UNITED AIRLINES registered a total consolidated revenue passenger miles (RPMs) increase in May of 7.5 per cent, on the back of 3.3 per cent growth in available seat miles (ASMs) compared with the same period in 2009. This resulted in a reported May consolidated passenger load factor of 83.3 per cent an increase of 3.3 points compared to 2009. For Ma...
SOUTHERN California's location and infrastructure are the reasons the area can stay a "leader" in global transportation and logistics, according to transportation industry officials who were attending the 2010 Southern California and Global Transportation and Logistics Summit in Ontario. "This region has every reason to expand. After all, it's the eig...
RUSSIA's TransContainer has started transporting auto parts for Sollers from Italy to Russia by rail, skipping the Novorossiysk Black Sea port of entry used before, reports Moscow's Interfax News Agency. The companies signed an annual contract with an option of its further extension, providing for the delivery of 400 containers monthly. The auto parts...
GLOBAL shipping, logistics and marine services group GAC says it played a key role in upgrading 45 kilometres of railway between Galle and Matara in Sri Lanka as part of the first phase of a plan to restore 120 kilometres of track by next March. A team of GAC staff coordinated the delivery of the heavy parts in more than 500 containers shipped over from...
PRIVATE container train operators are interested in freight schemes introduced by the Indian Railways (IR), but want to study details of the new private freight terminal (PFT) and special train operator (SFTO) proposals which allow private operators to set up their own freight terminals. Private operators Arshiya International, Hind Terminals, Innovativ...
FRANCE has refused to comply with a demand from the European Commission (EC) that the SNCF railway relinquish its state-owned status to become a private limited company. "The EC considers that such a status [state operator] implies an unlimited financial guarantee on its debts and that runs contrary to European competition regulations," the French Minis...
Today the Latvian national airline airBaltic has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the TAV Airports Holding A.S. as a Joint Venture partner on a 50:50 shareholding basis for the development, construction and operation of a new passenger terminal at Riga International Airport. airBaltic President and CEO Bertolt Flick: “TAV is a respected i...
Kale Consultants Ltd, the leading solutions provider to Airline, Airports, Logistics and Travel (AALT) industry, announced that Air Berlin PLC, Germany’s second largest airline, has selected Kale's REVERA® solution for its passenger revenue accounting requirements. Air Berlin, Europe’s sixth largest airline, is a hybrid airline with its...
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