Benefits Of Containerization Of Air Cargo

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industry on the New Jersey/New York Port Authority. The article gives a summation of how they got from 1948 through today. "No one realized, back in the late 1940s when the Port Authority entered into lease agreements for the three airports Idlewild (now JFK), LaGuardia and Newark, that air cargo would become a major component of the aviation industry. Nor did anyone have a clue that these three airports would be pioneers in the aviation cargo industry and one-day account for nearly 25% of the nation's international air cargo activity." (DeCota, 2003)
In 1948, there was a blockade in Berlin by the Soviets and the United States was instrumental in creating and implementing a successful airlift that provided food, supplies and medicines to keep the entire city alive for almost an entire year. "When it ended in May 1949 the Berlin Airlift had moved over 500,000 tons of food and 1,500,000 tons of coal into the beleaguered city proving without a doubt that the large scale movement of ...

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