Employees of the Northwest Regional Center (NWRC) of Emergency Ministry on Sunday, January 31, rescued 28 fishermen in two districts of the Leningrad region. The emergency teams used hovercrafts to rescue the people were blown offshore on the ice in the Gulf, Novosti RIA reports. Emergencies Ministry officers have warned those engaged in ice fishing that ...
THE Boscobel Aerodrome in St Mary, Jamaica is set to become the third international port of call within the Jamaican aviation network. "It will be the third international port of entry into Jamaica, (and) it will be equipped with all the Immigration and Customs (facilities) that is necessary," said Minister of Transport and Works Michael Henry in a statem...
HAIWAI-based Aloha Air Cargo has launched an aircraft maintenance subsidiary called Aloha Tech Ops for commercial aircraft in Hawaii, which will generate a recruitment drive for maintenance workers to join its existing engineering team. The carrier, owned and managed by Seattle's Saltchuk Resources following the shutdown of passenger operations in 2008, ...
THE 14th Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition in Asia, or TOC Asia 2010, a leading event for the container terminal industry, will be held in China for the third year in a row, moving back to Shanghai. KOREA's Incheon airport experienced a 20 per cent uplift in international cargo volumes in the fourth quarter after a shaky start to 2009 with it...
FEDEX Express plans to launch its first diesel-electric hybrid delivery trucks in Hong Kong next month. The FedEx hybrid trucks, manufactured by HINO and distributed by Crown Motors, "are cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles that contribute to a better environment," a company statement said. (Source: www.schednet.com )
HE Ministry of Transport recently announced that China now has 65,000 kilometres of highways across the nation by the end of 2009, making it the second largest highway network in the world after the United States, reports Xinhua. China opened 4,719 kilometres of expressways in 2009 and launched construction of 16,000 kilometres of expressways last year as...
NEW YORK's John F Kennedy International Airport made a slight gain in air cargo with a 0.2 per cent increase to 107,825 tons in November, breaking 11 months of decline. Traffic figures at the JFK airport show freighter operations dropping 15.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2008 with cargo-only flights minimising overall freight traffic. The fir...
GERMANY's flag carrier Lufthansa Cargo has provided free of charge an MD-11 freighter to transport 75 tonnes of relief supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti. The aircraft departed from Germany's Frankfurt Airport headed for Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, as landings in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince are subject to extremely ...
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.
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