its cargo footprint to make way for expanded taxiways. Its solutions are based around more efficient processes and use of space, driven by digitalisation and collaboration, as highlighted on pages 30-36. ...

Carriers also continue to push forward with initiatives to build and better use their capacity, networks and infrastructure. For Emirates, this includes new investments in freighters, expanded partnerships, plus further digitalisation initiatives. New potential opportunities emerging include more direct relationships with shipper customers and the provision of wider end-to-end services, highlights SVP for cargo Nabil Sultan (pages 10-14).
Meanwhile, Russia’s brutal and barbaric assault on Ukraine since February continues to have major implications for air freight, not least on the air cargo charter market (see pages 16-19), where it has reduced aircraft availability and weakened economic growth, but also triggered humanitarian demand and led to renewed investment from energy companies generating big project movements. Charter demand has softened in consumer-focused verticals such as e-commerce, although it remains strong for verticals such as automotive, pharmaceutical and healthcare, government and humanitarian.
During the pandemic, many forwarders and their clients put in place long-term air cargo charter programmes to secure supply chains. That seems set to reverse, although with business travel still not returning to pre-Covid levels, demand for freighters to support supply chains continues on key lanes.
Elsewhere, the 2022 Air Cargo Handling & Logistics (ACHL) conference and exhibition was back to a real-world gathering for the first time in three years, with more than 400 delegates making it the busiest ACHL ever (see pages 44-47). Although digitalisation, infrastructure and standards were major and recurring themes, the topic most frequently highlighted was the need to attract, recruit, train and retain new, young and diverse talent within the sector (see pages 48-55). That looks set to be an ever-more important theme for the sector – and for this publication.

CAAS 16 - Ups And Downs In The Air Cargo Charter Market. Nei

CAAS 15 - SATS Agrees Funding And Outlines Synergies For WFS

CAAS 14 - Sabrewing Cargo Drone Breaks World Record On First

CAAS 13 - Recruiting, Training, And Retaining Staff. Air Car

CAAS 12 - New Purpose - Built Pharma Handling Centre At Cathay

CAAS 11 - Keeping All The Balls In The Air. As Air Capacity

CAAS 10 - Jan De Rijk Logistics And Air France KLM Introduce

CAAS 09 - Dronamics And Cranfield To Develop Hydrogen - Fuel T

CAAS 08 - Creating A Connected Cargo Ecosystem. Yuval Baruch

CAAS 07 - Connecting With The Customer. Nabil Sultan, Senior

CAAS 06 - Building Predictable Cargo Processes. The Last Thr

CAAS 05 - BUD Cargo City To Expand Capacity To 300,000 Tonne

CAAS 04 - AfA Calls For Urgent Investment In US Airport Cargo Operations

CAAS 03 -Aeroterm Selects Lödige For JFK Modernisation Project

CAAS 02 - ACHL Conference Returns With Record Attendees. Air

CAAS 01 - Editor's NOTES, Will Waters. WINTER 2022, Issue 4

CAAS Winter 2022

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