Express companies attempt to shift from serving as mere e-commerce delivery subcontractors

• Frederic Horst
• September 6, 2019
• Cargo Facts Consulting, Carriers, Express, Features, News, Strategy

In mid-September, Cargo Facts Consulting will publish a new report, the Global E-Commerce Logistics Outlook, to help companies craft their strategies towards a segment that has become increasingly important in logistics. This is the third of a series of articles leading up to the publication of the report that provides a window into our research.  […]

After latest UPS delivery, Boeing’s 747-8F order backlog slips into the teens

• Charles Kauffman
• September 3, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Carriers, Features, Production Freighters

Following a delivery to UPS last week (64263) [FAT 005115], Boeing’s order backlog for the 747-8F now stands at just nineteen units. Of the nineteen-unit 747-8F backlog, most future deliveries will go to UPS, which still has fifteen of the type remaining on firm order with Boeing. As for the other four units in Boeing’s […]

CAM takes redelivery of first 767BDSF for UPS

• Jeff Lee
• August 29, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, Conversions, Features, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), the leasing subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), has taken redelivery of another 767-300BDSF (28041, ex-Air Italy) [FAT 005112]. But what’s different about this aircraft is that, instead of being destined for Amazon like most of CAM’s recent redeliveries, it will be placed with Atlanta-based integrator UPS [FAT 005113]. This […]

CAM acquires three ANA 767 freighters

• Jeff Lee
• August 19, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, Conversions, Features, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), Air Transport Services Group’s (ATSG) leasing subsidiary, has acquired three 767 freighters from Japanese carrier ANA Cargo [FAT 005097-005099]. While ATSG mentioned during its Q2 earnings call earlier this month that it had acquired three 767s from ANA without specifying the variant, ANA Cargo has now confirmed to Cargo Facts that […]

767 transactions dominate July Freighter Aircraft Transactions

• Charles Kauffman
• August 16, 2019
• Features, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News

Of the 51 freighter aircraft transactions (FATs) recorded in July 2019, 35% involved 767s, the workhorse for domestic express and e-commerce in the United States, and increasingly, globally. Both production freighters and conversions saw an uptick in activity for the month with deliveries of two new-build 767Fs, one each to US-based integrators FedEx and UPS. […]

ATSG now expects to redeliver six 767-300BDSFs to Amazon, four to UPS in 2019

• Charles Kauffman
• August 5, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Carriers, Conversions, Features

Today, along with its 2Q19 earnings, Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) revealed plans to accelerate placements of freighter-converted 767-300BDSFs with Amazon from five to six before year-end 2019. ATSG also said it is on track to deliver four freighter-converted 767-300BDSFs to UPS by the end of the year, with the first aircraft to be […]

Cargojet nixes plan for additional 767-300Fs, prepares for more 767-200Fs

• Charles Kauffman
• August 5, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Carriers, Conversions, Features

Canada-based specialist ACMI carrier Cargojet no longer expects to add a thirteenth 767-300F to its freighter fleet by year-end 2019. Plans to convert two 767-200s Cargojet purchased in August 2018 to freighter configuration, however, remain in place. In an April earnings release, the carrier had outlined plans to acquire an additional freighter-converted 767-300 in 2019, […]

Cathay freighters to carry lithium batteries again

• Jeff Lee
• August 1, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, Features, News, Strategy

Standalone lithium-ion batteries can once again be carried by Cathay Pacific Cargo on its freighter aircraft, after the carrier developed and introduced a fire-containment bag. Shipments of standalone lithium-ion batteries are a significant driver of freighter traffic, especially given the growth of e-commerce and personal electronic devices. Under a provision adopted by the ICAO Council […]