According to Germany's Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, the construction of at least 11,000 new truck parking lots at motorways by 2012 has been secured in financial terms. To help truck drivers to find free parking lots, the Transport Ministry plans to push the launch of telematics systems. Pilot projects are already running, Logistics Finland repor...
A new surveillance system introduced by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Colorado allows air traffic controllers to track aircraft not covered by radar in remote, mountainous regions. “The new system, called Wide-Area Multilateration, lets us see aircraft we couldn’t see before due to the rugged terrain,” said FAA Administrat...
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) announced that D.E.T.A. Air JSC (D.E.T.A. Air) has appointed Hactl’s one-stop-shop service for cargo ground handling at Hong Kong International Airport, including physical cargo handling, air cargo documentation, ramp handling and crew bus services. The Kazakhstan-based freighter carrier, D.E.T.A. Air, l...
SITA, the specialist provider of IT solutions to the air transport industry, announced the appointment of Maurice Maher as SITA’s Director, Software Development, Ireland. Based in SITA’s expanding development centre in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Maurice will manage the centre and work with the Universities and Institutes of Technology in Ireland...
China Southern Airlines has inaugurated the first scheduled cargo flights service from Shenzhen to Taiwan, Logistics Week reported. The line initially offered two flights a week on Thursday and Saturday but added Fridays from September 18 to cope with its conventional peak season for cargo in September and October. The service uses Airbus 320, takes off...
Romanian airline Tarom is to launch direct flights between Bucharest and Salzburg this winter, according to Romanian Times. The online newspaper reported that the service will start on 5 December and end on 27 February. Source: Transportweekly
Boeing and FedEx Express today celebrated the delivery of the world's largest air cargo carrier's first 777 Freighter. The world's largest and most capable twinjet freighter will help FedEx Express deliver more cargo even faster, allowing the carrier to offer customers greater flexibility. This is Boeing's ninth 777 Freighter delivery and marks the fi...
Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards will deliver two Kilo-class submarines to two different owners by early 2010. The first Project 636 Kilo submarine will be delivered to a foreign owner by the end of this year. The head of the shipyard, Vladimir Alexandrov, said that state tests for this vessel have been completed and the state acceptance act has been ...
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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