Magyar Suzuki Corporation (MSC) held its yearly General Assembly with the participation of the shareholders. The GA accepted the 2008 Fiscal Report of MSC. Despite the severe market conditions of the domestic and European car industry in 2008, Magyar Suzuki Corporation managed to close the financial year with great performance. The novelty of 2008 was defin...
In the conflict surrounding commercial vehicle tire production at Continental’s Hanover-Stöcken plant, company management, the IG BCE trade union and employee representatives have come to terms on a solution. The compromise package makes use of all instruments the labor market provides and opens up prospects for 2010. “The package is the ...
INTERTANKO’s Tanker Officer Training Standards (TOTS) initiative has won the Seatrade Award for the category of Investment in People which recognises a significant contribution to the recruitment, training, retention and advancement of the industry’s most valuable asset, its people. Launched in April 2008 during INTERTANKO’s Istanbul Tan...
Free transport of relief supplies in cooperation with HelpAlliance and Bilfinger Berger Lufthansa Cargo AG, together with its Global Partner DB Schenker, has started a free transport of relief supplies to Mali in Africa this afternoon. With the delivery of a new compressor, which had been donated by the Mannheim construction group Bilfinger Berger, importa...
The AIR FRANCE KLM group and DELTA AIR LINES will today sign a global joint venture agreement under which they will jointly operate their trans-Atlantic routes, sharing revenues and costs. The new joint venture represents approximately 25 percent of total trans-Atlantic traffic and will be a key success factor in competing with the two other major allian...
Mediation aimed at ending an ongoing contract dispute between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) began yesterday. Both parties signed a process agreement to move the negotiations forward as planned. The agreement provides for extensive mediation sessions and for binding resolution of any un...
During the first three months of 2009, a total of 18.7 million passengers travelled from German airports. That was a decline of 1.9 million on the same quarter a year earlier. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), it was the strongest decrease (–9.3%) observed in the past 15 years. With the exception of the first quarter of 2002, t...
Rutges Cargo has combined its security transport, control and visibility systems, temperature-controlled vehicle fleet and European network to launch a new product for pharmaceutical distribution. The ‘controlled’ product has been developed around the specific requirements of the world’s leading healthcare companies, according to Jason B...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi