Thailand is planning to add two more rail lines to its ongoing ten-rail line project around the capital city of Bangkok. The proposed lines are the 29.9km Pak Kret-Lak Si-Min Buri Pink Line and the 32km Bang Bamru-Bang Kapi-Min Buri Orange Line. The construction of the Pink Line will cost THB31bn and the Orange Line will cost THB118bn, taking the overal...
Indian company Texmaco, along with its Australian ally United Group (UGL), is set to form a joint venture with three Japanese firms Kawasaki, Toshiba and Itochu to build metro rail coaches for India. The existing 50:50 partnership between Texmaco and UGL will hold a minority stake in the joint venture with the Japanese firms. According to Railway Techno...
ProLogis announced that it signed a lease agreement during the second quarter of 2009 for 246,000 square feet of recently completed distribution space in Portland, Oregon, to CNH Parts & Service, the product support business of agricultural and construction equipment maker CNH Global N.V. CNH will occupy space at ProLogis Park PDX, which is located ne...
GEFCO Brazil will open a new depot in north-eastern São Paulo in January 2010. Located in Garulhos, the new depot will group the activities of the Vila Olimpia and Vila Guilherme's sites, eyefortransport reports. The 6,200 m2 facility will handle all of GEFCO Brazil's sea and air transport operations (commercial, administrative and operational mo...
The European Commission released its impact assessment and policy orientations for the future of the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation 1400/2002 (MV-BER), which is due to expire on 31 May 2010. FIGIEFA, the European federation representing the independent wholesalers of automotive replacement parts, welcomes that the European Commission intends to ...
BYTRON, the UK aviation data management specialists, today announced that it has enhanced its skybook® fuel analysis application by adding a carbon accounting function. The Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) software tool that may be integrated with the skybook® electronic flight bag, accurately calculates and reports on the level ...
Workers facing layoffs from Servisair Cargo, a French air freight company, detained a manager overnight at Paris Roissy airport to demand a better severance pay, Reuters reported. Servisair director Abderrahmane El-Aouffir, who flew in from Britain to negotiate, was barricaded in airport office suite by 60 workers after he refused to meet their demands. ...
On July 24th Ukraine International Airlines expanded its fleet with the new passenger airplane –Boeing 737-800, delivered from Boeing plant in Seattle. The new aircraft is the first of four new Boeing 737-800 aircraft scheduled for delivery in the nearest future. The second one will arrive later in autumn 2009. Two more new Boeing 737-800 aircraft a...
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