Logistics & Transportation

Taiwan - Air traffic sees big jump 

Source: Taipei Times, 08 May 2010

Taiwan is experiencing strong growth in its air transportation sector, with a 22.9% increase in passenger volume at Taoyuan International Airport between January and March compared with the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC). Between January and March this year passenger volume topped 5.55 million, not including passengers in transit.

While Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport deals with far fewer passengers than international airports in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Bangkok and Tokyo, it outstripped them all in terms of growth in passenger volume. The number of passengers arriving at Taoyuan Airport is expected to top 24 million this year.

World - Governments to help cut emissions in aviation industry

Source: The Jakarta Post, 09 June 2010

The international airline industry has called on governments to work together in making aviation a more environmentally friendly industry by setting a target of improving fuel efficiency by 1.5% per year starting this year. The target can be reached if airlines switch to compressed natural gas (CNG) by 2020 and halve CO2 emissions from 2005 levels by 2050.

IATA director general and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said earlier that the airlines industry in the short term must cut up to 18% of wasted aviation fuel due to inefficient infrastructure and operations, or equal to 120 million tons of CO2 emissions per year. In the long term, he added, technology must help make zero carbon emissions aircraft possible in the next 50 years.

South Korea - Firms eye European harbour and airport procurement market

Source: Asia Pulse, 09 June 2010

South Korean businesses sought to find a way into more than 1,700 European harbors and airports, which are expected to create a EUR120 billion (US$143 billion) market for supplies in the next five years. Representatives from some 160 South Korean businesses met with officials of nine European port and airport management agencies here in a conference hosted by the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA).

South Korean businesses have so far failed to make any significant presence in the European market for airports and harbors, though Europe's 450 airports account for over 30% of global air traffic while over 1,270 harbors there account for 29% of all harbors in the world. More than 100 European airports have plans to expand their facilities as the demand for air transportation is expected to double by 2030.

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