KOREA's Asiana Airlines will add six A380 aircraft, dubbed "flying hotels," to its fleet between 2014 and 2017. Asiana Airlines CEO Yoon Young-doo said the carrier plans to operate the jumbo airliners on its long-distance routes linking Incheon and cities in North America and Europe, he said. The A380 is a double-decker, four-engine plane that can ...
AN Iranian Airlines Boeing 727 with more than 100 people on board, flying from Tehran to the nation's northwest city of Orumiyeh, crashed in a snowstorm and broke into pieces in a rural area near the destination. At least 33 people survived, said the Fars news agency, quoting BBC news and the Guardian. Fars reported the crash killed at least 72. "A...
AIR CHINA CARGO, winner of the Hactl's annual International Forklift and Pallet Building Competition at Hong Kong airport, took three awards - the overall championship, also named pallet building champion and second-runner-up under the Forklift category. Joining the local Hactl crew, were seven teams from Air China Cargo, British Airways World Cargo, E...
US TRUST BUSTERS are out to get United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx for allegedly breaking antitrust law by trying to shut out bargain-hunting shipping consultants, Reuters reports. The US Justice Department is investing whether the two express delivery giants worked to prevent customers from employing third-party shipping consultants and negotiators ...
OWL (Ocean World Lines) has opened an air freight office and warehouse near London Heathrow Airport to support its expanding inbound and outbound air cargo services between the Far East, the US, Australia, the Mideast and Europe. The new 10,0000 square foot office and warehouse, 10 minutes' drive from Heathrow, offers full air freight services, includi...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $330,000 civil penalty against Heli-Dudes LLC, of Salt Lake City, for allegedly operating sightseeing helicopter rides for hire when it was not authorized to do so, aviolation of Federal Aviation Regulations. The FAA alleges that Heli-Dudes did not have an FAA operating certificate or letter of au...
A record-breaking total of 4,024,492 passengers were recorded at Denver International Airport (DIA) in November, a significant eight percent increase from the 3,727,828 travelers who used the airport during the same month last year, marking the busiest November in the airport's history. Consistent growth in 2010 has brought the year-to-date passenger...
THE US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has put 12 of L-3 Security & Detection Systems products on its air cargo qualified technologies approved list, the company has announced. L-3's air cargo portfolio of products screens both break-bulk and skid-based air cargo with systems covering TSA's small, medium and large x-ray classification...
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