AMERICAN Airlines's AA Cargo, in partnership with Envirotainer, is offering a temperature-controlled service worldwide, which provides three types of container with specific temperature ranges and monitored throughout by staff airline staff. The LD3, LD7 and the "E" container types can be accommodated in wide-body aircraft, with the "E" type fitting into...
RUSSIA's flag carrier Aeroflot moved 891,000 passengers in July (including charter moving 18,900 people) and provided 2.6 billion passenger-kilometres, according to the Russian Transport Daily Report. The passenger load factor was 77.5 per cent, almost the same as in July 2008. Passenger traffic totalled 97 per cent against July 2008 down three per cent ...
SLOVAKIA's SkyEurope, which has never made a profit in six years of operation, has gone out of business, cancelling flights, or having them cancelled, between Bratislava, Prague and Paris, reports Agence France Presse. When SkyEurope failed to meet financial obligations, Ruzyne Prague airport stopped its flights, stranding passengers. Failure to pay debt...
Shenzhen Hutchison Inland Container Depots (SHICD), a member of Hutchison Port Holdings, will soon launch a two-phase expansion programme. The existing Phase I of the project will see another two export-supervisory warehouses built, each covering an area of over two hectares. The construction work of the first warehouse will start this month, and it will op...
Koninklijke Vopak N.V. (Vopak) has successfully concluded a new Singapore Dollar 210 million (approximately EUR 102 million) senior unsecured Notes Issuance in the Asian Private Placement market. In this new Issuance 11 institutional investors are participating. After a number of successful project financing programs in Asia and corporate funding of regio...
South Cotabato Integrated Port Services, Inc. (SCIPSI) recently became the first cargo handling company in the Philippines to be Investors in People (IiP) certified. The award was given by the People Management Association of the Philippines during its 547th general membership meeting held in Makati City. ( www.schednet.com )
During the 8-month period the loading at RZHD declined 20.5% to 717.7mln ton against prior year figures, the company informed. The coal shipment moved down 9.7% to 174.6mln ton; coke - 27.6% to 6.5mln ton; crude oil and petroleum products - 2.7% to 151.6mln ton; chemicals - 18.4% to 25.2mln ton; cement - 25.4%. The cargo turnover lost 17.6% to 1198.7bn ...
In January-August, 2009, Batumi Oil Terminal decreased transshipment of crude and oil products by 26.6%, year-on-year, to 3.969 million tonnes, RZD-Partner reports. In August, the terminal handled 629,000 tonnes (+18% against July and +22.8%, year-on-year). The company says the growth was driven mainly by increased transportation of oil (496,200 tonnes ag...
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