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DA ILY NEWS Thursday edition • 6 June 2019
The official daily newspaper of Air Cargo Europe 2019
CARGO’S CRÈME DE LA CRÈME
INSIDE GREEN LIGHT FOR LEJ'S ... The supervisory board of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen has unanimously cleared the way for investments including ... PAGE 4
ON THE STAGE
The winning touch: The winners of the ten catagories at the ACW World Cargo Awards gala dinner last night take to the stage. For full results, see page 3
A BIRTHDAY TRUNK CALL A fascinating story of a journey arranged to deliver a Myanmar government present to Moscow ... PAGE 6
BREXIT: FLYING IN THE ...
AZura signs MM ACF deal
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he next step in making Miami the permanent home of the Air Cargo Forum (ACF) was taken yesterday when directors of AZura International, publisher of the ACW Daily News, signed a contract with Messe Muenchen (MM) officials to develop a commercial relationship for the event. Building on the publisher’s long-standing relationship with MM, AZura directors Norman Bamford and William Carr joined Gerhard Gerritzen and Dr Robert Schoenberger to cement the relationship which sees AZura becoming the sole agent for stands sales in North America and Europe. Bamford says: “This is a great moment for Messe Muenchen and the future of the Air Cargo Forum. We will soon commence acquiring stand sales to ensure the first ACF in Miami is a great success.” ACW Daily News would like to thank staff on the WFS stand for keeping us supplied with coffee and pastries throughout air cargo Europe.
Virgin’s significant software investment revealed
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irgin Atlantic Cargo’s digital transformation which simplifies its business and give customers new self-service solutions will be powered by the implementation of the latest Accenture Freight & Logistics Software 8.0 (AFLS 8.0) platform. Suzy Wardle, Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s head of digital and distribution, said: “We are making this significant investment in a new cargo management system and digital infrastructure because the way customers want to interact with us, and their expectations, are changing as new technologies emerge in the cargo space. With Accenture’s full suite of AFLS modules, including cloud-enabled digital interactions with our customers and partners, we will evolve the way we do business and offer our products and services.”
Read more in our ACW ACE review issue June 17, 2019
THE aviation sector has been preparing for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for some time; it is, after all, an ... PAGE 9
DRIVING TO THE FUTURE ... MANY industry outsiders consider that airfreight spends 100% of its time on an aircraft but few realise that it will ... PAGE 16
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