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GLOBAL aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus agree on Asia-Pacific's significant growth and prominence in global airline traffic but disagree on the percentage of wide body aircraft making up the size of the fleets which they believe will carry 40 per cent of global airline traffic by 2030. "To meet this demand," said Airbus COO John Leahy, "larger ai...
GERMANY's Lufthansa Cargo has added a new Boeing 777 freighter to its weekly cargo service between Atlanta and Frankfurt, after the plane embarked on its maiden voyage out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport earlier this month. The Boeing 777 is operated by AeroLogic GmbH, a joint company owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG's cargo unit and D...
CHINA Southern Airlines has resumed suspended service from Iran's Tehran via Xinjiang city Urumqi to Beijing, Logistics Week reported. The service provides three flights per week. Flight duration is five hours. The Tehran-bound flight operates under the number 6025 and takes off Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The return flight leaves Tuesdays, Thursd...
THE European Shippers' Council (ESC) has expressed hope that the recent Xrail initiative will "go some way to addressing problems facing rail freight shippers." It notes that the Xrail alliance created by seven leading European rail freight operators aims to render international wagonload traffic by rail more customer-friendly and efficient. The goal of ...
A REPORT from the European Commission (EC) has criticised the 100 per cent scanning demands for US-bound sea containers by July 1, 2012 as too far too costly. EC commissioner Algridas Semata said the US legislation would "require sizable investments, increased transport costs and entail massive welfare losses for no proven security benefit". Fundamental...
UPS has opened a new distribution centre at the Calgary International Airport, a state-of-the-art hub to provide businesses with direct access to the US and international markets, according to Canada News Wire. The facility, built at a cost of US$28.6 million, will be central to the continued growth of Alberta's economy, allowing local businesses to tap ...
- Belgian Group Jan De Nul has signed a contract to deepen the Umm Qasr Port, situated in the most southern tip of Iraq, near the border with Kuwait. This commercial port is Iraq’s gate to the Arabic Gulf and Iraq’s lifeline for import of mixed cargo and bulk goods. Through the years, the port has slowly silted up and the Jan De Nul Group no...
JAPAN Airlines and All Nippon Airways have registered sizeable increases in their international air freight volumes in December 2009 on a year-on-year basis, reversing months of decline. December's improvement marked the second consecutive month of growth in JAL's international air cargo volumes, after falling for 15 straight months. In December the car...
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