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2026 Air Cargo News Award winners revealed!

The 2026 Air Cargo News Awards - the 42nd edition - celebrated innovation and excellence in the air cargo industry, with winners across 10 categories. More than 200 people attended this year's awards at the 5-star Royal Lancaster London hotel where comedian Seann Walsh announced the winners following a drinks reception and three-course meal. The first award of the afternoon was the Air Cargo Pharma award, which was sponsored by Hactl and scooped by SATS. LATAM Cargo and Qatar Airways Cargo were highly commended. Next up was the Air Cargo Charter Project of the Year, which was sponsored by Network Airline Services. The winner was JCS Livestock. IAG Cargo's Jazzmin Gallimore-Cox picked up the Awery Aviation Software-sponsored Young Airfreight Professional of the Year. This award was introduced in recent years, in recognition of the dynamic young individuals helping to shape the future of airfreight. Coaching partners, neAira Executive Performance & SHK Solutions, will donate four months of executive performance coaching to Jazzmin. She will also receive a prize of £500. Ground Handler of the Year was awarded to Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl). Additionally, dnata picked up a highly commended certificate. Following was the Innovation Award - Digital, sponsored by WEXCO Cargo GSSA. This year the award was won by SAL Logistics Services. Additionally, Cathay Cargo was highly commended. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport sponsored the Innovation Award - Product category, which Qatar Airways Cargo won. Hactl also received a highly commended certificate. Taking home the trophy for the GSSA of the Year, sponsored by Etihad Cargo, was FlyUs Aviation Group. Then the Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics Services-sponsored Cargo Hub of the Year accolade went to Hong Kong International Airport. The dnata-sponsored Air Cargo Environment category was cinched by Eltete TPM. Hactl was highly commended. The final award of the afternoon was the highly sought-after Cargo Airline of the Year. Amongst tough competition, LATAM Cargo emerged to be the winner of the award, sponsored by FlyUs Aviation Group. Cathay Cargo achieved a highly commended certificate in the category. Congratulations to all the winners at the 2026 Air Cargo News Awards! Well done to all the shortlisted and highly commended companies and a massive thanks to all our sponsors. We appreciate the time and effort from everyone involved that has helped make the awards an exciting and enjoyable celebration of the air cargo industry. A full gallery of pictures from the evening can be found at aircargonewsawards.net over the coming days.

US Customs wants more data and earlier filing for low-value imports

The US Customs & Border Protection Agency (CBP) wants more data and earlier filing of imports valued at $2,500 or less. The compliance deadline for such imports arriving by mail has been pushed back three months, however, which prompted speculation that Washington wants to avoid further consumer cost inflation before the mid-term elections next month. The new regime has two components. Low-value shipments that arrive as cargo will continue to be processed under entry type 11 requirements. For those reaching the US through the international postal network, CBP has created a new entry type category - 13. These changes are part of the regulatory framework modifications to accommodate Washington's 'Big Beautiful Bill' of last year that ushered in the end of de minimis exemption for imports valued below $800. It shifted customs processing to informal entry channels as a temporary solution until the hard de minimis sunset on 1 July next year. According to CBP, about 52.4m imports were registered as type 11 entries between 1 September last year and 31 May this year, while there were 24.4m entries for postal imports. Under the new regime, type 11 entries have to be filed electronically upon, or before, arrival in the US, replacing current CBP requirement for filings within 15 days of arrival. The new deadline gives cause for concern. A sampling of entries between September and November last year by CBP found more than half the type 11 imports would have missed the new deadline. In addition, CBP wants filings to include the final deliver-to-party as a required data element, if it differs from the consignee. Cargo owners, logistics providers, and customs brokers will have to scramble to ensure their traffic complies with the new type 11 requirements. Forwarder Sobel Network Shipping warned that, "for brands, 3PLs, cross-border carriers, and customs brokers, the era of lightweight clearance procedures for parcel freight has closed", and added that proactive operational alignment was necessary to prepare for the new regime. This will include system integration and EDI preparedness and upstream data integrity, as well as evaluating their volume exposure under planned informal bonding mandates, and building a partnership with an experienced licensed customs broker. The new type 13 regulations end the possibility of paper entries, mandating electronic filing at arrival of the shipment, or earlier. In addition to existing requirements entries must include the shipper or sender, as well as the package tracking number, which also has to be included by the carrier on the inbound manifest. As with type 11 entries, CBP has tightened the timeline for type 13 filings, which have to be made within 15 days before the agency considers a shipment 'voluntarily abandoned'. So far, it has held shipments for 30 days before deeming them abandoned. CBP acknowledged that the tighter timeline, combined with elevated requirements, carried the risk of some importers not receiving their shipments. On top of these requirements, CBP plans to introduce bond requirements for certain categories of informal entries. According to the agency, this is intended to prevent the entry of illicit substances and equipment, to curb counterfeit goods and intellectual property infringement, and for the benefit of trade law compliance. In an interesting twist, CBP pushed the compliance deadline for type 13 entries back to 20 January, from the planned implementation date of 22 October. This is meant to give customs brokers, importers, and the broader trade community time to adapt their systems and processes, and prevent clearance bottlenecks. However, several observers have suggested a different likely reason for the delay: they argue it pushes the impact of the new rules into next year, well past the mid-term elections in early November. The type 13 regime has caused alarm over likely higher prescription drug costs for US citizens who access cheaper medications from outside the US, primarily Canada. Patients' advocates and industry groups have criticised this, and warned of possible disruption of medications ordered from the northern neighbour. And the administration in Washington has cause to be nervous about consumer sentiment over higher prices. According to a recent report from the US Labor Department, prices continued to rise last month. Critics of the government have blamed the rise in inflation squarely on economic policies and the war on Iran; and the higher cost of living has been widely adopted as a pivotal theme in the upcoming elections.

Kuehne+Nagel sees air revenues and profits soar in Q3

Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) saw revenues and profits generated by its air cargo division increase rapidly in the third quarter of the year thanks to growing demand from cloud infrastructure and semiconductor customers. The freight forwarder saw air revenues for the quarter increase by 38% year on year to Sfr2.4bn, while air earnings before interest and tax (ebit) were up 84% to Sfr169m and gross profit improved by 29% to Sfr404m. Air volumes, meanwhile, increased by 10% year on year to 619,000 tons, which the company said "significantly" exceeded overall market growth. This was also an acceleration on the 2% increase recorded in the second quarter. The result means K+N's air volumes outstripped those of rival DSV, which handled 560,890 tonnes in the third quarter as its volumes fell by 3% year on year. "Demand for logistics solutions supporting cloud infrastructure and semiconductor customers was a key growth driver," K+N said. General "hard cargo" was another driver of volume growth, the company said, while regionally, performance had been strong from Southeast Asia and China. YTD performance Over the first nine months of the year, air revenues were up 16% year on year to Sfr6.2bn, gross profits improved by 11% to Sfr1.4bn and ebit increased by 35% to Sfr434m. The overall company saw third-quarter revenues increase by 22% year on year to Sfr7.4bn, while ebit was up 53% to Sfr435m and earnings improved by 53% to Sfr316m Stefan Paul, chief executive of Kuehne+Nagel International, said: "Kuehne+Nagel delivered strong third-quarter 2026 results, reflecting the resilience of our operations and validating our strategy of profitable growth. "All business units contributed to this achievement. The announced long-term partnership with Amazon and AWS enables us to capitalise even faster and more effectively on future growth opportunities."