KOREAN AIR is commencing new service between Seoul/Incheon and the Saudi Arabian cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, which will be operated with an Airbus 330-200. The Seoul/Incheon-Riyadh-Jeddah flights operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Flight KE961 departs at 2155 hrs and arrives in Riyadh...

Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is to launch a weekly freighter service to Colombo, Sri Lanka from December 02. The service will run Hong Kong-Chennai-Colombo-Hong Kong every Sunday, using a Boeing 747-400F aircraft. Aircargo Asia Pacific...

EMIRATES has launched a four times weekly Boeing 777-300ER service to Adelaide from Dubai, a decision driven an 11.3 per cent year-on-year increase in Australian exports to the United Arab Emirates in 2010-2011. Perishables, fruit, meat, vegetables and eggs together with building supplies,...

Israeli air cargo carrier C.A.L Cargo Air Lines inaugurated last week, as part of its winter schedule, a weekly direct cargo flight from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International airport. The flight is operated by a TNT Airways wide body aircraft 747-400 ERF (extended range freighter)...

NORTHEASTERN Harbin city plans to seize the opportunities of expansion of its airport to develop more air freight services to Russia, building up a "air silk road" for Russian trade, Xinhua reports. The city plans to launch direct shipping service to one or two Russian cities in the early half...

Cargolux has announced that it has operated the first airfreight service with the Boeing 747-8F to Ghana on 6 November 2012. The new aircraft will be used on the weekly Cargolux service between Abidjan, Accra and Luxembourg, where Cargolux carries a variety of freight, including heavy machinery...

Air New Zealand will suspend operations between Hong Kong and London effective 04 March 2013 because it believes the route will "not become profitable in the foreseeable future". The New Zealand carrier also signed a new strategic agreement with Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific for flights on the...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says African airlines transporting freight 'in the region' saw a 10.2 per cent increase in demand in August. "Africa contributes three per cent of the global economy, but it is growing the fastest. Some 28 of the 52 countries there have five...

Virgin Atlantic Cargo begins daily passenger and cargo flights between London Heathrow and Mumbai next week, giving exporters and importers in India another choice for fast, same day trade connections with the US. The airline has already strong support from customers to and from India,...

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...

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...

Explosive economic growth in China and massive government investment in its transportation systems...