As part of a strengthening of its team in the UK,
the U-Freight Group has promoted Daniel Ludlow to
Operations Director of U-Freight UK, its subsidiary in the
UK. Ludlow started his career in the freight industry as
a trainee export clerk with U-Freight UK in 2006, then
worked in the freight forwarder’s import department,
before becoming Export Supervisor.
Imperial Logistics International has appointed
Robert Berganus to the newly-created post of Chief
Operating Officer Contract Logistics, with effect from
April 1 2020. Based in Zurich
and Duisburg, Berganus will be
responsible for contract logistics
operations across the business’
key industry verticals.
LIÈGE’S POP-UP Cargo performance: early days
INITIATIVE
While air cargo volumes diminished
and Morgan Stanley in reports on May
Over the Easter weekend Liège airport
rapidly in March, data for April from
4 and 3 respectively, with Goldman
launched a pop-up handling facility
CLIVE Data Services offered some
Sachs stating: “A number of the highfrequency
to increase the airport’s capacity for
hope that leading economists were
indicators we track suggest
bringing in medical supplies as the
right - and that the decline in the global
that the global economy is in the
fight against COVID-19 continues.
economy was fi nally bottoming out.
process of bottoming out.”
Building B24 formed part of the
For April as a whole, volumes
CLIVE’s ‘dynamic load factor’ for
agreement between the airport
declined 39% year-on-year, but an
April of 67%, based on both the volume
and Volga/AirBridgeCargo (ABC),
even greater capacity drop of 45%
and weight perspectives of cargo
which will lease warehouses in two
highlighted the current shortage of
fl own and capacity available, showed
phases as part of the ABC plan to
air cargo capacity. Air cargo volumes
an increase of 4% points compared
make Liège its European hub. Aero
stabilised from mid-March to mid-April
with April 2019, refl ecting pressure on
Services has been looking after the
and became less critical during the
capacity.
ramp requirement whilst Worldwide
most recent two weeks to May 3, 2020.
“Until very recently, many airlines
Flight Services set itself up for the
CLIVE’s air cargo market data
would have bumped cargo without
warehouse handling operation.
bears out the sentiment expressed
blinking an eye, to accommodate the
The facility was due to function until
by economists from Goldman Sachs
luggage of their passengers. These
May 31.
same airlines are now removing seats
from these same planes to create more
space for cargo. The uniqueness of this
situation is refl ected in the new term
‘preighter’ in the air cargo vocabulary,
coined by Lufthansa Cargo. April 2020
was also unique. With a decline of
39% in volumes versus April 2019, it
must be one of the worst months in
air cargo’s history. But a greater fall
in capacity, mixed in with the urgent
need for Personal Protective Equipment
materials by governments around the
world, explains also why current air
cargo yields have reportedly gone
through the roof,” commented CLIVE’s
Managing Director, Niall van de Wouw.
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