Analysis tools, when combined with targeted screening of air cargo, help detect suspicious shipment patterns.
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And it has given the maritime sector a global framework for security that air cargo needs now.
FORBES: Air Cargo Security: Time For The World To Take New Measures
The same concept and solution could be implemented for air cargo and support real-time investigation and targeting analysis.
FORBES: Air Cargo Security: Time For The World To Take New Measures
Various complicated air treaties mean that most air cargo between Britain and America has to go via English airports.
In November, the U.S. government introduced air cargo security legislation, but it has not yet been brought up for vote.
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JFK, one of the largest international air cargo facilities in the United States, has a history of headline-grabbing crimes.
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The company said air cargo traffic is due to be back to 2007 levels by the end of the year.
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And Expeditors is building up its domestic shipping network with U.S. firms such as Conway and Kitty Hawk Air Cargo.
Both the air cargo and drone operations depend primarily on access to Pakistani air space, which Islamabad has kept open.
Fourteen of the world's top 25 air cargo carriers are Atlas customers, and Chowdry has the rest in his flight path.
Six of the victims were from Michigan and a seventh was from Kentucky, said Shirley Kaufman, National Air Cargo vice president.
There have been unusually positive remarks from both sides recently about the possibility of establishing air cargo links across the strait.
Air cargo costs have risen nearly 7 cents to an average of 60 cents per pound because of higher security costs.
Air cargo planes are believed to receive less attention than passenger planes because of the sheer volume of freight passing through.
The robust growth of Penang is also reflected in air cargo's average growth rate of 28% per annum for 1994 and 1996.
In August, Hactl, which handles about 80% of air cargo from Hong Kong, posted its fourth consecutive month of decline in volume.
Those planes are long gone, and all that's left is Atlas' famously low cost structure and a constantly growing market in air cargo.
In June 2011, the U.K. ordered UPS to temporarily stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security concerns.
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These problems are only proliferating as air cargo, driven by e-commerce and global outsourcing, grows at 6.4% a year, twice the rate of passenger travel.
Boeing (BA) announced Tuesday that it expects global air cargo traffic to triple by 2029, with 5.9% annual growth over the next twenty years.
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The crash was confirmed by the plane's owners, National Air Cargo.
"I was flying to Dubai every weekend because I didn't have the money to set up a shop and have enough working capital to do an air cargo, " recalls Thakkar.
And Expeditors is building up its domestic shipping network with U.S. firms such as Conway and Kitty Hawk (amex: KHK - news - people ) Air Cargo.
It probably makes more money from its interests in airline catering (in which it owns 20% of world market), ground handling, maintenance and air cargo than it does from actually flying.
What he lacks is a little cooperation from the local authorities, who have acted as speed bumps--if not roadblocks--to his grand plan to privatize the hangars, runways and warehouses that handle air cargo at America's airports.
The air cargo industry needs something similar.
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Denver International Airport already has air cargo hangars and warehouses, and Piscitell has signed a noncompete agreement with the airport that prevents him from renting to the airport's tenants--DHL, FedEx and UPS among them--if they leave DIA and 15% of the airport's rentable space remains empty.
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