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27 International Airports to Exhibit at Show
AIR CARGO Americas 2006 will feature the latest products, technologies and services from 27 international airports.

Participating airports are Aeroports de Paris; ATEIA/Madrid Airport Cargo; Atlanta International Airport; Berlin International Airports; Chateauroux Airport; Cologne/Bonn International Airport; Dallas Fort Worth Airport; Ft. Worth Alliance Airport; Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport; Hannover Airport – Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen; Hillsborough County Aviation Authority (Tampa International Airport); Houston Airport Systems; Liege Airport/SAB S.A.; London Manston Airports; Los Angeles World Airports; Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority; Miami International Airport; Munich Airport International; Niagara Falls Airport; Pittsburgh International Airport; Rickenbacker International Airport; San Antonio International Airport; Shannon Airport; Stuttgart Airport; Vitoria International Airport Promotion Agency; Williams Gateway Airport and Willow Run Airport. For more information, visit www.aircargoamericas.com

36 Airlines Sign-on as Exhibitors
Over 5,000 international business and air cargo executives, manufacturers, exporters and importers, consultants, distributors, national and international aviation officials from 21 countries will visit 36 airline exhibits at the show.

Airline exhibitors are Aero Express; Aeromar Cargo Logistics; Air Global International; American Airlines Cargo; Arrow Air/AGI; Atlas Air; British Airways World Cargo; Centurion Air Cargo, Inc.; Cielos Airlines; Continental Airlines Cargo; COPA Airlines Cargo; DHL Aviation Americas; Dnata Cargo; Emirates Air; Estafeta Carga Aerea; Evergreen International Airlines; FedEx Express; Florida West International; Gemini Air Cargo; LanChile Cargo/Mas Air; LeaderJet International; Lloyd Aereo Boliviano; Lufthansa Cargo Charter; Lufthansa Cargo AG; Martinair Cargo; Panavia Cargo Airlines; Platinum Air Cargo (UK) Ltd.; Polar Air Cargo; Polet Cargo Airlines; Qatar Airways QCSC; Santa Barbara Airlines Cargo; Tampa Airlines; UPS; Volga-Dnepr Airlines and World Airways, Inc. For more information, visit www.aircargoamericas.com

“Extra Effort People” Freight Force – Exhibits at Air Cargo Americas
Since 1982, Freight Force has been providing cartage service to the Air Freight industry. Its success is attributed to its commitment to its customers, centralized accounting and record keeping as well as its continued expansion into new locations and service points.

Currently, 35 nationwide Freight Force locations are in operation. It is a cartage carrier backed by experience, industry leaders and commitment to provide the best service at a competitive rate. For more information, visit www.freightforce.com

Aero Express and Panavia – New Exhibitors
We are delighted to welcome Aero Express and Panavia to the Show. Aero Express provides investment recovery services to liquidate inventories of commercial aircraft parts for the aviation industry, banks, leasing companies, and bankruptcy estates. Also, Aero Express sells avionics and instrument test equipment. Its customers include FAA approved repair stations, airlines, corporate operators, F.B.O.’s and others. For more information, visit www.aeroexpress.com

Menlo Worldwide Joins the Show
Menlo Worldwide helps companies attain operational excellence across the global supply chain. It combines the best logistics minds and advanced technology with the best in global transportation services. Menlo has a proven track record of developing new creative global solutions and finding innovative ways to improve bottom line results for its customers.

Menlo Worldwide provides unparalleled expertise in supply chain logistics and transportation, with 2001 revenues of over $3 billion. Its strengths include: 15,000 people in 200 countries; over 600 locations; over 10 million square feet of warehouse space; $7 billion in transportation purchasing; open/scalable technology; and a common culture, systems and approach. For more information, visit www.menloworldwide.com

Sterling Transportation Exhibits at the Show
Sterling Transportation is a transportation management company that provides transportation and logistical services with the quality service and support from its years of experience. Through the utilization of truckload, LTL, air and rail managed transportation, along with state-of-the-art track and trace technology, companies receive quality and timely services.

Reliability and consistency define the expedited services of Sterling Transportation, Inc. Quality service, state-of-art equipment, and caring staff set the standards for its mission critical customer requirements.

Founded in 1933, Sterling Transportation, Inc. enjoys a reputation as a premier expedited, coast-to-coast trucking company in Southern California, and was named 1998 “trucker-of-the-year” by the Los Angeles Air Cargo Association. With headquarters located conveniently at the Los Angeles International Airport, right next door to U.S, Customs, Sterling directs daily operations to East Coast. Daily service from Los Angeles to Miami and Orlando, and weekly service, departing Friday evenings to Newark & JFK Airport carry freight tendered as late as 9:00 p.m. Other service points include San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, Dallas, Jacksonville. For more information, visit www.sterlingtransportation.com

Alitalia Cargo to Exhibit
The Cargo & Logistics Division, set up in 1990, manages and develops the Alitalia Cargo sector by offering customized services to a specific clientele (such as import-export firms, top names in the fashion and industry world), who develop new growth and success opportunities by means of air travel.

About 700 people work for the Cargo & Logistics Division, which has more than 100 offices worldwide. The division manages a fleet of three Boeing 747s and also uses the Group’s passenger fleet hold capacity, plus additional cargo space on flights operated by other airlines. Alitalia Cargo has created a domestic and international network of road services which integrate flight connections, implementing more complex and competitive logistics services.

Alitalia Cargo has been in partnership with SkyTeam Cargo since August 29, 2001. Each alliance partner has contributed to launching a single, extensive and dynamic product portfolio, responding to the most diverse needs, be it at a merchandise or transport level from live animals to valuable goods, from artwork masterpieces to pharmaceutical products to perishable goods, fashion and fresh flowers. For more info visit www.alitalia.it

Volga-Dnepr Exhibits at Show
Volga-Dnepr’s core business is airlifting unique hi-tech loads and moving general cargoes to remote points that are not served by scheduled air carriers. It uses Antonov An-124-100 Russian aircraft to provide the lift, and its staff offers the highest standards in An-124-100 operations

At present the airline offers delivery of outsize and heavy loads to anywhere in the world and support for complicated industrial logistics programs.

Its reliance on the unique Russian equipment, combined with the ongoing upgrading process to bring the aircraft in compliance with the latest international requirements and the outstanding proprietary technology, ensures its position as a leader in the heavy and outsize air cargo market.

AIR CARGO CORPORATE NEWS

Mexico Eyes More Trade Deals
Mexico is close to reaching free trade agreements with Argentina and Panama, Mexican President Fox says. The negotiation process with Argentina and Panama is very advanced. We expect to conclude (deals) soon, Fox said Thursday at an official function in Mexico City. He spoke one day after Mexico signed a deal with Uruguay that will lower duties to zero for almost all industrial products but leave sensitive agricultural products like corn, beans sugar and powdered milk untouched.

Latin America’s second biggest economy, Mexico already has an economic cooperation agreement in place with Argentina and hopes eventually to reach a free trade deal with the Mercosur trade bloc which includes Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

GAO Says Vulnerabilities Remain on Air Cargo; House Votes to Require Screening
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reports that despite progress over the past 2 years, there are remaining areas of vulnerability with respect to aviation security, including cargo. That conclusion was reinforced by a recent incident where a man shipped himself as cargo from New York to Dallas. House lawmakers have responded by calling for the screening of all cargo on passenger planes.

At the September 9th hearing by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Sciences, and Transportation, Director of Civil Aviation issues for the GAO Gerald Dillingham testified that vulnerabilities remain with respect to air cargo despite the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) efforts to increase aviation security over the past 2 years. An estimated 12.5 million tons of cargo are transported on all-cargo and passenger planes each year, Dillingham noted, but very little of it is screened. He reiterated a GAO recommendation that the TSA implement a risk-management approach to increasing air cargo security.
For more information, visit www.strtrade.com

English-speaking Caribbean Drifting Apart from U.S.
Andres Oppenheimer, The Miami Herald – Sept. 11, 2003, reports on growing tension between Washington and English-speaking Caribbean nations. He reports that the Caribbean is drifting apart from Washington due to the following reasons:
--English-speaking Caribbean countries feel neglected by Washington, D.C.;
--Most Caribbean countries are especially vulnerable to pressures from Venezuela’s anti-American president, Hugo Chavez;
--Many of the smaller Caribbean countries feel threatened by plans to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005;
--The bureaucracy of Caricom, the Caribbean’s regional organization, is heavily tilted to the left; and
--Caribbean nations often criticize Washington’s policies to get U.S. attention at a time when, in the aftermath of September 11th, even big South American countries are having trouble drawing top-level U.S. interest in their problems. For more information, visit www.herald.com

Northwest Quits Delivering Mail
Northwest Airlines says its new contract with the U.S. Postal Service is so unprofitable that it will get out of the domestic mail delivery business entirely. The decision means the end of 250 full-time jobs at Northwest, 130 of them at the airline’s hubs in Minneapolis and Detroit and the rest scattered throughout the Northwest system. The company said a contract taking effect at the end of June led to lower fees, low prices, and a management decision that it wasn’t worth continuing in the domestic mail carriage business. Northwest, which has the largest cargo operation of the big five U.S. airlines, will continue to haul airmail internationally. For more information, visit www.nwa.com.

Trade Unions Seek Extension of Textile & Apparel Quotas
On September 10th, the International Textile, Garment, and Leather Worker’s Federation reported that trade unions from over 60 countries representing more than 7 million workers in the textile, clothing, and footwear industries are demanding the continuation of trade regulation on such products. The unions are particularly worried about China, which many believe is poised to take over as much as 75% of the textile and apparel markets in many countries after quotas are lifted in January 2005. Such an outcome has already forced the closure of hundreds of factories in Asia and Latin America, ITGLWF General Secretary Neil Kearney said, and threatens millions of jobs in developing countries worldwide. As a result, the unions are calling for “clear restraints ” on the access that such “dominant producers” have to world markets, as well as aid to “emerging and struggling industries”. For more information, visit www.strtrade.com

The State of the Airlines
Keith Alexander, Washington Post writer, reports that the U.S. airline industry is surviving. He was online on Thursday, September 11th to discuss the state of the industry and his article that appeared on the same date. For more information, visit www.washingtonpost.com

WORLD-CLASS CONFERENCE

Conference Features Senior Executives in the Air Cargo Industry
Over 30 speakers will be making presentations at the conference themed “State of the Air Cargo Industry in the Americas: Surviving and Excelling in the Current Marketplace”.

For complete information on the conference click here.

Meet our exhibitors: www.aircargoamericas.com