The seatbelt sign is off, the trolley is halfway down the aisle, and the aircraft is cruising through clear sky. There is nothing on the weather radar, because there is nothing for it to see. Then, without warning, the cabin drops. For most passengers, an encounter like this is little more than a jolt and a spilled drink. For a cabin crew member working in the galley, or a passenger standing in the aisle, it can mean a serious injury.

Latin America’s port sector is attracting an increasingly diverse group of investors. Terminal operators, industrial and logistics companies, infrastructure and financial investors, and shipping lines are all competing for access to terminal infrastructure, but recent transaction data suggests that they are not necessarily targeting the same assets or valuing them in the same way.

The rapid development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, aka drones) is creating new opportunities across logistics, infrastructure, energy, maritime activities and a growing range of commercial and public-sector applications. As operations become more numerous, diverse and complex, however, ensuring that drones can operate safely and efficiently requires more than individual authorizations and traditional airspace-management processes.

For decades, fuel tankering in aviation has been one of the quietest levers in airline cost management: uplifting more fuel than a sector requires, in order to buy less (or none) at a costlier downstream station. It rarely reached senior management’s agenda; it sat as a parameter inside the flight-planning system, applied automatically, city pair by city pair, day after day.