Boeing Co is raising list prices for its planes as global air travel demand resurges, and also said that it would stop offering a version of its 787 Dreamliner meant to fly shorter routes, reported Reuters. Boeing Commercial Airplanes spokesman Jim Proulx confirmed the new prices, an across-the-board rise in list prices of about 5.2 percent. ...
AUTHORITIES in the United Arab Emirates have decided to recommence civil air cargo services from Yemen to the UAE, after they were temporarily suspended in the wake of the discovery of suspicious parcels at the end of October President of the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology Hamed Farag was cited as saying in a report by the Yemen Ne...
UNITED CONTINENTAL Holdings announced United Airlines and Continental flights may be affected by severe winter weather forecast for the Midwest this weekend. Weather conditions are expected to cause the likelihood of delays and cancellations of flights at United's hub at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Continental's hub at Cleveland Hopkins ...
HONG KONG's Cathay Pacific Airways together with sister carrier Dragonair carried 8.4 per cent more cargo year on year in November to 153,572 tonnes, the carrier announced in its monthly statement. The cargo and mail load factor was 71.6 per cent, a drop of 5.2 percentage points, while capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, was up...
FedEx has added Hanoi to its freighter network with the launch of four weekly flights to the Vietnamese capital. Shippers have been scrambling for lift out of Vietnam, faced with rapid economic growth that outstripped the rise in air freight capacity. According to FedEx, the new flights improve transit times to a number of markets, including China, by o...
Latin America's largest cargo operator is boosting its freighter fleet, but expansion across the Pacific is not on the cards for the time being, despite growing demand for a main-deck connection between Asia and Latin America. LAN Cargo has ordered a fourth Boeing 777 freighter and is leasing three B767-300 cargo aircraft in response to buoyant demand....
Freight Links Express Holdings has reported a net profit of US$730,565 for its second quarter ended October 31, an increase of 25.1 per cent from $583,992 a year ago, reported Business Times Singapore. Revenue for the logistics group grew 17.9 per cent to $27.7 million from $23.56 million. Turnover was helped by freight forwarding, which turned in $...
Henkel (China) Investment Co, a Fortune 500 company, has awarded Kuehne + Nagel a two-year contract. The global logistics provider is managing the Shanghai warehousing operation for Henkel’s adhesives business. To align its supply chain in China and to improve distribution, Henkel Adhesive Technologies decided to consolidate its warehousing ac...
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