Passenger throughput at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) reached 3.5 million passenger trips in September 2009, 3.5% below the same period in 2008. Cargo throughput also dropped 4.3% year on year to 304,000 tonnes, while air traffic movements recorded a decline of 8% to 22,570. Declines in air traffic volumes have continued to narrow over the last thr...
SITA, the air transport IT specialist, announced that 12 airline members of the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) will be the first to deploy SITA's Aircraft Emissions Manager, the world's only Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) software tool specially designed to measure accurately carbon emissions and fuel burn in Tonne-Kilometres as per ...
China, the world's second-largest oil consumer, is lowering state-controlled prices of jet fuel four per cent as crude oil costs decline, reports Xinhua. The refinery price to wholesalers for jet fuel has dropped by CNY200 (US$29) to CNY4,870 per tonne, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement. "The cut is in line with ...
Colombo's Bandaranaike International Airport is to double cargo capacity by January, said its new operator, state-owned SriLankan Airlines, which recently assumed control from state-owned Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd., the Shipping Gazette reports. The new export facility will allow for the existing cargo area to handle imports within a ...
SAS Group and Braathens IT Solutions, a Norwegian provider of IT solutions for the airline industry, have signed an agreement for the provision of a new Ticketless Travel Platform (TP/TPC). The TP/TPC product is a competitive product for SAS, providing flexibility and efficiency for the Corporate Traveler. The new TP/TPC platform will be integrated with...
IATA's Director General and CEO, made the comments in a keynote address to the region's leaders at the 42nd Annual General Meeting of the Arab Air Carriers Organization in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "The Middle East is an oasis of some good news for this industry. This is the only region that is growing. ...
Continuing along a most successful path of engagements in Russia and other CIS countries, Lufthansa Consulting wins over a much respected partner in the market. Russia’s well known aviation holding company United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has chosen the experienced German aviation consultancy to identify the ideal network-fleet structure of a key Rus...
A record year of membership growth despite the economic downturn is testimony to the importance manufacturers and their logistics and transport suppliers place on tackling cargo crime, according to Thorsten Neumann, Chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. TAPA EMEA has attracted ...
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