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Emirates is to double its Dubai-Dublin service with a second daily non-stop Boeing 777-300ER flight from 1 September. Timings have been scheduled to facilitate onward connections from Dubai to major destinations in Australia and New Zealand, with shorter journey times into Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane. Following the partnership agreement with Qantas, Emirates will continue to offer connections to almost 60 cities across Australia and New Zealand. The new flight also ...
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The Swiss competition (COMCO) has fined 12 airlines a total of Sfr11 million (£7.4m) for price-fixing between 200 and 2005. An investigation realed that the carriers had colluded on freight rates, fuel surcharges, war risk surcharges and US customs clearance surcharges. The carriers concerned were Korean Air Lines, Atlas Air ...
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Austrian Airlines is to relaunch its services to the Iranian capital Tehran, from 11 March, subject to regulatory approval. Airbus A320 or A319 flights will operate five times a week in the summer schedule, departing Vienna at 20.10. Austrian dropped Tehran from its schedule in January 2013, citing commercial reasons.
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The European Parliament approved a proposal for the next generation of tamper-proof satellite-equipped digital tachographs on 15 January. With the European Council already signed up to the plan, the new rules should be adopted shortly although the European Commission still needs to adopt technical specifications, expected this year. The devices ...
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DP World Southampton has taken delivery of six new Kalmar straddle-carriers worth over £3.6million as part of a £150m investment by Associated British Ports to prepare for the next generation of ultra large container vessels.
The straddle carriers arrived fully assembled on board the ro-ro vessel MV Meri from Gdynia, Poland, ...
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The Van der Vlist group's Zwaar Transport Twente has moved a containerised biogas generato from the Nordrhein – Westfalen area of Germany to a farm in Crowle, North Lincolnshire. As can be seen, it was a very tight squeeze getting the load through a low bridge, a mile from final ...
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Steve Gunning has been appointed to the International Airlines Group (IAG) management committee as CEO, IAG Cargo. He has spent the past two years integrating the British Airways and Iberia cargo divisions into a single business and before this was managing director for BA World Cargo.
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Evergreen Line has signed charter agreements for ten 14,000 teu containerships to be delivered during 2016 and 2017. They will replace existing vessels and will have substantially lower fuel consumption than older tonnage.
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OPDR has also set up its own Moroccan company, OPDR Maroc Sarlau in Casablanca. The line offers up to three regular sailings per week to and from Morocco. A weekly direct service connects Tilbury and north European ports with Casablanca and vice-versa and a second via the Canary Islands.
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Austrian Airlines will add a fourth daily A320 service between Vienna and London Heathrow from 30 March, departing the Austrian capital at 12.45 and returning at 15.20.
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