The brand new and modern perishable centre in Singapore marks another milestone in the cementing of Changi's position as the preferred air transhipment hub in the region. The sprawling, spacious 8,000 sq m facility at SATS Airfreight Terminal 2 that was officially inaugurated on 26 November is designed to handle 250,000 tonnes of perishable cargo annua...
INDIAN intelligence agency, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has foiled an attempt to smuggle a consignment from Germany of the metal rhodium valued over twice that of gold, despite security bureaucracy delaying their entry at Mumbia's Sahar air cargo complex. Ongoing delays of renewing passes since June by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Sec...
GERMANY's industrial orders grew by 1.6 per cent in October, with demand from overseas increasing by 0.8 per cent and domestic orders rising by 2.4 per cent. Orders received from inside the European Union declined by 0.9 per cent, while other countries' orders were up by two per cent, according to figures from the nation's Economy Ministry. "Dome...
AUCKLAND Airport has announced Guangzhou-based China Southern Airline will launch Guangzhou-Auckland service three times a week, via Melbourne, starting April 30, 2011, reported Xinhua. This new service is estimated to bring additional NZD50 million (US$37.5 million) a year to the country's tourism, said Auckland airport's chief executive Simon Moutte...
DB Schenker it to launch a North Rail Express on 3 January 2011, which will transport goods by train between Narvik in north Norway and Oslo via Kiruna and Hallsberg in Sweden, Logistics Finland reports. The private rail route will be among the longest in Europe, at 1960 km, and is a response to the low investments in rail cargo transport in Norway. The ave...
In November 2010, the handling tonnage of International Cargo Centre Shenzhen (ICCS) broke through 7,100 tons to achieve the highest so far in 2010 which meant the usual downturn in the slack season did not appear this year. In December the tonnage is expected to rise continuously under Christmas effect. Compared with the same period last year, the growth r...
Airbus and CAE have agreed to renew their flight training services cooperation agreement through to 2017. The partnership has grown significantly since it began in 2002, and combines Airbus’ training expertise and CAE’s global network of flight training centres. This cooperation also ensures that Airbus operators are provided with the largest fl...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported in a release of preliminary data that U.S. airlines carried 57.3 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in September 2010. This is a 4.9 percent increase from September 2009 and was the largest monthly year-over-year increase since September 200...
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.
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