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CREW members at McMinnville-based Evergreen International Airlines has intended to vote December 1 on a strike after negotiating for six years without a contract, reported the Portland Oregonian. The strike ballot is scheduled to open on December 1 and close January 7. The airline's pilots and flight engineers are the first batch of voters. "Pilots...
GERMAN authorities have withdrawn licences from three companies incapable of meeting the country's air cargo security standards in the wake of a foiled terrorist bomb plot on two cargo planes, reported The Associate Press. The purge is aimed at cleaning up the industry, which is concerned that it may be brought under costly police supervision if it can...
SOUTH KOREAN officials are visiting Washington to prevent the introduction of rules in the US on lithium-ion battery shipments that major Asian exporters fear will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The US Department of Transportation intends to tighten existing rules on how such batteries and the devices containing them are transported o...
MORE than 162,400 tonnes of air cargo moved through Singapore Changi Airport in October, up 5.2 per cent year on year, and representing a January-to-October increase of 13 per cent to 1.5 million tonnes. On the passenger side, 3.58 million movements were made in October, an increase of 7.9 per cent year on year, driven by a double digit growth in passen...
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Jetstar Airways (Jetstar) have reached an agreement to expand their codeshare partnership to include flights operated by Jetstar on routes linking Japan's 2 major cities - Tokyo (Narita) and Osaka (Kansai), with Gold Coast in Queensland Australia, from November 25, 2010. JAL has been bilateral partners with Jetstar - also a sub...
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told American, Canadian and Mexican political leaders that 100 per cent screening of air cargo was easy to say "but not the best way." Ms Napolitano said the measures in place after the recent Yemeni bomb plot have "bolstered security better than an infeasible bill that would require all packages on air-ca...
The Russian government may sell a part of its stake in Russian Railways through a swap for assets as a part of its multi-billion dollar privatisation plan to rectify the budget deficit and cut the state's role in the economy, reported Dow Jones Newswires. The economy ministry said the government may sell a part of its stake of up to 25 percent minus on...
Dubai Airports is expecting modest growth in 2011 despite double digit increases in air freight volumes this year. Year to date volumes this year are up almost 22 percent at 1,888,619 tonnes. October recorded a 9.2 percent growth over last year, the UAE airports company said in a statement. Dubai Airports expects cargo volumes to exceed 2.2 million ...
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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