The International Road Transport Union (IRU) today proposed to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) a blueprint for the creation of a multilateral agreement on regular bus and coach lines (OmniBUS). The President of the IRU Passenger Transport Council, Graham Smith, said, “The multilateral agreement proposed to the UN today, in ...
Daimler Buses has secured for itself the biggest order in South America this year. As a result, the world’s largest bus manufacturer delivers 1,045 Mercedes-Benz city bus chassis to Santiago de Chile since October. The vehicles are destined for the Transsantiago public transport system, which was introduced in 2007. Since then the system has been prov...
Flavio Renfer has joined European Cargo Services (ECS) in the newly-created post of Vice President Business Development & Customer Relations. Based in Frankfurt, he is responsible for attracting new airline customers to the GSA group and maintaining and growing existing customer relationships. The role also incorporates ECS’ working partnerships...
To improve the space utilisation of Terminal 1 of Hong Kong International Airport and enhance overall passenger flow and services, check-in counters of 15 passenger airlines will be relocated effective Sunday, 25 October 2009. To facilitate the relocation of counters, additional signage will be posted at the terminal, and information will be put on the fl...
oneworld's biggest co-location project to date will be completed next Thursday (29 October), with the final moves of the alliance's member airlines at London Heathrow. All Qantas' operations at the airport and British Airways' Bangkok, Singapore and Sydney services will switch then from Terminal 4 to Terminal 3. Finnair and Iberia moved to Termi...
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, is launching a new B747 freighter service from one of its European gateways at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Tokyo, Japan. The new B747-400 all-cargo flight has been launched in response to demands for capacity on the route from ABC’s freight forwarding customers. The Russian carrier will ope...
A radiant light of ‘AIR CARGO INDIA’ has helped discover a plethora of growth opportunities in the Indian Air Cargo industry. Recognizing this, Germany’s third largest airport Düsseldorf will mark their presence with zest as Gold sponsors at Air Cargo India 2010, the 3rd biennial international air cargo event scheduled at Mumbai from ...
THE Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) in the United States rose by 0.7 per cent to 96.2 in August, according to data provided by the US Department of Transportation (DOT), marking a fourth month without a decline. The upswing comes after the TSI fell by 4.2 per cent in the first eight months of the year, which the Bureau of Transportation Statis...
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