ECS GROUP, one of the world's largest general sales and service agents organisations, plans to increase its global network this year with five new offices in the Far East, India and Africa. The ECS network incorporates 43 subsidiaries in 30 countries. The group generates 487,000 tonnes of air cargo a year for over 100 airline customers and reports an a...
INDIA's IndiGo Airlines is to purchase one hundred eighty A320 planes for US$15 billion, Airbus has announced. The agreement includes 150 of the upgraded A320 aircraft with enhanced engines featuring fuel-efficient design, as well as 30 of the conventional single-aisle Toulouse design, said Airbus in a statement. "India is one of the key growth mar...
THE airport's No 1 ground handler, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), achieved an annual air cargo tonnage record in 2010, closing off the year with a 7.4 per cent year-on-year increase in December to 249,694 tonnes. Fourth quarter tonnage went up 9.5 per cent year on year to 765,677 with annual tonnage going up 24.8 per cent over 2009 and ...
A FREIGHT and passenger train collision on the busy Betuwe line to Germany in the Dutch town of Zevenaar delayed traffic for nine hours earlier this week according to Reuters. The collision occurred when the trains, Deutsche Bahn-operated ICE international passenger train bound for Germany collided with a freight travelling in the opposite direction. ...
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) handled a record-breaking 2,899,603 tonnes last year, a year-on-year growth of almost 25 percent. The rapid recovery of air freight saw the terminal blow through pre-crisis throughput levels, handling an incredible 14.5 percent more cargo than in 2008 and even beating the 2007 high of 2.6 million tonnes. ...
Cathay Pacific bosses slammed the door shut on pay talks with flight attendants, raising the threat of industrial action over Lunar New Year. They stood firm on their "final offer" of a 4.5 per cent pay rise as negotiations broke down after about an hour, reporte the South China Morning Post. Corporate affairs director Quince Chong Wai-yan said afte...
State-run logistics and rail freight firm Container Corporation of India (Concor) may hive off its upcoming logistics parks and offload up to 51 percent equity in each of them to a partner from among customers, landowners or logistics players, a senior executive said. "Somewhere if I feel the logistics parks would be better off as SPV or JV with a custo...
FedEx is complementing its service portfolio with the introduction of a new direct connection between India and its Asia-Pacific hub in Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou, southern China, reported Business Wire. China and India are two of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Despite the economic downturn, China and India expect to register h...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi