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LAN Cargo, a subsidiary of Santiago, Chile-based LAN Airlines, has received approval from the Colombian government to establish a new cargo affiliate airline in that country. LAN Cargo estimates that the operational and technical certification process in Colombia will take about six months, with a startup planned for the first quarter of 2009. Col...
A Kalitta Air 747-200 freighter loaded with flowers en route to Miami crashed Monday near the Colombian capital of Bogota shortly after takeoff, the company confirmed. Two people were killed when their house was hit, but the eight crewmembers survived, according to news reports. Kalitta was operating the plane under a wet lease to Miami-based Cent...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has appointed Paul J. Luckern to chief administrative law judge. Luckern, who began his career as a chemist with Eastman Kodak and patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the mid-1950s, has served as administrative law judge at the ITC since 1984. The ITC's administrative law judges manage...
U.S. food and health inspectors will begin stopping shipments of ingredients from Mexico commonly used to make salsa as the search continues for the possible source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 940 people in 40 states, CNN reported on its Web site over the weekend. Officials have expanded their investigation beyond tomatoes to ...
British Airways World Cargo will increase its fuel surcharge to ?.84/$1.30/1.30 euro, effective July 17. The airline said the increase follows a second consecutive week that its fuel index has been above the level 26 threshold. As fuel prices have continued to climb, it is necessary for us to increase our fuel surcharge, in line with the index, sa...
A DC-9-15 cargo jet operated by USA JetAirlines crashed Sunday on approach to Mexico's Saltillo Airport in the state of Coahuila, killing the pilot and critically injuring the co-pilot, according to news reports. The narrow-body plane was carrying auto parts. It departed its home airfield in Ypsilanti, Mich., and flew to Hamilton, Ontario, where it pi...
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fire that burned a hole through the top of the fuselage of an ABX Air Boeing 767 converted cargo plane at San Francisco International Airport on June 28. The fire started outside the cargo hold behind the cockpit as the two-man flight crew prepared to start the engines, the agency said T...
A two-day nationwide trucking strike in India last week came to a close Friday after the government agreed to freeze highway toll taxes for cost-hit owner-operators. More than 4 million drivers were reported to have participated in the strikes over high fuel costs and runaway toll increases. The issue reached a head last week and so truckers decided t...
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