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Article: Air freight forwarding takes off.(Great Moments: IN WORLD TRADE)
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- World Trade
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- October 1, 2007
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John C. Emery, Jr. was twenty-two when he went into business with his father, a World War II veteran with the Big Idea to apply his military air transport experience to commercial shipping. At the time, commercial airlines like United and National carried almost exclusively passenger traffic. Why not lease their excess cargo capacity to shippers, offering the same tracking information as trains and trucks, which would themselves be bought or contracted to carry goods to their final destination?
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So in 1946, with two employees, two used trucks, and some $125,000 in loans--air freight forwarding was born.
"The forwarders ...