AIR Macau has launched a Nanning-Macau-Taipei service, for the first time enabling Nanning residents flights to Macau without changing planes in Guilin since 2005, reports Logistics Week. Flights A319 or A320 fly Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, taking four hours from Nanning to Taipei. Nanning residents can check in for the Macau-Taipei route or Macau-Ka...
THE Association of American Railroads (AAR) reports US railways carried 276,357 carloads in the week ended October 24, a decline of 14.8 per cent compared with the same week last year. Intermodal traffic totalled 207,401 trailers or containers, down 10.1 per cent from a year ago. Compared with the same week last year, container volume fell 3.6 per cent an...
CANADIAN National Railway's third quarter net profit fell 16 per cent year on year to C$461 million (US$428 million) drawn on a revenue of C$1.8 billion, a decline of 18 per cent. This was attributed to "significant weakness across markets affecting our freight volumes", said CN president and CEO Hunter Harrison, who added that revenue ton-mile declines ...
"During the third quarter, the global economy remained very weak," Mats Jansson President and CEO, said. "The effects of the global recession are tangible throughout the entire airline industry and significant savings programs are being implemented to address the record yield fall in the industry, which is resulting in major losses. IATA, the airline indu...
BAA has welcomed the publication of a major report by the Airport Operators Association setting out the economic benefits that aviation brings to the UK economy. “The Contribution of Aviation to the UK Economy” report shows that the UK’s air transport infrastructure is critical to boosting the wider economy. If growth in air transport capa...
The JAL Group announced today, further changes to its overall route and flight frequency plan for the second half of FY2009, and plans for a portion of its domestic passenger operations for the first half of FY2010. With a focus on improving profitability and reducing costs, a bold review of underperforming routes was conducted, as slated in the Progress ...
From the beginning of November, PKP Cargo engine drivers from the city of Nowy Sącz started operating trains on the territory of Slovakia. 19 engine drivers will operate trains on a route Plaveč – Prešov – Košice. Before they were allowed to do it, they had to undergo intensive training, including learning of Slovakian language a...
GySEV, a regional railway company jointly owned by Hungary and Austria, wants to take over passenger service on more than 600 km of railway lines in west Hungary. Also 1,200 employees of MAV would be taken over. Currently, the Hungarian state-owned railway company is waiting for the transport ministry to express its opinion on the case, the local media re...
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