Airbus sold 131 aircraft in the first half of the year, or a net total of 117 planes after adjusting for cancellations, Reuters reported. The European planemaker also said it had delivered 250 aircraft in the first six months of the year, including seven A380 superjumbos. The company's latest order book shows that it received six cancellations of A...
TNT is increasing its air freight capacity between China and Europe to meet growing demand with an additional Boeing 747-400 ERF aircraft scheduled to fly between China and its European air hub in Liege, Belgium. TNT will increase its service frequency to six flights per week from Shanghai and five flights per week from Hong Kong. TNT is responding to t...
SINGAPORE's Changi Airport has welcomed the return of Finnair that said it will mount daily non-stop flights between Singapore and Helsinki from May 2011. The flights to the Finnish capital will reintroduce direct air links between Singapore and Finland. Finnair is the largest Nordic carrier with a strong European network that includes capitals like Lo...
MIAMI's largest air freight carrier, Arrow Air Holdings, better known as Arrow Cargo, has closed shop having laid off several hundred employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it liquidates assets. "Like many companies in our industry, Arrow Air has experienced significant operating losses as a result of increasing operating costs and...
THE Geneva-based International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced a 34.3 per cent year-on-year increase in global air cargo growth in May and an 11.7 per cent rise in passenger traffic. "Demand rebounded strongly in May following the impact of the European volcanic ash fiasco in April," said IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani. The ...
SWISS forwarding giant Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new distribution centre in Sauriesi, near Riga to serve all the company's logistics activities in the Baltic region through strong airport and road connections and proximity to its new head office in Latvia. In its first construction phase the state-of-the-art facility provides 14,000 square metres of ...
A full month ahead of the scheduled implementation date, Lufthansa Cargo is now equipped to meet the new, tougher cargo screening requirements imposed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at all its field stations in America. From today, the carrier will perform the mandatory 100% screening of outbound cargo shipments transported on passen...
Boeing has finalized an order with Air China, the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China, for 20 Next-Generation 737-800 jetliners. Air China operates international and domestic passenger and cargo services. The carrier will use the airplanes to expand its domestic routes. "Our long-standing and productive partnership with Air China goes ba...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi