Transport

IRU Secretary General, Umberto de Pretto, met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the first UN Global Conference on Sustainable Transport in Ashgabat.

Network Rail will hold two information events in Dringhouses and Copmanthorpe next week to inform people living near the railway of vegetation removal work.

Work on the preparation of sedan LADA Vesta for export to the European Union came to the finish line, but the supply of cars, particularly in Germany, will not be implemented before the end of this year, as previously reported.

The consortium comprising Basic Element, one of Russia’s diversified industrial groups, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Changi Airports International (CAI) announces the acquisition of Vladivostok International Airport in Russia’s Far East.

Asaka plant GM Uzbekistan began the serial production of sedans Ravon R4, intended to be sold on the markets of the CIS. The first lot of cars was shipped to the Russian market. 

The first lot of compact crossovers Changan CS35, assembled at Changan plant in the Lipetsk region, went on sale in all the dealerships in Russia.

The first A350-1000 took off this morning for its maiden flight at Blagnac in Toulouse, France at 10.42 hrs local time.

Tonight, on 23 November, the strike announced by pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit began. The special flight schedule is being carried out as planned. More than two thirds of all Lufthansa Group flights are taking place according to schedule today.

DHL further expands its supply chain management and analysis portfolio by launching the DHL Resilience360 Transparency Portal.