U.S. Customs and Border Protection this month installed two cargo imaging systems to check inbound empty trailers at the commercial crossings in El Paso, Texas, Patrick Simmons, director of non-intrusive inspection technologies, said. The Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS) is configured as part of the entry lane portal that trucks pass th...
Bangkok's international airport was closed late Tuesday night as anti-government protesters stormed the passenger terminal of one of Asia's key air hubs. The Suvarnabhumi International Airport is also a key cargo gateway and remained closed on Wednesday. It's unclear what impact the protests and airport closure are having on all-cargo flights, bu...
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has appointed Vincent Knoops as Senior Vice President Corporate Communications from December 1, 2008. Mr. Knoops is currently General Manager of Air France-KLM in Singapore. He succeeds Elfrieke van Galen who will turn her attention fully to Corporate Social Responsibility. Source: Transportweekly
Effective December 1, 2008, Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline will reintroduce services on the Chennai-Coimbatore sector. The airline will commence daily flights on the sector aboard its new ATR 72-500 aircraft Flight 9W 3570 will depart Chennai at 11.25 hrs and arrive Coimbatore at 12.35 hrs. On the return, flight 9W 3571 will depart...
Bolstered by a media report that two of China's leading airliners will get a cash injection from the central government, airline shares posted a sharp rally, with Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, and Hainan Airlines all hitting their upper trading limits of 10 percent on the Shanghai Composite Index. Shang...
SITA, the specialist provider of IT solutions to the air transport industry, today announced that its BagManager system is now being used by 44 international and domestic airlines at Terminal 4, John F. Kennedy International Airport, providing tracking and reconciliation for over five million checked bags each year. Baggage reconciliation is an auto...
The Allen Group, developers of the Dallas Logistics Hub, a 6,000-acre multi-modal logistics park in Southern Dallas County in Texas, said it had signed a lease with the A.P. Moller-Maersk's drayage company Bridge Terminal Transport. Bridge Terminal Transport will relocate a container yard from an existing facility near the Love Field Airport area ...
President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday articulated a governing philosophy that appears to give hope to transportation infrastructure advocates that project funding may be based more on merit and a national transportation plan rather than on earmarks and local political considerations, which have plagued previous multiyear spending bills. In his secon...
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