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GROUND handing tests are showing that it takes almost 45 minutes less to unload 100 tons of China cargo from a packed 747 at Rockford International Airport (RFD) than it does at the giant Chicago O'Hare airport 70 miles south east. After running tests, Rockford boosters say cargo landed at its airport can be trucked into Chicago in almost the same time...
THE Chongqing-Taipei passenger flight service has recently started to offer aircraft bellyhold cargo service, Xinhua reported. The first flight was bound for Taipei, using larger Airbus 330 instead of the MD-90 deployed earlier. The first batch of cargo were microchips and graphite manufactured in Chongqing. On the return leg, the flight carried a batch...
CHINA Freight Transport Report Q3 2010, published on markets.com, has found that consolidation has been the order of the day in the nation's strongly recovering aviation and air freight market. China Eastern in March took a controlling stake in rival airline Great Wall. The merger followed a series of ties between Chinese air freight carriers in the pr...
HONG KONG's Cathay Pacific Airways has announced it will sell its 15 per cent in Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (HAECO) to Swire Pacific Limited for HK$105 (US$13.45) per share or HK$2.62 billion. Swire Pacific, which is owns 42 per cent of Cathay, is the Hong Kong carrier's largest shareholder. Upon completion of the sale of its s...
THE road freight sector in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been "badly" affected by the global economic slowdown, according to the latest report from the UK's Transport Intelligence. Figures contained within the new report: Central & Eastern Europe Logistics 2010 show that the market in 2009 declined by 20 per cent year on year. The fall was m...
SOUTHEASTERN China's Fujian province spent CNY17.7 billion (US$2.6 billion) on traffic infrastructure during the first four months this year, an increase of 38.4 per cent over the same period in the prior year, Xinhua reported. The sum represents 25.3 per cent of the province's annual target and 37.3 per cent of the total investment on the province's...
INTERMODAL rail volume in the US reached its highest level last month since November of 2008, a year-on-year increase of 35.5 per cent to 225,111 trailers and containers, according to the Association of American Railroads. Container volume gained 37.5 per cent, while trailer volume rose 25.2 per cent over the same period. In 2008, container volume was u...
British Airways cabin crew will take their 20th day of strike action tomorrow, with no sign of a breakthrough in their bitter dispute with the airline, reported The Press Association. Members of Unite will remain on strike until Wednesday, but the union is threatening to hold a fresh ballot if the deadlocked row is not resolved soon, which could disrupt...
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