Lufthansa Consulting will host its third specialist conference for the aviation industry in Berlin. After the two successful events for Central/Eastern European airports in 2007 and for Russian/CIS airports in 2008 the focus this time is on airlines and their fuel performance efficiency. About twenty selected executive representatives from international air...
Continental, one of the worldwide leaders in the automotive industry, plans to expand the production process of the passenger and light truck tires plant in Timisoara by building a new unit for processing the master batch. The investment will allow the company to have a completely integrated production unit, which will consolidate the tire busines...
AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes received the Airline CEO of the Year Award for 2009 from Jane’s Transport Finance magazine in London. The award was presented to Tony for successfully leading AirAsia, which has grown into the world’s best low-cost airline and Asia’s largest. Under Tony’s leadership, the airline flew more than...
BAE Systems announced at the LIMA ‘09 International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Langkawi today that it has clinched another sale of a BAe 146 regional jetliner into Indonesia. PT Aviastar Mandiri, a certified air charter operator, has bought a BAe 146-200 which has just been delivered, and will be operated on behalf of Transnusa Air Service...
Boeing today completed the static test necessary to validate the side-of-body modification made to the 787 Dreamliner. The company expects a full analysis of the test results to be concluded in approximately 10 days. A successful test result is needed to clear the airplane for its planned first flight next month. During today's test on the 787 Dreamliner...
Titan Airways of the UK has leased a BAe 146-300 from BAE Systems to fulfil an urgent Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract in the Middle East. The aircraft is based in Bahrain and flies several times a week between Bahrain, Muscat in Oman and Minhad in the United Arab Emirates. The requirement is to transport around 45 passengers and freight on these sector...
THE Union Pacific Railroad (UP) has opened a new high-clearance route through the Sierra in addition to its existing single track that can accommodate double-stack intermodal containers moving from Oakland to the east. The second Donner Pass track marks the completion of a 12-month project designed to move rail freight over a shorter, faster and more effi...
CHICAGO-based Aon Consulting employment survey on holiday recruitment from 100 of the US largest retailers showed 19 per cent were planning to hire more staff, 44 per cent less and 37 per cent the same as 2008. "While the economy is showing some signs of recovery, key indicators, such as the unemployment rate, give retailers good reason to proceed with ca...
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