Browsing: Air Cargo

Janet Napolitano was in Brussels last week to whip up support for the US government’s strategy to outwit any potential terrorist threat – and supply chain was clearly a the top of the agenda.

As I write, the Prime Minister is involved in meetings of Cobra, the government’s emergency planning committee, to formulate a response to the discovery of a bomb on an aircraft at East Midlands airport.

Demand for air cargo slipped back in September and volumes are now six per cent down on the May peak and – equivalent to pre-crisis levels, the latest figures from IATA reveal