Chris Barnett

Chris Barnett is a seasoned San Francisco-based freelance journalist who has been covering world trade, transportation, air freight and business travel for 54 years.He has written regularly for the Journal of Commerce, Copley News Service, Los Angeles Times, airline inflight magazines and JoeSentMe,com, a private website for global business travelers.

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Maersk ups commitment to air with 130,000 sq/ft facility near LAX

Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk, the global shipping and logistics giant, has opened a 130,000 square-foot import/export facility midway between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and...

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DSV Global and Huntsville International Airport

For DSV Global, Alabama’s uncongested and efficient Huntsville International Airport (HIA) offers a solution to cargo routing that is hard to match.

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Chicago’s Rockford International Airport – Air freight friendly

While not a well-known airport to air travelers, Rockford International Airport (RFD) has a well-deserved reputation for being air freight friendly that has contributed to the airport’s rapid rise as an air cargo hub.

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Perishables lift airport business

Perishables underpin airfreight movements in the US and airports know they must give this time–critical freight first class service or lose the traffic it commands.

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Norse Atlantic Air aggressively looking for US freight

Norse Atlantic Airways might be an unfamiliar name in the US air freight circles, but that could be changing as the airline’s pricing and presence in the American market makes its mark...

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The Utah Inland Port Authority is building the nation’s most comprehensive intermodal network

The Utah Inland Port Authority, better known as the UIPA, is engaged in building a unique and ambitious intermodal network that could restructure freight movements for nearly a quarter of the country.

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USMCA: The California-Mexico trucking dilemma

With six hour border delays the norm and virtually no capability for Mexico to comply with California’s trucking “clean fleet regulations”

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DANX Carousel Group makes time-critical deliveries

The spare parts business, one of the most time sensitive sectors of the air cargo industry, is generally described as moving a massive piece of equipment overnight to keep a broken machine or an assembly line from causing costly production delays. Or worse.

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Condor Airlines takes wing with air freight

Once owned by Lufthansa, Germany’s 65-year-old low-cost passenger carrier Condor Airlines is aggressively courting U.S...

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DHL temperature-control solutions key vaccine deliveries

Despite its self-described title as the “world’s largest air freight forwarder,” DHL doesn’t rely on self-promotional brute strength to dominate markets globally.

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