SINGAPORE Airlines has announced its overall cargo traffic increased 9.2 per cent in September, while its cargo capacity rose 8.6 per cent. All regions except Europe and East Asia have improved loads year on year, leading to a slight cargo load factor improvement by 0.3 percentage point to 63.5 per cent, reported Western Australia-based MICEBTN News. (...
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has berated Europe's air navigation service providers (ANSPs) for criticising Single European Sky performance targets for being "unrealistic." Criticism was levelled by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation in its assessment of the proposed Single European Sky objectives for 2010-2014 that tar...
ORIENT International Logistics, a state-owned Shanghai logistics company, has opened its facility at Shanghai's Yangshan Deepwater Port, bringing the company's capacity in Shanghai to 400,000 TEU a year, reports the China Daily. The first phase of the centre features a 16,000-square-metre warehouse, which can handle 2,400 TEU. Investment in the centre...
FRENCH truckers have joined the national strike against the government's delayed pension reform, blocking major highways, cross roads, oil refineries, bringing traffic to a halt, reports London's International Freighting Weekly. "We need those people who are able to make the government understand we won't accept any old thing to will come out and do ...
Kuehne + Nagel posted record nine month results on the back of strong air and ocean freight out of Asia. The Swiss logistics giant saw its operating result reach US$281 million in the third quarter, the highest in the firm’s history. Net profit was $466 million. Reinhard Lange, CEO of Kuehne + Nagel International, said: “Due to the very ...
Tokyo: To accommodate growing demand, NYK has increased the frequency of its Duisburg Rail Express (DRX) service. It now operates a total of six cycles per week between Rotterdam and Duisburg, with trains running on the service every day. The DRX block-train service is an intermodal facility that connects the Rhine/Ruhr region of Germany with the Port o...
TURKISH ground handler Celebi has signed an agreement to provide passenger and ramp-handling services to Austrian Airlines at Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport in India. Celebi will also add Hong Kong Airlines to its client list from November 1. The firm, which started out initially offering warehousing services at the airport, has only been off...
THE municipal government of Chongqing's Yubei District plans to set up special fund for development of the logistics industry to offer subsidies to important logistics projects and for the construction of infrastructure in logistics parks. The district will also provide charges a transport administration fee for locally registered container trucks and ...
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