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TWENTY-FIVE miles east of St Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, St Clair County voted US$3.5 million to pay for a warehouse at MidAmerica St Louis Airport to be transformed into a Boeing defence plant. The county also has its hopes pinned on getting regular air cargo service from China to MidAmerica starting later this year, according ...
LUXEMBOURG air freight carrier Cargolux has started a fifth transpacific service as well as adding a fourth weekly flight to Taipei, using Boeing 747-400 freighters to carry mostly machinery, spare parts, computers and electric goods. The Luxembourg flight CV 7306 departs at 1540 hrs on Saturdays, arriving in Singapore at 0940 hrs on Sunday morning and ...
HONG KONG's Cathay Pacific and Dragonair combined cargo and mail volume increased 13.1 per cent to 149,009 tonnes in August year on year with a load factor of 72.7 per cent load factor as available cargo tonne kilometre capacity rose 24.5 per cent. "Our cargo traffic in August was not as strong as the previous month in terms of volume, and our tonnage ...
CHINA Express Air, China's first private regional airline based in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, has been authorised to resume half its scheduled flights after being grounded for five days following a landing scare on August 28, reported Xinhua. The right wing of the airline's Canadian-made Bombardier CRJ 200 plane scraped the ground on la...
Canada's two major railroad companies are seeing a steady pick-up in freight volumes, reflecting growing demand for commodities, such as potash, iron ore, coal and copper, from fast-growing economies such as China, India and Brazil, reported Dow Jones Newswires. "We're seeing a slow, steady recovery," said Robert Noorigan, vice-president of investor r...
A Mexican judge has granted airline company Grupo Mexicana protection from creditors while it seeks to carry out what will likely be a drastic overhaul of its business in coming months, repored Dow Jones Newswires. The move allows the Communications and Transport Ministry, or SCT, to name an administrator for Mexicana as well as an arbitrator in the res...
The fire that broke out in a UPS plane that crashed last week in Dubai, killing both pilots, appears to have begun in a cargo compartment, according to people familiar with the accident investigation, reported Associated Press. Accident investigators are now trying to verify which cargo aboard the Boeing 747-400 was located just forward of the starboard...
The Chicago City Council has given approval to O'Hare International Airport on the issue of US$1 billion of revenue bonds for its expansion, reported Reuters. But the two major carriers at the airport are not saying if they plan on fighting the debt sale. A spokesman for American Airlines said there was "no comment at this time". Jean Medina, a...
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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