Nov 4

ACF Trustee Dinner at Ishq Restaurant

First day of ACF 08 ended with TIACA Trustee Dinner at Ishq Restaurant, Crowne Plaza Mutiara. Sponsored by Petronas Dagangan Berhad, the event is graced by VIPs of the industry and committee members of TIACA.

Before the dinner started, Chairman of MASkargo, Dato' N. Sadasivan, gave a short & light speech to welcome everyone to the Trustee Dinner. In his speech, he hoped that everyone would let their hair down in KL, especially for the ladies and their natrual instinct for shopping. He encouraged everyone to shop in KL to their hearts content, and if they overshop, MASkargo would be more than happy to carry everyone's excess baggage. At this point everybody just bursted with laughter. The evening went with sumptuous food, excellent wine selection, and graced with jazzy numbers by the in-house band, The Razak.

MASkargo Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

We are proud to have a visit from the Chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Tan Sri Dr. Mohd. Munir Abdul Majid to the MASkargo Pavillion here at ACF 2008. Accompanied by the lovely Malaysia Airlines stewardesses, he was greeted by MASkargo's Senior Manager of Corporate Affairs, Rosli Md Yasin. before proceeding to tour the venue, meeting various business partners and forum exhibitors.

Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

The press conference by Randy Tinseth, the Vice President of Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes has just concluded. In his presentation, he layed out 3 important points, which is; current cargo marketplace, cargo market forecast, and forecast for future freighter fleet. He mentioned in his speech, that air cargo growth has been robust at 6.9% each year for the past 36 years. Although, he claimed that the industry will see a market stabilization. Apart from that, Randy also highlighted the world airline fleet will spend 130 billion more in the fuel purchase compared to 5 years ago. He talks about the struggles of cargo airlines, its market potential and its market forcast for the forseeable future.