األحد 15مايو 2016
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IATA: 2016 to be „another tough year for air cargo‟ Global aviation freight volumes dropped 2% in March year-overyear (YOY), according to IATA. However, on the anticipation of renewed demand, cargo capacity rose 6.9%, “putting increased pressure on already struggling yields,” IATA said. “It is shaping up to be another tough year for air cargo,” IATA DG & CEO Tony Tyler said. The global load factor for March fell 43.5%, down 4% on the previous year, with Asia-Pacific carriers seeing a 5.2% drop in demand in March compared to the year-ago month. The decline in Asia-Pacific volumes made a significant dent in overall figures—Asian and North American carriers account for 60% of global freight traffic overall. IATA said the decline was exaggerated by the effects of last year‟s strong demand, which came as a result of the US West Coast seaport strikes in March 2015. This was exaggerated by weak overall consumer demand, IATA said, with a continuing contraction of emerging Asian economies leading to weak export volumes from across the region. Although Latin American carriers saw demand decrease 5.9% in March YOY, overall figures for the region are down 15% on late2014 peak volumes. Likewise, Middle Eastern carriers reported the slowest growth since July 2009 at just 2.4% up on March 2015. Tyler said there was “little optimism for an early uptick” in cargo business. “The combination of fierce competition, capacity increases and stagnant demand makes this a very difficult environment in which to generate profits,” he said.
http://atwonline.com/ ICAO, Kazakhstan resolve safety concerns ICAO said it has resolved a Significant Safety Concern (SSC) in the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. “ICAO identified certain deficiencies in the system in place in Kazakhstan for issuing air operator certificates,” an ICAO spokesman said. “We recommended a number of measures to remedy these issues, which Kazakhstan duly implemented and … this progress was verified by the subsequent ICAO-coordinated validation missions.” The resolution of the problem was achieved following a multilateral assistance effort coordinated under the UN agency‟s No Country Left Behind initiative. ICAO‟s assistance effort in Kazakhstan to resolve the persisting SSC was jointly led by its European and North Atlantic (EURNAT) Regional Office and the ICAO Technical Cooperation Bureau. It was implemented through a pre-agreed plan developed in conjunction with the state and supplemented by training through experts contributed by Portugal, Turkey, Singapore, Ukraine and the ICAO Air Navigation Bureau. Funding for the assistance program was also collaborative, with contributions coming from Kazakhstan, the ICAO EURNAT Office and the ICAO SAFE Fund. “By resolving this matter through coordinated capacity-building, and with support from donor states and international organizations, ICAO and Kazakhstan have helped to further improve the safety of operations in its territory without any negative impacts on the capacity and efficiency of local air services,” ICAO Council president Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said. “Our work under the No Country Left Behind initiative is designed to ensure that all states and regions achieve and fully benefit from ICAOcompliant global air transport connectivity,” he said.
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