SIDERAL AIR CARGO has become the latest cargo airline to commence operations in Brazil, after the start-up carrier took delivery of its first freighter. The Boeing 737-3S3 (SF) PR-SDL had been converted to carry freight by AEI-Aeronautical Engineers, reports the Seattle Post Intelligencer. (Source:www.schednet.com)
MAURITIUS is to launch direct flights to China, said a delegation led by the Indian Ocean island republic's president Anerood Jugnauth after a two-week visit to China. Plans for Air Mauritius to fly directly to China have been completed, but the airline is undecided about which Chinese airport will be its destination or when it will launch the service....
AIRBUS has been negotiating with China about a EUR16 billion (US$20.6 billion) deal of 150 aircraft, covering one hundred and twenty A320s, ten A330s and ten A350s, according to Parisian financial daily, La Tribune. A memorandum of understanding has been signed for the sale of A350s, yet this has not materialised as a firm deal. Since Air China is in ta...
WUHAN rail container hub in central China's Hubei province has been put into operation, so that logistics cost is to be reduced and the city's transport role enhanced, reports Xinhua. The US$102.3 million facility, one of the 18 hubs to be built in China, occupies a site of 134.6 hectares with a annual capacity of 1.6 million TEU and is close to the W...
Package-delivery giant United Parcel Service is launching a global ad campaign to promote its expanding logistics business to small and medium-sized businesses that want to sell their wares globally, reported The Wall Street Journal. In what the 103-year-old company calls its largest marketing campaign ever, UPS is replacing its memorable slogan "What c...
TAIWAN's China Airlines (CAL), Yang Ming and Wan Hai have recently announced they will divest themselves of stakes in Shanghai-based Yangtze River Express Airlines by the end of 2012, reports Taiwan Economic News. All three transport giants will sell the stakes back to the Hainan Air, the cargo airline's largest shareholder in China. CAL, Taiwan's la...
SAS CARGO, along with other air cargo carriers, has been named as a defendant in a number of class-action lawsuits in the US which were brought in spring 2006 when the US Department of Justice and the European Commission each announced investigations into possible price fixing in the air cargo industry, reported the Wall Street Journal. SAS Cargo, a uni...
Authorities said at least nine people were killed when suicide bombers in Somalia attacked Mogadishu's airport, according to a combined dispatches from the Associated Press and the Voice of America. Al-Shabab insurgents, who control most of the capital and large parts of the country claimed responsibility, saying they were stepping up their campaign to...
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