Articles
June 6, 2011
Airline Business Magazine: Capacity Caution
Capacity Caution - Seabury Group’s Gert-Jan Jansen and Ryan Keyrouse ask whether future demand growth and industry trends justify airlines splashing out on new freighter aircraft.
April 10, 2011
Article in Containerisation International: Time to change gear
While India is recognised as a manufacturing powerhouse, exports remain extremely modest. A study carried out by Seabury, a leading consulting firm in the cargo industry, attributes this to poor transport infrastructure, inadequate regulatory structures and agreater focus on satisfying domestic demand. Ravindra Galhena reports.
November 15, 2010
Article in Lloyd's List: Intra-Asia trade boomspurs port expansion
Governments, port operators and shipping lines need to work together to make the most of growth opportunities
November 11, 2010
Article in Airline Cargo Management
Seabury Cargo Advisory has watched the industry closely for 12 months. Here it reveals the new trends emerging in the airfreight market
September 8, 2010
Airline Business Magazine: Target in Sight
Cargo traffic is returning, but not all airlines will settle for average growth. Seabury’s Matthew Harris and Niall van de Wouw explain why a clear view of the target and how to get there is key for those aiming to beat the market
June 6, 2010
American Shipper: Riding the Rollercoaster
Last year, U.S. air cargo was hit hard by the biggest recession in recent history. It also surged back at a pace no one dared to think possible at the depths of the downturn. It seems the recession, caused by a global financial crisis, is fading and cargo volumes are almost reaching pre-crash levels. Will the rollercoaster ride of 2009 continue climbing upward in 2010 and beyond, or will air freight take a surprise turn?
April 15, 2010
Airfinance Journal: Restructuring Seabury
Seabury is a banking and consulting firm that offers answers to problems in the aviation sector worldwide. JoAnn De Luna speaks to chief executive officer, John Luth, about how the company can help you.
August 20, 2009
International Air Freight 2008-2013 Turbulence Ahead
U.S. air cargo business managers face some of the toughest conditions in memory. Since the recession began in the fourth quarter of 2008, there has been little reason for them—or anybody, for that matter— to be optimistic about the outlook for air freight trade in 2009.
June 3, 2009
Seabury Cargo Advisory Publishes Study of Management Best Practices In The Air Cargo Industry
With glimmers of hope ahead for economic recovery, it is useful to gauge which air cargo players are likely to thrive and which will continue to struggle. A new study of management best practices in the air cargo industry reveals distinctive differences between high and low performers among airlines and forwarders. The study also provides intriguing distinctions between those two links of the air cargo chain.
November 12, 2008
Seabury Forecast 2009 (Air Cargo World)
Against the backdrop of the worst economic crisis in decades, the convergence of weaker demand, lower net yields and higher fuel costs drastically reduced air cargo profitability. Capacity reduction measures only partially offset this decline. Air trade in 2009 is likely to see an amplification of 2008’s lows, with negative consequences for the industry through 2010.
November 6, 2008
Marine Money - Seabury Maritime Finance Group
Using DnB Nor’s Kristin Holth’s analogy, we discovered another pocket of liquidity with more than spare change. Seabury Group is one of the largest independent investment banks dedicated to the transportation industry with offices in the U.S., Europe and the Far East. Initially, focused on the airline business, Seabury has expanded its footprint to include marine, trucking and logistics.
February 1, 2008
Airfinance Journal Awards North American Deal of the Year to Seabury Group for Northwest Airlines Restructuring
The market might be going through uncertain times, but innovation remains high, as this year's Airfinance Journal Deals of the Year awards will testify.
December 9, 2004
How to Stop Airlines Crashing
John Luth's career in the airline industry began in the middle of a hurricane. Driving to his first day of work at Continental Airlines in Houston at 6.30am in August 1989, he failed to listen to the weather report. But he noticed his "car was being blown around a lot".
June 1, 2003
Airfinance Journal: Breaking out from Chapter 11
US Airways went into Chapter 11 in August, but just eight months later the carrier emerged from bankruptcy establishing a template for other airlines. The Team behind the restructuring revealed their secrets to Steven Josselson.
May 26, 2003
The Deal: Seabury and the promise of a soft landing
When bankruptcy grounded U.S. Airways and Air Canada, they turned to John Luth for help.
April 10, 2003
Insolvent airline summons hired gun; Seabury Group 'tough as nails' Renegotiating aircraft leases
Air Canada could very well expand its service, as opposed to reducing it, once it emerges from bankruptcy protection because of the increased use of regional jets, says the U.S. investment banker and restructuring expert hired to advise the insolvent carrier.
April 4, 2003
Seabury Group Completes Global Financial Restructuring for US Airways
Air Canada could very well expand its service, as opposed to reducing it, once it emerges from bankruptcy protection because of the increased use of regional jets, says the U.S. investment banker and restructuring expert hired to advise the insolvent carrier.
April 3, 2003
Out of Chapter 11 but not out of trouble
This Monday offered a tale of two airlines. As executives at American Airlines spent the day hammering out 11th hour deals with its unions to avoid a bankruptcy filing, US Airways executives were busy signing the final slew of some 700 documents needed to make their exit from Chapter 11.
February 17, 2003
Wage Slasher
David N. Siegel, chief of US Airways Group, the nation's seventh-largest carrier, is leading a revolution that may change the airline industry forever--by challenging its most powerful union.
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