Schmitz Cargobull has delivered 46 reefers and refrigerated box units to Londis, the independently operated food retailer with 1861 stores, owned by Musgrave Retail Partners GB. The new trailer fleet will operate out of the three Londis Retail Service Centres in South Elmsall (near Pontefract), Thamesmead (London) and Andover (Hampshire). The new rigid bo...
Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), a Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala) affiliate has signed an agreement with Airbus making it the latest member to join the worldwide Airbus MRO Network. ADAT, launched by Mubadala in November 2007 through the transformation of the former Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Company "GAMCO", is the Middle East's leading ind...
The charter experts in the Lufthansa Cargo Group have gained a real all-rounder in David Albaiceta, who has been appointed General Manager in Asia. Albaiceta, a Spanish national, succeeds Eric Erbacher. In addition to his native Spanish, he also speaks fluent German, English and French. He has a working knowledge of Thai, and has gained many years of inte...
Dragonair is advising passengers that it will move its counter operations at Hong Kong International Airport to Aisle H in the Departure Hall of Terminal 1 with effect from Sunday, October 25, 2009. From that date, all check-in counters for the airline’s departure flights, reservations and ticketing counters, and bag-drop counters for Online Check-i...
Air freight at European airports fell 11.7 per cent year on year in August, Airports Council International (ACI) Europe has announced. The freight figure index continued an improving trend that started this summer, reported Reuters. Freight traffic fell 13.4 per cent year on year in July, compared with an average 22.4 per cent decrease in the preceding si...
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) in Texas has announced that air cargo volume in August fell 32 per cent year on year to 11.8 million pounds. According to the Shipping Gazette, within this total, international air cargo dropped 12 per cent year-on-year to 309,081 pounds; Federal Express carried 8.2 million pounds, down 5.5 per cent and United...
A Qatar Airways aircraft last evening completed the world’s first commercial passenger flight powered by a fuel made from natural gas. The historic journey from London Gatwick to Doha took over six hours and was operated with an Airbus A340-600 aircraft using Rolls-Royce Trent 556 engines. Shell developed and produced the 50-50 blend of synthetic G...
On 6-9 October 2009 the third specialized transport exhibition “Transport & Logistics 2009“ was held in Minsk (Belarus). The aim of the event - to present comprehensive range of systems and equipment of all kinds of transport and logistics, passenger and cargo transportation services, transport information software and service system...
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