For its next data update, SEKO Logistics will be using a system designed by the SmartWay Transportation Partnership, a collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the logistics industry, to assess the environmental energy efficiency of goods moving through SEKO’s supply chain. By signing with the SmartWay Partnership, SEKO now has more robust[…]
Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd. (ST Aerospace) has purchased an additional 20 percent equity in Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), which makes EFW a subsidiary of the former. ST Aerospace now owns 55 percent of the shares, with Airbus Defense and Space (Airbus) holding the balance of 45 percent. Airbus, EFW and ST Aero began collaboration in June[…]
Last December, amid two days of fanfare, a new long-haul 787 passenger route was launched from Durban, South Africa. The four-times-per-week service was hailed by local provincial officials as a triumph for the region and would begin “opening up new markets for our goods around the world,” as well as delivering tourists and tourist money,[…]
A new FedEx Express facility opened last week at Copenhagen Airport (CPH), serving as a hub for inbound and outbound shipments for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This is the ninth new FedEx Express facility in Scandinavia in the past five years, located in the airport´s cargo area near the Oresund Bridge to Sweden. The[…]
After being forced out of the aviation arena for nearly four decades due to United Nations sanctions, Iran Air has made a bold statement with an order for 118 Airbus aircraft, now that sanctions have been lifted from the government of its home country. Some press reports said the country may be in need of[…]
A few months after the International Civilian Aviation Organization (ICAO) gave conflicting recommendations about a proposed industry-wide ban on the transport of lithium batteries as cargo on passenger flights, the debated has roared back to life after a United Nations panel recommended the same kind of ban on shipments of the rechargeable batteries, the AP[…]
