With Gert-Jan Jansen, Ryan Keyrouse co-founded Rotate in June 2022 armed with a mission to ‘turn data into action’ – by developing and disseminating software products, strategic consulting and market data designed to empower carriers, airports and other airfreight businesses in their commercial decision making.
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Rates from the US have started rising again to China but remain slightly lower both to Europe and to South America, air cargo price monitoring agency TAC Index, reports.
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“The counterweight to this good news [for air cargo] is uncertainty over how China’s economic slowdown will unfold,” Willie Walsh, IATA’s director general, points out.
“This will be on the minds of air cargo executives meeting in Hong Kong next week for the IATA World Cargo Symposium with an agenda focused on digitalisation, efficiency and sustainability,” he underscores.
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Guillaume Crozier, dnata’s senior vice-president for UAE cargo and global cargo strategy, insists: “These advancements have a direct positive impact on our airline customers who benefit from heightened accuracy, reduced turn-a-round times and smoother logistics operations.”
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“Outbound Shanghai plummeted by 10.7 per cent week on week (WoW) to leave that at 6.6 per cent down YoY. That [performance] contrasted with rates out of some other major hubs in Asia – with strong gains again for a second successive week on rates from India both to Europe and to the USA, as well as from Vietnam again to the USA,” air cargo price reporting agency TAC notes.
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Fabio Brocca, the new chief product officer Xeneta – a global ocean and airfreight market data analytics benchmarking platform – underscores: “When you are transforming an industry, you must think long term. What we think is needed today may not be what’s needed tomorrow, so it is a continuous pursuit of innovation.”
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Adrien Thominet, executive chairman of French air cargo general sales and services (GSSA) ECS Group, points out that it offers a system and procedures that enable airlines and postal operator customers to continue using their own documentation processes, regardless of whether they use CNs or AWBs (airwaybills). “Our plug-and-play Mail EDI system, at no extra cost, is the digital interface translating and linking the two digital data channels,” he explains.
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The Hong Kong airline group’s chief customer and commercial officer Lavinia Lau reveals demand for Cathay’s cargo services started to improve from the second week of January. “We observed an increase in tonnage across our entire network.”
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The European global airline conglomerate’s ground handling agent intends to make new digital advances by introducing two apps aimed at improving live data capture – along with software for optimising the loading of cargo on trucks thereby accelerating the handling of perishable goods in particular.
