Who's behind this
Who I am
I'm Ken Chan, an air cargo professional based in Hong Kong. I've spent more than a decade in the industry, with experience spanning the carrier, GSA, and freight forwarding sides of the trade. That trajectory has given me a 360-degree view of how air cargo actually moves — and the perspective to recognise where the next shifts are coming from.
If you're a fellow aviation or air cargo professional and want to understand how the industry actually operates — or simply explore where our professional paths might cross — this site is one way in. The other is to write to me directly.
My background spans:
- Carrier-side cargo sales — managing routes, capacity, and customer relationships at the airline
- GSA operations — representing airlines to the trade across Asia
- Charter coordination — sourcing ad-hoc lift when scheduled capacity doesn't fit the need
- Freight forwarding — the customer side, where everything you learned upstream gets tested daily
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About this site
Bellyhold is a daily briefing on aviation, logistics, and the macro forces shaping how goods move around the world. It exists to surface — in one short morning read — the news, policy shifts, and quiet structural changes that someone working in the trade should know.
Beyond the daily issues, I'm building a small library of Deep Investigations ↗ on the policies and structural shifts that take more than a brief to understand. Currently watching: US Section 301 tariffs and EU/US de minimis reform. Updated as things move, not on a fixed schedule.
This site is meant as an open channel — for sharing what I find useful in my own reading, for opening conversations with anyone in or around the industry, and for hearing from people who know more than I do. If something here resonates, sparks a question, or is worth a follow-up — please tell me.
WHAT'S COVERED EACH DAY
- Air freight and aviation — carriers, airports, cargo policy, SAF, network changes
- Logistics — maritime, surface, warehousing, last-mile
- World — diplomacy, conflict, breaking news that touches supply chains
- Macro and markets — central banks, trade balances, commodity prices, FX
- Technology and AI — semiconductors, cloud, what's reshaping pricing power
- Trade and e-commerce — cross-border flows, brands, retail demand
- Hong Kong — local political and economic developments
- Lifestyle — health, food, travel, the consumer end of the cargo
Let's talk
I'm genuinely open to hearing from people in or around air cargo — airline cargo teams, freight forwarders, airport authorities, GSAs, charter brokers, ground handlers, lessors, regulators, and analysts. Whether you want to:
- Discuss a market, lane, or trend
- Explore a commercial collaboration — GSA, charter, or otherwise
- Co-author a Deep Investigation on a topic you know well
- Share data, context, or a question that might shape future coverage
- Or simply make a friend in the industry
— please reach out. The best conversations in this business happen offline, and I'd love to hear from you.
Contact
Fair use & attribution
Personal project. Bellyhold is a personal publishing project. Views expressed are mine alone and do not represent any employer or affiliated organisation.
Fair use. Bellyhold curates and links to news from external publishers. Each story carries the original source name and a direct link to the publisher's website. Each summary is kept under 25 Chinese characters — well within fair-use boundaries. We do not reproduce full articles or images. All copyright remains with the original publishers. Readers are encouraged — and structurally directed — to click through and read at the source.
For rights holders. If you are a rights holder and wish to discuss any item on this site, please email the address above and I will respond promptly.