ACL Airshop promotes leaders from within
ACL Airshop is promoting leadership from within the company, with new roles for Jos Jacobsen, Wes Tucker, Mattijs Farber and Harold Elfring. Jacobsen is now managing director and chief operating officer for Eastern Hemisphere operations and global leasing. He has been with the company over 17 years and is a board member of the industry […]
Grand opening for ACL Airshop’s manufacturing centre
ACL Airshop will hold the grand opening of its manufacturing centre in Greenville, South Carolina today (Friday 17 May) at 4pm. Called “A Celebration of Aerospace Growth in South Carolina”, the ribbon-cutting event highlights the global growth of ACL Airshop. The company has doubled in the past three years with its fleet of unit load […]
Meet Steve Townes, the chief encouragement officer
The United States’ national unemployment rate is currently just 4%. That means it is “definitely a job seeker’s market in the still-frothy US economy. Here in South Carolina, it’s even tighter, with a jobless rate of only 3.3%,” notes Steve Townes, CEO and founder of Ranger Aerospace and chairman of ULD manufacturer ACL Airshop. This […]
ACL Airshop is digging the foundations for success
The ground-breaking took place some 60 days ago of ULD solutions provider ACL Airshop’s new $7.2 million air cargo products factory in Greenville, South Carolina. The facility is set to create approximately 32 new jobs. ACL Airshop is a subsidiary of Ranger Aerospace and has become a worldwide provider of fleet control, leasing, sales and […]
ACL Airshop gives role of board advisor to Marc Terpstra
ACL Airshop has appointed Marc Terpstra to the role of board advisor, bringing over 25 years of experience in the air cargo industry with him. Previously its managing director – international for over 10 years, Terpstra has been with the company and its predecessors since the merger of Airshop and Airline Container Leasing. The former […]
ACL teams up with CORE to develop ULD tracking technology
ACL Airshop and CORE Transport Technologies have announced a strategic alliance for bringing Bluetooth-enabled logistics technology to the air cargo industry, by jointly providing automated tracking of unit load devices (ULDs). Both say predictive analytics and big data are just part of the new efficiencies the innovation can bring to carriers, who will also be […]
IATA WCS 2017: ACL Airshop details ambitious expansion plans
ULD firm ACL Airshop has revealed plans to double its number of stations from 37 to 75 in the next five to seven years and upgrade facilities across the globe. The US-based firm is to build a new HQ in Greenville, South Carolina, upgrade its New York JFK Airport facility and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol facility. These […]