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The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (the “Rotterdam Rules”), will be open to the States for signing at a ceremony which will take place on 23 September 2009 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. However, this Convention constitutes a serious threat to the harmonised application of l...
Scania has signed a cooperation agreement with the global German trailer axle manufacturer SAF-Holland. The agreement, which is unique within this industry, will provide Scania’s customers a support on the complete vehicle combination that goes beyond the supply of parts and logistics. With the support of this agreement, the workshops and dealers wi...
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Training & Flight Services Vice President, Sherry Carbary, urged the industry to stand together through the current economic challenges by lowering training costs, increasing efficiency and embracing competency-based training programs. Speaking at the Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS) in Hong Kong, Carbary em...
South Africa is preparing its airports to receive an estimated half a million visitors for the FIFA 2010 World Cup with improved check-in and self-service facilities through a $35m programme to be implemented by aviation IT and communications specialist SITA, it was announced today. The five year contract will see SITA provide the equipment and infrastruc...
Heathrow Airport has recorded a 14% increase in the number of punctual flights between April and June 2009, and the average delay fell by eight minutes, from 18 to ten, according to statistics published today by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Mike Brown, Heathrow’s Chief Operating Officer said: “We are working very hard to make every pa...
The nation’s largest airlines had a rate of on-time flights this past July that was higher than both the same month last year and the mark posted in June 2009, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). According to information filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (B...
Boeing forecasts that the Asia Pacific region will rank as the world's largest aviation market over the next 20 years, requiring 8,960 new commercial jets valued at approximately $1.1 trillion. Asia Pacific is the largest market in the forecast for new airplanes in terms of both units required and market value. "Twenty years from now more than 40 percent...
The Indonesian shipbuilding industry, currently idling at 50 percent capacity, is expected to receive a welcome boost after the government announced a new rule that would require the oil and gas sector to rely on Indonesian vessels for its shipping needs, the Jakarta Post reported on September 5. The MoU was signed in August and was based on a 2008 Mariti...
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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