Finnair launches flights to YekaterinburgMay 12, 2008

Finnair begins flights from Helsinki to the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals region of Russia at the beginning of September. The route is to be served three times a week with Airbus A319 aircraft. The flight time will be just three hours, with excellent connections in both directions. “The flight time from Helsinki to Yekaterinburg is half that of ...

TSA takes cargo-screening roadshow to Seattle May 12, 2008

The Transportation Security Administration will hold an industry outreach meeting in Seattle today to explain its new program for screening air cargo on passenger planes. Seattle is the latest city in which the agency wants to test its Certified Cargo Screening Program designed to induce manufacturers, distribution centers and freight forwarders to se...

DHL opens Panama hub May 12, 2008

DHL Express US unit gets new bossMay 12, 2008

DHL said it has opened a new 85,000-square-foot hub in Panama, three times larger than the one it is replacing. The Panama facility will be able to sort up to 5,000 packages per hour, representing a 250 percent increase in DHL's previous handling capacity. Located at Tocumen International Airport, the hub will provide capacity needed to respond to a r...

Sokymat Automotive multi-environment RFID transponders go on showMay 9, 2008

Sokymat Automotive GmbH, a global leader in the development, production and sale of RFID components, will be displaying its expanded transponder range for widespread industrial use at Sensor+Test, Nuremberg (Germany), from May 6 to 8 and at Euro ID, Cologne (Germany), from May 13 to 15. New developments in rugged transponders for use in harsh industri...

Hactl announces April tonnage throughputMay 9, 2008

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) today released its tonnage figures for April 2008. A total of 225,660 tonnes were handled in April, representing a 6.3% year-on-year growth. Cumulative tonnage for the first four months of the year was 840,193 tonnes, up 6.5% year-on-year. Hactl continued to maintain a steady cargo growth over the past fe...

Dragonair reschedules launch of Bengaluru serviceMay 9, 2008

Dragonair announced it will reschedule the launch of its new service to Bengaluru (Bangalore) in India to July 1. The decision was made after taking into consideration such factors as the availability of local facilities and the amount of time needed to prepare for operations after the opening of the new Bengaluru International Airport. Passengers who...

EVR posted worst resultsMay 9, 2008

In April EVR (Estonian Railways) lifted 1.9m tons, down 53% year to year. According to the company, the results were the same in April 1996. Nearly 70% of the freight was oil and oil products. The 1.31m ton volume was down 41%. In April, Estonian Railways received in 24 hours on an average 16.1 freight trains. That figure is equal to 2007 August and ...