Transport Archives — Page 14 of 49

September 13, 2018 No Responses

Amaechi: Nigeria Shippers’ Council To Become National Transport Commission

Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says the Federal Government is set to convert Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) to National Transport Commission (NTC). Amaechi said this at a news conference on the achievement of the ministry on Wednesday in Abuja....

September 11, 2018 No Responses

Mercedes-Benz Exceeds 1.5m Sales Units In Eight Months

Mercedes-Benz delivered 1,512,268 vehicles to customers worldwide in the first eight months of this year, thus setting a new record (+1.1%). Never before in the company’s history were sales of 1.5 million vehicles achieved earlier in the year. Mercedes-Be...

September 11, 2018 No Responses

Investors Drag Volkswagen To Court Over €9B Diesel Damages

Volkswagen has gone on trial in Germany in what is the first court case against the carmaker over the diesel scandal. Investors are pursuing VW for about €9.2bn (£8.2bn) in damages, claiming the company should have come clean sooner...

September 11, 2018 No Responses

Qatar Airways To Commence Direct Flight To Mombasa

Qatar Airways said it is launching a second direct flight to Kenya’s second city, Mombasa, in an attempt to open up the country’s beautiful coasts to international holiday-makers. The airline in a statement said that the flight to Mombasa would...

September 9, 2018 No Responses

BMW Gets Voice-Activated Digital Assistant

Beginning in March 2019, select new BMWs will have a digital co-pilot onboard. The German luxury brand announced Thursday the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant will help drivers and passengers with a host of functions in the car. The Intelligent...

September 7, 2018 No Responses

South African Airways Increases Frequencies To Luanda

South African Airways (SAA) has increased its frequency to Luanda, Angola, thereby creating a seamless travel experience for customers. The airline in a statement explained that its African and Asian destinations in particular would have an increased connec...

September 7, 2018 No Responses

Air Peace Rewards Victorious Anambra Students With Free Tickets To Aso Rock

Air Peace has congratulated five Anambra State students and their teachers on emerging victorious in the recent technology challenge held in the United States. The airline also honoured the team with free return Owerri-Abuja tickets to facilitate their visit t...

September 4, 2018 No Responses

Mercedes-Benz Vito Sustain Position As Top Contender In Mid-Size Van Segment In Nigeria

Since its debuts in 2014, the current Mercedes-Benz Vito has continued to position itself as a pacesetter in the mid-size van segment in Nigeria. The mid-size van, born from Mercedes-Benz’s boldest genes has become an active part of the ‘Mercedes-Benz...

September 3, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Records $16.98m, N9.16b Air Ticket Sales Charge In Eight Months

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) recorded over $16.98m as Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) from international airlines and another N9.16billion from local airlines in the first eight months of 2018. This is as passenger traffic in between January and Aug...

September 2, 2018 No Responses

African Airlines Traffic Rises By 6.8% In July

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that African airlines’ July traffic rose 6.8 per cent, thereby emerging as the second highest among the global regions. However, IATA said this represented a decline from 11 per cent growth recorded...

August 31, 2018 3 Responses

Volkswagen Seals Assembly Plant MoU With Ghana

Thomas Schaefer, Volkswagen Head of the Sub-Saharan Region and the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerenmaten of Ghana signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the presence of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice-President...

August 28, 2018 No Responses

Toyota To Invest $500m In Uber

Toyota Motor Corporation is to invest $500m (£387m) in Uber and expand a partnership to jointly develop self-driving cars. The firm said this would involve the “mass-production” of autonomous vehicles that would be deployed on Uber’s ride sh...

August 26, 2018 No Responses

Volkswagen Sets Aside $4B For Digital Options, Software

Volkswagen will invest 3.5 billion euros ($4 billion) by 2025 to build digital businesses and products including a cloud computing-based platform to connect vehicles and customers to offer services such as car sharing. The German automaker explained that it wa...

August 24, 2018 No Responses

British Airways, Air France To Stop Flights To Iran

British Airways and Air France have announced that they will stop flying to Iran next month. Both airlines said that the route was “not commercially viable.” The reintroduction of US sanctions has caused a slump in the value of the...