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 ends 2018 with strategic expansion
ACL Airshop has finished 2018, its 35th anniversary year with transformative technology investments and strategic expansions at over half the world’s top cargo airports. Since early 2016, ACL Airshop has doubled its global operating footprint with air cargo support at 51 hubs on six continents. The three main gateways are at New York’s John F. […]
CORE improves ULD tracking with greater speed, range and capacity
CORE Transport Technologies has upgraded its COREInsight Bluetooth Tracking, improving ULD tracking with greater speed, range and payload capacity. The upgrade was unveiled at the ULD Care global symposium in Guangzhou, China where the company showed off implementing a BLE resilient mesh network incorporating military grade security, which can support hundreds of low cost nodes […]
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 […]
Townes’ touch down for a tradition
Since 1890, cadets at West Point, New York, the US Army’s training academy, have taken on navy midshipmen from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in one of the oldest and fiercest college football rivalries in America. On many occasions in its nearly 130-year history, sitting US presidents have attended the game. The Army-Navy […]
ACL Airshop continues to expand presence in Asia Pacific
ACL Airshop is continuing to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region by investing in a full ULD repair station at its existing operations in Hong Kong. The company has grown from a single station in Hong Kong to 14 stations in the region including a ULD repair station at Tokyo’s Narita Airport and […]
Silk Way West signs multi-year ULD agreement with ACL Airshop
Silk Way West Airlines has signed a multi-year unit load device (ULD) agreement with ACL Airshop, commencing on 1 November. The alliance extends the long-standing business relationship between the two companies; ACL has been a service partner with other units of Silk Way Holding for almost 10 years. Silk Way and ACL are working together […]
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 […]
Aggressive but deliberately paced growth at ACL Airshop
Ambitious ACL Airshop is ahead of growth plans for 2017 and says business has “never been better”, Justin Burns writes. The US global unit load device (ULD) firm’s parent is Ranger Airshop Holdings and its chief executive officer, Steve Townes (pictured), who is chairman of ACL, explains the board recently approved a mid-year increase in […]
ACL Airshop makes two key senior appointments
Unit load device (ULD) company ACL Airshop has named Steve Townes as chairman and Gary Langford as chief financial officer (CFO). President and chief executive officer, Tony Morgan says: “Having exceptional leaders like this on our team is further strengthening our strategy for global expansion.” Langford has held senior finance positions with a number of diverse manufacturing […]
