AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Volga-Dnepr Group's scheduled cargo airline, has launched a charter Boeing 747 freighter service to Kabul, Afghanistan. The first flight operated on July 14th. From now on, ABC will operate every Tuesday using Boeing 747-200/300 cargo aircraft. The flight will arrive early on Wednesday mornings in Afghanistan and offers som...
South African Airways (SAA) and Air India have signed a code share agreement which will improve travel options between their respective countries. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) took another step toward a new safety culture by reducing the emphasis on blame in the reporting of operational errors by air traffic controllers. "We're moving away...
South African Airways (SAA) and Air India have signed a code share agreement which will improve travel options between their respective countries. The agreement allows Air India passengers to code share on SAA's route between Johannesburg and Mumbai, as well as on the domestic sectors between Johannesburg - Durban and Johannesburg - Cape Town. SAA in r...
PPG United Kingdom and Ireland member, Quality Freight Group (QFG), and United States member TransGroup Worldwide Logistics are combining forces to deliver a shipment of 19 aircraft Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) along with their component parts from Utah to Dublin Airport’s new Terminal 2. The new €395m terminal is designed to handle ...
THE French Port of Le Havre handled 1.1 million TEU in the first half of the year, representing a decrease of eight per cent compared to the same period last year. The result put Le Havre ahead of rival Marseilles, which saw its first half throughput rise by three per cent to 435,400 TEU. Le Havre's total cargo volume fell by 1.7 per cent during the re...
THE Port of Antwerp's container volume fell 18.5 per cent to 3.6 million TEU in the first half, the port authority announced. "We suspect that this trend will continue for the remainder of the year," said port authority chief Eddy Bruyninckx. "At the moment there are not enough signs for an economic revival in the second half of 2009." Bulk freight shr...
THE Port of St Petersburg has completed the design for a refrigerated terminal to be developed on the First Stevedoring Company site with annual capacity of 1.5 million tons. But progress comes with a decrease of 23 per cent in cargo throughput at the port during the first half of the year to 22.6 million tonnes, including 4.73 million tonnes handled in J...
On July 15 Governor Chris Gregoire visited the Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc. (TOTE) terminal at the Port of Tacoma to view the first round of stimulus-funded projects to reduce port-related diesel emissions. Through the Department of Ecology, Washington received $1.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to partner with ports t...
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