SINGAPORE has concluded Open Skies Agreements (OSA) with Barbados, Brazil, Jamaica and Rwanda at the International Civil Aviation Organisation Air Services Negotiation Conference 2010 (ICAN 2010) held in Montego Bay, Jamaica. ICAN 2010 offers a meeting place for air services officials from various countries to meet and conduct air services negotiations....
AMERICAN AIRLINES says it is ready to begin screening all cargo on passenger flights from August 1, after investing US$10 million to make the necessary changes, including the installation of seven x-ray machines. American handles about 750,000 pounds of cargo a day at its cargo facility at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. "I don't expect mu...
AIR FRANCE-KLM faces a fresh EUR335 million (US$420 million) lawsuit, after litigation firm Claims Funding International (CFI) announced plans to file a claim against the carrier on behalf of its European shipper customers. The claim comes after Air France-KLM admitted its involvement in an air freight price-fixing cartel that has netted major airlines ...
HONG KONG International Airport (HKIA) hit a record high, moving two million tonnes of cargo in the first six months of the year, representing a 35.1 per cent year-on-year increase. In June, cargo throughput grew, but at a slower 28.6 per cent rate to 347,000 tonnes year on year. Yet it was the "the first time since July 2005 that the airport saw double...
AGILITY has relocated to a new modern facility in Ho Chi Minh City close to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The new office is 550 square metres and will act as the headquarters for Agility Vietnam and Indochina. Agility has three offices in Vietnam - Danang, Hanoi and Vung Tau - and more than 120 employees. The new Ho Chi Minh office is part...
China's largest airline by fleet size China Southern will open two new air cargo routes this month, reported Xinhua. China Southern took the delivery of two Boeing 777-200 freighters recently, which increased the size of its freighter fleet to six, including two Boeing 747-400s and four Boeing 777-200s. One of the new air cargo routes is from Shang...
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES and Lufthansa Cargo have sealed their cooperation with the launch of operations by their new, Vienna-based, Austrian Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary. The new company is now marketing all freight capacities of both airlines in Austria. Freight activities in all other countries have been amalgamated under the management of Lufthansa Cargo. ...
CONTINENTAL Airlines Cargo has withdrawn from the GF-X booking portal after carrying out a detailed business review, said a report in Georgia-based Air Cargo World. In what it described as "a difficult business decision", the company said it could no longer maintain the internal technical support resources to support the Descartes portal. It had also fa...
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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