The Freight Transport Authority believes that foreign registered trucks are working in unsafe conditions and giving the logistics sector a bad name, Irish Trucker reported. The FTA’s concerns are borne from the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA) report on haulage road safety and how much foreign trucks are involved in traffic accidents. ...
Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new facility in Sochi, Russia. The site will be directly involved in providing logistics and transportation services to official contractors of the Olympic Winter Games 2014. As a forthcoming host of the Winter Games, the city of Sochi has embarked on the construction of venues and local sports facilit...
Singapore has concluded a new Open Skies Agreement (OSA) with Peru and new bilateral Air Services Agreements (ASA) with Colombia and Ecuador over the last one month. The new agreements allow carriers from Singapore and the Latin American countries to operate scheduled passenger and cargo flights between Singapore and their respective countries. ...
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt has announced the appointment of Roderick D. Hall as the new FAA assistant administrator for government affairs. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of Roderick D. Hall, as the new Assistant Administrator for Government and Industry Affairs,” said Babbitt. “We&...
Air New Zealand has recently sent out a memo to staff denying reports that the carrier's deputy CEO Norm Thompson was involved in a trans-Tasman Sea cargo cartel, the Shipping Gazette reported. The allegations are part of a lengthy worldwide investigation into an air cargo price-fixing cartel that has netted a number of carriers in Asia, Europe and the U...
Qantas has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A380. Qantas Chief Executive Officer, Mr Alan Joyce, said the addition of the aircraft to the fleet would see Qantas A380 services to Los Angeles and London increase from 7 September. "Our A380 services, which commenced in October 2008, have been incredibly popular with customers and the aircraft has generate...
Yesterday, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines took receipt of its fourth Boeing 777-300ER, call letters: PH-BVD. However, the aircraft is not painted in the well-known KLM blue, but in the silver with dark blue accents of the SkyTeam Alliance. This latest addition signals a double ‘first’, for this is the first aircraft to leave the Boeing plant using env...
Swedish capital Stockholm's transport firm SL has awarded an SEK525m (approximately $73m) contract to NCC Construction Sweden to build a 1.7km rail line on the country's Tvärbanan light rail system, Railway Technology reports. The line forms the third stretch of the rail system's Alvik-Solna section between Ankdammsgatan and Solna station. The co...
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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