united-nations

UN reaches resolution on multimodalism

The UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on cooperation among all modes of transport to promote sustainable multimodal transit corridors in late December. Co-sponsored by 85 UN Member States, it focuses on multimodal transport, transit corridors and trade facilitation, while inciting Member States that have not yet done so to join the TIR Convention. [+]

Keeping the peace in South Sudan

Ruslan International – the company which markets and manages the combined Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines An-124 fleets – has completed a programme of 15 flights for the Japanese peace keeping contingent of the Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). The flights – each covering 13,000 km from Narita and Chitose ... [+]