{"id":13691,"date":"2020-03-10T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elea.ee\/2020\/03\/10\/fiata-e-flash-no-219-9-march-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T17:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:54:52","slug":"fiata-e-flash-no-219-9-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elea.ee\/en\/fiata-e-flash-no-219-9-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"FIATA E-Flash No. 219 &#8211; 9 March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elea.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FIATA-e-Flash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"179\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">FIATA AFFAIRS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">COVID-19 Cancels 2020 FIATA HQ Session<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">FIATA members have been advised that the 2020 FIATA Headquarters Sessions intended to be held in Zurich for March 24-28 had been cancelled with no plans for rescheduling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">This decision was being taken because of the recent impact of the COVID-19 contagion in Italy, and now in Switzerland. FIATA is mindful as to its duty of care to its membership and has taken this action due to uncertainty, as governments attempt to contain the continued spread of the COVID-19 in Switzerland and Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">FIATA is still scheduled to hold its major event the 2020 FIATA World Congress this autumn in Busan, Korea October 19-24. Details of the FIATA World Congress can be viewed here &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fiata2020.com\/2020\/english\/main\/index_en.asp\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">http:\/\/fiata2020.com\/2020\/english\/main\/index_en.asp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">FIATA\u2019s Air Freight Chairman participates in the Air Cargo India 2020<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Participating on a panel which discussed <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cBuilding airports of the future for Special Cargo Commodities\u201d,<\/span><\/em> Mr. Keshav Tanna represented FIATA alongside representatives from Boeing, Air India Cargo and many others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">With more than 70 exhibitors spanning and engagement of more than 2000 people from the air cargo community along with panel discussions covering all the major topics encircling the air freight industry, the Air Cargo India 2020 show was announced as a success. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details please visit &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stattimes.com\/news\/air-cargo-india-2020-on-building-resilience\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.stattimes.com\/news\/air-cargo-india-2020-on-building-resilience\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">WORLD ECONOMY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Logistics firms must start preparing for post-Brexit customs changes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Freight forwarders and hauliers now have enough clarity to start preparing for a post-Brexit business landscape and should begin implementing the systems they will need from the end of December, according Peter MacSwiney, chairman of UK customs clearance solutions provider Agency Sector Management (ASM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">He stressed that there was \u201climited time to implement the systems needed to tackle trade friction\u201d following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lloydsloadinglist.com\/freight-directory\/news\/FTA-%E2%80%98disappointed%E2%80%99-as-UK-government-reverses-promise-of-frictionless-UK-EU-trade\/75970.htm#.XmdNhKhKhaR\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">the UK government\u2019s announcement this week<\/span><\/a> that import controls would be brought in on European Union (EU) goods at the border from 1 January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The British International Freight Association has <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bifa.org\/news\/articles\/2020\/mar\/eu-uk-future-relations-negotiations-date-03032020?l=y\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">published documentation<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> to help aide freight forwarding members in the transition as the U.K prepares to handle clearance of goods coming from European Union.<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit:<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lloydsloadinglist.com\/freight-directory\/adviceandinsight\/Logistics-firms-must-start-preparing-for-post-Brexit-customs-changes\/76000.htm#.XmDKFD9KiUm\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.lloydsloadinglist.com\/freight-directory\/adviceandinsight\/Logistics-firms-must-start-preparing-for-post-Brexit-customs-changes\/76000.htm#.XmDKFD9KiUm<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The coronavirus and freight forwarding<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Any reduction in goods handled and shipped could have a significant impact on customer revenue. There is also the risk that key customers will lean on forwarders to provide, without a contractual obligation to do so, more expensive &#8220;workarounds&#8221;, such as airfreight and using non-core ocean service providers to perform voyages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">In general, apart from office closures in China, many companies have implemented restricted travel regimes. As a result, expected business travel related to securing transactions or continuing servicing relationships are likely to be disrupted. Inevitably, remote conferencing technologies provide a measure of continuity. It will be important to maintain clear and open communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttclub.com\/resources\/coronavirus-guidance\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.ttclub.com\/resources\/coronavirus-guidance\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Indian regulations threaten to curb carrier freight pricing control<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Terminal handling charges (THC) that a shipper or merchant pays while sending goods in and out of the port has become the latest target for government scrutiny, leaving a sense of concern for ocean carriers already reeling from the combined effects of weakening demand and falling freight rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The larger part of controversy surrounding THC collected by carriers along with ocean freight charges arguably arises because of varied rates from terminal to terminal even within a port itself, and the local freight community \u2013 spearheaded by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) \u2013 has been pushing the government to create a more transparent, standardised pricing environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dredgingandports.com\/news\/2020\/indian-regulations-threaten-to-curb-carrier-freight-pricing-control\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/dredgingandports.com\/news\/2020\/indian-regulations-threaten-to-curb-carrier-freight-pricing-control\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Retailers now believe sea-air the best way to get their goods out of China<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Major retailers awaiting their spring-summer stock are planning to opt for sea-air to get their goods out of China. The garment industry wants its new season launches into shops before Easter, in eight weeks\u2019 time, but \u201csome 70% to 80% of Chinese factories are still not back up to speed,\u201d said Grant Liddell, business development director for Metro Shipping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u201cLots of importers don\u2019t want to pay for the expected air freight spike in one or two weeks\u2019 time. It is likely to be $4-$5 per kg, up from about $2 per kg. That makes sea-air a very attractive option, as it would come in at about the $2.80\/kg mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/retailers-now-believe-sea-air-the-best-way-to-get-their-goods-out-of-china\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/retailers-now-believe-sea-air-the-best-way-to-get-their-goods-out-of-china\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Market exploration: roll on roll off and containerised freight screening<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is scoping for an innovation competition exploring novel solutions to screen roll on roll off (RORO) cargo and containerised freight entering the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">International trade is a vital component of the UK\u2019s prosperity. More than 481 million tonnes of trade crosses the UK border, annually, in containerised traffic and roll on roll off ferry traffic (RORO). The U.K is looking for solutions that will detect and identify multiple types of illicit content and improve the burden on operators, whilst aiding the flow of commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/retailers-now-believe-sea-air-the-best-way-to-get-their-goods-out-of-china\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/retailers-now-believe-sea-air-the-best-way-to-get-their-goods-out-of-china\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">UNCTAD and TRACIT host Illicit Trade Forum \u2013 February 3-4th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Illicit trade significantly endangers achievement all of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It creates a triple threat to the financing of development: crowding out legitimate economic activity, depriving governments of revenues for investment in vital public services and increasing the costs of achieving the SDGs by eroding the progress already made. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">To address these issues, UNCTAD, in collaboration with TRACIT, hosted the first <a href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/pages\/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=2281\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">Illicit Trade Forum<\/span><\/a>. The two-day Forum set out the main reasons why actions to combat illicit trade must be prioritized and why intergovernmental leadership is necessary to coordinate resources, share expertise, establish guidelines and promote international cooperation among UN Member States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracit.org\/illicit-trade-forum.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.tracit.org\/illicit-trade-forum.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">SEA FREIGHT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Ocean cargo shippers still not satisfied with carrier opacity, says AlixPartners study<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alixpartners.com\/insights-impact\/insights\/container-shipping-report-2020\/\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">AlixPartners\u2019 2020 Global Container Shipping Outlook<\/span><\/a>, finds that public companies in the container-shipping sector have seen their combined debt-to-EBITDA ratio, also known as leverage ratio, rise to 8.7 for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2019, up from 8.4 in calendar-year 2018\u2014nearly a 4% jump. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">It also finds that the average Altman Z-score, a commonly used bankruptcy-risk measure, has in that same recent 12-month period deteriorated to a score of 1.16, from 1.35 in 2018\u2014as the industry endured reductions in asset turnover and as industry-wide debt grew by $21 billion. The study also notes that the sector\u2019s finances this year are made even more vulnerable by the current coronavirus epidemic, which has sharply reduced container volumes at Chinese ports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.logisticsmgmt.com\/article\/ocean_cargo_shippers_still_not_satisfied_with_carrier_opacity_says_alixpart\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.logisticsmgmt.com\/article\/ocean_cargo_shippers_still_not_satisfied_with_carrier_opacity_says_alixpart<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">KRA to collect $200m demurrage back taxes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Shipping companies are foreseeing an increase in fees they charge importers after the High Court sitting in Nairobi ruled in favour of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the latter will now collect $200 million in back taxes from shipping companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The tax, in the form of demurrage, was accrued by cargo containers which have overstayed beyond their free stay period at different KPA-owned container freight stations. Justice Francis Tuiyott held that demurrage is an income tax and that the shipping lines&#8217; local agents have an obligation to withhold tax on the demurrage charge when remitting payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/KRA-to-collect-demurrage-back-taxes\/2560-5477022-pqpvgh\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/KRA-to-collect-demurrage-back-taxes\/2560-5477022-pqpvgh\/index.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Lack of cargo sees carriers forced into last-minute voyage cancellations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Maersk and MSC were obliged to cancel this week\u2019s 2M AE7\/Swan loop from China to North Europe at the last minute after they were unable to secure enough cargo. The 19,472 teu MSC Rifaiya commenced its loading programme in Ningbo, China on Monday, but rather than despatch the ship to Europe less than half-full The Loadstar understands it was decided to anchor the vessel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">UK-based forwarder Westbound Logistics has advised customers of a rate reduction in the pipeline valid from 15 February, but also warned that there could be upward pressure on rates next month as carriers deal with the backlog of frustrated orders when production and the logistics industry begins to return to some form of normality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">In the FIATA\u2019s <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fiata.com\/media\/documents-for-download.html\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">best practice document<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">, we acknowledge that demurrage and detention charges are a valid and important tool for shipping lines to ensure that their equipment is being returned as fast as possible and users exceeding the contractual duration of use should be charged accordingly. However, FIATA does not believe that merchants should be subjected to unjust and unreasonable charges of this nature, especially as delays often occur through no fault of the forwarder \/ shipper.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/lack-of-cargo-sees-carriers-forced-into-last-minute-voyage-cancellations\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/lack-of-cargo-sees-carriers-forced-into-last-minute-voyage-cancellations\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">AIR FREIGHT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Air Cargo Demand Down 3.3% in January 2020<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">IATA released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in cargo tonne kilometres (*CTKs), decreased by 3.3% in January 2020, compared to the same period in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u201dJanuary marked the tenth consecutive month of year-on-year declines in cargo volumes. The air cargo industry started the year on a weak footing. There was optimism that an easing of US-China trade tensions would give the sector a boost in 2020. But that has been overtaken by the COVID-19 outbreak, which has severely disrupted global supply chains, although it did not have a major impact on January\u2019s cargo performance. Tough times are ahead. The course of future events is unclear, but this is a sector that has proven its resilience time and again,\u201d said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA\u2019s Director General and CEO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iata.org\/en\/pressroom\/pr\/2020-03-04-01\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.iata.org\/en\/pressroom\/pr\/2020-03-04-01\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Lufthansa Cargo follows model toward CO2 reduction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">In cooperation with IATA, Lufthansa Cargo has developed a four-pillar model to improve its environmental performance and reach its target of reducing its 2005 level carbon emissions by 25% this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The carrier aims to cut its specific CO2 emissions in air freight transport by 25% by 2020, and has to date reduced emissions by approximately 13.5% to 475 grams per tonne-kilometre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Read more at <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aircargoworld.com\/allposts\/lufthansa-cargo-follows-four-pillar-model-toward-co2-reduction\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/aircargoworld.com\/allposts\/lufthansa-cargo-follows-four-pillar-model-toward-co2-reduction\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Building an air cargo community: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Amsterdam\u2019s Smart Cargo Mainport Programme (SCMP) is a massive undertaking to develop new ways to optimise cargo flows through the airport. It comprises six broad tracks: infrastructure &amp; capacity; logistics means; chain optimisation; digitalisation; compliance; and sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Each is set to spawn a number of projects and involves a lot of participants, from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Dutch Customs and port community service provider Cargonaut, Air Cargo Netherlands (which represents the different stakeholders across the air cargo community) and KLM, to academic institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/building-an-air-cargo-community-amsterdam-airport-schiphol\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/building-an-air-cargo-community-amsterdam-airport-schiphol\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">RAIL AND ROAD FREIGHT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Coronavirus: China reports surprising rail freight growth in February<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Rail cargoes in China rose 4.5 per cent in February, despite much of the country\u2019s economy being on lockdown due to coronavirus. Growth comes as factory activity and service sector output plunge to new lows in February, with analysts forecasting an economic contraction in the first quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">China Railway, meanwhile, said that China loaded 171,000 railway cars per day on average last month, a daily increase of 4,945 from a year earlier. Container freight on railways surged 39.5 per cent to 26.61 million tonnes, it added, in a surprisingly stable account of China\u2019s rail freight network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3064651\/coronavirus-china-reports-surprising-rail-freight-growth\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3064651\/coronavirus-china-reports-surprising-rail-freight-growth<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Road freight still the mode most vulnerable to crime \u2013 parking must be safer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Most cargo theft around the world occurs in the trucking sector, according to new research from supply chain insurer the TT Club. This year\u2019s annual cargo theft report, compiled with supply chain intelligence firm BSI, says road freight \u2013 either in transit or parked \u2013 accounts for 87% of all cargo thefts in the supply chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">A further 10% were from facilities, 1% from sea freight and 2% listed as \u201cother\u201d. The most common type of cargo theft was hijacking, which last year accounted for 26% of incidents, compared with 17% in 2018, which reflects its popularity in South America, where hijacking accounts for 53% of all thefts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">FIATA has ongoing discussions around the issue of secured parking with the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) which participates in our World Congresses annually to report on updated standards and programs that help prevent crime and theft throughout the trucking industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapa-global.org\/information\/latest-news-views\/news-detail-view\/secure-parking-programme-to-focus-on-a-new-industry-standard-and-partnerships-with-like-minded-stake.html\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">The data from TAPA EMEA\u2019s Incident Information Service (IIS)<\/span><\/a> continues to support the widely-held view that Manufacturers and Logistics Service Providers need more measurable and credible secure parking locations across the region.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit:<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/road-freight-still-the-mode-most-vulnerable-to-crime-parking-must-be-safer\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/road-freight-still-the-mode-most-vulnerable-to-crime-parking-must-be-safer\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The importance of creating a modal shift from road and air to rail<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">In the UK, transport was the largest emitting sector of greenhouse gas emissions in <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/863325\/2018-final-emissions-statistics-summary.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">2018<\/span><\/a> at 28 per cent of the total. This is just a three per cent fall since 1990. Yet rail as a whole is a low-carbon transport mode, comprising just 2.4 per cent of total transport <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/789811\/Final_greenhouse_gas_emissions_tables_2017.xlsx\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">emissions<\/span><\/a>. The statistics are impressive. Rail freight emits just 25 per cent of the CO2e (gases with global warming potential) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.org.uk\/publications\/3730\/\"><span style=\"color: #0080ff;\">road freight<\/span><\/a> for the equivalent journey and, in 2017, rail freight removed 8.2 million equivalent road journeys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">While there appears to be a momentum behind modal shift to rail, there are risks. Some in the sector have suggested that road freight will decarbonise more quickly than expected, enabling net zero targets to be met without needing government investment in electrification or infrastructure to increase rail freight capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/article\/97316\/rail-freight-group-modal-shift-road-air-rail\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/article\/97316\/rail-freight-group-modal-shift-road-air-rail\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">INNOVATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">BluJay buys Aussie customs software company Expedient<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The acquisition will strengthen its Asia-Pacific presence, said BluJay. \u201cWe continue to strategically invest in technologies that enable frictionless supply chains for our customers,\u201d said Andrew Kirkwood, chief executive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Headquartered in Melbourne, Expedient\u2019s customers include couriers, multinational logistics companies, and mid-level forwarders. It will be integrated into BluJay\u2019s teams. The companies said customers will \u201cexperience no changes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/blujay-buys-aussie-customs-software-company-expedient\/?utm_source=The+Loadstar+daily+email&amp;utm_campaign=edc566dd9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_02_12_45&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4570e43d4-edc566dd9f-131854261\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/blujay-buys-aussie-customs-software-company-expedient\/?utm_source=The+Loadstar+daily+email&amp;utm_campaign=edc566dd9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_02_12_45&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4570e43d4-edc566dd9f-131854261<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Kontainers&#8217; digital platform expands to offer air freight and trucking<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Freight software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Kontainers has expanded the modal offering of its flagship Enterprise platform to include trucking and air freight for its largest customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">The platform, which is designed for the largest freight forwarders and carriers, has been expanded beyond the ocean freight sector to include self-service instant rates, booking, customs, air freight, trucking, FCL\/LCL, global schedules, B\/Ls (bills of lading), chat support, dashboard analytics, payment system and a full back office application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/kontainers-digital-platform-expands-to-offer-air-freight-and-trucking\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/kontainers-digital-platform-expands-to-offer-air-freight-and-trucking\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Outrider raises $53 million to develop autonomous truck technology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Driverless vehicle technology has the potential to transform industries \u2014 and indeed, it already has. Stockholm, Sweden-based Einride has raised over $32 million for freight systems that transport logs, shipping containers, and other cargo autonomously. Meanwhile, Alphabet\u2019s Waymo has deployed a commercial robo-taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">Outrider doesn\u2019t own or operate vehicles itself \u2014 instead, it provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for customer-owned fully and semi-autonomous freight and transportation fleets, as well as a team of technicians to monitor those fleets\u2019 progress remotely. Its stack handles autonomous distribution yard operations at logistics hubs, such as distribution centres, warehouses, and rail yards. Commonly, this entails moving trailers around the yard and to and from loading docks, hitching and unhitching trailers, connecting and disconnecting trailer brake lines, and monitoring trailer locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">FIATA covered the topic of driverless trucks extensively in the <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fiata.com\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/documents\/fiata_reviews\/FIATA_Review_No._125_-_December_2018.pdf\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0080ff;\">2018 FIATA World Congress<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> held India. With representatives from driverless truck company Flux Auto and IRU, there was consensus that the longer driverless trucks were permitted to drive on roads, the more data they would collect from drivers to implement the best driving habits in their technology. A further suggestion was made that the technology could replace serious issues of concern around driver fatigue, and would help reduce overall truck accident rates.<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\">For more details, please visit: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4d4b4c;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/02\/19\/outrider-raises-53-million-to-develop-autonomous-truck-technology\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #0080ff;\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/02\/19\/outrider-raises-53-million-to-develop-autonomous-truck-technology\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 FIATA AFFAIRS COVID-19 Cancels 2020 FIATA HQ Session FIATA members have been advised that the 2020 FIATA Headquarters Sessions intended to be held in Zurich for March 24-28 had been cancelled with no plans for rescheduling. 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