US organic food sales were up 5% last year, while general food sales grew by just 2%.
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines says passenger and cargo traffic volumes are close to returning to levels last achieved before the recession began to hit hard in mid-2008. Careful management of capacity has also helped improve airline assets.
Fans flooded an official website calling for applications after it opened yesterday morning and demand had reached nearly 90,000 match tickets in the first six hours.
SIXTY-NINE per cent of those polled by London’s International Freighting Weekly said more carriers are likely to follow Japan Airlines’ (JAL) decision to scrap their freighter fleets and restrict cargo to passenger bellyholds.
China’s export orders fell 19% at the opening session of the nation’s biggest trade fair from the same period in 2008, before the global financial crisis deepened.
Foreigners who invest in South Korea will get more cash support from the government starting next year. Currently, the country provides around 15 billion won in cash support for foreign investments annually.
DHL expects airfreight demand from Asia to pick up this year with China leading the demand. Global imbalance of supply and demand will continue into Q2 and Q3, so capacity is likely to stay tight.
A total of 111 projects valued at more than $14 billion have been cancelled in the UAE and $350 billion of civil construction projects have been put on hold due to the recession.
Germany’s annual investment in renewable energy will be doubled to 28 billion euros (NZ$52.7 billion) by 2020, and the industry will become a main creator of jobs and an investment growth point.
Hapag-Lloyd will implement a general rate increase for cargo moving on its services from the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia to New Zealand. Effective May 1, the planned increase will be US$300 (NZ$421) per 20-foot equivalent unit.
Organisers said 70% of Expo pavilions and facilities participated in Tuesday’s trial opening. Security checks at the entrances had to be canceled to disperse the long lines of visitors, who might otherwise have had to wait hours to pass through X-ray scans of their hand luggage.
Sales of smart tags and labels such as radio frequency identification (RFID) devices will experience the fastest gains among food safety products, driven by their ability to providing traceability throughout the food supply chain, according to Foodproductiondaily.com.
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The British Food Standards Agency wants food manufacturers to reduce the amount of saturated fat and sugar, and make smaller single size portions of in a number of key foods – biscuits, cakes, buns, chocolate confectionery and soft drinks.
Fans flooded an official website calling for applications after it opened yesterday morning and demand had reached nearly 90,000 match tickets in the first six hours.
A total of 111 projects valued at more than $14 billion have been cancelled in the UAE and $350 billion of civil construction projects have been put on hold due to the recession.
