Boeing and Blue Dart Aviation, India’s largest and only dedicated domestic freighter airline, announced that Boeing Commercial Aviation Services will provide Maintenance Performance Toolbox for the airline’s Boeing 757-200 Freighter fleet. Toolbox is a software-based productivity tool designed to unify an airline’s maintenance data, enhancing accessibility and providing greater efficiency in maintenance and engineering operations. “Our … [Read more...] about Blue Dart opts for Boeing productivity tool
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Rostekhnologii and Thales to cooperate
Russian high tech industrial company Rostekhnologii and British aerospace giant Thales have announced they are strengthening their cooperation in the air traffic management and integrated modular avionics for the civil aviation. The parties reached an agreement to carry out the necessary work to establish a joint venture involving Rostekhnologii engineering subsidiary, Aviapriborostroyeniye and Thales. The joint venture will be set up to develop, manufacture and organise after sales service in … [Read more...] about Rostekhnologii and Thales to cooperate
The unfriendly skies…
Who could have ever have imagined that just as concrete signs were forming that the economic recovery is more than just the stuff of imagination, a big old volcano – about 700,000 years old give-or-take – lurking under kilometres of ice would go and blow its top. The eruption of the Icelandic volcano lying under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier did something no terrorist strike, no economic calamity, no viral outbreak has so far managed in the history of modern aviation … [Read more...] about The unfriendly skies…
DHL ups capacity in response to Asia demand
The global express and logistics group said recently that it has enlarged its airfreight network that spans Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and the Americas by adding additional consolidation services into Middle East and Africa and increasing the number of gateways. Additional measures have also been taken to enhance block space and part charter agreements with commercial passenger and pure cargo carriers. “Demand for airfreight was the first to turn up amid the global … [Read more...] about DHL ups capacity in response to Asia demand
Aerospace logistics
The aerospace industry is expected to grow again – albeit by fits and starts – after the adjustments which were called for last year as a result of the economic crisis. The drivers for fleet additions and replacements include the need to improve efficiency and cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and network widening (adding on new routes). Consequently, aerospace logistics service providers will have more work to do, and thereby more revenues to look forward to. Aerospace … [Read more...] about Aerospace logistics
World Bank ranks country logistics performance
The capacity of countries toefficiently move goods andconnect manufacturers andconsumers with international marketsis improving around the world, butmuch more progress is needed to spurfaster economic growth and help firmsbenefit from trade recovery, accordingto a new World Bank Group survey ontrade logistics. Germany is the top performer, Singapore second, and Sweden third among the 155 economies ranked in the Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI), which are included in the report, … [Read more...] about World Bank ranks country logistics performance
