ASL AVIATION GROUP (ASL) has completed the acquisition of Safair Operations and Safair Lease Finance (Safair). This acquisition is intended to enhance ASL's three core activities: airlines, aviation support and leasing services. With this take-over ASL now has a staff of 1,200 worldwide, a fleet of about 90 aircraft and an annual turnover of approximat...
UNITED AIRLINES is launching a new Boeing 767 service between Washington and Lagos, Nigeria, starting from December 12, subject to government approval. The proposed flight schedule shows that flight 990 would depart Washington Dulles International Airport daily at 22.43 hours, arriving at Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 17.35 hrs the n...
BOEING's Airplane Health Management (AHM) system that provides information on the flying condition of aircraft has been installed and is now active on 40 of Air China's 117 Next-Generation 737 aircraft. "We are quite excited to begin seeing the benefits of Airplane Health Management," said Zhong Dechao, deputy chief engineer of Air China. "AHM will he...
KUEHNE + NAGEL is boosting its presence in China's logistics and freight forwarding market next year in anticipation of further growth, according to Jens Drewes, managing director for Central and North China. Speaking to London's International Freighting Weekly, Mr Drewes said investments in inland ports and trucking would be prioritised. "Inland dist...
Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur and Penang airports are expected to handle 170,000 tonnes of cargo this year, an increase of 38 per cent compared to last year's total, the Shipping Gazette informs. Penang Freight Forwarders Association president Krishnan Chelliah said in a report by the Malaysian Star that for the first 10 months of the year, the volume of ca...
In its latest round of enhanced transit times, UPS Freight, the heavy freight arm of UPS, has again improved transit times between US cities and Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, according to Business Wire. With a focus on improving service from the Southwest and Western US, UPS Freight now offers two-day service from Denver and Las Vegas to the Ca...
Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM swung back to profitability in the three months through September 30, fuelled by a recovery in revenue from passenger and cargo operations after the depressed levels of a year earlier. Second-quarter net profit came in at US$391.2 million, compared with a loss of $199.35 million in the year-earlier period. Revenue sur...
eveloper Buildev has found a buyer who will pay US$4.45 million for a newly built freight facility in its central Queensland industrial estate, reported The Courier-Mail. The facility, in the group's Centra Park Emerald Industrial Estate, was purpose-built for freight company NQX Freight Systems, a division of Toll Holdings. Buildev Queensland deve...
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