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PERTH-based carrier Skywest Airlines bagged a year contract to freight West Australian Newspaper Holdings (WAN) flagship daily to north-west West Australia (WA) delivering The West Australian newspaper Saturday edition from March. The daily newspaper will be air freighted to the northern population in the morning rather than late afternoon, and in the fut...
US-based World Airways, a subsidiary of Global Aviation Holdings, has signed an agreement with Asiana Airlines to operate one Boeing 747-400 freighter to transport air cargo on a full-time basis for the South Korean airline, starting from February 23 until the end of 2010. "This agreement represents a natural extension of the close cooperation between Asi...
GERMANY's flag carrier Lufthansa has announced that the strike of its pilots has been suspended with parties agreeing to return to talks. The airline's special strike scheduled lingered through yesterday, but regular services should begin to resume today. "Returning to a normal schedule completely will take a number of days," said an airline statement...
FIVE air traffic controllers have called a five-day strike this week to protest the creation of a single European air traffic control system, provided in a six-country treaty signed in 2008. The five-day strike, from February 23-27 February, is also to protest government plans to make cuts in staffing this year and next, reports London's International Fr...
A COMMON front of union members and environmentalists campaigning to force small truckers off the docks in favour of big business is now being countered by another common front of shippers and transport interests fighting to keep harbours open to all, reports American Shipper. The Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, backed by the Sierra Club and the Teams...
With the world economic crisis winding down, members of the maritime industry are gearing themselves to look out for new opportunities and ideas to become more competitive in a new economic environment, where Asia’s role in the maritime world continues to rise in importance. Against this setting, the 11th edition of the Asia Pacific Maritime 2010 to ...
ICHCA International is the only dedicated non-governmental, independent, non-profit making, world-wide organisation dealing specifically with the handling and movement of cargo. The organisation’s International Safety Panel recently held its 59th meeting at the Headquarters of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva and a core part of th...
Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) carriers will be allowed to discuss strategies aimed at reducing pollution and saving fuel following a ruling by the US Federal Maritime Commission. Topping the carrier discussion agenda will be slow steaming that has been identified as a "vital step that can yield immediate results" in the drive to cut costs and...
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
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