Oracle, the world’s largest business software company, and SITA, the aviation IT specialist, today announced details of a unique 15-year agreement to develop the most open and agile airline reservations system ever designed, using service oriented architecture (SOA) and advanced computing techniques. Francesco Violante, SITA CEO, said: “S...
A high-speed container train has left Nakhodka-Vostochnaya station (Far East Railway, FERW) for Moskva-Tovarnaya according to a new schedule drawn up by Russian Railways OJSC, FERW press center reports. The route is 9,361 km long. The container train is operated by TransContainer OJSC. The scheduled travel time is 7 days due to optimally combined standing...
Alternative site locations for Norwegian oil bases near the Russian border will be mapped, the Norwegian government announced in its new High North policy document presented last week. At the same time, the government says it will build a new road to the Russian border and significantly extend the Kirkenes Airport. In the document named “New Buildi...
CHINA has opened a civil airport, Tengchong Hump Airport, in Tengchong County in the southwestern Yunnan Province at the border between the country and Myanmar, reports Logistics Week. Travel time from Kunming to Tengchong was once a 10-hour bus ride, now it is only a 50-minute flight away. The airport has launched three daily flights connecting it with K...
VIRGIN Atlantic Cargo announced as Colin Nicholls its new regional sales manager of Australia and New Zealand who will report to James Williams, Virgin Atlantic Cargo's vice president Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong-based. Mr Nicholls career within the air cargo industry began at London Heathrow at Union Air Transport as an operations clerk where he moved to enc...
WORLDWIDE FLIGHT SERVCES (WFS) has won a two-year contract to provide cargo handling and customer service for American Airlines at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada. The agreement sees WFS take over the airline's 22,000 sq ft cargo facility at the airport, located next to the existing WFS operation. American Airlines currently operates 70 ...
The Siemens Mobility Division has been awarded a contract by the British railway company Network Rail to supply 6,100 GSM-R radio devices worth 26.5 million euros. The devices are intended to cover the needs of a large part of the British train fleet. The Mobility Division has also won another GSM-R contract as a member of a consortium with Nokia Siemens Ne...
German rail company Deutsche Bahn's (DB) rail cargo subsidiary DB Schenker Rail is introducing short hours in March 2009. This could affect up to 5,000 workers in selected division. The measure will include the waggon and locomotive maintenance units and the single waggon and full train transport units, Logistics Finland reported. Source: Transpo...
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