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Continental Airlines lost $3 million in the second quarter as rapidly rising fuel prices ate up revenue gains from higher fares and surcharges.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a final rule Wednesday mandating technology to reduce the risk of fires on aircraft.

A tree-killing bug is contributing massively to Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by destroying lodgepole pine forests in British Columbia.

Continuing rapid growth in the cruise industry within the travel sector could provide a raft of opportunities for New Zealand companies.

The US-headquartered Environmental Defense Fund recently published Innovations Review 2008, which identifies leading process, product and technology innovations that have been implemented by green businesses while boosting corporate bottom lines.

With the rapid growth in marina development and being home to three established world class marinas with two more underway, Phuket is well on the way to establishing itself as Asia's yachting capital.

Two of Malaysia's leading supermarket chains have recently opened new outlets.

CEVA Newsfast and Smiths News, both leading network innovators operating across a range of industry sectors, today announced plans to extend their ongoing collaboration with the objective of leveraging the respective capabilities of the two businesses, their complementary systems, service offerings, and operational infrastructures.

Every storage solution around the world is faced with this question: How can we achieve an overall optimum for the parameters "Time", "Cost" and "Fault Reduction" without neglecting issues relating to materials and the workplace? Despite the complexity of the needs profile, Clark has been providing coherent answers for decades. In 2008 Clark is pleased to present the GenTX and GenEX electric series and the combustion engine-based Gen2 C40-55 series, three more highly efficient, environmentally-friendly and reliably robust new forklifts.

CeMAT 2008, the international materials handling and logistics exhibition held recently in Hanover, Germany, saw forklift truck manufacturer Jungheinrich unveil several new additions to its extensive range of equipment.

Vehicle tracking and mobile solutions company Masternaut Three X has aligned itself firmly with the greener, safer motoring movement. Each member of the company's sales and customer service team has volunteered to have their driving performance, fuel consumption and emissions monitored by GreenerFleet, the innovative solution for reducing carbon emissions that has been developed by Masternaut Three X.

There is a distinct air of excitement and expectation at Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks dealer MSM/DRH Ltd, following the announcement of a management buyout and a funding package to expand and develop the business. The four new directors, all long-term employees of the company, have received strong support from The Royal Bank of Scotland for their plans to maximise its potential -building on what they know to be a very sound business with capable staff and a loyal customer base.

Construction work has started on a distribution centre in the Port of Amsterdam's Atlaspark, located to the south of the Afrikahaven.

A report and supporting set of maps highlighting the key inland waterways suitable for freight have been published by the British Department for Transport.

Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Ottari has officially inaugurated Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT), Syria's newest container terminal and the nearest to the country's capital Damascus.

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co Ltd (ZPMC), the world's leading container crane builder, received orders worth a total of US$2.03B in the first half of this year, up 32% year on the same period of 2007 (US$1.54B).

The new terminal being built in Rotterdam primarily for ThyssenKrupp Steel's (TKS) Brazilian slab imports has sustained some delay. Works have had to be suspended to protect nesting seabirds.

A minister has given a strong indication that the Government will give the go-ahead for controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow. The government is due to make a decision on the future development of the airport by the end of the year. Business secretary John Hutton said at the Farnborough airshow that the government might take 'difficult decisions on airport expansion'.

Container imports at the main U.S. ports are slowly climbing but are expected to remain below last year's levels for most of 2008, according to the latest monthly Port Tracker report from the National Retail Federation and Global Insight.

U.S. Jones Act carrier Horizon Lines Inc. has lent its support to legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate that the Charlotte-N.C.-based company said will encourage coastal shipping.