GERMANY's Fraport's Frankfurt Airport handled 20.4 per cent more air cargo in July year on year to 188,244 tonnes, setting the monthly record, according to port authorities. The airport's passenger volume was up 7.7 per cent to 5,281,632 year on year, surpassing the 5.2 million passengers who went through in July last year, surpassing the all-time re...
SINGAPORE's Changi Airport Group has announced that Hainan Airlines will arrive at the airport's Terminal 2 on August 29, becoming the sixth Chinese carrier to fly to Changi. Hainan Airlines will operate four weekly flights on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft connecting Singapore to Hefei and onwards to Dalian, said a statement from Changi Airport Group. ...
THE international air freight forwarding market in the first half of the year expanded by 38 per cent while ocean forwarding went up 13 per cent year on year, according to the UK's Transport Intelligence study, Global Freight Forwarding 2010. "Forwarders who only six months earlier had been contending with a crisis in volumes now faced a high demand/lo...
BRITISH airport operator BAA (a private company once known as British Airports Authority) will meet with union representatives today to stave off a go-slow or the possible shutdown of airports in London, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, causing major disruptions to cargo flow. The Unite union includes firemen, security guards, engineers and...
Active Airline Representatives - the exclusive Dutch member of the EGSAC Cargo GSSA network - has been appointed to represent Saudi Airlines Cargo Company in the Netherlands with effect from August 16th. The airline previously handled its own sales in Holland. Saudi Airlines Cargo Company operates up to eighteen B747-400F flights per week from Bru...
Memphis came on top as the world's busiest cargo airport with Hong Kong coming in second ahead of Shanghai, according to the Airports Council International, the global trade representative for airports, the Shipping Gazette informs. Tennessee's Memphis International Airport was also the biggest in North America because it is the home of FedEx while Lo...
CHAMP Cargosystems today announced that seven freight carriers operating to and from Nigeria, including Cargolux, are using its solution to comply with Nigeria's new Advanced Customs Information requirements. Under the regulations, announced on July 14th with immediate effect, an electronic manifest must be submitted to Nigerian Customs prior to the flight...
UNITED AIRLINES has announced that total consolidated revenue passenger miles (RPM) rose in July by 2.1 per cent on an increase of 1.8 per cent in available seat miles (ASM) compared with the same period in 2009. This resulted in a reported July consolidated passenger load factor of 87.2 per cent, an increase of 0.3 points compared to 2009, said Busines...
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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