A 2012 USA deadline to screen all cargo entering the United States by ship will need enormous new investment and resources to succeed, according to US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano.
The South Korean government intends to sell 49 per cent of Incheon Airport, with an initial public offering next year to sell up to 15 per cent and then another 34 per cent through a strategic alliance with a foreign airport management firm or an additional stock listing, the Transport Ministry said in a statement.
American Airlines and partner TPG have offered to invest as much as US$1.1 billion in Japan’s Japan Airlines, roughly double the bid – in equity terms - by rival US carrier Delta, local economists say.
Chinese-German carrier Jade Cargo has opened a new ex-China route Chengdu – Vienna – Amsterdam – Dubai – Chengdu three times a week using B747–400ER freighters each with a maximum payload of 122 tons.
Dubai government-owned Dnata is to buy cargo and ground handling operations at London’s Heathrow and Manchester airports from Go-Ahead Corp for GBP15 million.
US carrier Delta has confirmed it is on track to close the freighter business it inherited through its merger with Northwest Airlines. The division lost about US$150 million last year.
The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), a non-government group specialising in transport policy, has queried the airline industry’s claim that it is only responsible for around two per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, saying this excludes the contribution to global warming from nitrogen oxides, condensation trails created in the wake of aircraft and the formation of cirrus clouds, which have been calculated to have two to five times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide alone.
Israel’s El Al Airlines says it is looking for US domestic code share partners to complement its existing agreement with American Airlines, launched in September 2008.
Parcel delivery company UPS Canada has opened its expanded Toronto distribution centre after a C$72 million expansion.
A 2012 USA deadline to screen all cargo entering the United States by ship will need enormous new investment and resources to succeed, according to US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano.
The South Korean government intends to sell 49 per cent of Incheon Airport, with an initial public offering next year to sell up to 15 per cent and then another 34 per cent through a strategic alliance with a foreign airport management firm or an additional stock listing, the Transport Ministry said in a statement.
American Airlines and partner TPG have offered to invest as much as US$1.1 billion in Japan’s Japan Airlines, roughly double the bid – in equity terms - by rival US carrier Delta, local economists say.
Chinese-German carrier Jade Cargo has opened a new ex-China route Chengdu – Vienna – Amsterdam – Dubai – Chengdu three times a week using B747–400ER freighters each with a maximum payload of 122 tons.
Dubai government-owned Dnata is to buy cargo and ground handling operations at London’s Heathrow and Manchester airports from Go-Ahead Corp for GBP15 million.
US carrier Delta has confirmed it is on track to close the freighter business it inherited through its merger with Northwest Airlines. The division lost about US$150 million last year.
The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), a non-government group specialising in transport policy, has queried the airline industry’s claim that it is only responsible for around two per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, saying this excludes the contribution to global warming from nitrogen oxides, condensation trails created in the wake of aircraft and the formation of cirrus clouds, which have been calculated to have two to five times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide alone.
Israel’s El Al Airlines says it is looking for US domestic code share partners to complement its existing agreement with American Airlines, launched in September 2008.
Parcel delivery company UPS Canada has opened its expanded Toronto distribution centre after a C$72 million expansion.
