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...Iran-backed Houthis struck a US-owned cargo ship on Monday, the first direct assault on a commercial vessel since American and British forces launched multiple strikes against the Yemeni rebels last week...
...Lyft is more exposed to rising insurance premiums since it mainly transports people rather than food or cargo like Uber. Passengers are more expensive to insure....
...MSC is the world’s largest container-shipping group and hoped to expand into air cargo through the deal, while Italy is Lufthansa’s main foreign market....
...Under AerCap’s policies, different risks, such as normal damage to the aircraft, war damage and harm to passengers and cargo, are covered by separate groups of insurers....
...Besides taxi services, they could also be used for cargo and medical evacuations....
...The plan is for the airline’s wide-bodied Airbus A330s to also carry “belly cargo” — Judge says he already has contracts to transport perishables such as fruit and flowers from India to the UK....
...During the second world war, both the Americans and Germans worked at flying-wing bombers, without fully succeeding....
...They accounted for just over 15 per cent of capacity for American and United in 2019. But they are still hurting....
...Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, plans to give each bank oversight of different parts of the air transport and aerospace industries, which will include commercial operators such as Delta and American...
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...Chris Connor, chief executive of the American Association of Port Authorities, predicted that his members could see cargo volumes fall by a fifth in the first three months of the year and warned that the...
...Ataturk Airport will continue to be used for cargo for some time. After that its fate is unclear. Mr Erdogan has promised to turn part of it into a “people’s garden”....
...But they have also effectively removed truck capacity just as the strong economy demanded more cargo loads....
...“This delivery completely contradicts the strategy of development of the American market,” wrote the Kommersant newspaper....
...In the space of just 12 months, Chinese airline-to-finance conglomerate HNA has morphed from a symbol of the ambition and wealth of China Inc into a cautionary tale of corporate indebtedness....
...North American airlines are expected by Iata to be the biggest generators of the industry’s profits this year....
...Conditions for air cargo operators, however, have deteriorated sharply....
...Five years into the process, the union between the mostly small, family-controlled, often Greek, shipowners and big, numbers-driven, usually American, private equity firms such as Oaktree and Blackstone...
...The return trip, carrying American exports to China, will be delayed....
...The International Air Transport Association forecasted that airlines would record a collective net earnings of $18bn this year, down from its March estimate of 18.7bn, citing concerns about China’s economy...
...But he says the next administration may have to accept the argument for transport fuel choice....
...On a Japan Air Lines cargo flight in 1977, two younger Japanese crew members did nothing, even though their American captain was so drunk that they found themselves on the wrong runway....
...be US-built and owned and crewed by Americans....
...Brazil’s antitrust regulator is fining American Airlines, Italy’s Alitalia and two Brazilian companies over an alleged air cargo cartel in the country....
...These airlines carry about 40 per cent of the world’s air cargo and should be the biggest beneficiaries of the recovery in freight transport....
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