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2016مايو 15

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to be „another tough year for air cargo‟2016 IATA:

Global aviation freight volumes dropped 2% in March year-over-

year (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.

,” IATA another tough year for air cargo“It is shaping up to be

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 late-

2014 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.

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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.

assistance effort in Kazakhstan to resolve the persisting SSC was ICAO‟s

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 ICAO-

compliant global air transport connectivity,” he said.

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