SHORT SHOTS

Marcel de Nooijer moves to Transavia
The Air France-KLM-Martinair cargo division is looking for a new cargo boss as it was made known this week that Marcel de Nooijer will leave the company as of 31. December to take up the position of CEO at Transavia, the Dutch Low-Cost airline.
Mr de Nooijer will replace Mattijs ten Brink who left Transavia at the end of September. Marcel de Nooijer who is head of cargo at Air France-KLM is also a director of Martinair and is alongside KLM’ers Pieter Elbers and Pieter Bootsma, one of only three Dutchmen on the Air France-KLM Executive Committee.
It remains to be seen whether his successor at AF-KL-MP Cargo will come from outside the company or whether it will be someone within the present ranks of the airline.

Hermes to supply Menzies with cargo management system
UK-based Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has announced that they will implement their Hermes 5 Cargo Management System (CMS) at Menzies Aviation facilities worldwide.
The Hermes 5 CMS which was developed and introduced to users last year has been chosen by a variety of air cargo handlers, airports and airlines during the past months. Hermes will start to roll out the system at Menzies facilities as of Q1 next year. Menzies Aviation runs cargo facilities at almost 40 airports around the world and handled 1.6 million tons of cargo last year.
Menzies Aviation EVP Cargo, Robert Fordree stated that “after benchmarking the industry, we selected H5 as our cargo management system because it was clear that Hermes offers the most advanced solutions in the market.”

Is Boeing looking at new B767 freighter?
Reports out of the USA suggest that Boeing is looking at bringing a new version of the B767 freighter onto the market.
The study presently being carried out by the U.S. aircraft manufacturer is based on a complete re-engined version of the freighter with introduction into the market by 2025. The study, which also includes a possible new passenger version, is named, 767-XF using the B767-400ER platform as the base aircraft. It seems that the GE Aviation GEnx power plant generation has been chosen as the engine supplier if the new aircraft gets off the ground. These are engines which have a larger overall diameter, and this would mean that the new B767 would need to be constructed with a higher landing gear in order to ensure the necessary ground clearance.
The B767 which first went into passenger service in the early 1980’s has in the meantime become a popular cargo aircraft with many passenger versions having been converted into freighters. Boeing also still has the B767F production line open and has a 60 aircraft backlog order to supply both UPS and FedEx with the aircraft.

POS Aviation changes to IBS Software for Malaysia terminal
Malaysia-based POS Aviation which offers a variety of ground handling, air cargo, maintenance and catering services at major Malaysian airports, has chosen the IBS Software Cloud Platform to power their Cargo Terminal operations in Malaysia.
IBS Software, which is an Indian-based company, provides what they term as new-generation software solutions for airlines, airports, oil & gas and cruise line companies around the world, was chosen by POS Aviation in order to bring their cargo handling systems at the airports in Malaysia up-to-date. The system which is named iCargo is said to provide the end user with an end-to-end cargo management platform to enhance and improve steering and monitoring of warehouse processes as well as paperless cargo procedures.
POS Aviation has recently tied up with major e-commerce providers such as Alibaba and Lazada as part of their strategy to grow into these markets in the future.