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CHINA and Latin America have been key drivers of air cargo growth since the downturn, but the crisis is not over with an uncertain year expected, according to a delegate consensus at the International Air Cargo Forum and Exposition in Amsterdam. Delegates spoke of a surprising recovery in 2010 with carriers such as Emirate Airline seeing 23.5 per cent g...
CHINA Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CASHC), which acts as purchaser for most mainland aircraft, and Guangzhou's China Southern Airlines, the country's biggest air carrier, have announced separate orders for more than 100 Airbus planes, reported Xinhua. China Southern will buy 36 aircraft for US$3.78 billion from Toulouse-based Airbus, six A330s f...
DHL has started offering a direct service for less-than-container-load (LCL) shipments between Shanghai and Tokyo. It said the new service has a "number of advantages over existing shipment options. Currently, shipments need to be re-handled in Hong Kong and the shipment time totals five to seven days. But the direct shipment between Shanghai and Tokyo ...
GOVERNMENTAL statistics showed that China's northern province Qinghai's cargo traffic grew 13.2 per cent in the first nine months year on year to 85.7 million tonnes, Xinhua reported. Railway cargo traffic increased 21.5 per cent to 23.8 million tonnes. Road traffic went 10.6 per cent up to 60.5 million tonnes. Air cargo traffic surged 130 per cent to...
DOMESTIC Greek leftists are suspected as the source of 14 parcel bombs, which prompted Athens to close down national air mail/parcel service for 48 hours, reported Deutsche Presse-Argentur. Authorities do not see links to Muslims, or to air cargo bombs found in Britain and Dubai aimed at a US targets, but rather suspect leftist terrorists in Greece. The...
A QANTAS A380 flight, QF 32, after taking off from Singapore and heading for Sydney, turned around 20 miles away after and engine malfunctioned to make a forced landing in Changi Airport. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the Australian flag carrier would "suspend A380 services until we are confident" thus halting all A380 flights until more is known about the i...
THE China International Forwarders Association (CIFA) and WCA Family of Logistic Networks (WCAF) will hold their first African Regional Forwarders Conference from December 5-7 in Nairobi. CIFA plans to bring 50 top independent Chinese forwarding companies to Nairobi, and delegates from 25 countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Indian sub-continen...
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge has secured three orders in the rail industry to supply 3,200 engines worth hundreds of millions. The engines are to be delivered from next year onward until 2020. This allows MAN Nutzfahrzeuge to systematically expand its external engine business further. French train maker Alstom relies on MAN engines to run its new Coradia Polyvalent r...
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