Skyservice Airlines and SITA, the aviation IT specialists, today announced the completion of the worldwide deployment of a fully-integrated automated passenger management system. The Canadian charter airline has also implemented SITA’s Advance Passenger Information Quick Query (APIS AQQ) solution. The AQQ service allows the Department of Homel...
Nortel has been selected to deploy a GSM-R wireless communications system for a new railway line in Algeria. The line links the cities of Ain Toutta and Msilla, as part of the High Plateaus railway system that crosses the country from East to West. This new contract follows announcements last year awarding Nortel the Algerian GSM-R technology contracts fo...
French manufacturer Renault Trucks, part of Volvo Group, will expand its Bulgarian network by opening a new showroom in Plovdiv and maintenance centres in Bourgas, Haskovo and Pleven by the year’s end. According to The Sofia Echo, since stepping on the Bulgarian market in 2008, the truck maker has opened service centres in Sofia and Varna, investing ...
“Around the world with the fire fighter truck!” is the name of the project that Goodyear is supporting as main sponsor with special truck tires. Jan Riedel and Esther Krings, who are based in Darmstadt, Germany, are setting off on March 21, 2009 on a trip around the world in a 33-year-old former Swiss fire truck. The first stage of the trip wil...
The power, the feeling and that unmistakeable sound – they are part of what makes Scania’s V8 engine a legend. Add excellent fuel economy in its output segment, the reputation of being almost unburstable and having an excellent trade-in value, and you have a combination that’s hard to beat. The strong reputation built by the original 14-li...
On January 30, the SAS Group ("SAS") reached an agreement with Initiatives Empresarials Aeronàutiques, S.A. ("IEASA"), a company comprising, Consorci de Turisme de Barcelona, Catalana d'Inciatives, Volcat 2009 and Fira de Barcelona, whereby IEASA would acquire a majority stake of 80.1% in SAS' subsidiary Spanair ...
The Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 31, approved the motion put forward by the Nomination Committee regarding the re-election of the following Board members of SAS AB: Fritz H. Schur , Jens Erik Christensen, Berit Kjøll, Dag Mejdell, Timo Peltola, Anitra Steen and Jacob Wallenberg. Fritz H. Schur was re-elected as Chairman of the Boa...
WEST Air has launched a Chongqing-Jinan-Harbin service, reports Logistics Week. Flights PN6615/PN6616 depart four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport at 1420 hrs, briefly stopping at Jinan at 1620 hrs before taking off to arrive at Harbin at 1910 hrs. Source: T...
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