Ros Roca Malaysia, the new company of Ros Roca Environment in Southeast Asia, has closed several transactions amounting to ten million euros in this area, where it has sold 200 rear-loading compactor refuse collectors, as reported by Europa Press.

Ros Roca Environment was established last year in Malaysia, taking another step in its worldwide internationalization strategy. "This is a key opening in the growth strategy of the company, which will serve the growing Southeast Asian market and cover the area of the Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam," said the president of Ros Roca, Ramon Roca.

The new facility has 3,000 square feet and is located in the industrial area of Selangor, 20 km from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and 50 kilometres from Port Kelang. Ros Roca Malaysia envisages an annual production of 300 units of refuse collector trucks.

With this new company, Ros Roca strengthens its commitment to internationalization. Currently the company operates in 70 countries on four continents (Europe, Asia, America and Africa) and 90% of its turnover comes from international markets.

Source: Spainbusiness.com 

 

 

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The three major sixth freedom hubs in the Middle East – Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi – added 7.7 million passengers between them in 2011. Passenger traffic at the three hubs continues to grow by leaps and bounds, regardless of the regional disruptions that affected traffic in the Middle East last year. Much of this is testament to the strength of their home carriers, the industry aligned development policies pursued at each airport and the vision of local governments to transform their cities into major aviation centres.

Combined, the three hubs had an average passenger traffic growth rate of 10.5%. This is a notably stronger performance than the rest of the Middle East, where international traffic expanded 8.9% over 2011. Hub growth is closely tied to growth from each hub's main carrier: Etihad Airways, Emirates and Qatar Airways. All three have already announced significant expansion in the near future.

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Source: Capa, centre for aviation

 

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Barcelona-El Prat Airport has a new Multilateration Surveillance System from this week on, with technology similar to the Global Positioning System, which improves the efficiency of traditional radars by increasing the information provided to air traffic controllers at the airport tower.

The new system also means an improvement in the platform capacity of the of the Barcelona airport, as in addition to controlling the aircraft operating on the airport itself, it is also capable of triangulating signals from other vehicles on the platform.
It also offers improved efficiency in adverse weather conditions and limited visibility.

To implement the Multilateration system, 32 receivers have been placed by the aerodrome manoeuvring area and six in three exterior locations. Six transmitting stations have also been set up along with half a dozen reference transponders, responsible for communicating, through two fibre optic rings, with the central station.

Source: El Vigia

 

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Some of the reserved plots are within walking distance of the terminals

Barcelona Airport, which moved 34 million passengers in 2011 (a rise of 17%, the largest in all Europe) expects to take advantage of the growth trend to attract hotel chains from different segments: from premium to low cost establishments.

For the time being, Aena – the managing company - has incorporated a new commercial direction to Barcelona, whose aim is precisely to improve commercial revenue from El Prat Airport.

Last year, Barcelona airport had revenue of 334 million euros and EBITDA of 91 million.

65% of revenue came from airport operations (airport approach and parking charges, passenger fees, etc.) and 35% corresponded to commercial income derived from shop concessions, parking and publicity, mainly.

"Our challenge is to foment commercial revenue, where we have room for growth and real estate is going to play an important role", explained Sonia Corrochano, who on 1 March was appointed new manager of Barcelona airport.

Thus, Aena has already urbanised a series of plots classified as land for hotels, "which are in a privileged position", indicates the manager of the airport.

Of these plots, some can be found within walking distance of the terminals and are the ones which will be kept for the higher category hotels.

Besides, on land near T2 other establishments of different types are expected to be located. It is not even to be ruled out that one of these hotels may have a casino annex.

More intercontinental flights

Currently, over 100 airlines operate in Barcelona, flying to 150 cities, among them 32 intercontinental destinations on direct routes (as opposed to 16 operations six years ago).

All in all, close to 130,000 passengers pass through the airport every day. See also the press release yesterday: Intercontinental flights to Barcelona: Aena says there is "unmet demand".

 

Source: Hosteltur

 

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The pharmaceutical company Almirall has reached an agreement with the firm GW Pharma to commercialize the drug Sativex, prescribed for spasticity in multiple sclerosis, in Mexico, EFE reported.

Almirall in 2005 obtained the exclusive rights to commercialize Sativex in Europe except in the UK, and now has exclusive rights for distribution in Mexico, where it has had a subsidiary for over a decade, according to the company. “We are excited about our partnership with GW and the initial response of the market to Sativex”, said the Chief Operating Officer of Almirall, Luciano Conde.

Sativex is currently commercialized in countries like Spain, Germany and Denmark and throughout this year future releases are planned in Italy, Sweden, Austria or the Czech Republic.

 

Source: Spainbusiness.com

 

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Despite only launching service as recently as August 2006, IndiGo is battling with Jet Airways to be the leading airline in the Indian domestic market in terms of passenger market share. In November, December and January, the two airlines both managed to grab 20-21% of the domestic market. For the second year in a row, IndiGo’s domestic passenger numbers grew by almost 40% to 11.83 million, and thanks to the launch of international services in September carried more than 12 million passengers in total in 2011. According to the latest data from Airbus, IndiGo is currently operating 51 A320s (the airline has already received three factory fresh A320s since the start of 2012), and has a further 220 aircraft on order with the manufacturer.

In May 2011, the airline carried over one million passengers in a month for the first time, something it repeated in October, November and December. For 2011 as a whole, IndiGo took a 19.5% share of the Indian domestic market, putting it ahead of Jet Airways (18.3%), Kingfisher (18.0%), Air India (16.0%) and Spicejet (14.4%).

Domestic load factors in 2011 averaged 83.3%, just down on the 83.8% achieved in 2010. In 2010, monthly load factors exceeded 90% on four occasions but in 2011 this was only managed once, in December.

 

Operating over 2,100 weekly flights across 27 airports in India

IndiGo is currently operating over 2,100 weekly departures from 27 airports across India and five outside of India (Bangkok, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat and Singapore). A total of 89 non-stop routes are operated, with 77 operated at least daily. The leading route in terms of weekly flights is between India’s two busiest airports, Delhi and Mumbai, where the carrier operates nine daily flights.

Since last September, the airline has launched eight international routes on which it faces considerable competition. All eight routes were launched in the space of two months. Impressively, the airline’s international load factor in the first four months has been 83.1% (September), 80.1% (October), 78.0% (November) and 84.7% (December), resulting in an average of 81.2%.

Source: anna.aero

 

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North America is the main transoceanic market from Barcelona. It represents 38% of all direct intercontinental passengers out of Barcelona. Without taking into account the passengers travelling to North Africa, this percentage comes to over half of the total. The volume of passengers between North America and Barcelona has not ceased to increase in recent years, reaching 930,000 direct passengers in 2011. If we add indirect passengers, this figure reaches a total of 1.25 million passengers between Barcelona and this continent. What is more, it is a market in expansion. The inter-annual variation of direct passengers this last year was 32.3% and the mean growth over the last 5 years was 22.3%, higher, even, than the high mean intercontinental growth from Barcelona. The North American market has doubled its number of direct passengers to Barcelona in the last 5 years.

 

The United States is Barcelona’s main intercontinental market. Nearly a million passengers (995,000) flew between the US and Barcelona in 2011. Of these, 728,000 flew directly between Barcelona and an American airport, in many cases connecting with another domestic flight. Direct passenger numbers with this country have practically doubled in recent years, with a greater increase than total passenger numbers. Barcelona Airport is becoming better and better connected with the United States market.

This fact is a direct consequence of the strong growth of the direct connections between Barcelona and the North American market (Mexico, Canada and the US). With the notable exception of Iberia, most of the airlines that operate these routes are American. The important commitment of these companies to the Catalan market has led to the number of their connections with Barcelona rising from 31 weekly frequencies in the summer of 2007, operated by 4 airlines; to 61 weekly frequencies operated by 9 airlines in summer 2012. Barcelona has gone from having direct connections with 6 airports in summer 2007 to having 9 in summer 2012.  

 

North America is the second largest region in the world in terms of air freight out of Barcelona, only exceeded by Asia–Pacific. 20% of air exports from Barcelona have their point of destination on this continent. Four out of the fifteen main destination airports for air exports out of Barcelona are North American, with New York as the main destination airport for air freight out of Barcelona.

Of all the American companies present in the Spanish market, 41.2% are in Catalonia. In 2011, freight traffic with the US was worth 3,884 million euros, a value representing 27.6% of the total freight traffic between Spain and the US. After the drop in traffic as a result of the credit crunch, above all in 2009, trade with the US has shown a rising trend since 2010. In this sense, the weighted average growth of freight traffic between Catalonia and the US was 12.5% in the last two years. 


Despite all the results obtained, there is still a market to be covered, and from the Barcelona Air Route Development Committee (BARDC) work is being carried out in order to achieve an increase in the connections with the large destinations in the North American market that do not yet operate out of Barcelona such as Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles or the market of Washington; as well as improving the offer on existing routes with destinations that are already covered such as Chicago and New York.

Finally, the rise in frequencies contributes to increase the volume of cruise passengers in Barcelona even more. The United States is the main source market for cruise passengers who embark in Barcelona. The new frequencies reinforce the existing synergies between the Port and Barcelona–El Prat Airport, strengthening its strategic position in the market.

 

BARDC would like the American Airlines and Iberia routes to Barcelona, presented at the press event today in Casa Llotja de Mar, to be consolidated and for the companies to continue growing in our airport in the future, whether with a rise in frequencies on their existing routes or by operating one of the many profitable routes that remain to be opened from Barcelona.

 

Source: BARDC Secretariat from data furnished by AENA 

 

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Last week’s anna.aero analysis took a close look at which airlines have added new long-haul routes to and from Europe for this summer, as well as revealing which services have been dropped.

The comparison is for the first week of July in 2012 versus the first week of July in 2011. The analysis looks separately at European carriers, North American carriers and those from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Routes involving a change of airport have not been included, while United and Continental have been treated as one airline. This is not a definitive list but attempts to summarize the main changes made by major scheduled airlines involving routes typically offered with a minimum of three weekly frequencies.

Many of flag-carriers have made changes to their long-haul networks for this summer. Barcelona will have launched two new long-haul destinations by April and could be able to take advantage of some news happening.

 

Iberia stops operating the Barcelona – Miami flight which is recovered by American Airlines in April. On the other hand, Air Europa's flights to Mexico City and Miami are removed so its passengers could be captured by the current routes from Barcelona flying to Miami (American Airlines) and Mexico City (Aeromexico).



As mentioned earlier, American Airlines begins operations to Miami from Barcelona. Also, Delta Air Lines comes to confirm its confidence in Barcelona Airport despite the large list of intercontinental flights dropped from its intercontinental network this summer.



The Asian airlines show its intercontinental expansion towards Europe. This is of special interest for the Barcelona Air Route Development Committee, which aims to connect the Barcelona Airport with the main cities of China, Japan, Korea and India.

Another great news of the summer season at Barcelona Airport is the start of operations of Emirates which is connecting Barcelona and Dubai, from 3 July.

 

More changes still possible

Some of these network changes have only been confirmed in the last couple of weeks so it is still possible that there may be further developments as airlines examine forward bookings, yields, the competitive environment and take into account the fact that fuel prices appear to be on the rise once more.

 

Source: anna.aero / BARDC

 

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Indra installed its technology in the airline Jetstar, which belongs to Jetstar Group the largest group of 'low cost' airlines by revenue in Asia Pacific, where it integrates data from ticket sales and refunds, reports the technological company in a press release.

This new system integrates data from ticket sales and refunds and cross-matches them with flight data to generate all the analytical and accounting information. ARACS FX, which meets all the requirements of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), is also the first solution on the market to succeed in integrating the ticketless and traditional world. This allows low cost airlines to interact with traditional airlines, in addition to providing airlines greater ease of passenger management.

This new contract reinforces Indra's position as the technology provider of one of the air groups with greatest expected growth in the region.

 

Source: Spainbusiness.com

 

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Routes with Asia and North America are the priority aims for BARDC over the next two years

 

• The leading destinations for the new Strategic Plan are Japan, South Korea, China, India and the United States.

 

• In 2011 the number of intercontinental passengers increased by 347,000, a figure which represents a rise of 16.8% over 2010.

               

• The number of intercontinental destinations and frequencies rose by a total of 184 weekly frequencies in summer 2011.

 

Barcelona, 19 March 2012.-  The Barcelona Air Route Development Committee (BARDC) is to present the BARDC Strategic Plan for 2012 - 2013. This new plan continues along the lines of the 2010 – 2011 plan, despite introducing certain changes due to what was learned in the previous period.

The Plan sets the priority aims of working to achieve new air links with the following strategic markets: Japan, South Korea, China, India and the United States. It also establishes a line of work to open more links with countries in the Persian Gulf and South America.

All in all, the lines laid down by the Plan will mean a certain Asian shift in the main markets to be worked on after the success achieved with the routes to Sao Paulo and Miami –historical demands by the BARDC – and the rise in capacity on the routes to the west coast of the United States in recent years. Even though the American routes continue to be a priority for the BARDC, connecting with Asian markets is the great aim to be achieved during this period. While North America is the first intercontinental market out of Barcelona in terms of passenger volume, Asia – Pacific is the main destination market of the air exports out of Barcelona–El Prat Airport.

Likewise, in an environment of economic crisis, it is also worth maintaining already existing routes. The BARDC will also continue to work along this line, maintaining dynamic, continued contact with the intercontinental airlines that operate out of Barcelona.

As well as these direct aspects of long-haul flights, it is worth reinforcing the activity in aspects that will provide support to these air links, such as improving the connectivity of long-haul flights from the airport or working together with the Ministry of Economic Development in order to improve the conditions of the bilateral agreements or the administrative procedures to obtain a visa. Additionally it is necessary to work on increasing air freight (whereby the land logistics chain is vital) and it is also advisable to increase collaboration with other first level transport infrastructures for passengers and freight such as the ZAL and the Port de Barcelona.

 

Assessment of 2010 – 2011

In 2010 the BARDC presented its Strategic plan for 2010-2011, which determined the general lines of action of this committee related to promoting long-haul air routes from Barcelona. During the period of application of this first BARDC Strategic Plan (2010 – 2011) remarkable success was achieved in intercontinental traffic out of Barcelona, increasing the number of routes, the capacity and the number of direct intercontinental passengers out of the airport.

The number of frequencies rose by 54 in the summer and 14 in the winter in the period ranging from summer 2009 to winter 2011. This rise in frequencies was accompanied by new air links such as the new routes to Sao Paulo, Miami or Qatar. During 2011, for the first time, El Prat was connected to 34 intercontinental airports and, also for the first time, 25 air lines operated intercontinental flights from Barcelona Airport.

Nevertheless, the most notable increase was in the capacity of the airport, which went from 610,000 seats in summer 2009 to almost 1,000,000 in summer 2011. This fact represents a rise of 58% in the intercontinental capacity of Barcelona in two years.

The total passenger numbers in 2011 was 34.4 million passengers, which represents a growth of 17.8% with respect to 2010. The great generator of this rise of 5.2 million passengers was the European traffic, even though the rest of the traffic also experienced notable rises. Direct intercontinental passengers rose by 347,144 passengers, reaching a total of 2,408,422 passengers. This means a growth of 16.8% over 2010.

The balance of the period 2010 – 2011 is markedly positive. Despite the disappearance of some intercontinental routes (Luxor and the destinations of the disappeared Jade Cargo) and the drop in frequencies and operators with North Africa during 2011 because of the Arab Spring (Casablanca, Marrakech, Nader and Tunisia), the number of intercontinental destinations out of Barcelona increased. New long-haul routes were achieved with the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Bamako, Chicago, Doha, Miami, Sal, Sao Paulo). Significant rises in frequencies or capacity (larger aircraft) were common in this period.

 

BARDC actions during 2011

In order to favour these results, the BARDC carried out a series of activities throughout the year. As well as the customary continued contact with airlines, the BARDC organized meetings with alliances: the CEOs and heads of route planning of Star Alliance met with members of the BARDC in Barcelona and workshops with the heads of sales of the Sky Team alliance companies were held.

During 2011 support actions for companies with missions in the Middle East and China were also carried out, visiting the main companies and airports, as well as communication actions such as the launch of the blog Fly To Barcelona (www.flytobarcelona.org) in order to improve the diffusion of relevant information for foreign journalists and airlines interested in flying to the city. The novelties regarding the airlines operating in Barcelona were also published and work was carried out with the aim of achieving new flights for the city. These activities contributed consistently to the rise in flights and frequencies at Barcelona Airport. The new flights to Sao Paulo, Miami and Qatar confirm this.

Despite having an important demand for long-haul intercontinental traffic, Barcelona has a relatively low number of long-haul routes. Most of the intercontinental passengers out of Barcelona have to fly indirectly stopping over in other airports in order to reach their destination. This is the fundamental reason that led to the creation of the Barcelona Air Route Development Committee (BARDC) in 2005.

 

Work Plan 2012

In 2012, the BARDC will organize missions to Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan, and China. What is more, it will attend the customary fairs for the industry such as Routes. In June, the IATA Slot Conference will be organized in Barcelona owing to the effort of the BARDC, an event that will be attended by over 1000 delegates from over 200 airlines from all over the world.

In terms of annual activities, the BARDC will allocate resources to stimulate intercontinental connectivity and air freight in Barcelona, following its aims to achieve more and better direct traffic out of Barcelona–El Prat Airport.

 

Here you can find all details:

BARDC Strategic Plan 2012 - 2013

 

 

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