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Jumbo Shipping’s latest newbuild heavylift vessel, the ‘Jumbo Jubilee’, completed its maiden voyage in late December after successfully loading, transporting and installing two 1,250-tonne shiploaders for ‘FL Smidth’. The ‘Jumbo Jubilee’ started her first voyage from her home port Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She s...
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) received four bids for the contract for the fourth dry excavation (PAC-4) as part of the waterway’s expansion programme. Following the receipt of the bids in December, the ACP will now analyse the technical and financial submissions and award the contract in the coming weeks. Similar to the three prior dry excavati...
INTERNATIONAL air cargo demand leapt up year on year 12 per cent by freight ton kilometre (FTK) in November for the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) member airlines with passenger volume up by 4.5 per cent at 11.1 million. "After a difficult year, in which AAPA international passenger traffic has fallen eight per cent, and international air car...
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) international scheduled traffic results for November shows freight demand was up 9.5 per cent year on year while passenger volume rose 2.1 per cent. The improvement in freight, said the Geneva-based industry association, is exaggerated because of the sharp fall in demand in the second half of 2008. Passen...
CASH-strapped carrier Japan Airlines (JAL) is reviewing a proposal of a US$1.1 billion investment offer from American Airlines, the Oneworld alliance and the private equity group TPG while the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) works at increasing its loan to the troubled Japanese flag carrier. American Airlines proposal is competing against a Delta's offer...
AMERICAN Trucking Associations' data for November show its highest increase of 2009 in its seasonally adjusted index of 2.7 per cent with an overall tonnage index decline in a 3.5 per cent drop year on year, an improvement on the year and on month previous of 5.2 per cent. Despite the not seasonally adjusted index showing a decline of eight per cent mont...
CHINA Postal Airlines has launched a Changsha, Wuhan, Nanjing cargo service, reducing transit times in central Hunan province by one day, reports Xinhua. The service, deploying Boeing 737 freighters, operates in the airlines' traditional mode of night flights with a frequency of six a week. Flight 8Y9001 or 8Y9002 departs from Changsha at 0140 hrs, stopp...
US DISTRICT Court Judge Ricardo Urbina has issued an injunction that ends the debarment of National Air Cargo owner Christopher Alf and his wife Lori from running the company he founded after he pleaded guilty last year to feloniously over billing the US Defence Department. The disbarment, the result of a plea bargain in which Mr Alf paid a US$28 million ...
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