The Board of Management of Daimler AG has made the following personnel decisions: Effective October 1, 2009, Peter Alexander Trettin (50) will take over the position of Head of Sales Central/Eastern Europe, Africa & Asia. Trettin has been in charge of the Mercedes-Benz Sales Organization Germany (MBVD) since 2007. In his new position, he will succeed ...
The new Krone Profi Liner Ultra offers a semitrailer with an optimised total weight of approx. 5,650 kgs, thus more than 500 kgs lighter than the standard Krone Profi Liner. This reduction in weight is down to the revsion of the entire chassis. This allowed for both the longitudinal and the transverse beams to be made lighter without the loss of stability....
Montagu Private Equity, one of Europe’s leading private equity companies, is to buy ADB Airfield Solutions (“ADB”), the Siemens AG airfield lighting business. ADB offers products, solutions and services for visual guidance in airfields worldwide. The parties have agreed not to disclose the terms of the transaction. The sale is expected to ...
KLM Cargo will hand over operational control of its two remaining B747-400ERF freighters to affiliate Martinair Cargo next month. The airline said the crisis affecting air freight carriers had accelerated a review of operations that began when Martinair became part of KLM last year. Two KLM freighters were transferred to Martinair earlier this year. Mic...
Airports in the US could soon get new explosives-detection technology to use during screening under plans set out by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA says it will acquire the CT-80 DR system from Reveal Imaging Technologies under a $30m contract. CT-80 DR features on-screen viewing capabilities for conducting baggage screening an...
Brisbane Airport in Queensland, Australia, will see development work worth $4.2bn change the way the airport operates, Airport Technology informs. The airport, which has had $1.21bn spent on it in the last decade alone, will have work done to ensure it can cater to about 40 million passengers and host about 40,000 full-time staff over the next 20 years. ...
SITA announced today that Lufthansa is the first airline in the world to achieve CUPPS (Common Use Passenger Processing Systems) compliance following pilot testing at Orlando International Airport with SITA, which is the only Compliance Testing Entity (CTE) presently available to airlines wishing to become early adopters of the breakthrough new industry sta...
The Czech government has agreed to invest CKr8bn ($454.5m) every year over the next seven years in the Czech Railways (CD) network to replace or renovate train locomotives and passenger cars that are more than 40 years old. The programme aims at bringing down the average age of its trains from 30 to 15 years by 2015. The move will see nearly half of the ...
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.
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