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THE 2009 crash of a Canadian Air Charters twin-engine prop Piper Chieftain, which killed two pilots while on landing approach to Vancouver International Airport was caused by wake turbulence from other an Air Canada A321, according to a federal transportation safety board report. "Current wake turbulence separation standards may be inadequate," the board ...
UPS is launching a weekly direct flight from Guam to Hong Kong starting in June as it expands its Asia services. The 747-400 flight is the final part of a year-long, intra-Asia enhancement project, which started last May with the opening of a UPS hub at Shenzhen airport. The million-square-foot facility, which replaced the former hub at the Clark Air Bas...
APL says it has flipped the switch on a clean-air effort by shutting down, or cold-ironing a vessel's engines, to reduce exhaust emissions at the Port of Oakland opposite San Francisco. "We have brought cold-ironing to the port," said APL Americas president Gene Seroka. "When others do as well, we can further reduce vessel emissions and re-enforce that ...
US CONTAINER traffic on Class 1 railways increased 8.7 per cent year on year as of the week ending May 21, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR). But the bad weather that curbed shipments is expected to contribute to slower growth, worsened by falling demand from factories and consumer, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce, which adde...
THE American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index fell 0.7 per cent in April after gaining a revised 1.9 per cent in March 2011. The non-seasonally adjusted index, which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by the fleets before any seasonal adjustment, equalled 113.6 in April, eight per cent below th...
DURING the first four months of the year, southeast Fujian province recorded a transshipment volume of 3.7 million tonnes from central and western provinces, a sharp growth increase of 83 per cent year on year. Xinhua's report said this shows that Fujian's effort in expanding its port services to hinterland has taken effect and that the province is bec...
CHILE's CSAV is preparing to commence a direct, weekly Asia-West Africa service, replacing its transshipment service, as carriers increasingly turn to emerging markets to diversify cargo flows and revenue sources. The new service will combine the Far East-South Africa service (New Discovery), which is operated using eight ships ranging from 2,500 to 4,1...
LUFTHANSA Cargo's pharma hub for temperature-sensitive air freight officially went into operation at India's Hyderabad airport. Prior to opening, the location had been certified by the cargo carrier as meeting the requirements for the transport of such consignments, becoming the first station in the carrier's global network to be awarded this status. ...
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.
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