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RUSSIA’S notoriously challenging Customs service is set for a much-needed overhaul.
THAILAND has agreed to extradite air cargo arms dealer, Viktor Bout, to the US but legal wranglings may still see him go free.
FIGURES for July show continued strengthening of demand for cargo, with traffic rising 22.7 per cent from last year.
ALASKA’S ongoing jet fuel shortage, which is causing consternation among transpacific freighter operators, looks like it will be abated, at least for a time.
TAIWANESE investors have pulled out of the Chinese cargo airline, Yangtze River Express, blaming poor results.
INVESTORS have thrown troubled Mexicana a lifeline to keep it operational.
VIRGIN Atlantic is facing its first strike in its 26-year history.
INDIA has cancelled its threatened ban of foreign airline pilots. However, the threat is only postponed and may resurface next year.
THERE are still no signs of a double dip recession, and Emirates expects ultimately to deploy all the widebody freighters ordered on its behalf by Dubai Aerospace. Such is the bullish outlook from Ram Menen, divisional senior vice-president cargo at Emirates.
MAXIMUS Air Cargo is ready for further fleet expansion, according to its president and chief executive officer, Fathi Buhazza, and is considering getting into B747-400Fs.
Is the security surcharge being used as an excuse to increase prices and fleece the independent forwarder?
ETIHAD’S two new A330-200Fs will be deployed to Hahn in Germany, Tripoli and Milan, Ndjamena and Nairobi
TAIWAN airline EVA Airways posted NT$5.2 billion (US$163 million) in net profit in the first half of the year, compared with a net loss of NT$1.6 billion ($50 million) for the first half of 2009.
FOR the three months ending 30 June Ceva Logistics’ revenue rose €1.7 billion (US$2.1 billion), up from €1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) in the same quarter last year.
THAILAND is giving its final ruling on Friday whether to extradite infamous arms smuggler, Viktor Bout, to the US.
WEST Atlantic, the Anglo-Swedish cargo airline, will operate a Bombardier Q400 freighter from October.
HELLMANN Worldwide Logistics UK saw its 2010 airfreight rise 25 per cent over 2008’s figures and 59 per cent over last year’s.
AIRBUS is delaying delivery of 12 A330-200 freighters to India’s Flyington Freighters.
KOREAN Air Lines has flipped its operating loss of 127.3 billion won (US$107.9 million) for the second quarter last year in to an operating profit of 352.1 billion won ($299 million).
DAMCO has appointed Serge Tripet its global head of sea-air product, a new role at Damco’s airfreight department. He will be based in Copenhagen.
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