Eddie Stobart Ltd has upgraded its refrigerated trailer fleet with the acquisition of 30 new Schmitz Cargobull refrigerated trailers. Eddie Stobart already operates an extensive fleet of Schmitz Cargobull trailers and this latest order follows the acquisition in 2008 of 150 dual - and 100 single-temperature vehicles from the Schmitz Cargobull range. The...
Boeing and Copa Airlines, Panama's flagship air carrier, announced an order for two more Next-Generation 737-800s, bringing to 15 the number of 737-800s the airline has ordered this year. The order is valued at $152 million at list prices. "The Next-Generation 737 plays a major role in achieving our goal of offering our passengers world-class service, th...
Greek Aegean Airlines has become the latest addition to the list of carriers doing business at Vienna International Airport (VIA), Austrian Times informed. VIA bosses said yesterday (Mon) the company has launched direct connections between Vienna and Athens five times a week. The first flight on the route was last Thursday. VIA chiefs recently said pa...
Sydney Airport has asked passengers to allow extra time to travel to the airport and catch their flights over the Christmas holiday period. The Christmas – New Year holidays are the busiest time of year for Sydney Airport with many people travelling to spend Christmas with their families. The weekend before Christmas is usually the most popular ti...
To ensure the same level of service for the growing number of passengers flying on smaller aircraft, the Airport Authority has invested over HK$1 billion in the construction of a new North Satellite Concourse (NSC). The new concourse, which will be soft-opened on 17 December, will ensure that Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continues to meet its perf...
An amendment mandating the release of HUF 19 billion (EUR 70.48 million) of public debt was included in the 2010 budget to give the state the option of regaining a stake in Hungarian flag carrier Malév, Finance Minister Péter Oszkó admitted last Thursday. Though news portal index.hu had earlier suggested that the state would only becom...
HONG KONG Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), the airport's big ground handler, has announced a year-on-year increase of 18.8 per cent increase in cargo throughput to 241,157 tonnes last month, but it also posted a fall of 11.6 per cent from January through November. Export volume in November increased 18 per cent against last year to 139,994 tonnes. Ag...
DHL Express has started offering a direct flight from Hong Kong to Surabaya, Indonesia, in a bid to facilitate the increasing volume of import cargo from Hong Kong to East Java. The flight operates four times a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and will not only carry freight from Hong Kong, but also from North Asia and the US, a DHL st...
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