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  • 蒙内铁路完成首次货运,运送中国援肯粮食

    肯尼亚, 2017/06/29 6月20日,我向肯尼亚援助的大米通过蒙巴萨-内罗毕标准轨铁路货运列车从蒙巴萨港运送至内罗毕内陆集装箱港。这是蒙内铁路通车以来首次承担货运任务,共运送90个集装箱,共2250吨大米。 蒙内铁路于6月1日正式客运通车后,按计划将于8月1日开启货运。此次运输应肯尼亚政府抗旱赈灾的要求而安排。中交建的运营团队克服诸多困难,仅用20余个小时,就完成了编组、吊车和运输等工作。以中国运营的蒙内铁路首次货运即运送中国援肯大米,受到肯方高度赞赏。  
  • New heights for ASEAN–China commercial diplomacy in aviation

    ASIA, 2017/06/27 In 2010 ASEAN and China concluded an air transport agreement to establish a liberalised market access regime for both sides’ airlines. From presently on the benefits from the arrangement were unbalanced, with China making much bigger gains in access than the ASEAN states. A closer look at this imbalance makes clear the need for a authentic single market in aviation across ASEAN. The ASEAN states had attempted to negotiate as a bloc to increase their bargaining position against China. Up to this point, market access had been governed by bilateral agreements between the individual ASEAN states and China. These agreements typically imposed strict caps on the number of flights or types of aircraft operated by each party’s airlines in the other’s market.
  • National carrier RwandAir continues to expand its fleet

    RWANDA, 2017/06/19 Regional allies show there is power in numbers as they combine forces to carry out vital energy and transport projects Rwanda may presently be a progressive African leader, but it is not alone on its journey. Mechanisms for better cooperation across African borders are at last a real possibility. Ironically, in a region of the world where foreign aid has long represented the driving force, this evolution is African-generated and inward-focused. Nations on the continent are presently looking to each other for increase, and it is working.
  • 尼航空公司业绩连续三年最低

    尼日利亚, 2017/06/15 据国际航空运输协会2017年中期“航空业经济表现”公告,尼日利亚和整个非洲地区航空公司的业绩连续三年最低。非洲地区2017年的负载率为52.9%,亚太地区为63.0%,中东为57.5%,拉美为60.9%,北美为56.5%,欧洲为63.7%。     公告谈到,由于区域冲突和商品价格下滑,航空公司几乎没有能力实现足够的负载,航空业损失再次出现.
  • Boycott dents Qatar’s ambition to become global aviation hub

    QATAR, 2017/06/15 Qatar’s ambition with regard to dominating the skies and hosting a top world hub for aviation has gone in vain. In the light of the political stance against Doha and its hostility to its nearest neighbors, what would become of Hamad International Airport? Qatar did not plan to build Hamad International Airport with its 41 gates for its 2 million residents. It was mainly built for transit passengers who make up 90 % of the passengers transiting through the airport.
  • President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Mombasa railway station

    KENYA, 2017/06/06 President Uhuru Kenyatta has told public transport players in the country that their jobs are not under threat, following the start of the standard gauge railway (SGR) operations. President Kenyatta said SGR will instead create additional opportunities for matatu and boda boda operators as he directed the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure to put up a matatu terminus at each SGR station to facilitate relieve of transportation.
  • Government Woos Qatar Tycoons to Invest in Uganda Airlines

    QATAR, 2017/06/06 One of Qatar's richest men, Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani and other top businessmen in the Gulf, have expressed interest in helping government revive the defunct Uganda Airlines, a national carrier that collapsed nearly two decades ago. Sunday Monitor understands that a delegation of 25 businessmen and government officials led by Privatisation and Investment minister Evelyn Anite early last week, held closed-door talks with Sheikh Faisal in Doha, and persuaded him to invest in Uganda Airlines. Sources told Sunday Monitor that the conference with Sheikh Faisal was arranged by President Museveni's kingpin in the Gulf, Dr Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, who the chief of Uganda's Mission in Riyadh but was moved to Iran in the recent reshuffle, although still stationed in Riyadh on a appropriate assignment.
  • Passengers arrive with their luggage in Terminal 5 of London’s Heathrow Airport

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2017/06/02 Passengers faced a third day of disruption at Heathrow on Monday as British Airways (BA) cancelled short-haul flights next a world computer crash that unions blamed on the outsourcing of IT services to India. The embattled airline said it was cancelling 13 short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, but was aiming to operate a full long-haul schedule from the hub and was operating a full service from Gatwick Airport.
  • Saudi Aramco-Hyundai in $5.2 billion shipyard deal

    SOUTH KOREA, 2017/06/02 Saudi Aramco is to build the region's biggest shipyard in a $5.2 billion joint venture with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and others, the partners said on Wednesday. The yard, to be constructed on the kingdom's Gulf coast, will have the capacity to produce four offshore rigs and 40 vessels, inclunding three supertankers, a year, the national-owned oil giant said in a statement. Lamprell, a United Arab Emirates-based provider of services to the energy industry, and Bahri, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, have as well signed on to the venture.
  • Libya unity forces take control of Tripoli airport

    LIBYA, 2017/06/02 Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government on Thursday took control of Tripoli International Airport, which was largely destroyed in 2014, next the withdrawal of rival militias from the site. "This is the beginning of the reconstruction of national of institutions" and the return to policy of law, said General Najmi Al Nakoua, leader of the newly formed presidential guard.