At the end of March, the new Czech Airlines flight schedule takes effect. In it, in response to the present decline in demand for air carriage, the Airline will adapt its flight offering. Routes with greater demand potential will be reinforced, to the detriment of flights where passenger interest is dropping. In its summer flight schedule,...
SHENZHEN Airport handled 38,300 tonnes of cargo and mail during February, rising by 7.4 per cent over the same period last year, Logistics Week reported. In the same month, the airport received 1.99 million passengers, growing by 9.5 per cent. Aircraft movement was up slightly by 0.9 per cent to 15,500 flights. During the first two months of this year, ...
RUSSIA's national airline, Aeroflot, has put in a bid to buy 91.5 per cent of Czech Airlines (CSA) from a Czech legal entity while promising to retain the carrier's base at Prague Ruzyne airport. Aerflot's plan, outlined in the tender's preliminary guidelines, also include a promise to retain CSA as the Czech Republic's national air carrier. Althou...
HONGKONG Association of Freight Forwarding and Logistics Limited (HAFFA) chairman Walther Nahr is calling for closer cooperation in the wake of the challenges currently facing the logistics industry. According to Mr Nahr there are no miracle solutions, but possibilities exist to turn challenges into opportunities, he said in a speech to the association's...
THE latest figures from US Department of Commerce show that China was still the largest sources of imports to US among Asian countries last year with a volume of 881,000 tonnes, which was 10.1 per cent less than in 2007, Logistics Week reported. The global economic turmoil has resulted in fall of exports to US in many Asian countries. US imports ...
AUSTRALIA's Qantas Group has announced that it is laying off management staff as part of a fundamental review of the company's organisational structure to ensure it is better equipped to respond to commercial challenges, including the impact of the global economic downturn. A company statement said that it will make 90 current senior management position...
Air France and KLM lead the pack as the first airlines to test the revolutionary AirPod. In May 2009, a pilot project kicks off using seven of these zero-emission, compressed-air-driven vehicles. Air France and KLM will be using these zero-emission vehicles over a six-month period to transport passengers and light cargo at Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amster...
Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Cargo Charter have signed an agreement for the global sales of cargo charters in March 2009. True to the philosophy ‘together we are strong’, strategic partnerships are also becoming a valuable tool in the crisis. With its own teams in Kelsterbach, Hong Kong, Chicago and Dubai, Lufthansa Cargo Charter has been relyi...
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