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Carriers cope with new demands from mass killer earth quake
MAJOR ocean carriers have made alternate arrangements in dealing with shippers affected by earthquakes affecting the Turkish Port of Iskenderun, reports London's Port Technology.
Earthquakes near the East Anatolia fault have resulted in widespread damage with more than 41,000 people believed to have been killed.
In response to the situation, carriers have implemented commercial measures to minimise the impact on customers and keep supply chains moving as efficiently as possible.
German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has suspended the acceptance of new export bookings from Iskenderun until the terminal recovers from the damages it suffered.
The existing bookings with no empty containers' pickups will have to be cancelled as the terminal cannot be used under current circumstances. As an option, customers can proceed with new bookings from Mersin.
The German carrier has also suspended the acceptance of new import bookings until the terminal is able to become operational again.
Maersk's relief packages also include a free COD service for containers on the water destined for the Port of Iskenderun or containers gated-in full at the first loading port bound for Iskenderun to any other port in Turkey.
This includes re-stowage, operational and admin fees, and COD in this instance will be initiated by Maersk.
Ocean Network Express (ONE) has offered commercial measures for affected shipments, offering free COD service for containers on the water destined for the Port of Iskenderun or containers gated-in full at the first loading port bound for Iskenderun.
Evergreen Line has also made some adjustments to its operations and services following the earthquake.
As per clause 21 of Evergreen Line's bill of lading, in-transit cargo intended for discharge at Iskenderun will instead be off-loaded at Mersin.
Customers with cargo to Iskenderun are advised to change the discharge port to Mersin and retrieve their cargo as soon as possible. Any COD charges will be waived until port operations return to normal.
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Ports of LA and Long Beach suffer January cargo declines
THE Port of Los Angeles posted a 16 per cent year-on-year January decline to 726,014 TEU while the adjacent Port of Long Beach suffered a 28.4 per cent decline to 573,772 TEU.
LA imports fell 13 per cent to 372,040 TEU while exports rose 2.5 per cent to 102,723 TEU. Empties came in at 251,251 TEU, a 26 per cent decrease.
"We expect softer global trade throughout the first quarter, particularly compared to last year's record-breaking start," said Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka.
"Many factories in Asia have had extended Lunar New Year closures, retailers continue to discount products to clear warehouses and inflation-led economic concerns remain top of mind for Americans," he said.
Long Beach imports were off 32.3 per cent, to 263,394 TEU, and exports were down 14.2 per cent, to 105,623 TEU. Empties were 29 per cent down at 204,755 TEU.
Said Port of Long Beach executive director Mario Cordero: "I remain optimistic that we will recapture market share and develop projects that will enhance our long-term growth, sustainable operations and the reliable movement of goods through the Port of Long Beach."
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OOCL names first of six 24,188-TEUers for Asia-Europe
HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), now a Cosco unit, has welcomed its first new megaship with the naming of the OOCL Spain, the first of six 24,188-TEUers ordered.
The OOCL Spain was built at the Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (NACKS) shipyard in Nantong, where the naming was held.
The ship is 400 metres long, 61.3 metres abeam and ranks as one of the largest containerships in the world, surpassing Evergreen's 24,004-TEU A-class vessels but less than MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company's MSC Irina and MSC Loreto which have a capacity of 24,346 TEU.
"The OOCL Spain is not only the first newbuilding that has been delivered to us in over five years, but it is also OOCL's first vessel with a capacity over 24,000 TEU," said OOCL chief executive Kenny Ye.
"More important, she is the first newbuilding received by OOCL since the company joined Cosco Shipping, and so it is the first vessel jointly created by OOCL and other sister companies," he said.
The OOCL Spain has been awarded three "smart ship" notations by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in recognition of its use of AI technology to optimise operations, helping to improve fuel efficiency, structural health monitoring and navigational safety.
The vessel is due to join OOCL's Asia-Europe service LL3 starting in March with a port rotation that includes Shanghai, Xiamen, Nansha, Hong Kong, Yantian, Cai Mep, Singapore, Piraeus, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Valencia, Piraeus, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and back to Shanghai in an 84-day round trip.
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HMM moves to methanol with US$1.12 billion vessel order
SOUTH KOREA's HMM plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions across its fleet by 2050 with help of methanol marine fuel, reports New York's Journal of Commerce.
Cash-rich HMM, formerly Hyundai Merchant Marine, will spend US$1.12 billion for nine dual-fuel methanol ships while locking in supply of the fuel in preparation for delivery of the vessels in 2025 and 2026, the carrier said.
Fresh off a hugely profitable 2022, HMM inked new construction contracts with South Korean yards Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and HJ Shipbuilding and Construction for the 9,000 TEU ships. The vessels will be deployed on trade lanes from Asia to North America and Latin America and on Asia-India routes.
"We will continue to drive efforts to support the global community's broader transition to carbon neutrality while at the same time strengthening our fundamental level of future capability in the face of increasingly fierce competition in the global market," HMM president and CEO Kim Kyung-bae said in a statement.
To ensure it has enough methanol to power the new vessels, HMM also announced it had signed deals with five fuel suppliers, including Proman, PTTEP, European Energy and Hyundai Corporation.
The carrier will conduct a feasibility study with each partner procuring various types of methanol in its main bunkering ports.
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US consumer demand falls, retailers move to reduce inventory
OCEAN shipments from Asia to the US declined sharply late last year as inflation sapped spending by American families on furniture and toys, reports Tokyo's Nikkei Asia.
Containerships brought 1.31 million TEU from Asia to the US in December, down 23 per cent from a year earlier, reports Miami's logistics researcher Descartes Datamyne. This marked the third straight month that the figure fell by about 20 per cent.
Asia-to-US freight dipped on the year in August for the first time in more than two years, and the decline has accelerated since. For all of 2022, container volume slid four per cent to 19.64 million TEU, the first annual decline in three years.
Inflation has eroded consumer purchasing power, softening demand for household goods and slowing ocean shipping, said an official at a containership company, echoing the sentiment among peers.
Furniture shipments started plummeting in the summer and logged a 28 per cent drop on the year in December. Despite the holiday shopping season, toys tumbled about 50 per cent for each of the last three months of 2022, with the quarterly total even falling below the 2019 level.
As a shortage of dockers caused logjams of ships through the first half of 2022, retailers rushed to bulk up inventories to keep plenty of products on hand. Such efforts subsided after supply chains showed signs of repair later in the year.
Freight from China, a big exporter of consumer goods, fell about 30 per cent on the year in each month from October to December, driving down the total. Demand for Chinese-made goods before the Lunar New Year holiday was weaker than usual as well.
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC shuns China investments
SINGAPORE's sovereign wealth fund GIC has put the brakes on private investments in China as it steps up scrutiny of risks in the world's second-biggest economy, reports London's Financial Times.
GIC, one of the world's largest investors in private equity funds, has scaled back commitments to China-focused private equity and venture capital funds over the past year, five people with knowledge of the matter said.
GIC, founded in 1981 as the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, has also slowed the pace of its direct investments in private Chinese companies.
Although GIC was an early backer of China's economic growth story, some of the fund's most senior figures have struck a more cautious tone on investing in the country during internal discussions over the past year, two of the people said.
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Foxconn leases Vietnam site as it reshores from China
APPLE's biggest contractor, Foxconn Technology Group, said it has secured a new site in Vietnam, as the Taiwanese giant pushes ahead with efforts to shift more production away from China, reports Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
Taipei-listed Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, has signed a lease with Saigon-Bac Giang Industrial Park Corp to occupy a plot of 45 hectares (111 acres) for around $62.5 million to meet "operational needs and expand production capacity," according to an exchange filing.
The site, located in the Quang Chau Industrial Park in Bac Giang province east of Hanoi, was rented through Foxconn's subsidiary Fulian Precision Technology Component Co. The lease will run through February 2057, the company said.
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Portland container traffic rebounds after labour dispute
SHIPPING container traffic through the Port of Portland has bounced back over the last three years, reports the Oregonian.
Portland's container volume was at its highest point last year since 2013, with 171,000 TEU passing in or out of Portland last year.
That's half of the peak activity Portland recorded in the 1990s, but is in line with container volumes in the years prior to the labour strife.
Portland's comeback is because of years of fence-mending, and from growing congestion at other west coast ports.
"Portland provides a great option versus trucking it a long way," said Port of Portland COO Dan Pippenger.
Portland made global news in 2015 amid a dispute between the port's terminal operator, ICTSI Oregon, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
It dated to a 2012 fight over which union was responsible for unplugging and monitoring refrigerated containers.
The union accused ICTSI of abusive management practices and the terminal operator accusing longshoremen of deliberately slowing work.
The pace of activity at the port ground to a crawl and major shipping lines pulled together.
"I personally have lived through enough National Labour Relations Board subpoenas to last me a lifetime," said Mr Pippenger.
It then recruited South Korean carrier SM Line to resume weekly container shipping through Portland beginning in 2020.
Initial expectations were modest, but Mr Pippenger declared the supply-chain crunch that accompanied the Covid crisis changed the equation.
"The supply chain challenges really opened everybody's eyes to the opportunity Portland provides," said Mr Pippenger.
"They were really pleased with the service they got, and that led to more calls."
Container traffic in Portland tripled over the past two years.
Mr Pippenger stated the port doesn't anticipate much growth this year, though, given the cooling global economy and ongoing uncertainty in China.
"Everything is softening in the transpacific trade right now," said Mr Pippenger.
"Labour productivity is very high, and there's no drama. Having SM Line in and showing it can work was very important to showing other carriers and shippers that Portland was back on the map."
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California AI firm finds lab to develop 'smart port' in PR
AN obscure, largely unused and useless Port of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico has had a new lease on life now that Scale AI wants to set up an artificial intelligence lab to develop a "smart port", reports Bloomberg.
Ponce now only handles bulk cargo and a handful of cruises, but no containerships, despite having two modern quay cranes, a 524,000-TEU capacity yard and berths to dock three 4,500-TEUers.
Fortuitously, the territorial government bought the two ZPMC quay cranes in 2009 for US$22.7 million, but they haven't run in years.
But this was a godsend for Scale AI, a California-based artificial-intelligence company, that plans to invest $2 million during the next 12 months to turn Ponce into a Smart Port Lab.
Normal ports are designed to operate at full capacity, with cranes shuttling containers from ship to shore 24/7. Thus, slowing down to do research is out of the question.
Scale AI wants to develop autonomous inspection systems, computer-assisted surveillance systems, and digital-receipt registries that will track and monitor container movement.
Said Scale AI managing director Michael Kratsios: "We have scoured the country to find a place that has this specific hardware and this specific area to build out. This is the one place in the United States where we can do this."
Scale AI intends to "bring global port operators from around the world to see and feel what a future smart port can look like," Mr Kratsios said.
Backed by the Founders Fund, Accel, and Tiger Global Management, the company had a valuation of $7.3 billion in 2021, according to its website.
Said Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi: "The smart port lab is another example of investments that are betting on Puerto Rico's sophisticated business ecosystem as an innovation leader in the Caribbean."
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Crane driver listened to music as he lowered box that killed man
A CONTAINER stacker was listening to music when he lowered a container that crushed a man in 2021, a coronor's court was told, reports Singapore's Channel NewsAsia.
The inquiry into 49-year-old Teo Ser Kiong's death occured after he was crushed by a 20-foot container at a construction site at 15 Pioneer Crescent Singapore.
The court heard that Teo, who worked for Allied Container (engineers and manufacturers), was at the work site with colleagues at the time.
Mr Teo was holding a stack of papers checking containers for damage when crane driver Arumugam Ganesan, 42, picked up the container from the second level and lifted it to the third level, before driving to another location.
While driving, Ganesan lowered the container to its intended location. Mr Teo was standing in front of the machine, and Mr Ganesan continued to drive forward. The machine struck Teo without Ganesan realising.
Ganesan realised something was wrong only when he used the machine to place the container on the ground and found that the container could not be lowered completely because of the obstruction the dead man's body posed.
According to Ganesan, he was listening to music at the time of the incident. The music came from a radio placed on top of the stacking machine, and he was not using his phone.
He also said that his line of sight was obstructed due to the lowering of the container while he was driving the machine forward.
An autopsy found Mr Teo's cause of death to be multiple injuries including several fractures. No foul play was suspected.
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World's 25 biggest seaports listed, top ports remain unchanged
EASILY topping the list of the 25 biggest ports in the world, Shanghai with its 43.5 million TEU in 2020 still leads, reports New Jersey's Insider Monkey as it presents its list of the top 25 seaports.
No 2 is Singapore with its 36.6 million TEU in 2020. It moves a fifth of the world's containers and half of its crude oil. Port operations in Pasir Panjang Terminal and PSA city terminals are to be closed in 2027 to make way for Tuas Mega Port.
No 3 is Ningbo-Zhoushan with its 28.7 million TEU in 2020. The Ningbo-Zhoushan port stretches across a coastline of over 220 kilometres with 19 port areas and over 200 large deepwater berths.
No 4 is Shenzhen with its 26.6 million TEU in 2020. Shenzhen Port refers to a collection of ports along the Shenzhen coastline, and is home to over 40 shipping companies and over 130 international container routes.
No 5 is Guangzhou with its 23.2 million TEU in 2020. Guangzhou boasts a maritime trade which reaches more than 300 ports in at least 80 countries.
No 6 is Qingdao with its 22 million in 2020. Qingdao Port is one of the largest ports in the world.
No 7 is Busan, South Korea, with its 21.6 million TEU in 2020. Busan Port is the largest port in South Korea, accounting for nearly 75 per cent of the total throughput of the country.
No 8 is Tianjin with its 18.4 TEU in 2020. In January 2023, Tianjin Port reported container throughput of 1.73 million TEU, with its throughput expected to reach 21.8 million TEU this year.
No 9 is Hong Kong with its 18 million TEU in 2020. Hong Kong has been integral in its development as a global hub and is among the busiest ports in the world.
No 10 is Rotterdam with its 14.4 million TEU in 2020. Rotterdam Port is the largest port in Europe, and the biggest outside of East Asia, and for decades, from 1962 to 2004, was considered to be the world's busiest port by tonnage.
No 11 is Jebel Ali, Dubai with its 13.5 million TEU in 2020. It is the largest man-made harbour in the world, built in the 1970s to add to facilities at Port Rashid, which is now a cruise terminal, with all port operations moved to Jebel Ali.
No 12 is Port Klang, Malaysia with its 13.2 million TEU in 2020. Port Klang was recently in the news after a child was found in a container in the port.
No 13 is Antwerp with its 12 million TEU in 2020 and is the second-largest European port.
No 14 is Xiamen opposite Taiwan with it 11.4 TEU in 2020. Xiamen handles coal, grain minerals, chemicals, containers, steel and petroleum products among others.
No 15 is Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with its 9.6 million TEU in 2020 is the biggest port in Taiwan, covering a land area of 1,871 hectares and boasts of 137 berths.
No 16 is Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia, with its 9.9 million TEU in 2020. Tanjung Pelepas is the second largest port in Malaysia and is part of APM Terminals.
No 17 is Los Angeles with its 9.2 million TEU in 2020. The Port of Los Angeles is the largest port in the United States.
No 18 is Hamburg with its 8.7 million TEU in 2020. The largest port in Germany, Hamburg is also the largest railway hub in Europe.
No 19 is Long Beach with its 8.1 million TEU in 2020. Adjoining Los Angeles, the Long Beach occupies 3,200 acres of land and 25 miles of waterfront.
No 20 are the Keihin Ports in Japan with their 8 million TEU in 2020. Keihin Ports consists of the ports of Kawasaki and Yokohama.
No 21 is Laem Chabang, Thailand, with its 7.6 million TEU in 2020. Laem Chabang Port is located 130 kilometres south of the capital Bangkok.
No 22 is New York-New Jersey with its 7.6 million TEU in 2020. The gateway to one of the most concentrated consumer market in the world.
No 23 is Dalian, China with its 6.5 million TEU in 2020. Dalian Port has established trading and shipping links which has more than 300 ports in over 160 countries.
No 24 is Colombo, Sri Lanka with its 6.9 million TEU in 2020. Colombo is the busiest and largest port in the Indian Ocean, and is part of one of the biggest artificial harbours in the world.
No 25 is Tanjung Priok, Jakarta with its 6.2 million TEU in 2020. Tanjung Priok is the most advanced seaport in Indonesia, and is based over 1,000 hectares.
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Maritime industry to address sexual assault and harassment
SEAMEN'S Church Institute president Mark Nestlehutt declared sexual assault, and sexual harassment (SASH) in maritime has been a focus for the institute, reports UK's Seatrade Maritime News.
Mr Nestlehutt stated the issue came into focus two years ago when cadets and midshipmen came forward to report cases of sexual assault and rape aboard vessels.
The issue was picked up by the institute, and the US Maritime Administration is trying to figure out how to address the problem.
"But it's not just an issue in the US. If you go to an IMO meeting or an ILO meeting, one of the concerns is sexual assaults, sexual harassment, answering questions like what kind of training needs there are, what sort of teeth there needs to be in any sort of enforcement, and how they would go about doing that," said Mr Nestlehutt.
The Seamen's Church Institute played a role in promoting the issue of shore leave provision for mariners in 2014.
Mr Nestlehutt hopes the institute can play a guiding role in tackling SASH issues and supporting work at the IMO, ILO, and the US Coast Guard.
Mr Nestlehutt stated the issue is to the detriment of the entire industry to tackle the challenges of attracting and retaining talent.
"If you're really talking about crew recruitment and retention, do you really want to have an industry that basically excludes 50 per cent of the workforce, because it's considered an unsafe environment or a hostile environment for them to work in?" said Mr Nestlehutt.
"At the Seamen's Church, one of the things we really advocated for along with other organizations is universal internet access for all mariners. I think some shipping executives or government agencies might hear that and think seafarers want to be able to stream Netflix while they're on vessels," said Mr Nestlehutt.
"Quite frankly, what universal internet access provides is the ability to be in contact with your family. It provides the ability to activate and utilise a lot of these new shore-to-ship services around mental health and counseling."
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Feeder ships soon to run from Izmail and Port of Constanta
FEEDER container transportation is planned to be extended to the port of Izmail in March, reports Ukraine's Odessa Journal.
The transportation has been carried out since the end of last year between the Romanian port of Constanta and the Ukrainian Port of Reni.
Iteris clarified that both services would work in parallel. The first ship call to Izmail is planned for the first week of March and will be receiving containers from Arkas, Zim, Maersk, and Hapag-Lloyd.
The schedule of ship calls involves arriving at each port on average once a week.
Containers will be accepted on the nearest available vessel and containers following the transshipment mode won't need to issue transit customs documents in the Port of Constanta.
In response, the company informed that containers in the Port of Reni are transshipped at the Viking Alliance terminal.
On average the terminal receives 150 containers for import and 400 containers for export once a week.
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Lufthansa Cargo freight face delays due to IT outage, strikes
LUFTHANSA Cargo had stopped bookings for cargo to and from Frankfurt and Munich after a compputer breakdown agravated by an airport strike, reports London's Air Cargo News.
The Frankfurt-hubbed cargo carrier said that during construction work in Frankfurt, fibre optic cables belonging to a telecom service provider were damaged during track work, causing the IT systems of Lufthansa Group airlines to fail.
Frankfurt Airport was closed for arriving flights and there were numerous flight delays, detours and cancellations, Lufthansa said.
The cargo carrier had initially stopped accepting freight shipments at Frankfurt and Munich airports but this has now been lifted thanks to "stabilisation measures".
"Customers can deliver their freight at these stations again with immediate effect," Lufthansa Cargo said. "However, processing and transport delays are still to be expected due to the heavy load in the system."
There is also an immediate "global booking freeze for cargo shipments to and via Frankfurt and Munich up to and including February 17 and flights are being re-routed.
"Lufthansa Cargo's flight schedule will be adjusted under observation of the current situation. Some freighters currently on approach to Frankfurt will have to be diverted to other airports," the carrier explained.
"The transfer of these affected flights back to Frankfurt is currently being examined. Connections via road feeder services will take place as planned."
Looking ahead, Lufthansa Cargo said that full recovery will take some time. "In this dynamic situation, all parties involved are working at full speed to find a quick solution to gradually reactivate the downed IT systems," the airline said.
The carrier also warned that cargo operations would also be affected by strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, due to take place tomorrow.
"The loading process of shipments is expected to be delayed due to the lack of ground handling staff being on strike."
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Ameriflight to buy 35 VTOL drones with one ton capacity
AMERIFLIGHT, America's biggest Part 135 Cargo airline, has announced plan to buy 35 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air cargo drones from Los Angeles-area Sabrewing Aircraft Company, reports San Francisco's Business Wire.
The agreement is for the Rhaegal-A aircraft, also known as "Alpha" with Ameriflight expecting delivery following type certification of the aircraft.
Using the VTOL capabilities to carry over a ton of cargo to off-airport alternative landing zones, the new cargo aircraft will allow Ameriflight to aid customers in developing a faster and more efficient warehouse distribution network, said the report.
Said Ameriflight president Alan Rusinowitz: "With a payload capability of 2,000+ pounds, the Rhaegal-A is perfectly suited for the medium lift category operation.
"Sabrewing's record-setting technology guiding Rhaegal-A as the world's first autonomous cargo aircraft capable of both vertical and conventional take-off is an incredible milestone, and we are excited to partner with them on this new fleet," he said.
Said Sabrewing CEO Ed De Reyes: "We're committed to developing advanced, versatile, and efficient air cargo solutions with our best-in-class Rhaegal aircraft that maximise on long range, payload capacity, and sustainable fuel efficiency to successfully deliver on a range of cargo missions."
This marks Ameriflight's second agreement to purchase autonomous aircraft after having signed with Natilus just last month on the purchase of its Kona aircraft, a 3.8-ton payload, short-haul feeder uncrewed aerial vehicle.
Ameriflight intends to use both fleet types in tandem with their current operation.
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New stricter US air cargo screening rules not viable, says AfA
NEW stricter US air cargo screening rules are not viable according to views expressed at the annual meeting of the Airforwader Association (AfA), reported London's Air Cargo News.
From November all cargo must be screened before it is loaded onto a freighter but a AfA panel urged the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to work urgently with shippers to address the impact of the new requirements.
The panelists said that the Certified Cargo Standard Security Screening Programme (CCSSSP), designed for bellyhold operations, is the only viable way to meet new screening requirements.
Meanwhile, they added that the TSA's proposed Secure Packing Facility (SPF) initiative is not a viable solution for shippers or air freight forwarders who tender cargo that is difficult to screen for freighter export.
"All security programmes across the various segments of the air cargo supply chain need to be aligned," said AfA executive director Brandon Fried.
"Industry needs TSA's strong support in messaging the shippers that the CCSSSP - which would regulate shippers tendering cargo that is challenging to screen using existing approved security methods - is the only realistic available option to continue to move their cargo," said Mr Fried.
The CCSSSP will need to be adapted to include the acceptance and handling elements of the various freighter security programmes if it is to be used for the new requirements.
In addition, the TSA also needs to update the regulatory framework to include freighters, he said.
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Global Crossing Airlines Group to start cargo flights
GLOBAL Crossing Airlines Group (GlobalX) has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration for cargo operations and expects to commence flights with its first A321 Passenger to Freighters (P2F) aircraft soon, reports London's Air Cargo News.
Miami-based GlobalX now has one A321P2F and is expecting the second A321P2F to arrive by mid-March, with the third A321P2F to be delivered in May.
The first A321P2F aircraft was converted by ST Engineering and delivered to Miami International Airport (MIA) in December.
GlobalX is scheduled to take delivery of an additional three A321P2Fs in 2023, and two in 2024.
Additionally, GlobalX is working to finalise leases on lessor commitments for another five A321P2Fs to be delivered in the 2024-2025 time frame.
"This is a tremendously significant milestone for GlobalX on our path to being one of the leading narrowbody charter operators for both passengers and freight in North America," said GlobalX CEO Ed Wegel.
"Our expansion into cargo has always been a key aspect of our growth strategy to diversify our revenue streams and maximise the use of all of our assets," said Mr Wegel.
"We are also particularly honoured to be the first airline in the Americas to operate the A321F, and we believe this aircraft is a game changer in the narrowbody freighter market we thank ST Engineering for their total support during the conversion and delivery of this aircraft."
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