Emirates Sky Cargo adds a new Freighter B777F
Emirates freight division has now launched its first ever dedicated freighter service in Australia. The B777 freighter with a 103-tonne capacity,will operate weekly on a Dubai-Singapore-Sydney-Hong Kong-Dubai routeing. This will boost the carriers import capacity into NSW to 1,370 tonnes per week.
Airports and Airlines Winter Operations
During the winter 2010-11 a number of major airports in Europe have been taken by surprise and reacted slowly or lacked the equipment needed to cope with the conditions like last winter. Other airports in Europe, Canada, the US, Russia, etc., equally affected by the weather, performed excellently, showing that adverse weather need not necessarily to disrupt operations
Airports and aviation leaders, experts and policy-makers from all over the world are assembled in Iceland to discuss the lessons learned from the airports and airlines winter operations in Europe in 2009 and 2010 and how technology, rules, regulations, airports equipment and personal training must be improved before the next winter snowfalls and storms in Europe. They will also address the effects of “extreme weather conditions†on airport and airlines operations like in Queensland, Australia. Here’s hoping they can alleviate the effects of winter weather in the future….
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GST rate increase would deliver productivity boost – CPA
The research, conducted by KPMG Econtech, examines the overall economic effect should the GST be increased by 12.5, 15 and 20 per cent respectively and how this would help fund the reduction, or abolishment, of inefficient taxes, including; insurance taxes, motor vehicle taxes, commercial conveyancing duty and payroll tax. The number of taxes either abolished or reduced would increase exponentially along with the rate of the GST.
CPA Australia CEO Alex Malley said the research highlighted the importance of reaching a broad consensus at next month’s National Tax Forum on the need to remove a range of inefficient taxes funded by other revenue sources.
Implementation of the Containerchain Information System in Melbourne
Containerchain (www.containerchain.com) is an information exchange and visibility portal through which container transport operators will be required to advise the Empty Container Park (ECP) of their intention to pick up or deliver empty containers, and to notify the ECP when they intend to do so during ECP operating hours.
Containerchain is designed to ensure trucking companies take responsibility and use the system to have visibility to plan optimal use of their fleets and avoid long waiting times at depots. The system will improve truck turn-time by providing a smoother, electronic record keeping system at container parks and take paperwork out of the process for Delivery Orders. The system will ultimately save trucking companies a substantial amount of cost in fuels and running costs as well as opportunity costs of having trucks tied up in long waiting lines.
