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A trade war truce twinkles in the dark
The recent announcement, muted as it was, of a partial solution to the nearly two-year trade war between the US and China, while not the end of the the fracas, could and should be viewed […]
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Is the US-China trade war re-jigging trade lanes?
With the clearly worsening trade war between the US and China, marked by US President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade on the eve of the G7 summit in France, including his ‘ordering’ of US companies out […]
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Will Presidential reprieve fuel any form of a peak?
With US President Donald Trump partially relenting on his earlier announced plans to impose 10 per cent tariffs on virtually all remaining Chinese imports into the US on 1 September, one could be forgiven for […]
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A whole new cup of chai for iPhone supply chains
There is no doubt that air cargo supply chains have benefited substantially from the manufacture of Apple’s iconic iPhones in China, but a serious wake-up call may be coming as high-end iPhone production diversifies to […]
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Could Trump be right on the UPU?
The US threat to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) agreement on postal rates by 2020 has sent a wake-up call through the 192 member, 145-year old United Nations postal body and indeed beyond, […]
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Trade wars bad for some, not-so-bad for ‘bystander nations’
The warning shots were fired in late-January when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that a faster-than-expected slowdown in China could damage “systemic financial stability, as it lowered its 2019 projection for economic growth globally. […]
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Made in China? Increasingly not anymore.
The recently announced move by sports video camera maker, GoPro to shift part of its manufacturing out of China within the next six months clearly won’t have much of an impact on the gigantic economy […]
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IATA’s e-AWB struggle: Where does de-fault lie?
The recent announcement from IATA that effective 1 January 2019, the electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) will become the “default contract of carriage” for all air cargo shipments on enabled trade lanes, was a bit of […]
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Lion Air crash: The noise of social media ‘aviation gurus’
The unfolding tragedy of Lion Air flight JT 610 is now playing out on the flat, tepid seas off the Java coast of Indonesia, as search and rescue personnel comb the waters for debris from […]
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Can India’s newest and only maindeck carrier SpiceXpress survive?
Today is the day yet another Indian airline makes history – and in this case, probably in a good way, seeing as it is the start of the country’s only maindeck cargo operation. Granted, it […]