Home > Integrated Logistics News

Ryanair announced yesterday that it has signed a new 5 year drinks supply deal with Britvic. The budget airline said the contract would allow it to serve Pepsi, 7-Up, J20 and Britvic's range of juices on board all its flights until 2013.

Newquay Airport has opened the doors to its new arrivals hall. The building marks the second stage of development in the last two years at the airport and is part of plans to increase the capacity of the terminal to cater for 700,000 passengers a year.

United Airlines is to become the latest US airline to slash flights and jobs as the soaring price of oil takes a heavy toll on the industry. The airline, America's second largest, announced yesterday that it plans to reduce domestic capacity by 17-18% in 2009, and will cut 100 planes from its 460-strong fleet by the end of the next year in order to do so.

Northwest Airlines is considering making a compensation claim against BAA for delays caused by the delayed transfer of long haul flights by British Airways to Heathrow Terminal 5, the Travel Trade Gazette reports.

British Airways passenger traffic for May dropped 0.7%, resulting in a 1.5 percentage point decline in its load factor - a measure of how full its flights were on average. The airline said that longhaul premium traffic was slightly ahead of last year, but longhaul non-premium traffic and shorthaul premium markets remains weak.

The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for M¨¦tis and Non-Status Indians, announced today the appointment of Karen Snowshoe to the Gwich'in Arbitration Panel.

TNT Express will use 22 of its trucks to deliver 150 tonnes of aid to Myanmar in support of Cyclone Nargis victims.

Global4PL Supply Chain Services has opened a Hong Kong office, dedicated to supporting companies with their operations and sourcing programmes in China and across Asia.

DHL shipped 15 tonnes of relief supplies from Hong Kong to Chengdu in the earthquake ravaged province of Sichuan at the weekend for two aid agencies - the Hong Kong Red Cross and the Crossroads Foundation.

FedEx Corp will change the name of its FedEx Kinko's unit to FedEx Office and record a related US$891 million charge in its fiscal fourth quarter.

Logistics group CWT stands to realise a gain of US$62.87 million from the sale of one of its biggest warehouse facilities in Singapore.

Gulf Agency Company (Australia) has added a 14th port office to its national network, just six months after the company was established. The latest addition, in Darwin, further expands GAC's coverage of strategic ports around the Australian coast.

The free waiting time for motorists at the Newcastle Airport car park has been cut, sparking anger among passengers and taxi drivers. Since June 1 all vehicles are now restricted to 5 minutes in the pick-up and drop-off parking area, before charges of upwards of £1 are imposed.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary revealled yesterday that time inflexible and late booking funeral goers are the budget airline's most profitable customers.

British Airways boss Willie Walsh said yesterday that the European Commission should oppose Italian government funding for Alitalia. He told the ANSA news agency 'It is not fair that the Italian government is financially supporting Alitalia,'

A man was arrested at Bournemouth Airport last night after smoking a cigarette on board a flight to the UK. Police officers were called to the airport just after 23:00 when the 22-year-old became disorderly on a Ryanair flight from Wroclaw in Poland.

A public meeting will be held this weekend for villagers around Dunstable to find out how plans to change flightpaths in and out of Luton Airport will affect them.

Ryanair will allow passengers on some of its flights to use their mobile phones in-flight from July. Technology that directs mobile signals via a satellite will be fitted on 14 aircraft in a trial. Mobile use will remain banned on other flights because the signals interfere with aircraft control systems.

Birmingham Airport is to get a new air link into one of the most influential industrial cities in China. The ancient city of Guangzhou - now China's economic powerhouse - will join fast-growing Emirates' network on July 1.

CHANGZHOU, in eastern Jiangsu province, has started building a large cold storage warehouse with a storage space of 50,000 cubic metres.