Finnair, Finland's largest airline, has announced its plan for new destinations and frequencies for the summer season. The airline will begin operating direct flights between Helsinki and Tel Aviv, starting early June, offering twice weekly flights on Helsinki Tel Aviv route, with Airbus A320...

RUSSIA's Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced that it transported 100 tons of mining equipment, including a self-propelled Bauer BG28 drill used for mining, for Stroymechanoservice LLC to Magadan from Moscow using the AN-124-100 freighter. The customer is said to have a proven track record of...

EMIRATES SkyCargo will increase its fleet to 10 aircraft and its freighter network by 12 destinations in the addition of three Boeing 777F aircraft at a capacity of 103 tonnes each, with a fourth due in March. The new freighter destinations will include Taipei, Chittagong, Eldoret, Lilongwe,...

Qatar Airways has introduced its latest gateway in the Republic of Iraq with the launch of scheduled flights to the central city of Najaf. Following its move into Iraq six months ago with the start of flights to both the capital Baghdad and Erbil, the Doha-based airline has inaugurated new...

Hapag-Lloyd will increase rates on its Far East westbound trade, effective March 15. The rate hike will be $750 per 20-foot container, and it will apply to all shipments from East Asia to North Europe and the Mediterranean. Separately, the German ocean carrier announced it is revising service...

SRI LANKA's state-owned Jaye Container Terminal (JCT) welcomed its first post-panamax containership, the 11,000-TEU MSC Luciana, on its maiden voyage. The call by the MSC Luciana on the carrier's Cheetah service is a key event for the terminal showing that it can handle larger sized vessels...

HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has announced a general rate increase (GRI) of US$200 per TEU and $300 per FEU to be applied to all cargo loading in north Europe bound for Asia starting March 1. "Ocean freight rates continue to be below the level to cover operating costs or...

Turkey plans to build what it said would be the largest airport in the world in Istanbul, eventually able to handle 150 million passengers per year, in a project seen costing more than US$9.3 billion, reported Reuters. Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said the deadline for bids to build the...

The three new freighters, each capable of carrying up to 103 tonnes of cargo, takes SkyCargo s freighter fleet to 10 aircraft and its dedicated freighter network to 12 destinations. These are Taipei, Chittagong, Eldoret, Lilongwe, Kabul, Almaty, Gothenburg, Zaragoza, Viracopos, Tripoli,...

Qatar's Qatar Airways says cargo and passenger flights both will benefit from an open skies...

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will start charging a higher bunker adjustment factor next month on all...

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has signed an agreement with Paris-Vatry Airport, located to the east of...

IAG Cargo announced that it will be able to offer 40 percent more freight capacity between London...

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe rose 60.7...

Aramex has launched a specialist road freight service between the UK & Ireland and Scandinavia. The...

The Grand Alliance - a consortium of the shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL - has...

Dubai's Emirates airline will start flights to Iraq in July as it looks to benefit from increasing...

DB Schenker has launched a new rail service connecting the Norwegian capital of Oslo to the Arctic...

SWISS s first-ever non-stop scheduled flight to San Francisco departed from Zurich at 13:15 on...